Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noah's Turns 18, Invokes Jewish Symbolism Noah's Bagels are similar to other pale imitations of a superior product: they are akin, say, to low-carb anything, sugar-free candy, Tofurkey, etc. Of course, there are decent examples of situations in which
Arts & Entertainment All Kwik-E-Mart Managers Must Be Skilled in the Deadly Arts Here's your chance -- we never thought it could happen, but the magic of the Kwik-E-Mart has landed, temporarily, in the real world. It's a place where you can buy KrustyO's, pink donuts,
SF News 'No Limit' For Sonoma Casino? River Rock To Increase Size 10 Times Degenerates visiting Sonoma rejoice! River Rock Casino in Geyserville is undergoing a massive steroidal treatment -- expanding from 62,000 square feet to more than 600,000 sq. feet. Yowza. The new facility
SF News Day Around The Bay --Apple iPhone madness begins! That's a picture of the line in SF yesterday night by photo genius Steve Rhodes, who reported around 60 people in line by midnight. We're hoping to have more
Arts & Entertainment What Immigration Means To Us: KQED Documentary Examines Impact On Bay Area Economy With all the recent hoopla regarding national immigration legistlation, now might be a great time to get a perspective on immigration here close to home. We're not sure how many SFist readers are
misc Yahoo's Happy To Share Personnel News; Not So Chatty About New Webmail Ads So, we were just reading the newswires, and came across this story of how one of Yahoo's co-founders, Jerry Yang, has been named CEO. Well, "yahoo" for him . . . we guess. Perhaps he'll help
SF News Green Wombat's Got The Goods On The B of A/Redwood Forest Foundation Deal Green Wombat was at the Bank of America / Redwood Forest Foundation announcement yesterday, which took place at the "urban redwoods" next to the Transamerica Pyramid. As part of the bank's $20 billion "green
SF News It's Nice Working With Friends, Ain't It? (Accountemps, a Robert Half Int'l company, is a temp firm specializing in finance/bookkeeping/accounting needs. You may know the company from its extremely annoying radio spots where the boss always pines for
SF News Oh No-Gurt: Local Company Recalls Soy Yogurt WholeSoy & Co. issued an allergy alert on June 7 and expanded it just yesterday when the scope of the accidental ingredient became more clear. Two customers reporting allergic reactions to the product
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Masters of Bacchanal Administration? Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, already offers an undergrad degree in wine business -- but now the school is expanding its program. Graduate students cam now earn an MBA in Wine Business.
SF News If the Public Paid For it, Does That Make Wal-Mart Public Property? According to WMSW, California ponied up about $50 in taxpayer-funded gifts to the Arkansas company, in exchange for which those towns got giant megabox shopping extravaganzae. And also, lots of uninsured people --
Arts & Entertainment Can We Exchange These NetFlix? Los Gatos-based NetFlix has one of the greatest products around, and we give them a lot of leeway despite the company's annoying, ever-present pop-up ads. The company just announced a summer concert series
SF News Do You Dare Say No To The Yes Men? It wasn't a cheap stunt to produce, and their next one won't be, either. So they need your help. They're asking for PayPal donations, which seems a bit sketch to us -- you
misc Tales From The Workplace: Application Flagellation SFist received the following note from a local hiring manager that was annoyed at a particular response regarding a position she posted on Craigslist. We found it amusing. Please note that details have
SF News Just Don't Read SFist While You're Driving The Merc is reporting that as of yesterday, Avis Rent A Car is offering Wi-Fi service with cars rented from its SFO location. It's $10.95 a day, which seems pricey, but we
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more
SF News eBay StumblingUpon An Acquisition? Has anyone used StumbleUpon? And is it really that cool? It looks like eBay may think so -- though we can't really see how a company like StumbleUpon fits into eBay's wheelhouse. Okay,
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
SF News GAHHH! Frontier Airlines Flying Right Outta Town It's "all airlines, all the time" here on SFist. After the lukewarm-to-good news of JetBlue flying out of SFO, we're greeted with some bad news: Frontier Airlines is vacating the premises--no more "commuter
Arts & Entertainment Wiii're Hoping They Take The Warp Tunnel HERE! According to Game Informer Online, Nintendo of America may be relocating -- and one of the rumoured destination cities is right here in San Francisco. More employment opportunities are always good, especially establsihed
SF News Nice Leather Seats For Your 11-Hour Wait SFist will throw in your lunch for the plane ride over if you go dressed as either Gothamists Jen or Jake and you send us your picture! --- Those of you who want
Arts & Entertainment Today's Hits From Hell. Sort Of We've said this before, but one of our favorite radio bits on local radio is KFOG's Hits From Hell which Dave Morey busts out every Friday the 13th. Hey, you can only hear
Arts & Entertainment We Get By With a Little Yelp From Our Friends We ourselves haven't yet jumped into writing our own user reviews, but we love to read other people's. In recent times, we have checked out the forums at Steve's Digicams when we were
SF News Greening Your Office Refilling printer cartridges and keeping them out of landfills is one example of how a company can reduce office waste and increase their bottom line while helping the environment. Businesses are catching onto
