SF News Google: Okay, Now Maybe Doing A Little Evil To help them, they've hired as lobbyists two ex-Republican Senators, Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida. And on Wednesday, Google will take part in their first political fundraiser, for Republican
Arts & Entertainment Instant Cama Not Going To Get You We have mixed feelings about Cama closing. On the one hand, they made a yummy chocolate drink with Toblerone that we liked. They also had couches and booths and we like any place
SF News World Peace, One Stomach At A Time Destination Dinners officially opened for business just about a month ago. Lisa runs it from her home. She's a big thinker with ambitious goals that go beyond the scope of typical business objectives
SF News Downtown Business Interests vs. the Progressives: SFist Breaks It Down If you have any understanding of San Francisco politics, or San Francisco at all, you have to have noticed that basically everything in this city breaks down to a battle between the "Downtown
Arts & Entertainment A (Diaper) Change For The Better: Local Mom/Inventor Grace Welch It's the kind of success story many dream about, having a simple idea and turning it into a successful venture. Grace Welch, local inventor, businesswoman, and first and foremost, mom, did just that.
SF News It Takes a Village to Shoot Smack The plan is to post banners up everywhere in the Gulch announcing that you're in Polk Village, then making it official in three years after everybody had gotten used to it by putting
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Business Spotlight: Ritual Roasters "Our friends pitied us when they saw this place," says Eileen Hassi, co-proprietor of red-hot Mission District cafe Ritual Roasters. "They told us we were doing everything wrong." Jeremy Tooker, her co-proprietor, agreed.
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Red Doors</i> Lee's first feature film, played on Saturday and after seeing Grain in the Ear boy were we ready for something completely different. Red Doors is the director's vaguely autobiographical story of a modern
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
SF News A Tree Grows in the 'Loin There is, however, a catch. And that catch is that more trees mean more maintenance and more maintenance means more people and more people means more money. Money that we don't have and
SF News We're #11 The report, which you can read here, calls out San Francisco for anti-pan handling measures, issuing citations, handing out one way bus tickets, and for having "negative reactions" to homeless people. As opposed
SF News City Releases TechConnect RFP Kimo Crossman over at Webnetic tipped us to the release of the new, final request for proposals from The City on the citywide wireless initiative. Strangely, just last week the Local Agency Formation
misc Justice for Strippers According to plaintiff's attorney Greg Walston, this hourly minimum (derived from the rate at the worker-owned and operated Lusty Lady), is meant to protect dancers from having to resort to prostitution or face
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\ Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content providers as
misc Topless Tidbits Need topless model 18-30 to stomp my grapes for tastefull [sic] documentary film. Pay is negotiable. Will require about 2 hours of time. Please send pic and resume.Hmmm. SFist Derrick tells us
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See Negativland The concept of mash-ups is all the rage with marketers and music bloggers these days, but Negativland has been appropriating sounds, images and text and re-arranging them into new works of art since
SF News Courtyard Marriott Employees Paid Less than Minimum Wage Last Wednesday, word got out about a class-action suit being brought by Gonzalez & Leigh on behalf of employees at the Courtyard Marriott in San Francisco Superior Court. Originally filed September 23rd, the
SF News Muni Wifi at Minna So Media Alliance managed to score Lawrence Lessig for a prezzo at the venerable tech-art speakeasy at 111 Minna. We bought soda and took it seriously, and checked out some of the phantasmagoric
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: That’ll Be All, Jeeves Oakland-based “global web property” Ask.com announced late last week that they’re phasing out the Jeeves persona that was beloved by some. Their reasoning was “user confusion,” in that bewildered users mistook
SF News SFist Book Report: Tony Hall This Week If you read the Chron the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's Rally Save Kepler's! The Menlo Park community is rallying around the storied independent bookseller, who recently announced that it would have to shut down due to increasing rents. SFist Mary-Lynn was one of the
SF News Questioning TechConnect Feeva.com which provided the Union Square hotspot and which Google is apparently behind, have now linked to this Business 2.0 article on their website about possible Google WiFi plans because it
