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
SF News How To Piss Off a Blogger Okay, we're going to have a little fun at someone's expense here, but we feel that they deserve it. Or at least, we deserve to. Because we feel rather jerked around, and were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Rants: Oh, So Bittersweet A lot of great stuff starts in the Bay Area. Conversely, it often ends here too. We guess that's our punishment for living in an area where a commitment to artisanal techniques goes
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Brad Bird's State of Cinema Address Surprisingly, the bulk of his talk concerned the Business End of the industry – specifically, the crappy things that studios, exhibitors, the media, and moviegoers do that allow awful movies to be made and
Arts & Entertainment They're Thinking Of The Children (Just Not Thinking Very Hard) Although similar recent efforts have mostly failed, our very own Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee is pushing a bill -- AB 450 -- that would fine retailers $1,000 for selling M-rated
SF News Layoffs At E*Trade Naturally, this didn't go over that well with everyone as they began to wonder what the chances of keeping their job are when they've just trained Sanjay and Apu to do it. Or
Arts & Entertainment Breaking News (Posted During Idol, no Less!) A quick recap on the anonymous Abercrombie & Hitler posters drawing gasps and artsy-fartsy analysis in the Castro. Horribly, some bastard has defaced the trademark-infringing Nazi images! But oddly, it wasn't the swastikas,
Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
SF News Yahoo May Have Already Bought Flickr Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart
