SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
misc Craigslist Encounters: 267 Gays use Craigslist (more than 2,205 Straights) As reported (here among many other places) . Which would not really pique our interests, except that the survey also mentions Craigslist. So this morning we decided to dive right in and see what
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team is Playing? Once again, the reasons for the Niners dissatisfaction with everything is well known but we should go through them again just for the heck of it. Basically, like the A's, the Niners are
SF News Gavin's New Date After vetoing Mirkarimi's foot patrol proposal on Friday, Gavin Newsom skipped on over to the Red Tie Gala at Neiman-Marcus, to benefit St. Anne's Home for the elderly poor in the Lake District,
SF News GooTube: Not Dead Yet It looks like all those Comedy Central videos are back, well most of them, on YouTube as Viacom and Google worked something out. And so ends the battle that led to a thousand
SF News Is This the Beginning of the End For GooTube? Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there
SF News The Warriors: Oracle Sez . . . On Friday, the Warriors announced their biggest signing of the year so far, agreeing to a 10-year, $30 million naming rights agreement with free agent multinational software corporation Oracle. The new name of
SF News Down Goes Tower The reason for Tower going under is they got bought by Great American Group who decided to liquidate and sell of the company, something that makes no sense to us, that being buying
SF News Google Buys YouTube But what will this mean for those of us who like to peruse YouTube at work for things like Journey's "Separate Ways" video or the "Mah Nah Mah Nah" song when bored at
SF News Indictments in H.P. Case "using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes." Each charge is a
misc Go South, Young Househunter However, those housing stock gains were totally puny when compared to how dramatically the median home values for those cities jumped. From 2000 to 2005, the median value of a San Jose house
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Little Star Is Born Oh, and the one waiter we talked to needs to be re-trained: we asked if it was as good as the divis shop, and he replied: the menu is the same. He should
SF News Spies Like HP Another thing they tried was sending out e-mails with encrypted software that would track back and report to HP where that e-mail was forwarded. So, they'd send someone a vaguely alluring e-mail and
SF News Our Weatherman Makes Good! You guys remember our emeritus weatherman, SFist Ted, right? Well, when SFist Ted wasn't licking a finger and holding it up to find out what direction the wind's blowing, he was running everyone's
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
