SF News Are All The Would-Be Buyers Fleeing The State? We were feeling pretty good about the state of the California housing market after reading the PDF of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's most recent report. Housing prices up 18.8%
SF News Having Your Fraud, And Profiting Too So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent
SF News Give Now Or We'll Keep Talking While SFist appreciates the need for fund-raising and can certainly understand the desire to raise as much money as possible within a set time frame, we also wonder if there's room for a
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its president, Sarah
SF News J.T. Leroy: The Chron's finally on the case The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
SF News Bubble? What Bubble? Although the CBIA expects a "modest" drop-off in construction employment, UCLA economist Christopher Thornberg's not so optimistic: he sees a 25% drop in related jobs. Flickr photo by TheBeege724 By SFist Lisa, contributing
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
