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 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 SchwarzenWatcher Goes Back to School Now, yes, the fees wouldn't have to be increased if it wasn't due to some agreement with the UC system to raise fees or else lose funding. And Arnie could have given that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and drug-dealing economy. The bigger picture
SF News We're Still Poor, How About You? The California Budget Project* today released a report that "examines how the Bay Area’s workers and their families have fared before, during, and since the boom and subsequent bust." Their findings (beware,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Grapes Even before harvest, grape vines produce big fleshy leaves you can use to wrap various stuffings, and you can crush unfermented grapes to make verjuice ( if you prefer), a tart liquid similar to
SF News Your Commute: Just Keeps Getting Worse As if a burning truck full of beer wasn't enough, the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transit Comission has just released numbers showing that local commutes are taking 4% longer than before, and ranked the
SF News Your (Substitute) SchwarzenWatcher Approval levels in the 36 percent range -- are we talking about Bush or the California governor? What's the SchwarzenWatcher got cooking today? The governor's veto-happy! It's not just gay marriage, either --
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dava Guthmiller Tell us aboutPow.wow? In 2003 I got a stuck in a rut, personally. I was lacking motivation and realized I didn't have much of a life outside my office. So, what better
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Scary, Mary! We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie
misc Housing Bubbles: The Market Is Falling! Panic in the streets of San Francisco! Further adding to housing hysteria, the Chron prominently fronts an article reporting that the housing market is going to crash some time next year. Set your
SF News The Huffington Roast Okay, we're going to go ahead and put our two cents in on this, while scrupulously avoiding actually linking to it -- we will, however, link to the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke's thoughts
Arts & Entertainment Adaptive Path's Fourth Anniversary Party It had certainly been a while since we made the walk from Market to Brannan. Why, it seemed like just yesterday we were working at Wineshopper.com on their brand-new website and eating
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
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
SF News BART! For those of you wondering why BART has been almost MUNI-like, it's because of a little software glitch that's throwing everything off. Due to that little glitch, switching equipment is malfunctioning somewhere between
Arts & Entertainment Grand Theft Auto Stolen Well, we have some interesting developments regarding the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Seems the game has been leaked and is now all over the internet. That's right - rather
SF News How Cheap Is Your Apartment? One of SFist's biggest pet peeves is apartment hunting. Even worse, spending days (or months in some cases) finding any place in your price range, and then finding out your friend found a
SF News Viva Hate SFist knew there was a reason we moved here! Recent polls show the Bay Area to be the most negative region of California, with 59% of people saying they think the state is
Arts & Entertainment La Playa en Fuego Every Labor Day tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, hippies, frat boys and all other sorts of disaffected rejects pile into vehicles and make a pilgrammage to one of the most inhospitable places
SF News Binding Nemo? But according to the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), the city didn't go nearly far enough in asking for concessions from Pixar in terms of contributing to the local community.
