SF News ...In A Material World Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For DocFest! We love documentaries -- they're like reality TV, with a popcorn stand! So you know we're totally psyched for SF Indiefest's sixth annual Docfest, which starts up tomorrow and goes through next week!
SF News A New Brand of Canvasser Outside Whole Foods This young lady (the one on the right) was asking for "change for BART" while toting a fetching little purse outside of Whole Foods on 4th and Harrison. (We apologize for the horrendous
SF News Baby, You Can Charge My Car That idea of congestion pricing in San Francisco, meaning charging people to drive in certain places around the city, has moved from crazy pipe dream stage to crazy pipe dream planning stage. Recently,
misc Got $9.8 Million to Spare? Not expensive enough for you? Coldwell Banker lists another 94123 gem at 2090 Vallejo Street for a mere $15,250,000 – Peanuts, really, when you consider such accoutrements as a butler’s pantry
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Only 102 Shopping Days Until Christmas At least that was how long we all had last week when we saw these Frosty-esque Snow People up for sale in San Francisco. Have you seen any recent evidence of "Christmas Creep"
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Chicken John gets slapped for raising campaign money via Pay Pal. Assumes he's "the first candidate who's raised funds this way...this is a situation that no candidate has ever been in
SF News BofA: Just One More Dollar, Man? Please? At least they're not following suit like some of those janky ATMs found at liquor stores and seedy bodegas. Some of those machines charge $5 or more depending on the time and day.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Those Carbon Offset Bumper Stickers They'll promise to start offsetting and then send you back the sticker (or a framed certificate if you're trying to offset something non-automotive like an entire wedding) Good idea? How much do they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Is this a fair pricing scheme? After pumping she figured things out, calculating she lost about five bucks due to the car wash discount scheme. Then, after raising a fuss she was offered ... a further discount on a car
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After, Bitch Lions 36 Raiders 21- And so what are we to make of the Raiders game? They absolutely sucked for a half, rallied to make a game of it, and then just as soon
SF News Have You Seen This Fugitive Fundraiser? Fundraiser, five-head sufferer, and possible one-time kidnapping victim Norman Hsu skipped his San Mateo County Superior Court appearance this morning and is now the lam! He is wanted for a 15-year-old felony warrant
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased tattoo artist, Szabady. Show
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tesla Motors' Roadster- the Electric Edsel? Are there any similarities here with this car? Some hyperbolic coverage from the MSM makes us wonder a bit. Here's an opinion from Washington Post-affiliated Slate - the author was "unbelievably stoked", even
SF News Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing! We're not even really sure what to make of this article on the front page of today's Chronicle. Apparently Gavin Newsom has now so given up on being able to fix the city's
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic: A Gang Member was General-Managing our Hotel, Extorting and Assaulting our Clients Defendant is ... the former general manager of the Mission Hotel ... THC discovered defendant had been involved in criminal activity, including extortion, assaults, and threats of violence ... The conduct is ongoing. Yikes. Turns out,
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Because we wish nothing but the best for the Butterscotch Stallion as he recovers from what apparently is a serious case of the blues, we pay tribute to him with one of our
misc Don't Let Them Increase Your Property Tax Payments We know we're treading in slightly dangerous territory here -- while we're fairly sure a good chunk of our readership are homeowners (condo, single-family, multifamily, whatever), we know an even larger chunk are
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After-- Rebuilding Edition Let's talk about rebuilding in honor of Matt Cain actually winning a game... Giants: With the Barry Circus over, everyone is now moving onto what to do about next year. What? Like people
SF News A Commode In Every Park As part of a proposed $185 million bond issued to help revitalize our parks, Park & Rec head cheese Yomi Agunbiade, announced that a major emphasis of the bond measure will be bringing
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News Where's JaMarcus? With the pre-season in full force (for what it's worth, the Silver and Black are 1-1), #1 draft pick JaMarcus Russell is still at home, hanging with his homies. As of right here,
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Plea This might be the perfect time for City Hall's favorite cabaret star to hone up on his Kander and Ebb. (Some "Cell Block Tango," maybe?) SF supervisor and mysterious resident Ed Jew entered
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one
