SF News Day Around The Bay --Does architecture critic John King ever like ? --Sad! The San Franciscan speller in the National Bee got the dreaded misspelling bell of death this afternoon in the quarter finals, on the word "ursigram.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Are you into those Iowa Futures Market invisible-hand-of-the-marketplace economic-based ways of predicting political races? Usual Suspects has started one for the SF mayoral race. Gavin Newsom is pegged to win at $36.78.
SF News Something to Read During Your Long Long Bus Ride ...the book tells the story of the Key Route’s transbay lines from the handsome 1903 wooden interurbans to the famous 1930s Bridge Units, the ornate Key Route Pier, the ferryboat fleet, and
misc San Francisco Makes Forbes's 'Most Overpriced Real Estate Markets' List Are you as shocked as we are? No, really, we think everyone knows things are pricey out here, and Forbe's is utilizing some interesting methodology to glean "overpricey' from the "pricey," and turn
SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
misc Curbed SF Gets Its Revenge You know, sometimes maybe it's just better to rent -- a local family attempting to restore their Sunnyside/Glen Parkish area extreme-fixer-upper accidentally slid the house off its foundation and it collapsed into
Arts & Entertainment Real Estate Crunch More Evil Than Napster: Metallica Guitarist Reduces Mansion Price Playing the role of Shawn Fanning, minus the curls, the real estate retraction appears to be stealing theoretical dollars from the pockets of a member of Metallica. According to The Wall Street Journal
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, Keats Spins Us Right Round, Baby! Put the needle on the racket tonight. OMG, Jonathon Keats has done it again! He's an artist known for improving the metric system, selling parts of his brain and even fifth dimension real
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
Arts & Entertainment Wanna Buy a House? What can you expect? Well floor plans and pictures and asking prices for the homes of such noted celebrities as Larry Ellison (his Japanese temple home is up for sale-- it's only $16
misc Dine Around on Wednesday The interesting thing is that the main sponsor is Zephyr Real Estate, not exactly a company most people will have the warm fuzzies for. But whatever-- it's a great thing and for a
misc The Worst Is Yet To Come? Trying to figure out what your house is worth in today's real estate market is only slightly less difficult than practicing haruspicy to predict what will happen next week. Articles like the one
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 News There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question No, we're just joking about that. To get everyone started, here's a few questions we'd like asked: - What's up with all the hair on Suri Cruise? - Both of you accuse the
Arts & Entertainment Your Emperor Needs You Three locations contain gifts for you. All are adhered to the inside top of SF Weekly newspaper stands. Each location contains several packages. Take only one and leave the rest for others. They
SF News Cycling: Horsing Around with the Barnabe Trail More than 70 percent of this planet is currently covered by water. Between global warming and privatization, the remaining 30 percent is quickly disappearing from public view. So, it's only natural to expect
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
SF News Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop (On Our Reduced-Price Floor) Although the real-estate bubblewatchers got a head start on the festivities some time last year, we have been waiting until there's a whole lot of data before we begin the "Woe is us!
Arts & Entertainment Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role
SF News The Bubble Taketh Away, And The Bubble Giveth Okay, so it’s not a great time to flip your house, and rents are rising, but there are still some real estate developments that are not bad news. Retail rents across San
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
SF News Political Junkie: Itchy and Scratchy Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just
SF News Things Fall Apart Now that worrying about infrastructure is so 2002 Strokes hot, everyone's starting to worry about the state of SF's infrastructure. We know that our streets are a mess, but that's not the half
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 The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
