SF News Woman Sells Mission Apartment For 2005 Price — With One Catch In 1993, when Catherine Lee purchased one of the two Mission apartments she owned until recently, the monthly mortgage was $570 on the $90,000 2-bedroom condo. “It was a different era,” Lee
SF News The Real Story Of The Great Highway Shack That Sold For $1.2 Million Is Priceless $1.2 million, 13 offers, $400K above asking. But a new story about the sale of the shack at 1644 Great Highway — a "sure flip" — flips the script entirely. What many thought was
SF News Marc Benioff Has A Few Things To Say About Tech Companies Who Don't Give Back, And Zuckerberg's 'Philanthropy' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just inked a deal that includes naming rights for what's going to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has no patience for his peers who
SF News Rose Pak Once Thought 'Motherf***er' Was a Term of Endearment The cover story in the new issue of San Francisco Magazine is all about Rose Pak. Call her whatever you like kingmaker, ballbuster, politico, Mayor but she's getting kind of sick of the
Arts & Entertainment Glossy Mag News: 7x7 Gets Its Spine Back, SF Mag Scores New EIC Hey, you. Yes, you. Sitting there glazed-over and glassy-eyed from staring at your preferred choice of online viewing. Listen up: did you know that changes are afoot in the world of local print
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Picks Bay Area's Best Sandwiches Nabbing the coveted cover story slot, food treasure Jan Newberry of San Francisco Magazine developed a near-definitive guide to the best sandwiches in the Bay Area. Her "opinionated" guide proves that nothing beats
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: <i>San Francisco Magazine</i>'s Best of the Bay Party Our favorite society photog, Drew Altizer, has dipped his toes in iIl linguaggio del cinema (which, for those of you not in the know, è universale), and his latest effort is this surf
misc The Offies 2007 Tickle, Delight If you have a free second - provided you have finished reading each SFist story and clicking on every one of our advertisers, of course - checkout the Guardian's "Offies" of 2007 -
SF News Society Snaps (So Send Us Your Society Shots) San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
SF News The Last Team To Arrive When we staggered in their unmarked doors last night, the only thing we were scanning the crowd for was a fresh vodka and soda -- but our eyes alit on a strangely familar
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Magazine Caves We keep saying we're going to start a We Read The Glossies column to cover San Francisco Magazine and 7x7, but you know, we just can't do it. As a very wise co-editor
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
Arts & Entertainment Glossy-ing It Up Hey, congratulations to local magazine (on contemporary design and architecture) for winning the National Magazine Association's prestigious "Ellie" award, for best magazine with circulation from 100,000 to 250,000! Dwell beat out
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Kickoff Party We overheard an officer say that the SFFD was prepared for 3,000 folks but the event promised 5,000 spots. So if you have a ticket, get down here now if it's
