SF News Uniqlo To Open First West Coast Store In San Francisco, Fall 2012 Uniqlo, the popular Japanese clothing chain that New York fashionistas love to rave about, is eyeing San Francisco for its first U.S. store outside of Manhattan. According to the Wall Street Journal,
Arts & Entertainment XXI Forever, The Forever 21 Spinoff For Older Gals, Coming To Former Virgin Megastore Space Forever 21, which last year signed a lease for the enormous former Virgin Megastore space at Stockton and Market, is about to get its second Union Square-adjacent store. The chain's spinoff brand, XXI
Arts & Entertainment Will You Support Small Business Saturday? Although it's sponsored by American Express, and supported by large corporations such as Amazon, Google, Clear Channel and countless others, the 2nd Annual Small Business Saturday will provide the antidote to Black Friday
SF News Missoni For Target Madness In Full Gear! You may have heard, via the big national ad campaign, that iconic Italian design house Missoni released their line of inexpensive clothing and home goods today at Target. Though we do not yet
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Week: Caltopia, Four-Barrel B-Day, Lunchtime Music Concerts, de Young's Fair Trade Bazaar If you find yourself with leisure time on weekdays, or you're looking for something fun to do on your lunch/coffee break, here are this week's highlights. A shout-out of course goes to
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Bonehead BBQ, Atheist Film Festival, Alamo Square Flea Market, and More! We've already told you all you need to know about tomorrow's Street Food Festival. Here's other stuff that might be less crowded. 1st Annual Bonehead Barbeque: 107.7 The Bone presents the legendary
SF News Time to Go Shopping! California Sales Tax Drops Tomorrow Since Jerry Brown couldn't rally enough Republicans to extend the state sales tax, San Francisco's steep 9.5% tariff on retail goods will drop slightly to an almost-manageable 8.5% rate starting tomorrow.
SF News Fresh & Easy Stop Being Polite, Starts Getting Real Ariel Dovas of Mission Mission draws your attention to Fresh & Easy's mean-spirited (yet accurate) billboard at 16th and South Van Ness. Brrr. Fresh & Easy will open new locations in Bayview and
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse to Splurge: Shop For Japan Global Fundraiser on Saturday Maybe you've been needing the right excuse to splurge a little, or you've been saving lots of errands for the weekend. Well, on Saturday, your retail therapy could benefit a good cause. A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SHOP: Vintage fans can shop their heart out at the aptly named All Vintage Everything event, featuring a night of great vintage brought to you by Bay Area online and boutique vendors, further
SF News Oakland/Emeryville Target Now Open for Business Oaklanders have a new place to shop for discount housewares and Justin Timberlake fashions as Target opens a new store on the Oakland/Emeryville border, at 1555 40th Street. The big ribbon cutting
SF News Robin Williams Drops Off 'Motherlode' of Designer Bear Fashions at Thrift Town Over at GayCities, Matt Slusarenko puts out a Lavender Alert about a "motherlode" of size-large and XL designer clothes that just appeared at the Mission Thrift Town, courtesy of a closet cleaning at
misc Attention Procrastinators: Free One-Day Shipping on Amazon Today Only Raise your hand if you still have some gifts to buy, and you've run out of time to shop locally. (Raises hand.) FunCheapSF via The Frugal Find to the rescue! Head over to
misc SFist Gift List: Islands of San Francisco (The Poster) Burrito Justice devised this whimsical yet ramrod pristine map of San Francisco parks and neighborhoods - including the noted blogger's personal mission in life: the recognition of La Lengua - which can be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Gift List: Michael Chiarello's Bottega Cookbook Each Christmas morning we expect one cookbook under the tree. This year, we had better see Michael Charello's face smiling back at us, because we've firmly requested his latest effort, Michael Chiarello's Bottega,
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Holiday Events December only just began yesterday, and so has the whirlwind of events. SantaCon: If you can't get enough of drunk Santas, then Saturday's your lucky day. Lots of bars will be full of
misc Carpool to Holiday Shopping, Get Parking Discounts at City Garages A public service announcement from the Examiner: an MTA program to encourage carpooling and hopefully ease holiday congestion begins tomorrow and runs until December 26th at eight different city garages. The program offers
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: First in Line for Black Friday Making plans to take advantage of Black Friday shopping deals? We'd rather not, personally, that's why we have the Internet and a stack of Amazon gift cards. But if that's your kind of
SF News Plan for CityPlace Mall on Mid-Market Moves Forward, Might Include Target Yes, eager shoppers, you may soon be able to get Giada DiLaurentiis bakeware and other Target bargains right in the heart of S.F. The Planning Commission yesterday voted 5-2 to approve the
misc Major Sale at Goodwill We don't normally post about sales, but this one is well worth your time. (Unless you're insanely wealthy, that is.) But Goodwill stores are having a batshit sale next week. On Friday, June
misc SFist Out and About Twenty-six years after opening their first store off Polk Street, then later moving to Van Ness, American Rag, purveyors of questionably-priced vintage and new fashions, has called it quits in San Francisco. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Out and About We picked up this gem the other day at Out of the Closet on Polk Street. We imagine it sat in someone's kitchen for decades, and we plan for it to do the
misc SFist Out and About How much is that doggie in the window (who's inadvertently superimposed with the reflection of this contributor)? Spotted at Kayo Books on Post near Leavenworth, purveyors of paperbacks from the 1940s to 1970s,
misc SFist Out and About We always walk by MishaSF at Polk and Pine and make a note to ourselves that we'll go there the next time we need to obtain a gift. (They need a bigger sign
misc SFist Out and About We're starting a new series in which we capture photos of places of interest as we're out and about. The above photos are from the Goodwill at Post and Fillmore. We've scored lots
