Arts & Entertainment Renegade Craft Fair by Rachel Brodsky Just when you thought you'd explored them all up pops another craft fair. It's a good thing these places offer interesting and unique wallet-friendly artwork; otherwise, we'd be forced to
Arts & Entertainment Etsy's Handmade Ho Down Craft Fair (Thursday, 12/3) by Rachel Brodsky There's no getting around it--the holiday season is upon us. And while you could hunker down in your apartment, grow a beard and hibernate till February, perhaps one of the
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: Thread Fashion Event at Fort Mason Just in time for the holidays, Thread will be having a two-day shopping extravaganza this weekend at Fort Mason Center, featuring wares from the top 100 hand-picked independent fashion and art designers. Attendees
misc Bag Lady: Shotwell at 320 Grant Please welcome Ryan Robles. He'll be writing Bag Lady, which will be cover local boutiques, shops, stores, and other retail oddities that deserve a megawatt spotlight shined on them. He'll also interview small
Arts & Entertainment LGBT Center Shopping Party at Sports Basement Well, now we've heard everything. Tonight, where SOMA meets the Mission, there will be a LGBT Center shopping party at -- get this -- the Sports Basement in SOMA. Crazy! But seriously, folks,
misc Local Business Overreacts to Mediocre Yelp Review Special thanks to the on-the-ball tipster who informed SFist of this humorous yet slightly disturbing occurrence surrounding Yelper Marie K.'s 3-star review of Perish Trust, an antique store on Divisadero Street, last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
misc Attention Shoppers: Barneys Warehouse Sale Tomorrow Through August 9 We have to admit we're too frugal to even have ever stepped foot in Barneys, but we're a sucker for good deals. Starting tomorrow at 8 a.m. through Sunday, August 9, Barneys
misc Oakland's Shopseen.com Simplifies Shopping Locally Shopseen is a new beta site that enables users to post and rate photos of their favorite fashion and household items for sale in the Bay Area. (We wonder if any users ever
misc Punk the Recession: Shop Handmade and Local The Lab (2948 16th Street) hosts its annual Post Card show beginning Friday night. For this small-format show artists submit a box full of work-- all priced below $30. In the past works
SF News 'Shop SF, Get More' Plan Announced to Boost Local Business Before rolling out budget cuts later this week, Mayor Newsom is helping out the local economy by asking you to do all of your holiday shopping here in San Francisco. To tempt you
SF News Choose Your Own Adventure: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day After Thursday's turkey and stuffing festivities have subsided and digested, Friday is when your wallet takes a hit on Black Friday, the day retailers hope to move into the black. But this year,
misc She's Crafty... Free admission. Saturday and Sunday July 12 + 13 from 11am - 7pm at Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion.
misc When DumbPeople Look at SmartCars The sudden appearance of a Smart in our neighborhood got us thinking: perhaps this parking solution will bring an end to our car-free lifestyle. We conducted a quick feasibility study in our neighborhood,
SF News SFist Blotter On Friday night at around 11:30 p.m., the intersection of Leavenworth and O'Farrell played host to a shooting. It seems that shots were fired from one car into another, leaving two
misc Day Around the Bay -- Those rectangular glassy lofts on Folsom and Fourth Streets are, in fact, award-winning rectangular glassy lofts. Also, love the windows. [Curbed] -- What to do in SF when it pours. [Gridskipper] --
Arts & Entertainment The All-Access Pass Don't delay; Noise Pop is offering a ticket to one of two already sold out Magnetic Fields shows with the purchase of the Noise Pop Badge. Apparently this show was sold-out in minutes!
misc Preggo Skinny Bitches Heart <i>A Pea in A Pod</i> [Sorry to go all Noe Valley on you lovely readers, but yes, one more SFist writer is knocked up and ready to rant.] A Pea in a Pod near Union Square was on
SF News Newsom Calls Chu "Naïve" -- Well, Sort Of No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu. Let's back up a bit here: In her first hickory-bold move since taking over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Segway Traffic Jam in the Marina The commission that said no to the Panhandle Bandshell a while back, has just said yes to Segways in Golden Gate Park. Enjoy the Channel 7 video but try not to chuckle at
Arts & Entertainment Buy Handmade This Holiday In case you missed the packed ReadyMade party last night or were too distracted by all the cute people and free drinks to actually get any holiday shopping done here are some more
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 103 Kings 96- Yawn, another day, another Warriors win. And when was the last time somebody said anything like that? The Warriors had to earn this game as they were down by
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
