Arts & Entertainment The Day Of Stop Shopping Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day where big retail shoppers traditionally break even for the year! Traditionally considered the biggest shopping day of the year! Is it retail therapy? ....Or is
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to the Holiday Weekend: Charity! Marathons! SHOPPING!!! Blah blah blah soup kitchens blah blah fun-runs blah holiday schedules. All that stuff's fascinating, of course, but here's what we really want to know: Muni, where can we find all the hottest
Arts & Entertainment Apple and the Marina Come Together in Perfect Nerd-Fratboy Harmony This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third,
misc Week Around the -Ists SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom
SF News MISO Confused On a recent cab ride to the airport, we picked up the November issue of TODO: Little Guide. Big Town. for kicks. After scanning the restaurant, bar, and shopping guides, we came across
Arts & Entertainment Show Openings If you missed the great piece on decor stores that also act as galleries in yesterdays SF Chron be sure to check it out here. Anh-Minh Le does a great job of profiling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Where Will You Go This No-Halloween? The hallow'ed New York Times seems to think that no souls, not even "costumeless outsiders", will show up for "Nightmare on Castro Street." Mmmm. Well then, where else is there to go? The
SF News High Nerd Concentrations = Top Blogging Markets Who knew? According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
Arts & Entertainment Boss's Day with Hillary Mendelsohn Hillary Mendelsohn is a gift-giving expert for Office Depot (hmmm.. how exactly do we get THAT job?) and the founder and president of thepurplebook: The Definitive Guide to Exceptional Online Shopping. So basically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: Holy New Whole Foods! What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a
misc Blocker: 1800 Haight Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: An SUV for San Francisco Sidewalks How would you pilot six kids down Russian Hill? One foot on the brake, the other hopping like a kangaroo trying to keep up? Sounds like fun.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Cheaper: Going Green and Saving Green However, when we found out that a coupon book specifically for East Bay eco-minded businesses, organic food, restaurants, sustainable living services, and entertainment was on its way to our little forgotten corner of
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!
misc Blocker: 2600 Jackson Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment Poop And Pee. For Your Little Blessings. Also, it's a Swedish concoction, which might explain why we found it at a mildly chic Hayes Valley boutique. (HV wouldn't touch the stuff if it were hecho en México.)
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 A.M. Shooting Outside Metreon: 1 Dead, 1 Injured According to the Chronicle, police arrested a suspect in the killing of a man and wounding of a woman outside Jillian's nightclub -- a venue known in the club scene for its somewhat
Arts & Entertainment Cover Your Butt Let us just say that we HATE the bra-and-underwear sections at most major department stores. The fluorescent lighting, the indifferent sales staff with their cheesy tape measures and prodding fingers, the racks and
Arts & Entertainment Friends Don't Let Friends Glide Recklessly If you or someone you know is pregnant, you may already know that to glide or not to glide is one of the many baby-preparation decisions a mom-to-be will have to make. While
Arts & Entertainment Shopping, Napa-Style And then, one morning, we were on said street, a smidge early, waiting for Cody's Books to open, and Napa Style's doors were already flung wide. So we wandered in. Casually. And we
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High
misc Keenen Ivory Wayans' Destination Oakland Project Dead According to the Chronicle, '90s comic brain behind the long-ago hit In Living Color and current Scary Movie franchise, Keenen Ivory Wayans, will not build a movie studio and shopping center (a shopping
