Arts and Crafts

Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco Trades You Knickknacks for Tchotchkes

Crafts! Bands! Mission Block Party Next Month

The Sound of Silents

The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco

I Fold

The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco

Try It On

Stay fashion forward by looking in the back of your closet.

Common Ground

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Fat-is-beautiful activist Marilyn Wann protests Japan's thinness law

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

So Crafty

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Billy Connolly: Britain’s Famously Juvenile Grandpa

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Good Times on a Sliding Scale

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Take Your Fash Off

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Did It Themselves

In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

Paper Tigers

Viva Piñata is adorable -- and misleading

DomiKNITrix: Whip Your Knitting Into Shape

Smart advice and 20 stylish patterns for the novice and the badass

Mclusky

Mcluskyism

Holiday Gift Guide

Mcluskyism

Hipster San Diego

It's not all surf and silicone in America's Finest City

We'd Like to Buy the Coach a Coke

Jane Logan and Jackie Ortega are applying the fitness club model to the creative arts

Cut It Out

Stencils are the new graffiti

Tricolore, Twice

Two Italian trattorias -- one very Roman, one not very Umbrian

Best Sewing Classes

The Sewing Workshop

Best Lumberyard

MacBeath Hardwood

Reps Etc.

MacBeath Hardwood

Reps Etc.

MacBeath Hardwood

Reps Etc.

MacBeath Hardwood

Reps Etc.

MacBeath Hardwood

The Anarchist Knitting Circle

Mike Benham is a young man searching for community. And searching. And searching.

Best Locally Produced Magazine

ReadyMade

Best Vegan Shoe Store

Otsu

Brew-haha

"Mmm, beer"

Modern Art

Skip the doilies and tea cozies; this needlework makes a point of its attitude

Photo Phreaks

Is scrapbooking a hobby – or a mental disorder?

Best Unusual Textiles

Satin Moon Fabrics

Word Is Out

Award winners from the S.F. International Film Festival

Best Children's Museum

Randall Museum

Sex Mob

Solid Sender

Beyond and Back

The Tin Hat Trio's unclassifiable music spans the globe, which is just the way they like it

Recordings

The Tin Hat Trio's unclassifiable music spans the globe, which is just the way they like it

Designing Man

How Al Abayan's penchant for deconstruction has become so constructive

Sewing Aficionados To The Rescue of San Francisco's Publishing Woes

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

Pissed Jeans

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

Stitch of Software

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

The Art of the Crease

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

Spring Out of the Jungle

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

Free Mixtape for Free Show Thursday at Milk Bar

Skeletal System​ Ain't no tickets left for the LCD Soundsystem show on Thursday, so indie fans looking for a good time that night shouldn't need a helluva lot of carrot-waving to hit up the solid bill of up-and-comers playing for free (with RSVP) at Milk Bar. But just in case you do, show promoter ... More >>

Baylinks: Naughty Knitters, Muni Money, & Time Travel

These knitters aren't quite so innocent.​ Renegade knitting pranksters set off a war of (knitted) words in Berkeley. [Daily Clog]Rant: Hipster Apocalypse, otherwise known as the hipocalypse. [Uptown Almanac]Do you like to get drunk? Do you own a cat? Have we got a project for you. [Pawsome]Could M ... More >>

Make

These knitters aren't quite so innocent.​ Renegade knitting pranksters set off a war of (knitted) words in Berkeley. [Daily Clog]Rant: Hipster Apocalypse, otherwise known as the hipocalypse. [Uptown Almanac]Do you like to get drunk? Do you own a cat? Have we got a project for you. [Pawsome]Could M ... More >>

Blue Chair Launches Jam CSA

SusieFoodie/FlickrBlue Chair's jam CSA offers San Franciscans access to seasonal flavors. These are from 2008.​Who needs a jam CSA anyway? Cat ladies living off English muffins and pots of Constant Comment, with jar-a-week habits? Hoarders stuffing their larders? The answer, for lovers of Blu ... More >>

Putting It All Together

SusieFoodie/FlickrBlue Chair's jam CSA offers San Franciscans access to seasonal flavors. These are from 2008.​Who needs a jam CSA anyway? Cat ladies living off English muffins and pots of Constant Comment, with jar-a-week habits? Hoarders stuffing their larders? The answer, for lovers of Blu ... More >>

Animal Activists to State Fair: Don't Have a Cow

Isn't that cute!​Bay Area animal-rights activist Eric Mills has gathered 1,500 signatures in hopes of cowing the California State Fair into ceasing its practice of displaying live animal births.Hoping to continue with live piglet and calf birth exhibits, State Fair officials have recruited experts ... More >>