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Embarcadero Center Threatened to Sue City Over Occupy Encampment

Embarcadero Center: Occupiers holiday ice show = "disastrous."​The Hyatt Regency and Vitale hotels complained of foul camp conditions, "sexual harassment," and an employee getting coffee thrown on him by OccupiersThe 99 percent might wage war with drum circles, slogans, and tent cities, but the 1 ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger Affair Might be Investigated by Attorney General

​California Attorney General Kamala Harris might be launching an investigation into whether former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger improperly used state resources to carry out his now-legendary extramarital dalliances, according to news organizations.Let's qualify that: This information is coming from ... More >>

John Knowles, School Board Prez, Left His Job in San Francisco

School's out!​The president of a St. Louis school board whose members burned through $12,845 on a recent junket to San Francisco has stepped down. John Knowles, a five-year member of the Ferguson-Florrissant School Board, handed in his resignation yesterday. Among the eye-opening expenses racked u ... More >>

School Board Members Burn Through $13K in San Francisco Trip

This "San Francisco Treat" would have been more economical...​School board members are, apparently, slow learners. How else to explain a St. Louis-area board member being dinged -- twice -- for smoking in his hotel room, resulting in the general public forking over $500? Board members from the Fer ... More >>

"Somewhere": Celebrity living has its downside

This "San Francisco Treat" would have been more economical...​School board members are, apparently, slow learners. How else to explain a St. Louis-area board member being dinged -- twice -- for smoking in his hotel room, resulting in the general public forking over $500? Board members from the Fer ... More >>

Singularity Summit Highlights: World Fails to End

Good guess, champ! ​Well, the world didn't end this weekend. Nobody really expected it to, anyway -- the Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency (about which we wrote in some detail last Friday) was less about invoking an immediate techno-cataclysm than it was about laying the groundwork for o ... More >>

Kassaundra Ramirez Debuts Today at the Grand Hyatt Hotel

Kassaundra in the studio.​If you happen to get out of work at a decent time on Friday, you may want to think about foregoing happy and instead check out The Bay Area's newest pop star, Kassaundra Ramirez, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Union Square. Kassaundra, 7, has made the trip for her first perf ... More >>

San Franciscans to Rappel from the Grand Hyatt (429 Feet Up) in Union Square

​If you happen to be walking through Union Square between 1p.m. and 4 p.m. today, we suggest you look up. Icky Rosborough just might be rappelling in a harness 429 feet over your head.Several weeks ago, Rosborough, a 27-year-old technician for Radio Alice, took on the challenge of raising $1,000 f ... More >>

Hotel Bars Are the Perfect Places to Take a Load Off and Hoist a Few

Emily S./YelpCheer station: The Grand Café at Hotel Monaco​There are a few things you need to know as you elbow your way through the shoppers, buskers, hawkers, and carolers of Union Square this week. The best gingerbread house is up the hill at the Fairmont. The best shop windows are the sil ... More >>

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

Campaign: Don't Throw Out Your Chemical-Spewing TV -- Recycle It

Oliver KurmisOnce it showed 'Trash TV.' Now it's just trash ... or is it?With the February 17 digital TV deadline fast approaching, many of you are probably planning the haul of your dinosaur boob tube out to the curb for the Sunset Scavengers. But as any enviro-conscious San Fra ... More >>

Saturday Night: Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt

EKAphotographyThe Yokes on Us team converges on a clue Chinese New Year Treasure HuntChinatown and beyondBetter Than: The Streets of San Francisco on DVD How well do you know the City? Even if you were born and raised here, it's unlikely you're familiar with every back alley, side street, commemor ... More >>

Boyz II Men, Willie Nelson, and Meat Puppets: Your Monday Morning Hangover

On Friday, Willie Nelson and son Lukas graced the Fillmore with their presence (they'll be doing so till tomorrow, Jan. 20, if you missed out). All Shook Down correspondent Jonathan Kiefer waxed poetic in his review of the evening, painting Nelson in red and blue lights such that he resembled Shepar ... More >>

Saturday: The Sixth Annual Yoga Journal SF Conference

Sixth Annual Yoga Journal San Francisco Conference January 16-19, 2009 Hyatt Regency Review and Photos by Sam Prestianni Better Than: Reading Yoga Journal while scarfing down Krispy Kreme doughnuts in front of a dancing Krishna. Yoga Journal's sixth annual conference -- an outsized gathering of ro ... More >>

The Fire Inside's Delightful

One of the finest aspects of the urban holiday experience is meeting friends for a hot toddy in an elegant and festively decorated saloon: a modern-day variation on those ancient winter festivals our forebears conjured up to distance the damp, cold darkness. My favorite rendezvous is the Big Four, a ... More >>

Don't Shop Till You Drop

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

Listening to guy talk at the Hyatt

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

Obamamites: Get Your Party On

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

The Weekend Hitlist: Carnaval, BayCon, Margot & the Nuclear So So's

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

"Dark Matters" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

High-tech artists make a multimedia map of the world

Holiday Happenings

Do It Again, My Friend

Find out who's having the Best Day Ever at the bar in the Hyatt Regency

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

Grand Old Partying

Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention

Red Rosa

Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention

Holiday Guide

Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention

Show Time for Rug Rats

An audition for America's Most Talented Kid turns up some prodigies, and some very young has-beens.

Off the Waterfront

News media have abandoned the labor beat and missed a story of global financial import: the looming possibility of a longshoremen's strike at West Coast ports

Walking on Water

Aqua

Equinox

Revolution Not in Progress

Four Best Hotel Lobbies

Revolution Not in Progress

Best Childhood Nostalgia-Themed Gift Shop

Kar'ikter

Riff Raff

The Gavin Seminar

Hip Pocket

In Austin, Texas, it's a neck-and-neck race between art and commerce at South by Southwest

Bound to Glory

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Riff Raff

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Dog Bites

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Night+Day

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Night+Day

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Night+Day

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Drop the Ball, Already

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

Buttheads

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Night+Day

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Night+Day

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Dish

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Bite Your Tongue

Gay activists may be silencing others in their bid to have the last word

Letters

Gay activists may be silencing others in their bid to have the last word

Dog Bites

Gay activists may be silencing others in their bid to have the last word

Dish

Gay activists may be silencing others in their bid to have the last word