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    May 25, 2012

    More Summer Jobs for S.F.'s Youth

    Today is the last day of school for San Francisco's minors. Time to let loose and welcome the summer and maybe, if you're old enough, earn some extra cash. In fact, your chances of scoring a summer job are higher than ever thanks to the new Summer Jobs Plus initiative, which seeks to connect th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Unemployed Still? Cannabis Jobs Fair at Cow Palace This Weekend

    ​This being election season means it's also jobs season. Jobs are on the lips of every politician worth his or her soft money -- from Barack Obama's jobs plan to Mayor Ed Lee's own Wilsonesque 17-point jobs plan (in some ways eerily similar to the 17-point jobs plan offered in June by mayoral oppo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Ellen Burleigh: I-5 Strangler Victim's Remains Found 30 Years Later

    Ellen Burleigh​Anyone who was in Northern California during the late 1970s remembers the paralyzing fear many had when the notorious I-5 strangler was on the loose. The serial killer was known for kidnapping, raping, and murdering women. One of his many victims was 21-year-old Ellen Burleigh, whos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Avoid Facebook Embarrassment With Reppler

    striatic/Flickr"Did I really just post that?"​If Anthony Weiner's sordid debacle taught us anything, it's that your social networking can have serious consequences on your real life. It's not hard to think of friends who have revealed a bit too much on Facebook. Speaking from experience, we ca ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2011

    Park It Right Here

    striatic/Flickr"Did I really just post that?"​If Anthony Weiner's sordid debacle taught us anything, it's that your social networking can have serious consequences on your real life. It's not hard to think of friends who have revealed a bit too much on Facebook. Speaking from experience, we ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    SF Weekly Seeks New Theater Critic

    After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2009

    To the Moon

    After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    More Lotto Scams Take San Franciscans

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2009

    Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Video: Adam Werbach Describes New Job

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2008

    The Stupids Dance

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    Convicted Embezzler Linda Simwa Cons SF Symphony, UCSF

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2007

    Josh Wolf on Colbert Report tonight

    We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing betwee ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2005

    Craig$list.com

    The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

  • News

    October 26, 2005

    Hire Me!

    Infiltrator has figured out how to solve the so-called unemployment problem

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Place to Work on Your Laptop When You're Unemployed

    Infiltrator has figured out how to solve the so-called unemployment problem

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003
  • News

    November 20, 2002

    Laborer Pains

    The San Francisco Day Labor Program loses city funding amid a labyrinthine dispute between its political supporters and the Mayor's Office

  • Dining

    November 13, 2002

    Belaboring the Issue

    Is it OK to follow up a résumé with a call, even if the ad says not to?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001
  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Movers

    Delancey Street Moving & Transportation

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001
  • Dining

    August 16, 2000

    North Beach Trouble

    Black Eye for Black Cat; Good Help?; Take the J Train

  • Dining

    June 14, 2000

    Social Grace

    Tipping policy at an open bar; Serving plates; Addressing the Interviewer; Wedding Ushers; Noisy Neighbor

  • News

    April 26, 2000

    School of Hard Knocks

    State laws regulating vocational schools have been gutted. Disadvantaged students are paying the price.

  • Dining

    February 17, 1999

    Industry: Take This Job!

    State laws regulating vocational schools have been gutted. Disadvantaged students are paying the price.

  • News

    April 30, 1997

    Labor Games

    San Francisco is spending $5 million on a flag-waving, candy-bar-giving, feel-good course called Express to Success, hoping it will move welfare recipients into jobs. But no one is measuring the success -- or failure -- of the program itself.

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