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Get Hired at Thursday's Good Food Jobs Fair

What: Good Food Jobs Fair When: September 13th, 8am-12pm and 4pm-7pm Where: Food Craft Institute, Jack London Square, 65 Webster St, Oakland. Cost: Free The rundown: Feel like you have the passion and drive to make a difference in the world of food? Then print up a crisp new resume and bring it to t ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

To the Moon

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 >>

Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

Video: Adam Werbach Describes New Job

The Stupids Dance

Convicted Embezzler Linda Simwa Cons SF Symphony, UCSF

Josh Wolf on Colbert Report tonight

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.

Hire Me!

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

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

Best Place to Watch Local Professional Athletes

San Francisco's Strip Clubs

Laborer Pains

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

Belaboring the Issue

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

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U-Lee

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Delancey Street Moving & Transportation

Best Inexpensive Shoe Store

Aldo

North Beach Trouble

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

Social Grace

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

School of Hard Knocks

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

Industry: Take This Job!

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.