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Judge Rejects $19 Ionic Breeze Class-Action Settlement: SF's Sharper Image Gets Blurry Financial Outlook

Kids Fall Into The Gap: Child Labor Scandal Hits Bay Area Megabrand

Don't Believe The Hype: Cyber Monday

New Interpol Live EP Releases Today in Exclusive Stores

SF Safeway Grocer's Strikes Looms -- And We So Don't Care

2008 Banished Words List: With Additions

SF Street Style: Spotted in Upper Haight

Metallica -- live, in person, this weekend

Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Costco Confirms Ban of Foie Gras from Online Inventory

Ryanrules via FlickrThe mega retailer couldn't confirm its foie gras supplier's claimsA representative of Costco called SFoodie today to clarify the retailer's position around yesterday's reported foie gras ban, announced in a press release by anti-cruelty group the Animal Protection and Rescue Leag ... More >>

Bogus UCSF Hospital Booksellers Just the Latest Scammers From Shady Company

On Monday, we noted that San Franciscans were reporting door-to-door booksellers claiming to be fund-raising for UCSF Children's Hospital -- which was news to hospital officials. The UCSF Police have since confirmed that Terry Brisendine of the Michigan-based magazine clearinghouse World Wide Circul ... More >>

Mom-and-Pop Record Stores Not Exactly Cheering Virgin's Demise

The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate ... More >>

Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate ... More >>

Trapped in the Deadmau5 beat

The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate ... More >>

Cruising the bargain bins with Vetiver’s Andy Cabic

The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate ... More >>

Bookstore Love

When one door closes, another opens

Supersore

The sins of Wal-Mart get the documentary treatment

DVD Gift Box

The sins of Wal-Mart get the documentary treatment

The Fanboy Crusade

Why a San Francisco comic-shop owner is trying to sue the pants off of Spider-Man's owners -- to the tune of $18 million

Best All-in-One Shoe Store

Shoe Pavilion

Ransom Notes

Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

I Have a Dream 2.0

New Seybold upgrade brings ethics, privacy, adulation, salvation via Internet

South to the Future

E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave

Riff Raff

Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off

Suitcase Full of Art

"Frenzy"

South to the Future

Pressing Patent Suit May Backfire on Amazon.com

Hear This

Pressing Patent Suit May Backfire on Amazon.com

Music.competition

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

Dog Bites

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

Hear This

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

Falling for the Gap

San Francisco gave away the store to help The Gap Inc. and its politically connected chairman build an upscale headquarters with a bay view. But more than $18 million in subsidies apparently won't bring the city anything it couldn't have had free.

Falling Through The Gap

San Francisco gave away the store to help The Gap Inc. and its politically connected chairman build an upscale headquarters with a bay view. But more than $18 million in subsidies apparently won't bring the city anything it couldn't have had free.

Light in the Attic's West Coast Retail Tour

In the old days of the music industry, label staff loaded up their station wagons with vinyl albums and promotional goodies, and set off on Odyssey -like road trips across America, stopping at every mom'n'pop retail shop along the way. The goal was to establish direct, personal relationships with re ... More >>

Tiga

In the old days of the music industry, label staff loaded up their station wagons with vinyl albums and promotional goodies, and set off on Odyssey -like road trips across America, stopping at every mom'n'pop retail shop along the way. The goal was to establish direct, personal relationships with re ... More >>

Is Costco's Foie Gras Ban a Big Fat Hoax?

Is an animal rights group pulling a hoax centered around a high-profile foie gras ban? Earlier today, Eater SF picked up a press release stating that warehouse retailer Costco had pledged to ban sales of foie gras, the controversial luxury liver produced by gorging certain poultry fowl. Sounds like ... More >>

eMusic Raises Rates

As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

Urban Outfitters Fixie: $400. Achieving Hipster Chic: Priceless.

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Mexican Man Completes Pilgrimage To S.F. For Best Buy Laptop On 'Viernes Negro'

The pilgrims prepare for the long, cold night ahead...​Laptops. They were there for the $197 HP laptops. At 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, while you were likely curled up in a turkey coma, the Black Friday pilgrims had already made their annual peregrination to the Mecca of capitalism -- otherwi ... More >>

Come For Black Friday, Stay For -- Gay Marriage?

​Last week, Lauren Smiley wrote a fascinating story about a Mexican man who specifically flew to San Francisco to participate in the Black Friday buy-a-thon in the City by the Bay.Most San Franciscans probably wouldn't be thrilled with the impression of our city an out-of-towner gets if his or her ... More >>

A Panino You Can Check Out and Pay With: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

calmenda/FlickrDon't stop.​Monday, November 30, 2009 Shopping Cyber Monday takes time. And even though you'll spend all morning hoisting brim beanies and pullover hoodies into your shopping cart, you'll probably need to keep shopping right through lunch. Fortunately, SoCha Café has free Wi- ... More >>

Saturday is Record Store Day: Limited-Edition Releases, Rare In-Stores

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

Target, NOPA Neighbors to Commence NIMBY Fight Over Proposed Store

Ready, Aim, Nimbyfight​Target has scheduled its first NIMBY meeting for a proposed store at the old Mervyn's site at Masonic and Geary Streets, Bike NoPa reports. Target would seem a shoo-in for a site previously occupied by chain department stores such as Sears and Mervyn's. But this neighborhood ... More >>

Target Targeted By Angry S.F. Supervisor Candidates

Everyone loves the dog. Everyone hates his employer. ​When candidates running for the Board of Supervisors were asked what they thought about Target's plans to open a pair of San Francisco outlets, their opinions were like discount footwear at the big box store: plentiful, hard to miss -- and unco ... More >>

Are There Any Food-Related Cyber Monday Deals Worth Getting?

Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

Radical Shopping

Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

Record Store Day Is Christmas for Music Retailers

Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

June's Literary Events

Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

Amazon to Cut Out California Associates over Sales Tax Dispute

Nice little business you've got going there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it​Internet retail giant Amazon.com informed California-based Web sites, which make money via referring buyers, that they'll soon be cut out if the state forces the Amazon to pay sales tax, as proposed in the ... More >>

South Bay Store Manager Accused of Filming Female Shoppers in Dressing Room

passing time at work ​In May, SF Weekly told readers about Nicholas Springer, the 26-year-old "pervert" who was busted filming up women's skirts and dresses at a downtown farmer's market in Marin. Now, we are going to tell you about another alleged peeping tom in the South Bay. David Meyer, a 29-y ... More >>

Groove Merchant: Show Preview

passing time at work ​In May, SF Weekly told readers about Nicholas Springer, the 26-year-old "pervert" who was busted filming up women's skirts and dresses at a downtown farmer's market in Marin. Now, we are going to tell you about another alleged peeping tom in the South Bay. David Meyer, a 29-y ... More >>