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Rickybobby: Mind-(and Body-) Expanding Comfort Food

"How to Survive a Plague": Here's Who Saved the World

Bank Fees Are Costing Consumers Way Too Much Money, Study Says

Sometimes it's hard to decide which is worse  -- insurance companies, banks, or just the 1 percent. Today, banks win.We just learned that banking giants charge Americans anywhere from $84 to $144 every year just to maintain a bank account, according to a report from the California Reinvestment ... More >>

Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers

News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>

They Were Kings: The Feds Attack the Internet Poker Industry

News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>

A Nation Mobilized

News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>

Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company

​Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>

Occupy San Francisco to Shut Down Financial District

​Occupy San Francisco is unleashing itself all over San Francisco's financial institutions come Friday, in what protesters are saying will be the largest street protest the city has experienced since the anti-war demonstrations in 2003. It's been several weeks in the making, ever since the Occupy ... More >>

Inside Cookie Time: Organic Treats on a Truck

Tamara PalmerMarina Snetkova bakes on her truck, Cookie Time.​Marina Snetkova used to wake up at 5 a.m. for her Wall Street job as a day trader for a hedge fund; now she rises at the same time to hop in her truck to start baking. After losing her job in 2008, Snetkova, who is originally from ... More >>

Pelosi Takes Shots at GOP, Lobbyists for Targeting Occupy Protesters in 'Message War'

​House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to defend the sundry Occupy movements that have sprung up across the country, appealing in a fundraising e-mail for money to help combat a "message war" against protesters orchestrated by GOP-connected lobbyists.Pelosi's e-mail was provoked ... More >>

Granny Greenleaf's Pumpkin Harvest Delight Edibles: Pumpkin in the Hour of Chaos

Granny Greenleaf's "Lil Velvets." The Pumpkin Harvest Delight got scarfed before we could get a shot.​If you replaced the word "sailing" from Christopher Cross's 1980 easy listening tour de force with the word "Oaksterdam," it would tickle so good. Especially now, as the smells of autumn com ... More >>

Groupon's Big Bowl of Problems

​Groupon, it appears, means to get rich or die tryin'. On Friday, it updated a regulatory filing indicating that it is scaling back its IPO plans. Less than five months ago, when it first filed, the company said it planned to raise about $750 million. Now that's been reduced to $540 million. The e ... More >>

"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street

"C is for Corporate Malfeasance"​A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks. Admi ... More >>

Charles Gatewood, "Greatest Hits": Still-Challenging Work of S.F. Legend

"C is for Corporate Malfeasance"​A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks. Admi ... More >>

Lawyer Suing San Francisco for Racial Discrimination May Need a Lawyer Himself

"C is for Corporate Malfeasance"​A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks. Admi ... More >>

Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Claims President Obama Assassinated

Don't believe Fox News​No worries, folks: Barack Obama is still the leader of the United States, much to the disappointment of Fox News followers. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that some idiot hackers thought they'd have a little fun with Fox News and give us another reason not to ... More >>

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Please Let Me in the Bubble

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

The Lighter Side of Heavy

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

Old's Cool

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

The Lighter Side of Heavy

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

"Inside Job": Charles Ferguson's meltdown doc will make you seethe

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

Bros Icing Bros: Our Food Critic Taste-Tests Smirnoff Ice Flavors

​Bro-on-bro icing is the meme du jour. What started out as a fratboy prank in South Carolina has been picked up by Wall Street traders, A-list bloggers, San Francisco hiptards, and Fortune magazine, all within the space of two weeks. Apparently, the appeal of forcing your friends to down a 24-ounc ... More >>

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

​Bro-on-bro icing is the meme du jour. What started out as a fratboy prank in South Carolina has been picked up by Wall Street traders, A-list bloggers, San Francisco hiptards, and Fortune magazine, all within the space of two weeks. Apparently, the appeal of forcing your friends to down a 24-ounc ... More >>

Michael Lewis profiles the nervy investors who made a fortune from the financial crisis

​Bro-on-bro icing is the meme du jour. What started out as a fratboy prank in South Carolina has been picked up by Wall Street traders, A-list bloggers, San Francisco hiptards, and Fortune magazine, all within the space of two weeks. Apparently, the appeal of forcing your friends to down a 24-ounc ... More >>

What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: Eliot Spitzer at Commonwealth Club

​Eliot Spitzer @ Commonwealth Club "The Cataclysm of 2008-2009: Lessons Learned, or Lessons Ignored" is a lecture by a expert on Wall Street crime. Here's a man with history of going after securities-fraud characters, weighing in on regulatory reform and attempts to control the banking industry. ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Chicken shit: Seriously? According to Slashfood's Sarah LeTrent (who got it from the New York Post) a former finance director at J. P. Morgan has reportedly spent the last few years trying to crack KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices. He may be clos ... More >>

Tom Morello and Boots Riley rage as one in Street Sweeper

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Chicken shit: Seriously? According to Slashfood's Sarah LeTrent (who got it from the New York Post) a former finance director at J. P. Morgan has reportedly spent the last few years trying to crack KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices. He may be clos ... More >>

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going -- to Davos?

Where's Gavin? Far from San Francisco. Far from our problems. Today the Board of Supervisors begins the nails-on-chalkboard, surgery-sans-anesthetic, Adam Sandler Film Festival-painful process of adopting hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts. Gavin Newsom won't be there. Not that the mayor ... More >>

Preventive Medicine: How S.F. Politicos Saved The World

Now that Wall Street investments have collapsed in value, it's fair to credit Nancy Pelosi's lead in the 2005 battle against Social Security privatization for saving us all from spending old age in abject poverty."In this downturn in the financial -- the stock market, thank God we won that fight," ... More >>

Third Party Ideas Don't Damage Voters at VP Debate

Now that Wall Street investments have collapsed in value, it's fair to credit Nancy Pelosi's lead in the 2005 battle against Social Security privatization for saving us all from spending old age in abject poverty."In this downturn in the financial -- the stock market, thank God we won that fight," ... More >>

SF Weekly's Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Now that Wall Street investments have collapsed in value, it's fair to credit Nancy Pelosi's lead in the 2005 battle against Social Security privatization for saving us all from spending old age in abject poverty."In this downturn in the financial -- the stock market, thank God we won that fight," ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Week of 4-18-2007

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels, and threequels in 2007

It's All Relative

Such smart performance

Gimme Shelters

After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 30, 2003

Why Was the Dot-Com Boom So Bad, Again?

The new New Economy: Making "spirit rocks" in a dank basement and attending "Manifesting Money the Psychic Way"

Dinner and a Movie

Stories of crime and passion weave in and out of a busy restaurant kitchen in Dinner Rush

American Beauty

Photographer Joel Sternfeld captures the diverse lives of strangers in his cross-country travels

Dim Bulbs

Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

A Temple to High Living

Elisabeth Daniel

Club Car

Gold Coast

Brotherly Love

Gold Coast

Telling Fortunes

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

Slap Shots

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

Unspun

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

A Message to Our Customers

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

S.F.s 10 Tiniest Conspiracies

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance