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  • Blogs

    December 19, 2012

    San Francisco Bulls Invite You to Spend Your Last Day on Earth Watching Live Hockey

    We can't think of a better way to spend your last day on Earth than a minor league hockey game. This Friday -- the much-anticipated 12-21-12 -- the San Francisco Bulls are hosting an "It's the End of the World as We Know it" game. Even if you don't like hockey, the team has a persuasive pitch. Whe ... More >>

  • News

    June 13, 2012

    Muni: Our Transit Agency Has Neglected Maintenance for Years

    We can't think of a better way to spend your last day on Earth than a minor league hockey game. This Friday -- the much-anticipated 12-21-12 -- the San Francisco Bulls are hosting an "It's the End of the World as We Know it" game. Even if you don't like hockey, the team has a persuasive pitch. Whe ... More >>

  • Music

    June 6, 2012

    Nick Waterhouse: R&B Prodigy

    We can't think of a better way to spend your last day on Earth than a minor league hockey game. This Friday -- the much-anticipated 12-21-12 -- the San Francisco Bulls are hosting an "It's the End of the World as We Know it" game. Even if you don't like hockey, the team has a persuasive pitch. Whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Five Promising Record Store Day Releases From Bay Area Artists

    The list of limited edition releases being ushered out for Record Store Day 2012 considerably dwarfs those of previous years. This coming Saturday, April 21, independent music retailers will be the sole purveyors of a variety of goods arranged with (hopefully) meticulous preparation, and curatorial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Ice Cream Bar Owner Juliet Pries on eBay, Tinctures, and Coca Leaves

    ​Thanks to byzantine SF permitting processes, it took Juliet Pries almost two years to open the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, the subject of this week's restaurant review. But the delay gave her time to change the focus of the shop, expanding from ice cream into its most distinctive feature: pre-P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Manny Ramirez in Oakland: Savor the Possibilities

    The half-million dollar man...​Back in the days of yore, Jon Lovitz had a Saturday Night Live bit in which he pitched himself to "single women in their 30s" with the plea "Lower your standards!" Fast-forwarding several decades, the Oakland A's signed erratic, potential fortysomething, busted stero ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Skin for Sale: SPCA's Laura Gretch to Let Auction Decide Her Next Tattoo

    When we think of pet adoption drives, we think of Saturday mornings in a Petco parking lot, not tattoos, cocktails, and auctions. But the latter is what you'll get Friday night, as Laura Gretch of the San Francisco SPCA will get a tattoo -- one that's chosen by the highest bidder on an eBay auction. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Five Ways That Newly-Engaged Steven Tyler Is Kinda Creepy

    We were touched this past week to see both Aretha Franklin and Steven Tyler get engaged (not to each other, obviously). It stands as heart-warming proof that you're never too old or flamboyant to find love. In the midst of celebrating the Aerosmith frontman's exciting engagement, however, we also re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    The Real Life Superhero Files: Do-Luck

    Do-Luck. ​In this week's cover story, we presented The Ray, a Target employee from Antioch who was arrested in the general strike march in Oakland last month while acting as a Real Life Superhero. The Ray is far from the only civilian-turned-comic book hero fighting crime or helping the needy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Ugly Thanksgiving Sweaters: Tonight Is Your Last Chance to Find Them on eBay

    ​The hours until Thanksgiving morning are nearing, and soon you will awaken to the smell of turkey and stuffing wafting through a house chock-full of relatives and the sound of football droning from the television. You'll hop out of bed and reach for that one perfect Turkey Day sweater. Wait -- no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Pentagram's Bobby Liebling on His New Music, Living Sober, and Playing with Odd Future

    Pentagram: the classic lineup.​ Inspired by iconic pioneers Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, and the Stooges, as well as unsung hard-rock heroes like Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust, and Bang, Virginia-based band Pentagram forged a dark, foreboding sound in the early 1970s that should have made founding le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Airbnb Raises $112 Million from Investors, Is Now Valued at $1.3 Billion

    Lichtenstein: Available to rent​It's a simple idea: Set up a clearinghouse for people to informally "rent" out their homes, or rooms in their homes, to travelers. But it wasn't until 2009 that a group of San Francisco entrepreneurs tried to base a business on this idea, launching a website, Airbnb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    S.F. Supes Pass Happy Meal Ban with Veto-Proof Majority

    ​Snitch editor Joe Eskenazi has the word on today's vote by the Board of Supervisors to end toy giveaways for fast-food meals that fail to rate as nutritious. Eskenazi: The supes today passed an ordinance that will require meals to meet nutritional guidelines if restaurants wish to include a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Film

    August 4, 2010

    "Life During Wartime": Todd Solondz returns with a scary update

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 21, 2010

    Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze uses real people to imagine unreal worlds

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 9, 2010

    Humor in sorrow: The illogic of loss in "God's Ear"

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Hitler, On Toast

    ​Back in 2004, some lady claimed her grilled cheese sandwich -- which she had kept for more than a decade -- depicted the Virgin Mary. The sandwich, which (miraculously) didn't go moldy, sold on eBay for $28,000. The God alligator came to us soon after, and Jesus started getting noticed regularly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    From @ Platform to Ad Platform? Twitter Announces @anywhere

    ​Perplexing the business-model hungry pundits with a difference of just one letter, Twitter CEO Ev Williams surprised the crowd today at his SXSWi keynote by announcing not an Ad platform but an @ platform, a way to further integrate Twitter's data into third party platforms without implementing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    In Store w/ Recycled Records, Where Vinyl Killed the CD Star

    ​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Hey DJ! Friday Q&A w/ Adrian & Mysterious D of Bootie

    ​Adrian & Mysterious D have an interesting take on mashups. As they explain it, the "genre" transcends all other styles, as producers working in this arena pull tracks from a wide variety of artists, making the artform both classic enough to build a large fanbase, and cutting edge enough to in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2009

    Lethem Drops Chronic

    ​Adrian & Mysterious D have an interesting take on mashups. As they explain it, the "genre" transcends all other styles, as producers working in this arena pull tracks from a wide variety of artists, making the artform both classic enough to build a large fanbase, and cutting edge enough to in ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2009

    The Idea List

    ​Adrian & Mysterious D have an interesting take on mashups. As they explain it, the "genre" transcends all other styles, as producers working in this arena pull tracks from a wide variety of artists, making the artform both classic enough to build a large fanbase, and cutting edge enough to in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Alland Byallo

    When it comes to great techno, is San Francisco the next Berlin? That's a question bouncing around inside the beat-focused noggin of DJ, producer, and label owner Alland Byallo. Byallo is part of the highly respected [Kontrol] crew, who bring minimal techno and  "avant-house" to places like the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    'At Least Iraqi Journalists Can Afford to Throw Their Shoes' and Other Silver Linings of Our President's Latest Misadventure

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2008

    Sic Alps makes cracked genius look easy

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Music

    August 20, 2008

    The New Tweedy Bros! craft one of rock’s most collectible LPs

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Olympic ticket scam sites could have been shut down sooner

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Nine Inch Nails Releases Physical Version of Latest Album

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2008

    SF Gov't InAction: Bye-bye Taxi Commission, hello Peaker Plants?

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Music

    April 30, 2008

    Reborn at Harry Denton's Starlight Room

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    We score an exclusive interview with the Olympic torch

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    The Lowbrow Art Sale -- Ekundayo, Skot Olsen, Ahren Hertel

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    July 25, 2007

    Chow Time Again

    Demonstrating cat-like reflexes honed ducking projectile vomit at thousands of Yale frat parties, President Bush nimbly avoided a pair of shoes tossed his way Sunday by an irate Iraqi journalist. That a luddite shoe bomber could get within hucking distance of the Commander-in-Chief -- and is now ... More >>

  • Film

    July 4, 2007

    Auto-Chaotic

    As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

  • Calendar

    January 17, 2007

    Prosperity to the People

    Online microfinance can unleash your inner Rockefeller

  • Culture

    November 29, 2006

    Galleries

    Online microfinance can unleash your inner Rockefeller

  • Film

    December 28, 2005

    The Reel Truth

    Hollywood claims the sky is falling. To which we say, Puh-lease.

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2005

    Come Together

    A "Safe" place for shorts

  • Calendar

    August 10, 2005

    No Mere Puppet

    Sha Sha's strange path

  • Music

    June 16, 2004

    House of Tudor

    If you think that poo isn't sexy, you haven't heard Kitten on the Keys sing about hers.

  • Dining

    January 15, 2003

    Out of the Past

    Inspired by an S.F.-set film noir series, we haunt the classics

  • Music

    October 23, 2002

    House of Tudor

    Electroclashers, grotesque miscreations, and flying imbeciles

  • Dining

    March 6, 2002

    Do You Want to Touch My Monkey?

    The new Marina restaurant with the very strange name

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Dead, But Not Dead Enough; A Click Down Memory Lane

  • Music

    April 18, 2001

    Chicks on Speed

    The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases (K)

  • Dining

    December 13, 2000

    Deadly Sin of the Week: Greed

    Wedding gifts, heirlooms, and lost possessions

  • Music

    December 1, 1999

    Hear This

    The Johnny Nocturne Band featuring Kim Nalley

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Season of Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    A Night at the Webbys

    Backstage, Mistress Tiffany takes the prize

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