A loyal fan of the child-rearing arts -- she had taken nanny jobs at least twice before, even a job in Turkey, after answering online ads in the past; and even recently played Maria in her church community theater's production of The Sound of Music -- Katherine Ann Olson, 24, answered a Craigslist ad posted last week, looking for a nanny. The CL ad ultimately would lead to her death. Last Thursday, in Savage, Minnesota,......

We'll confess to having never really listened to Wolf Parade; maybe we got them confused with Mice Parade, and we've always though Wolfmother sounded pretty derivative, so they just fell through the cracks for us. But one of the two lead songwriters in Wolf Parade, Dan Boeckner, has a band with his wife Alexei Perry called Handsome Furs which we're really liking. It's a little dark and dire while still being melodic and engaging; we......

We've got a really cool giveaway this week. Everyone knows who Rufus Wainwright is, right? Please, tell us that you do. He's still crooning luxuriously behind the piano, wearing fabulously tailored suits and hasn't aged a day since his auspicious self-titled debut nearly ten years ago. His brand new record, Release the Stars, is hot off the presses and he's coming to play a special show at Nob Hill Masonic Center with Sean Lennon......

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Now that our long, national nightmare is over and Brett Favre has announced that he's both playing this season and maybe next season, it's time to check in with our Bay Area teams as both have made significant additions to their rosters over the past week or so. ...

Usually, whenever we see some story about corporate boardroom battles and stockholders suing each other, we just yawn and go straight to the gossip pages. But not this story. Because this story just might be the most troubling and important company battle of our time: a family feud is threatening to destroy In-N-Out Burger. We think we speak for everyone when we shout out at the top of our lungs "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" ...

Members of SEIU Local 790 employed by the San Francisco Unified School District plan to announce their strike as early as Wednesday. We confirmed information posted on Indybay with a representative from the union yesterday. According to the Chronicle, the strike will not be legal under state law until ten days after a recommendation from a fact-finding panel is issued and considered by both the union and the district, which at the earliest would......

Our weekly pics for people who are drunk and unemployed. Last Thursday, SFist Krissy recommended Doug E. Fresh. Doug! E! Fresh! Shall we say it again? We shall. Doug E. Fresh. Check him out at the DNA Lounge, doors open at eight, $25 at the door (we know, expensive, but did we mention Doug E. Fresh?). If you're more into fine art than the fine art of beat-boxing (square), head out to Fort Mason......

here's an interesting little morality play going on in Marin County involving health care and the treatment of the elderly. And yes, it's more interesting than it sounds. Last Thursday, a Marin County judge refused to allow the local sheriff from evicting an elderly woman who has spent the past year living in her hospital bed. That woman, Sarah Nome, 82, of San Alsemo, hasn't needed treatment since last January but has refused to leave and the hospital, Kaiser Permanante has been trying for the past year to evict her. ...

It's looking like after years and years of discussion, the Powers that Be who are in charge of the Golden Gate Bridge areslowly moving towards putting a suicide barrier along the bridge to prevent people from jumping. Last Thursday, the Bridge Directors voted to study plans to put them up. The decision came after a tearful and emotional meeting the previous day in which families’ of people who jumped and a few people who survived the jump pleaded with the bridge directors to build the barrier. Of course, voting to study an issue doesn't necessarily make something happen as voting for a study is a sure-fire way to not make something happen, but this has been the biggest movement on the issue in a long time....

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