A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission and 29th Street. A woman came into the taqueria and started yelling racial and anti-gay slurs at people in the restaurant, and when the teacher and his friends tried to get away from her, she attacked him with the knife. The SFPD......

Cars Grotto Nights presents Driving Obsession, a free night of reportage, science, and art in the form of a subversive Valentine to our cars at Mezzanine (444 Jessie St at Mint). This cabaret-style variety show features Bucky Sinister reading his show-stopping poem on NASCAR, Dr. Graham Fleming of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory explaining how he and others are using synthetic biology to create fuels for the future, Baghdad taxi driver/art student Mounaf Shaker's screens his......

We knew we should have saved the dead llama story for just one more day -- it's time for another Animal Roundup! Kids and parents are freaking out in Mountain View, as the squirrels in Cuesta Park go on the attack! Over the last three months, three people have been bitten by the aggressive rodents, which are becoming desperate for food after the installation of anti-squirrel trash cans in the park. Check out this paragraph......

Dang, if we'd known you could make that much money in academia, we'd've studied harder for the GREs! The UC faces yet another embarrassment, as it now comes out that in the wake of tuition increases and department cutbacks, the academic admin staff is routinely pulling down salaries of over $300,000 -- to do nothing. Former Cal chancellor Robert Berdahl got an annual salary of $315,000 for a 13 month leave, provost MRC Greenwood is on a 15 month leave at a $301,840 salary, and the former head of the Lawrence Berkeley labs is finishing up a one-year leave at $336,000. This is all despite the fact that the UC put a policy in place against this back in 1994. The Regents explain that these folks are taking their leaves as administrators before they return to teaching -- because in part their salaries are significantly lower as mere professors ($130,000 for Berdahl, for instance), and these faculty members say they've been using the time off to work on books and lectures. The UC's been having a hard time explaining their pay practices lately -- the Chron's also uncovered evidence that as part of a lawsuit settlement, another administrator from Davis is receiving $200,000+ with no official job duties, all administrators got 3% merit pay raises, as tuition goes up 8-10%. They've called in an outside auditor. ...