Is this for real, or one of those ridiculous made-uppy New-York-Times-imagined-it problems? Apparently, the times reported a month ago that in SF, there are some low-income students who would rather starve than accept government-subsidized food. And now, at last, the SF Schools Blog offers a loooooong rebuttal with loads of context. Here's the gist: yeah, it's a problem, it's a problem everywhere, but we already knew about it and we're trying solve it. (The......

The BAGeL Radio 4th Birthday Party was a blast last Thursday, with great music, cupcakes and even a reunion with one of our childhood best friends who we hadn't seen since we were three and a half feet tall. We saw great sets by Birdmonster and Division Day (unfortunately we missed Two Seconds) and a good time was had by all. Despite the fact that we killed BAGeL Radio for about five full minutes......

Picture of DiFi attending the Senate's bi-monthly "Good Sex Tips & Tricks Brownbag Lunch" from the LA Times, via Wonkette...

Tonight: The Canvas Gallery is hosting "Ask a Scientist," with Nancy Garland, a Technology Development Master at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussing Alternative Energy: A Cleaner Future for Cars. Tuesday: The best thing about bubbles is how they warp concepts like "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Hitachi Data Systems is hosting Lunch 2.0 in Santa Clara -- eat free, play foosball, and if you're so inclined, check out any of ten......

You'd think that after our ungrateful sniping about the way we were (without our knowledge) nominated for a "Pubby" award, that the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club would blacklist us from all future events. However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site, but they barely mention it as of......

And a Gong xi fa cai and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today. It's the year of the rooster on the 12-year Chinese lunar calendar, and people born either this year or who are turning multiples of 12 are supposedly independent, hardworking, and aren't afraid to tell you about it (roosters crow in all languages, we suppose). Along with the ringing-in of lunar calendar year 4027 comes the usual spate of well-meaning celebration of cultural difference yet sometimes vaguely-Orientalist news coverage has begun as well -- those of you trying to do business in Asia may have some wacky hijinks trying to get in touch with folks who've gone home for the holidays! For those of you who are less inclined to set off firecrackers or shake down the elderly for oranges, Jeff Yang gives some practical suggestions on celebrating Chinese New Year in a more modern way. The annual Chinatown parade not this weekend but next, on the 19th. This weekend, though, is the also-beloved Miss Chinatown USA Pageant, at the Palace of Fine Arts. ...

On an otherwise banner day for journalism here on SFist, we thought that we would get our lean, fit body out from behind the old desk and head down to the Moscone Center for Jason Shellen's Macworld Blogger Lunch. After all, Steve Jobs had appeared earlier in the day in his trademark turtleneck (could someone buy that dude a suit already?) to announce all sorts of cool s**t from Apple -- a preview of Tiger,......