-- Not enough credit card debt in your life? Top-shelf department store Barneys New York will solve that problem after it opens this week. [Chron]

-- Health care for uninsured San Franciscans to "expand" next Monday. Woo hoo! [Examiner]

-- Cadillac Hotel celebrates 100 years of survival in the TL. [BeyondChron]

-- Shot/killed by cops, 20-year-old Naser Solis' parents sue Hayward police department. [Chron]

-- Transbay Terminal neighborhood meeting happened tonight. (Our apologies for not getting the word out sooner.) Anyone know what happened? If so, do tell. [Rincon Hill SF -- yesterday's notice about meeting]

-- Oakland murder rate, like SF's, soaring. [Oakland Tribune]

-- Newsom and Nixon parallels. [The Snitch]

-- It seems that an avatar is, more or less, "a simulated, pixilated, entirely customizable web identity rendered by the programmer gods in the image of man." OK then. [SFBG]