• Supervisor Jane Kim and other city leaders are crying foul after it appears that UCSF fired a group of subcontracted, Chinese-speaking janitors who had worked for the hospital for years after they organized to demand higher wages, claiming that their limited English was the reason for their termination. [Examiner]
  • The great, the hilarious, the legendary Carol Burnett, now 82, is coming to SF's Orpheum Theater in June for two nights of a one-woman performance called “Carol Burnett: An Evening of Laughter and Reflection,” based on the opening of her popular TV show in which she took questions from the audience. [Chron]
  • Police Chief Greg Suhr wants to make SF a test city for so-called “smart guns” that can only be fired by a single person, their owner. [Chron]
  • How Wise Sons Bagel is going to save the (local bagel) universe. [Eater]
  • San Rafael Assemblyman Marc Levine wants to ban models who are too thin. [CBS 5]
  • Lowell High School students stage walkout, in honor of Black History Month, over “racist incidents.” [Chron, ABC 7]
  • Warriors arena opponents now targeting associated office towers, too. [Business Times]
  • SF’s Board of Education has OK'd that condoms for middle-schoolers plan you've probably heard about on Fox News. [KRON 4, ABC 7, Chron]