SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
SF News PG&E Grants More Than $100K To Area Schools Pretty nice when an area powerhouse (pun sort of intended) puts some money into public schools. Pacific Gas and Electric has awarded 22 area schools a combined $108,500 for "for innovative solar
SF News Bring Your Game, Commenters! Make The Weekly Top 5 The coolest thing about writing for SFist is that often we introduce a topic, then all of y'all weigh in with insightful opinion, crazy knowledge, or even some amusing smarminess. The groupmind of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Food-Related PSA: Free Haagen-Dazs Hey -- more free ice cream! This one's not left to chance, like that whole "Dreyer's" thing. Anyone and everyone that shows up at Haagen-Dazs on May 15 between 4 p.m. and
Arts & Entertainment We Will Soon 'Be Free To Move About The Country': Southwest Airlines Coming Back Continuing a string of semi-interesting news regarding lower-cost airlines, Southwest has announced that it's starting service directly to and from SFO on August 26. During a media conference at SFO last week, Gavin
SF News One Mile Better Ain't Enough Truckin' For 'Moonbeam' Jerry Brown, our recenty elected State Attorney General and St. Ignatius College Prep alum, isn't afraid to take the Bush Administration to task for its weak stand on fuel efficency for SUVs, minivans
SF News Step One In Insidious Scheme To Legalize Pot Complete Assembly Bill 684 seeks to legalize the growing of hemp for industrial uses -- rope, cloth, oil, all that good stuff. It's not for smoking, okay? Okay?! In fact, the bill, which passed
Arts & Entertainment Must John Barleycorn Die? Hey, tomorrow's Saturday. You were going to have a few stiff ones anyway, right? May as well have them at the John Barleycorn. From 1-5 p.m. tomorrow there will be a free
misc Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon, More People Can Pay Too Much For Groceries The East Bay Biz Times is reporting that Whole Foods is planning a major expansion throughout the East Bay. Yes, soon enough, Lafayette, Dublin, and Oakland will be able to experience the "whole
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Run! Ok, ok -- get this. We know $100 is a lot of dough. And running is a drag for most of us (especially since we turned 30 a few years ago). But come
Arts & Entertainment Letters To (Another Pub's) Editor--Martinis At The Mark Five parts vodka, one part gin is a "San Francisco Martini?" And it may have originated at a San Francisco institution? While our personal martini recipe is different (all gin plus a misting
SF News eBay StumblingUpon An Acquisition? Has anyone used StumbleUpon? And is it really that cool? It looks like eBay may think so -- though we can't really see how a company like StumbleUpon fits into eBay's wheelhouse. Okay,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief Moment Of Personal, Soup-Related Victory It's the little things that get you through the day sometimes. After about two years of subscribing to the daily menu email of the ever-more-pricey San Francisco Soup Company, we finally won ourselves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fat Kids, Skinny Kids, Kids Who Climb On Rocks Looks like there's a budding trend for private companies to supply healthier school lunches in schools throughout the greater Bay Area. Some of these companies, as seen in the article in the SJ
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
Arts & Entertainment 'Wait. I've Got It. <i>This</i> Time The Lawyer's A Prophet!' There was that one a few years ago by David Kelly with the three nice looking young ladies, "Girls Club." Lasted for very few episodes in 2002. Well, there's a new pilot that
Arts & Entertainment Tour of Alcatraz: Not The Same Old Sentence We'll admit: we've been to Alcatraz enough that we pretty much never want to go there again (third time's the charm). But it looks like NPR's All Things Considered has the goods on
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'I'm Really Enjoying This So-Called 'Iced Cream'' Oakland-based Dreyer's (Edy's to our friends on the right coast) seems to want to bring you closer to your neighbors . . . by making you enter a contest to win an ice cream party. Strange.
Arts & Entertainment James Beard Awards Are Good To San Francisco Media Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're
Arts & Entertainment Can You Loan Me Twenty Bills? A Chance To Bid On Grateful Dead Stuff A bunch of stuff formerly belonging to a longtime road manager of the Grateful Dead's, Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff, will be up for auction starting today. Rudson Shurtliff is selling his father's guitars,
Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
Arts & Entertainment Chron's Education Reporting Gets High Marks Jill Tucker's series on Junior ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corp) and Nanette Asimov's features on California's special education program have won top honors in the 2006 John Swett Award for Media Excellence, which
