Arts & Entertainment Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week at Concord Gathering Self-righteous parents of the Bay Area, listen up! This week is National Breast Feeding Week (August 1-7), and you're invited to braise in your own holier-than-thou juices regarding infant nutrition this Thursday at
SF News Were You Doing It When the Giants Won the World Series? Then Comcast Sportsnet Wants Your Baby CSN Bay Area, your local station for Giants games, wants to know how you celebrated the Giants' World Series win on that fateful night in November. More to the point: were you having
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: President Obama Silences a Crying Baby Here it is. The video that's been about three years in the making: Michelle Obama can't handle a crying baby, hands it off to the President, said baby stops crying. Just look as
SF News Introducing: Hunter Siebel Newsom Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel's brand-new baby boy, Hunter Siebel Newsom, was born in San Francisco this morning at 9:18 a.m. He's 20.5 inches long and weighs 8 pounds 4
SF News Bay to Breakers Organizers Reveal 'Potty Hero' Campaign We here at SFist receive up to a hundred press releases a day. Sometimes we use a few of those press releases to inform you of something we consider noteworthy. And sometimes, though
misc SF Zoo Welcomes Baby Flamingos In addition to two new capybaras (the world's largest living rodents), the San Francisco Zoo welcomes this week-old flamingo chick to the family. Here the baby bird stands next to its father. The
SF News Antioch Baby Dies After Being Left in Car Overnight Here's another heart-breaking story of an infant found dead in a car, with especially unsettling circumstances. An Antioch couple, both of whom work two jobs, left their 7-month-old baby in the car overnight
SF News California Teen Births Hit Record Low Much to the chagrin of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom fans, teen pregnancy in California is plummeting. Fast. "Figures released by the Department of Public Health on Monday found that about 35
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Trailer for <em>Babies,</em> a Documentary Babies follows four infants from four places around the world: Hattie (San Francisco), Poni (Namibia), Mari (Tokyo), and Bayarjargal (Mongolia). The thing looks fascinating, and possibly non-verbal, and it follows each little tyke
misc Photo du Jour 247 This is as good a reminder as any that you can drop off your unwanted little blessings at any San Francisco fire station. They're Safe Surrender sites!
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 16 [Ba-da-bum (rimshot)] This sign means either no fellatio or no breech babies. We suspect the former. Also, where was this taken? Is it a real request or is it being ironic? Again, we
SF News Horrors: Newsom's Hawaiian Weekend Getaway “I was shocked,” said Board of Supervisors Prez Aaron Peskin after being asked about Gavin Newsom's whereabouts this past weekend. Same here. Word is that Gavin was in Hawaii this past weekend, kicking
SF News Pulling Out the Ol' Oil-Resistant Doc Martens It turns out our old Doc Martens are oil-resistant -- we just might have to invest in some new soles for those disaster-ready babies. Check out more photos and details after the jump!
SF News Get Back to Work, Slacker Arnold has vetoed two bills that would have expanded the Family Leave Act, which allows employees of medium to large companies to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave or 6 weeks of paid
Arts & Entertainment Tanforan Internment Camp Ever since we found out that the Tanforan shopping center was built on the site of a World War II Japanese internment camp, we haven't been able to go there (even though that
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News East Bay AIDS Program For Kids Suffers From Its Own Success The Oakland Trib has an extremely depressing story about a pediatric AIDS study that's had its funding cut. A combined effort of UCSF and the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland had been
Arts & Entertainment Jolene Garcia of Penny and Maude Why'd you start your own company? Because I want to be able to work my own hours while my kids are little. Favorite items? I love Super Chick and all the bobbi pins
SF News Gavin Girlfriends Update A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! And this got
SF News People try to Put Us D-down, Just Because We Get Around And we quote: "… Quite simply, this appears to be a generation that has little interest in working nights, weekends, or for that matter a 40-hour work week. It cuts into their leisure time
Arts & Entertainment The Complexity Of Kids' Music: We Talk To Juno Baby's Adam Adelman Last Wednesday, we told you our quick take on Juno Baby's line of educational entertainment products for kids (the long and short: cute, cool, and engaging). Adam Adleman, one of the founders of
misc Call Me One name that has already been bandied about is noted toe-sucker and Fox News suckup Dick Morris. Palfrey dropped his name but Morris denied it, even though he supposedly admitted to it in
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
