SF News SF City College Nixes Summer Session SF Chronicle is reporting that SF City College is canceling their summer session. "The cost-cutting move has angered many students who say they were depending on summer school this year in particular because
Arts & Entertainment Grab Gavin Newsom's Ball at Saturday's School Scavenger Hunt You, that's who. And you can, by participating in the Tech Search Party, which offers as a prize an autographed baseball by the Mayor. Other prizes include tickets to a Bon Jovi concert
SF News Your College Degrees, Plummeting In Value by Amy Crocker According to research complied by The Wall Street Journal, college degrees may not be as valuable as we thought. The College Board had long proclaimed on its website that those
SF News UC Berkeley to Pay Consultants $3M to Find Ways to Cut Costs Facing a $150 million budget deficit this year due to cuts in state funding and higher operating costs, UC Berkeley has hired Bain & Co., a Massachusetts-based consultant with offices in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment Friends of the Library Annual Big Book Sale Now Through Sunday All books for $5 or less -- what a deal! The 45th Annual Big Book Sale, put on by Friends of the SF Public Library, is going on all weekend at Fort Mason
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This month's Incredibly Strange Picture Show features the zany Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion. Filmed in 2005, Galifianakis' performance at SF's famed Purple Onion is said to still be his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jazz quartet Yellowjackets are promoting, Lifecycles, their first album in 15 years, which was recorded in collaboration with high-energy guitar virtuoso Mike Stern and received a Grammy nomination. The five players will
SF News Elementary School Teacher Accidentally Sends Sex Tape Home with Students Twenty-four Isabelle Jackson Elementary School students in Elk Grove, near Sacramento, went home on the last day of school last Friday with a DVD that was supposed to contain a year in review
misc Greening San Francisco, an Impressive Student Wiki A class of 17 juniors and seniors at the Urban School of San Francisco have brought environmental education into the 21st Century with their comprehensive eco-wiki, Greening San Francisco. Currently the site covers
SF News Alameda Schools Approve Curriculum on Gay Tolerance Parents of students in the Alameda School District are split down the middle regarding the district's decision to proceed with a new set of classes aimed at curbing anti-gay bullying. Starting next year,
SF News UC Regents Want More of Your Money Looking to go deeper in debt while you work toward an increasingly useless degree? Well, look no further than the UC system. Making this the sixth tuition hike in seven years, the UC
SF News "Pink Friday" Protests Teacher Layoffs With over 26,000 teachers getting pink slips in the mail, the California Teachers Association has organized Pink Friday, "a day of action to protest mass layoffs and drastic cuts to public education.
SF News 'SF Promise' Guarantees SFSU Admission to All SF Sixth Graders Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a bold plan today, SF Promise. The idea is that all SF 6th graders who graduate high school will gain admission to San Francisco State University. The partnership between
SF News Kid Hilariously Utters Filthy Word on TV at National Spelling Bee (By Joe Kukura) From the “We’ve watched this twenty times over today” department, footage from last night’s Scripps National Spelling Bee where little Sameer Mishra above thinks he’s been asked
SF News National Spelling Bee Hits the Fan Today and Tomorrow (By Joe Kukura) If you’re anything like us, you’ll get unnecessarily riled up woot-woot-ing for the Bay Area in any kind of regional representation-structured contest. If there’s a competition and
misc Brand New High School Calamity: Certain Students Are Being Made Objects of Scorn! But wait. Seriously? Kids are STARVING themselves? We think this is probably more of a failure of the students' judgment than of school policy -- hey, teenagers make lots of bad decisions, and
SF News New College of California Finally Loses Its Accreditation? Does the school have a plan if they lose accreditation? Yes, and it's a bad one. A few months ago, they said this might happen; and they said they might appeal the decision.
misc Why, Starbucks, Whhhhyyyyyy??? So what exactly does that mean? They're closing up shop because the higher-ups have decided that your favorite barista has been serving you pure swill for coffee these past years. Starbucks wants to
SF News What Becomes a Yoshi's Most? If you didn't know, San Francisco has the most cheery pockmark on its record: the "Negro removal" period. During this time historic buildings were torn down and black Western Addition residents were shooed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eugene Robinson By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pogues: Like most music-taste education, our college roommate got us listening to these guys. And they're one of the few acts that we still dig after all these Britney-influenced years. Kudos,
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: New Yorker Writer Alex Ross So Alex Ross has a new book out, , which covers the history of 20th century music in his trademark accessible-musicological style, and he'll be in town to promote the book this week. Ross
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews András Schiff Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano.
Arts & Entertainment Bring The Musicologist Back! Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back from England
