misc SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already This fall 3,700 Bay Area/Northern California disadvantaged youngsters, many of whom have never owned their own book, will take part in an innovative literacy program featuring a cast of centuries-old
SF News Hot Hot Heat A Stage 2 emergency is called when power reserves dip below five percent (they're normally not supposed to get lower than seven percent). At this point, no rolling blackouts are planned,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sustainable Seafood Salon So if you are concerned about having good fresh local wild seafood on your plate instead of tasteless overly pink antibiotic loaded farmed fish, you can go and attend the discussion, moderated by
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads A Little SFist Rita just finished , by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. You know, it sounds like Barry Bonds might really have been on steroids! SFist Cedric has been reading the sudoku puzzle in
SF News Bee Denied! We were all set to head down to the Pier 39 Theatre (which is also playing host to Menopause the Musical, we are not making this up) for the big event, when we
SF News You Want Me To Wear What? Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National
misc SFist Tech Rant/Roundup: Finger-Pointing Leander Kahney of Wired News got some flak for his commentary about the relative merits of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. He says that the popular perception of Gates as evil monopolistic robber
SF News Riders Up! It may be January, but if you're a mountain biker in the Bay Area, it's never too early to start planning out your riding season. Especially if you have
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its
Arts & Entertainment Open Your Hart (to Hart) This Holiday Season You can take in this "all-star holiday benefit concert" Sunday, December 4 at 7:30, at the Herbst Theater. As for the star power of the event, there's
SF News R.I.P., Pat Morita Best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in , Pat Morita passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. A look at his bio, however, makes it clear that Morita was much
SF News Bill O'Reilly? You Have Been Served With San Francisco's honor besmirched by the falafel loving Bill O'Reilly, it was only a matter of time before Gavin the Good marched on in and made with the
Arts & Entertainment A's Brand Baseball: Bill King, d. 2005 Holy Toledo. Bay Area sports lost an institution on Tuesday morning, when A's broadcaster Bill King passed away after complications to hip surgery. He was, the Chronicle says, "believed to
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Romi, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue.
misc SFist Raves: Ding! Every year it rules -- the Scripps Howard spelling bee. Is it that whiff of old world middle school mores? Is it the adorable freaked out word-geek kids, too young and frightened to
Arts & Entertainment Letters to the Editor We always there was something disingenuous about the conservative letters they publish in the Chron! The Contra Costa Times discovered that an enterprising Republican named Kyle Vallone had written at least 200 fake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Bay Area Hog the Camera This Week Well, after checking out what goes on on some of these local programs, we don't think that'll really be an issue. First up is "Bay Area Focus"
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics,
SF News Sutter Students No Longer Chipped and Tracked To follow up on our previous story regarding RFID tags being the Mark of the Beast, it looks like evangelicals will have to wait just a little longer for the Rapture, since their
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana
SF News Sutter Students to be Chipped and Tracked We just received a press release from the Northern California chapter of the ACLU via our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seems Brittan School District of Sutter, California (about an hour north
SF News Talks Begin Between Guild, Chron Guild negotiators said their members have been skeptical about recent management claims that labor concessions are needed to put the newspaper on a more solid financial footing. In particular, [Writer's Guild
misc Political Junkie: Dewey, Cheatam, and Gonzalez? The Recorder, Northern California's legal newspaper, breaks the news that mop-topped progressive pixie Matt Gonzalez is starting a law firm (subscription required) with his old Stanford Law School roommate and
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It&
