SF News Cal State Day Care The nonprofit group Fight Crime Invest In Kids has released a study showing that it costs more, on average, to send your child to a private preschool ($4022/year) than it does to
SF News The Season Comes Down to Tournament Week In the next ten days, Bay Area hoops fans will have plenty to watch. West Coast Conference (WCC) Men's Tournament March 3-6, McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA Six seed Santa Clara plays Friday
Arts & Entertainment Cold Climbin' it Cali' Style was the Prologue of the inaugural 2006 Amgen Tour of California, a 1.9-mile individual time trial from Pier 1 to Coit Tower. The morning air was crisp and the streets glistened with
SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Strikes Gastronomique's Fancy. We are titled Gastronomique, and have to once in a while live up to the quiet sophistication of haute cuisine. So we went to the Fancy Food Show with great expectations. These were
SF News Spies On Us The ACLU is trying to find out why the student's groups were targeted and when, as well as what else is out there. Seriously, if Quakers are targeted, who will be next? The
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch From Noir City: <em>Gilda</em> To introduce Gilda (1946) at the Balboa Theater on Thursday, NoirCity founder Eddie Muller offered a familiar interpretation of the film: its protagonist (Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell), like its director (Charles Vidor)
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF News Political Junkie: Doing The Super Bowl Shuffle Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's in a Monster Park of his own making, after his proposal before the Board of Supes to support the Seahawks was greeted with a cry of "Offsides!" from the red-and-gold
SF News We're #11 The report, which you can read here, calls out San Francisco for anti-pan handling measures, issuing citations, handing out one way bus tickets, and for having "negative reactions" to homeless people. As opposed
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
Arts & Entertainment The Attentive Adventures of the Superfisters Though we like to pall around with victims of corporate censorship, occupies a genre you might wish to enjoy from arm's length -- lest you be sucked into the world created by Dwyer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How 'Bout Some Christmas Falafel? In the market Safeway (please let us know if you have seen this elsewhere in comments), a 10 feet tall cardboard structure depicts a cartoonish Santa on a sleigh holding cartoonish snack packages:
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: The Grinch Edition We've heard of evergreen news stories, but this an evergreen story about decorated evergreens: assorted East Bay neighborhoods inevitably have one or two streets where the decorating is absolutely over-the-top. We are dying
misc The 'Fisties: Best Playground Bring your kid there, have them play on the state-of-the-art structures which look like they have been designed by Santa during a sabbatical at NASA**, have them network with the neighborhood kids, take
SF News Shake It A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Hercules area of the East Bay around 10 a.m. this morning. But we didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, how about you? This report
SF News Mini Golf Terror Watch out for that 16th hole -- it's a doozy! The sandtrap and rotating windmill take on a sinister tone now at San Jose's mini golf haven Golfland, as authorities discover that the
misc Down and Out at the University of California What's been going on is that the UC have been hiring people for average kind of salaries (for professors and school administrators) but then giving them lots of free stuff on top of
misc SFist Cares ... What Do You Want to Do? Sheya, right! We suck at resolutions. Did you know dental floss can go bad? Yeah, that's how good we are with following through on our resolutions. It helps when you do it with
misc Math Is Hard You know, public schools just can't win. Up here in San Francisco, it's a constant "our schools are failing and segregated," so affluent upper-middle-classers have to spend gajillions of dollars on private schools
SF News Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending Daylight
SF News Prove Him Wrong Secretary of State Bruce MacPherson's going all Nostradamus on us, predicting a 42% turnout for Tuesday's election. What? You think we don't care or something? Let's show that guy he's wrong! (upwardsly, we
