SF News Swine Flu Cases Close Bay Area Schools After one confirmed case of swine flu and thee other possible cases, two Bay Area schools have closed. First, San Jose's Branham High School will be shut down for a week after a
SF News Gun Scare Prompts Closure of Sonoma Schools Rancho Cotati High School and Cross & Crown Lutheran School for kindergarteners and preschoolers in Rohnert Park were shutdown today after a gun scare sent parents, school officials, and teachers into a frenzy.
SF News Breaking News: Rich Kids Could Get Sprayed With Bullets While you were a young whippersnapper and only having to deal with fire and earthquake drills, the youth of today have to practice massacre drills--Columbine-style massacre drills, that is. We blame Grand Theft
SF News Layoffs Greet San Francisco School Teachers Today 535 San Francisco Unified School District teachers will receive layoff notices this morning due to state cuts in education funding. Today's pink slip handouts stem from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget '09, which will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The New InterContinental - Viva Las Vegas! Does the InterContinenetal San Francisco Hotel at 888 Howard fit in with top law school UC Hastings on the left and historic City Hall on the right? You make the call.
SF News At Large: Contra Costa College Shooter A manhunt is underway right now at Contra Costa College, searching for a man who shot a Contra Costa College student police cadet three times at close range a little before 1 p.
SF News Failed Suicide Attempt at UC Hastings Today, a little before noon, a suicide attempt occurred at Hastings Law School. We received the information via our Contribute section (which, by all means, do) and from Introducing Ashley. (Aw) She reports
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 Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Servers aren't cheap, so we'd like to take a moment to thank the advertisers on SFist this week: Zipcar for letting those of us who don't have cars where we can rent them
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Sixth Street did not explode. [Chron] -- Neither did Hayward. [CBS5] -- Friday's party for Barry, Bonds/Newsom connection. [GNS] -- Pigeon crap on bridges falling down, falling down, falling down... [Chron]
misc Wossamotta U? The Latest U.S. News College List Hey, everyone loves a list, right? Especially those ranking institutions of higher learning. The yearly U.S. News & World Report list is out -- any wagers on how local schools did? And,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people
SF News Day Around The Bay --Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Fight at the Metreon! [Chron Culture Blog] --Pat Murphy claims to feel bad about his nemesis
Arts & Entertainment One Book To Bind Them: One City One Book 2007 But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity
misc Ranking Bay Area High Schools So Newsweek's come out with its rankings of "the top public high schools in the country," and the Bay Area has 9 10 schools in the top 300: Magnet school Lowell High in
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
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
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
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy It goes without saying that if you have any questions, drop us a line at editor @ sfist.com. First question, what exactly is Muni Security MUNI security detail entails: There are a bunch
SF News A Little Piece of the Puzzle The little part of the story involves the ex-Prosecutor Kevin Ryan and his replacement, Scott Schools. Now Ryan was one of the eight attorneys let go in the purge, although there doesn't seem
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Fat On Some cities in California have already taken it upon themselves to ban trans fats including –yes- America’s first Trans Fat Free City, our own Tiburon, California. Sure the annual income of Tiburon
