misc National Condom Week! (How Did We Miss This?) But luckily… we forgot all of our problems, when we found out that today is the last day of National Condom Week! February 14- 21! Hurry to the PPGG website to take the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Get Mortified's Scott Lifton What's the most mortifying thing you've encountered in this project? My mother reading my diary entry about me almost stalking a girl in high school How many years must pass before people can
SF News The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were
misc Mmm...Junk Food.... We kind of imagine this thing being like what happens when you go on Haight Street but instead of people going up to you and saying "buds...doses" you hear "Doritos...cokes...." The
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
SF News Today's the Day Did we mention that we know we're wrong? Nevertheless what happens here is more important because while the possible defeat of George Allen will be a good thing because it'll make us less
Arts & Entertainment To Stay Or To Go Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools
SF News Caltrain Tries Brings the Safety Also on Caltrains' list of things to do is to add fencing to places deemed needing a fence. They are doing this by doing the usual studies and also asking local communities to
SF News Bush Ter Down! This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for Bush in 2004). They've been organizing on MySpace, and distributing
Arts & Entertainment Old School, New School: The SFist School Board Interviews Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. For the last seven years, I have been an independent contractor with the City and County of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. My title
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Clark Kepler For any readers who might not know, tell us why Kepler's is so awesome. For me and many others who've been around for a while, growing up in the bookstore was awesome. Kepler's
SF News Weird News Of The Day You know, some days you log onto SFGate.com and you think, wow, there's a lot of weird local news today. *A man carjacked, kidnapped, and raped a nun in the Mission, and
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
SF News Today In The Law The Susan Polk trial was in recess today, but it was still a pretty busy day for the local courts, which decided: *that kids who failed the state high school exit exam can
Arts & Entertainment Cutting No Corners: Caesurae Opens at Urbis Artium Normally, we get a little grossed out by work that uses blood (although we admire the chutzpah of the artist) – Andres Serrano and Gina Pane come to mind, but their work was more
misc SFist Cares - DonorsChoose Reader's Challenge We want to give you the opportunity to contribute to some of the projects of DonorsChoose through the SFist Cares Reader's Challenge. We picked some projects from local schools and hope you'll consider
SF News Way Better Than Million Dollar Baby (Not That That's Saying Much) "What's it like in there?" they'd ask us. "Is it scary?" "Well, no" we'd say, right before they'd remind us that the love of our life spends a lot of his free time
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
Arts & Entertainment The Sputnik Legacy At this rate, we're totally going to beat the Soviets to the moon! The Randall Museum is sponsoring the 24th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (scroll down), where middle schoolers in
SF News But In the End, We Still Live in San Francisco Last week, the Highland City Council voted to forbid any city official from spending county money at any sort of official event in the city. This means they can't attend any event or
Arts & Entertainment The Ultimate Pillowfighting Championship Arriving thirty minutes early, we started warming up, roadwork, push-ups, a couple of rounds of shadowboxing. Sure, we do Muay Thai, but for all intents and purposes we are an embarrassment to the
