misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Expansion Our little Craigslist is growing up! Craigslist went from around 200 to roughly 300 sites this last week with the addition of 97 new and exciting Craigslist locations. While a cynic might view
SF News Gratefully Dead in San Mateo Foucrault, of course, denies the charges. The allegations matter even more because Foucrault is up for election as San Mateo County Coroner. Yes, for whatever reason, there is an actual election on who
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
SF News Your Commute: More Accidents All but one lane of I-80 westbound are blocked, after a woman driving an infant lost control of her car and flipped over by the University Avenue exit this morning. The woman has
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
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
misc Late Registration Looks like the UC Registrar's going to have to cut some refund checks -- $33.8 million worth! A San Francisco court has ruled that the UC's fee hikes for professional students were
SF News Save The Trees Alas, Stanford University is currently mascotless, after the debacle involving a tree drinking a little too much of its own sap. We're not Stanford folks, so we can't explain to you why their
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: These Girls We went to the Sunday showing of , a dark, comedic twist on the old "coming of age in a small town" story. The movie was written and directed by John Hazlett, adapted from
SF News What Was and What Could Have Been Something big was going on alright, the hometown University of San Francisco Dons men’s basketball team was playing host to the number eight team in the country, the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Unhyped coming
SF News Giant killers? The Zags are 15-3 overall this year and once again steamrolling through the West Coast Conference (WCC), while the Dons lug an unwieldy 7-10 record into the game. The Men in Robes are
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Shake It Up From the cultural legacies of black radio and French writers to physical theater and psychology, there's something for just about everyone in this week's offerings by Bay Area theaters. at The Marsh Berkeley
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
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
Arts & Entertainment A Statement of Hope and Courage Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes
SF News Begone! Begone! Begone!...It's So Much Fun to Say Other highlights: in Sacramento, the church is selling a posh retirement community to pay off sex-abuse victims, and the retirees are miffed. Lots of propaganda for Prop 73, which would require parental notification
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Three Companies Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This week,
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
SF News How To Piss Off a Blogger Okay, we're going to have a little fun at someone's expense here, but we feel that they deserve it. Or at least, we deserve to. Because we feel rather jerked around, and were
Arts & Entertainment Stuff To Do If You're Bored: Fashion Edition We'll admit it, we love "the Cut". Every time Tommy Hilfiger banishes another contestant by sniping "You're out of style", we hope and pray that the banishee will reply "and you're not?" Until
misc Frameline 29: Get On The List For <i>Transgeneration</i>! From our friends at Larsen Associates comes big fun for five of our readers and their pals, as we've been offered 5 passes for two to see Thursday, June 23rd at 8 p.
SF News All Over for Le Chateau The neighbors have spoken, and it's all over for the kids at Cal Berkeley's Le Chateau co-op (called an "Animal House" in the East Bay Express). Friend of SFist Patricia Johnson penned a