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Atherton

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2013

    Corporate Shuttle Crowds Out Muni Bus

    A bus rolling up to a bus stop is an event as mundane as pulling a rabbit out of a rabbit hutch. So it wasn't outwardly shocking when a dozen painfully cool people all of the same age group -- late 20s -- and outfitted in conspicuously tight and stylish clothing filed onto a bus this morning at Haye ... More >>

  • News

    October 3, 2012

    Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!

    A bus rolling up to a bus stop is an event as mundane as pulling a rabbit out of a rabbit hutch. So it wasn't outwardly shocking when a dozen painfully cool people all of the same age group -- late 20s -- and outfitted in conspicuously tight and stylish clothing filed onto a bus this morning at Haye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2012

    Nationstar Cancels Eviction Orders for Second Time in Three Weeks

    Two Bayview homeowners faced eviction orders scheduled for Wednesday. So, as has been the case for several months now, housing advocates from groups such as Occupy Bernal and ACCE took on their cause. On Sunday, a contingent of protesters trekked over to Atherton, to picket before the house of Pet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2012

    Guess Which SF Neighborhood Has Been Most Generous to President Obama

    President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry. His stops hovered in the south Bay, in San Jose, Redwood City, and Atherton, where he held a rally and hosted the typical Expensive Dinners for Wealthy People. Obviously, Oba ... More >>

  • News

    September 14, 2011

    Offline: Teacher Booted for Alleged Pervy Contact with Girl Students in Class and Online

    President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry. His stops hovered in the south Bay, in San Jose, Redwood City, and Atherton, where he held a rally and hosted the typical Expensive Dinners for Wealthy People. Obviously, Oba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Cheryl Burke, Dancing With the Stars Champ, Molested by Retired Bay Area Postman

    Years of counseling have allowed her to star in "Dancing With The Stars."​A retired Bay Area postman molested U.S. reality TV star Cheryl Burke when she was a child, according to People Magazine.Burke, a professional dancer, is a two-time champion of Dancing With the Stars. She grew up in Atherton ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Twenty Five Lusk Rolls Out the Grandeur in SOMA

    Lara HataTwenty Five Lusk is money, baby.​Deciding where to come down on Twenty Five Lusk ― the super-money SOMA eatery that launched in October ― depends on your closet, probably. If it harbors a $600 Theory sportcoat, SFoodie would like to introduce you to your new power center. Gap 1969 ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 1, 2010

    Fall Arts: Classical music and operas to see this fall

    Lara HataTwenty Five Lusk is money, baby.​Deciding where to come down on Twenty Five Lusk ― the super-money SOMA eatery that launched in October ― depends on your closet, probably. If it harbors a $600 Theory sportcoat, SFoodie would like to introduce you to your new power center. Gap 1969 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Meg Whitman's Atherton Home To Play Host To 1,000 Nurses

    Heading to Atherton -- in droves​If Meg Whitman wanted someone to look at her aching back or curious rash -- well, she need not even leave the home. The California Nurses Association is planning to cart up to 1,000 or more of its members to the Republican gubernatorial nominee's Atherton domicile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Unlike Pleasanton, San Francisco Keeps its Anti-Housing Laws Off the Books

    When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    The Wall Street Journal Bay Area Section Debut Looks a Lot like the New York Times Bay Area Section

    Eh.​We'd like to award the Wall Street Journal's Bay Area section with an even slightly less enthusiastic response than we gave the New York Times. And here it is: "Eh." We have our reasons.  At first, the the addition of Bay Area sections to the nation's most prominent national ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Catholic School Students to Present Play Portraying Gays as Complex, Conflicted Human Beings? S.F. Archbishop Says Not in San Francisco, You Don't.

    Archbishop George Niederauer probably doesn't want this playing in San Francisco anytime soon, eitherCastro district audiences hoping to watch local Catholic school students portraying the inner struggles of gay teenagers balancing religious faith and sexual identity were forced to find something el ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2008

    Last Night: Charge of the Light Brown Apple Moth at Town School for Boys

    Archbishop George Niederauer probably doesn't want this playing in San Francisco anytime soon, eitherCastro district audiences hoping to watch local Catholic school students portraying the inner struggles of gay teenagers balancing religious faith and sexual identity were forced to find something el ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2008

    Working-Class Struggle

    Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants

  • News

    May 9, 2007

    All-in or Nothing

    Rene Medina’s Colma casino brought life to a city of cemeteries. It also brought federal agents looking for corruption.

  • News

    December 6, 2006

    The Rich and Photographed

    Rene Medina’s Colma casino brought life to a city of cemeteries. It also brought federal agents looking for corruption.

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Agog Over Google

    As a simple Internet search engine has grown into a billion-dollar tech behemoth, the question becomes: Is Google good? Take quiz, find out.

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Looking Inside INdTV

    Al Gore and ex-Stanford prof Joel Hyatt say their S.F.-based cable news channel for twentysomethings won't be ideological. But do the Democratic moneymen behind the venture know that?

  • News

    June 4, 2003

    Muni's Mack Daddy

    James Robinson used to be a pimp. Now he's a transit union bigwig. And he's got higher ambitions.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Cell Therapy

    Bay Area researchers are using a particular cancer to produce neuronlike cells that, when injected into the brain, seem to reverse the effects of stroke. Is the treatment a historic medical breakthrough, or a reckless ploy to attract investors?

  • Culture

    November 15, 2000

    The Magnificent Andersons

    Two local showings of an extensive collection provide an embarrassment of riches

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Just a Freight Train Coming Your Way; On the Waterfront

  • Music

    December 22, 1999

    Net Profits

    Downloadable music sites are promising musicians a brave new world of mass exposure, but guess who's actually cashing in?

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Apply Now! Space Is Limited!

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    ¡Holy Cohiba!

    Federal agents smoke out an insidious Bay Area smuggling ring as part of their ceaseless efforts to keep our streets safe from illegal Cuban cigars

  • News

    March 31, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Federal agents smoke out an insidious Bay Area smuggling ring as part of their ceaseless efforts to keep our streets safe from illegal Cuban cigars

  • News

    May 28, 1997

    Falling for the Gap

    San Francisco gave away the store to help The Gap Inc. and its politically connected chairman build an upscale headquarters with a bay view. But more than $18 million in subsidies apparently won't bring the city anything it couldn't have had free.

  • News

    April 10, 1996

    Fish Story

    Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    Conscientious Injectors

    The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

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