Subject: San Mateo

• LastNight: Hustler Club Hosts the SF Fire Fighters Union Toy Drive Kickoff

  November 28, 2007

• Bay Area Jobs Outlook III - The Highest-/Lowest-Paying Gigs in the Bay

  February 6, 2008

• BART Vows to Make Your Commute More Annoying this Valentine's Day

  February 14, 2008

• Ten Better Lies for Online Cheating Than 'I Was Attacked!'

  February 27, 2008

• Former District Managers Say They'll Sue 24 Hour Fitness for Discrimination -- and BOY, Are They Lawyered Up

  Locker room talk, it turns out, can lead to a lawsuitTwo former 24 Hour Fitness employees are planning to sue the fitness chain, claiming they were harassed and drummed out of the company after complaining about years of bigoted and homophobic remarks from co-workers. The choice of representation for axed managers Paul Drobot and Reggie -- who was identified on ABC Channel 7 as just "Reggie" -- was about as subtle as a body-builder: former City Attorney Louise Renne and former Mayor Willie Brown

  January 29, 2009

• Runaway InfoExpress

  July 19, 1995

• Budget Rock by the alphabet

  October 22, 2008

• SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

  October 1, 2008

• It'za Izakaya

  You can get (almost) any kind of Japanese food you want at Hime restaurant

  August 15, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of 5-2-2007

  May 2, 2007

• Greening the Left

  Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

  February 15, 2006

• Scrawlin' Out

  Local hip hop gets an online boost from a selection of top-notch blogs

  October 5, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  September 28, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  April 20, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, April 13, 2005

  April 13, 2005

• Legal Pirouette

  Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position, agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press

  February 23, 2005

• Fowl Play

  February 2, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Smart Cookie

  January 12, 2005

• Twilight Zone

  November 3, 2004

• Let It Roll

  October 13, 2004

• Do the Eskimo Roll

  September 22, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, March 10, 2004

  March 10, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of December 10, 2003

  December 10, 2003

• And You're Off!

  June 25, 2003

• The Russian Card Game

  A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash

  February 12, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of June 12, 2002

  June 12, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  March 20, 2002

• House Of Tudor

  Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos

  October 24, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  That Sinking Feeling; A Biased Opinion; An Issue of Some Gravity; Book Learning; A Sad Development

  August 22, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from February 28, 2001

  February 28, 2001

• Riff Raff

  Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off

  May 10, 2000

• Worst of the Lot

  Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

  January 26, 2000

• Letters

  August 18, 1999

• Riff Raff

  June 9, 1999

• Letters

  June 2, 1999

• Night + Day

  December 23, 1998

• That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears

  The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San Francisco County's unemployment rate, at 9.0, was higher than both Marin County and San Mateo County.San Francisco, San Mateo, and Redwood City are lumped together in the report as a metropolitan area.

  April 17, 2009

• Letters

  August 6, 1997

• Dish

  July 31, 1996

• Experience Afrofunk: Sila Drops New Album

  EKAphotographyElectable: Sila performs with the AFE at Stern Grove San Francisco's favorite Kenyan Afro-groovester, Victor Sila, has just released Black President, his second album with the Afrofunk Experience. I'll admit to being a bit biased--Sila is a friend of mine, and I wrote his bio--but I really like the album. The musicianship on the Black President is quite good; the Afrofunk Experience has become a really tight ensemble, and the horns, guitar, and percussion all shine. Sila has evolv

  May 14, 2009

• Maker Faire is Not Just For Science Geeks

  Hodo Soy Beanery's tofu Maker Faire Bay Area is an annual convergence of science and DiY geeks making merry, but it's also a gathering with potential interest to foodies. As of this writing, there's no word on whether offal tacos from the North Bay's Secret Eating Society will be among the above-average food offerings (as they were last year). But we do know that San Francisco's Hodo Soy Beanery and Ritual Roasters will be on hand to demonstrate how to make your own tofu and French-pressed cof

  May 14, 2009

• State Unemployment Numbers Are In: S.F. Situation Upgraded From 'Shitty' to 'Crappy'

  James Duncan DavidsonA sign of the times...The State Employment Development Department today released its monthly accounting of where the state's employment handbasket is in its journey toward hell. And it's a good news-bad news situation akin to: "We've got fresh vegetables -- but we're serving them for dessert." So, the unemployment totals are down from last month and, as always, significantly better than the state at large. That's the good news. The lousy news is that the numbers are still ug

  May 22, 2009

• Small Confort, Big Unemployement Numbers: S.F. Still Doing a Bit Better than Rest of State

  Gather 'round, children, it's that time of the month when we reveal the state's Employment Development Department numbers -- which indicate  our employment rates are (still) failing to thrive in this sluggish economy. Basically, the numbers are as lowly as they were last month. Which makes one wonder, is bad news still bad news when it's old bad news? Is it even news at all? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? Anyway, we're already here and I brought a casserole so let's get on with it.B

  July 17, 2009

• Every Day Is Growhouse-Bustin' Day in the Sunset

  ​We wrote earlier about how San Francisco cops at Taraval Station busted marijuana growhouses on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday a few weeks ago. When asked if they'd raided one on Thursday, Lieutenant Mike Caplan answered no -- but noted that the day wasn't over yet.  While smoking marijuana often makes one mellow, cultivating it does not. Growhouses are frequently manned by well-armed criminals -- who aren't very neighborly. The SFPD's growhouse bust of the moment is illustrative. On Wed

  August 14, 2009

• S.F. Unemployment Numbers: Every Time a Teacher Loses Their Job, a Bartender Is Born

  ​The leaves rustle gently in the wind, and deer raise their dewy muzzles expectantly to the sky. Birds twitter in anticipation. Hark! What's that sound?Shhh. It approaches.Here's this month's unemployment statistics from the state Employment Development Department! So, there's good news and bad news, as always. And by "good news" we mean bad news lite! The good news is that the unemployment numbers for San Francisco are holding steady. We were at 9.3 percent unemployment in June and, darn it i

  August 21, 2009

• Five Must-Eat Treats at the Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival

  ​The 14th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival, September 12-13 at Ghirardelli Square (900 North Point at Polk), finds more chocolate-themed food vendors than ever before. Careful: If you don't pace yourself, the sugar rush will overtake you before you get to taste the cream of the crop.A $20 ticket buys 15 tastings. Cut to the chase with these five recommended stops first; everything else is just icing on the (chocolate) cake.1. Pacific Puffs' Chocolate Cream Puff: This new C

  August 25, 2009

• Shakedown 20: Remembering the Loma Prieta Quake of 1989. Today's Edition: Mama Mia.

  ​For those who lived through it, it's hard to believe that, come Oct. 17, it'll be 20 years since sportscaster Al Michaels shouted "Tell ya what, we're having an earth...", triggering a massive earthquake that devastated the Bay Area. While professional journalism critics loathe the anniversary story, we're going to tell them to get stuffed (this time) because we'd rather print longtime locals' harrowing tales. Your humble narrator's isn't much: I tossed the phone over my shoulder -- it mi

  October 7, 2009

• What Bay Area Bridge Will Feature an Upended Big Rig Truck Today?

  What truck mayhem will hit a Bay Area bridge today?​The tried and true journalistic maxim is that it takes three instances to have a bona fide "trend." So, no, the Bay Area isn't experiencing a "trend" of big rig trucks flipping over on local bridges. But, you have to admit, the knee-jerk phrase of "You don't see that every day" lost some gravity when tractor trailer trucks went topsy turvy on two Bay Area bridges on two consecutive days. By now you may have heard of the Safeway truck that dum

  October 15, 2009

• S.F. is special, even when it comes to raw sewage

  November 11, 2009