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  • Blogs

    November 4, 2007
  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Playing With Food

    Last night, as the tryptophan was kicking in, we played Foodie Fight, a Trivial Pursuit-like game published by S.F.'s Chronicle Books. It was unexpectedly difficult overall, and we complained about that a lot, but there would always be an easy question or two just when we were about to get too frust ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Department of Shut the F*** Up Already: UC Berkeley Cunnilingus Lessons

    SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, apparently unaware that moralists were plotting to ban gay marriage, stood in front of a video camera and gave them the perfect radio spot for promoting Proposition 8: "It is going to happen now, whether you like it or not," Newsom said. Kristine DeGuzman, appar ... More >>

  • News

    May 1, 1996

    In Sickness and in Wealth

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    Jerome Rothenberg and Jefferey Robinson

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

  • News

    June 7, 2006

    No Administrator Left Behind

    The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    The Chronicles of Ridicule

    Only the San Francisco Chronicle makes so many mistakes that it is forced to waste paper partaking in meta-meta-journalism

  • News

    June 1, 2005

    Remember Los Alamos!

    So some computers, disk drives, keys, and uranium have been "misplaced." Don't you still think UC should run the top-secret Los Alamos nuclear lab? Take quiz, find out.

  • News

    April 7, 2004

    Learning to Compete

    Executives involved in outsourcing U.S. jobs should also become involved in sponsoring CA schools

  • News

    January 28, 2004

    A Question of Risk

    Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  • News

    December 31, 2003

    The Oracle of San Francisco

    No, not that jerk-led software behemoth down the Peninsula – the real Oracle, with the surefire, bet-the-house prophecies you deserve

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best City Run

    Hint: It Ain't Along Marina Boulevard

  • Film

    July 3, 2002

    Independence Day

    The good news: A major studio turned his book into a movie. The bad news: Hardly anyone will ever see it.

  • News

    March 13, 2002

    Missed Interpretation

    Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Fallout

    Newly released documents indicate the Navy dumped far more nuclear waste than it's ever acknowledged in a major commercial fishery just 30 miles west of San Francisco. Why won't the government even study the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site?

  • Dining

    November 29, 2000

    Goop and Its Pleasures

    Blackberry Ginger

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Night Crawler

    Past Perfect

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Inside the Big Floop

    Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

    UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    Let's Make Appeal

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    Giving Away the Hospital

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    The Merger's Tangled Web

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • Calendar

    August 6, 1997

    The Grid

    University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

  • News

    June 18, 1997

    UCSF's Mad Money

    The Stanford-UCSF merger's tab -- including a "pro bono" review that cost $191,490 -- is running into the millions

  • News

    June 11, 1997

    Times Two

    In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Temperature Rising

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    Mulch

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    Quota Quandary

    As Proposition 209 seeks an end to affirmative action by state institutions, minority groups are conflicted

  • News

    October 9, 1996

    Don't Tread on Meat

    Hot dog store thrives in vegetarian vortex

  • News

    July 3, 1996

    Letters

    Hot dog store thrives in vegetarian vortex

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011

    From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings appare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Nokia, Defense Tech Wizards Unwittingly Help Mother Earth Rise Up Against Humanity

    What are you doing, Dave? This is a two-hour spot!If Planet Earth were covered with trillions of synthetic brain cells, each monitoring its surroundings and communicating with neighbor cells, would it develop thoughts and feelings of its own? Would such a planet rise up against its human overlords i ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 1, 2009

    July Book Events: Kevin Starr, Paul Krassner, Jaimal Yogis, and Alan Drew

    What are you doing, Dave? This is a two-hour spot!If Planet Earth were covered with trillions of synthetic brain cells, each monitoring its surroundings and communicating with neighbor cells, would it develop thoughts and feelings of its own? Would such a planet rise up against its human overlords i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    U.C. Employees' Picket Line Blocks Out Gavin Newsom

    Will HarperIf ever you were looking to keep Gavin Newsom away, scare up a picket line Employees of the University of California vociferously protesting proposed fee hikes and furlough days had an unforeseen consequence on the plans of one Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who may or may not have a Santa Clara U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    S.F. State Senator Blasts Pay Increases for U.C. Executives

     We recently wrote about a bevy of protesting University of California faculty members and researchers incensed that they were facing pay cuts and furlough days while top U.C. executives were earning more than the president of the United States -- or, even more unforgivably, Tim Lincecum. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    TelCo Foils Tin-Hat Crowd, Places Cell Tower on State Property

    I want to believe...​Providing effective cell phone coverage in notoriously spotty San Francisco drives telcom executives to baroque political maneuvers as they site cell phone towers.That's because many people in San  Francisco believe cell-tower radiation causes health problems, despite a ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2010

    Dead Sea

    An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2010

    On Poetry

    An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    John Yoo Protests Planned For Berkeley Law School Graduation

    Torture? Or graduation night beer-funneling?​Protesters are planning to attend graduation ceremonies this Friday at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law to voice their displeasure at the continued presence of Bush Administration torturer's apprentice John Yoo on the law school's faculty.In a pre ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 7, 2010

    July Literary Events

    Torture? Or graduation night beer-funneling?​Protesters are planning to attend graduation ceremonies this Friday at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law to voice their displeasure at the continued presence of Bush Administration torturer's apprentice John Yoo on the law school's faculty.In a pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    School District Requirements for College-Ready Students Don't Meet College Standards

    Wait a minute! This doesn't add up! ​This year's going-back-to-school story has been that San Francisco public high schools are now requiring all incoming ninth graders to complete the 15 courses required for admission to the University of California or California State University systems. Known i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Court Rules Undocumented Students Can Pay In-State Tuition. Great, But a Job?

    Waiting tables, Ben. Waiting tables. Wave of the future. ​ The California Supreme Court upheld a law yesterday that allows illegal immigrants who've attended California high schools for at least three years to pay in-state tuition at the state's public universities. Well, that's great news for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Pepper Spray, Arrests at U.C. Regents Meeting

    The times have a-changed since Mario Savio's day...​Prior to a meeting in which the University of California board is set to vote upon an 8 percent tuition hike, protesters were arrested and pepper-sprayed outside U.C. San Francisco's Mission Bay campus. U.C. Spokesman Pete King told the press at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    University of California: Cop Who Pointed Gun at Crowd Did Nothing Wrong

    KTVUProper procedure? ​The University of California and the U.C. Police Department are claiming today that a police officer who pointed his gun at a large and unruly crowd was within his rights. U.C. Office of the President communications director Lynn Tierney said UCSF Police Chief Pam Roskowski ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Mexican Macroeconomics

    KTVUProper procedure? ​The University of California and the U.C. Police Department are claiming today that a police officer who pointed his gun at a large and unruly crowd was within his rights. U.C. Office of the President communications director Lynn Tierney said UCSF Police Chief Pam Roskowski ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Will New Online Impersonation Law Kill Faux Twitter Accounts?

    Illegally funny?​Since the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, it has been a misdemeanor in this state to malevolently impersonate someone on the internet. The "Malicious E-Personization Bill" authored by Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) outlaws the impersonation of another person on the web for the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Wine and Awe at Omnivore

    Gil Riego Jr./SFoodie​Terry Theise: Reading Between the Wines Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: Thu., Jan. 20, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: In Reading Between the Wines (University of California Press, $24.95), Terry Theise argues that wine o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    NCAA, UC, Sued By College Football Players

    City College could have plenty of Favres in the making ​A San Francisco football player is suing the NCAA, Cal State, and the University of California, claiming they are keeping him and other junior college athletes from playing Division I sports. Reginald Davis, a full-time student at City Colle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Aleka Spurgeon-Heinrici, New UCSF Resident Doctor, Was Once a Drug User

    This won't hurt a bit​The University of California will get a new resident physician next week with medical experience -- or at least drug experience -- beyond that of her peers.  Before cleaning herself up and going to medical school, Aleka Spurgeon-Heinrici snorted black tar heroin, smoked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, UC Hikers Jailed in Iran, Set Free

    freethehikers.orgShane​The last two University of California jailed hikers have reportedly hopped a flight out of Tehran and are en route to America. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who were convicted this year in Iran for spying on behalf of the United States, were seen by reporters leaving Evin pri ... More >>

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