!!!! #1 and #2

from the San Francisco Chronicle:

-- A Kids' Club For All Ages. From the article:

At the Peekadoodle Kidsclub, little Jonnie can get a haircut while sitting in a barber chair fashioned like a shiny red Mercedes at the same time Mom breaks a sweat in her yoga class down the hall. Afterward, while Jonnie learns how to clean and sprinkle spinach over a pizza in his cooking class, Mom can grab a latte at the cafe and hit the Wi-Fi-equipped business center to get some work done.

Of course, Jonnie's family must have a Peekadoodle membership - which starts at $2,000 annually - and he can't be any older than 5, the club's age limit. But once in, the family is privy to all the services offered in the 10,000-square-foot building: the padded playground with the replica Golden Gate Bridge and Victorian homes, the hip clothing store for kids, the adult fitness gym and the partially organic dining hall. The toddler development courses in cooking, music and photography cost extra (the 12-week pizza-making class, for example, is $500).

-- Culture Of Murder. Good article about street culture and death by murder in Oakland, California. The article provides the same kind of description as that in Code of the Street or Streetwise, both by Elijah Anderson.