Icky: Too Skittish For Puns About The Bedbug Scourge
Seattlest
Seattle is only part of a nationwide trend in increasing reports of bedbug activity; according to the KOMO News story, the top five cities in the US with increased reports of bedbugs are Myrtle Beach, SC; Las Vegas, NV; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; …

Atchoo! How to battle dust-mite allergies
MarketWatch
Move over, bed bugs. Dust mites — microscopic bugs that feed on dead, shed skin cells, are more adept at causing actual human misery, especially in bedrooms. For people sensitive to them, proteins in the dust mites' waste products can provoke …

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Social network hooks up strangers for cheaper trips
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"The second time, she told me she had bedbugs at her place. I thought that would be a good time to try CouchSurfing. I had met a few people who had done CouchSurfing, so I knew the term. "At first, I just thought it was some weird vagrants who take …

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Open City by Teju Cole – review
The Guardian
… as varied as the slave trade, the music of Mahler, the paintings of John Brewster, Anthony de Hooges, an early Dutch settler, Belgian politics, the Liberian civil war, the Hungarian photographer Martin Munkácsi, bedbugs, killer bees and whales. …

Twentysomething: Broke-Ass Stuart
SFist
Nowadays it may have bedbugs! It didn't used to be like that…sad face. You visited many cities around the country to film your new IFC show, Young, Broke, and Beautiful — which is the best city to be broke in? The best cities to be broke in are the …

As Luck would have it, Stanford's QB returns
msnbc.com
"That's profound right there," said Harbaugh, now the San Francisco 49ers coach. "That always resonates with me." When it comes to making big decisions, Luck doesn't go the conventional route. The strong-armed and quick-footed junior turned down a …

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Travel Q&A: No way to guarantee bedbugs won't invade your hotel
San Jose Mercury News
Bedbugs remain a problem at hotels across the country, but an online registry allows users to report incidents, keeping future guests informed. (Orkin) Q Are bedbugs still a huge problem in hotels in New York and, specifically, …

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Nova Scotians post to online bedbug registry
TheChronicleHerald.ca
That puts the province at a relatively high rate of communication about bedbugs: about one post for every 11000 people, as compared to the rate for Ontario, excluding Toronto, of one post for roughly every 18000 people. Anxiety-ridden bedbug casualties …

Cries of San Francisco Part I
Mission Local
Among them: the bed bug, the boll weevil, the locust, the tick. Mission Local welcomes comments, but we ask readers to keep discussion civil and on-topic. We reserve the right to delete material that is libelous, a personal attack, or posted by a …

San Francisco 10th Most Bed Bug-Plagued City
SFist
While bed bugs are nothing new to New York City, other major cities should heed the big apple's warning. Like, for example, San Francisco. According to a recent list, Baghdad by the Bay was ranked the 10th most bed bug-ridden city in the US The list is …

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When the Bed Bugs Bite
Baristanet
We've all heard stories about bedbugs in hotel rooms. But when the bedbugs show up in apartments, the often strained relations between tenants and landlords can become that much more intense …

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Dog Detectives Now Sniffing Out Bedbugs in San Francisco, Atlanta, and DC
RedOrbit
Using dogs to detect bedbugs is more accurate, quicker and cheaper than other methods. According to a report by entomology researchers at the University of Florida, well-trained dogs can detect a single live bug or egg with 96 percent accuracy. …

Bedbugs and pickpockets: a non-travelers tale
San Francisco Bay Guardian
I experienced some authenticity along with all that atmosphere: in the lush upholstery, bedbugs, and among the tides of travelers, at least one very skilled pickpocket. Picture me: a steaming pot of Earl Grey, settling into a sofa, the sun slanting …

Bedbugs: What San Francisco Can Learn From New York City
SF Weekly (blog)
Supervisor Jane Kim, who has taken charge on combating bedbugs in San Francisco, told SF Weekly that earlier this week she met with Barbara Garcia, the chief of the city's Public Health Department. One of the topics of conversation: How can San …

San Francisco Lets the Bedbugs Bite (But A New Study Might Put A Stop To That)
The San Francisco Appeal
Bedbugs, the scourge that's sent a thousand mattresses into the streets of our nation, are currently on the rise in all 50 states and one of the fastest growing infestations in the country is reportedly right here in San Francisco. …

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SF Bedbugs: So Many Cases, So Few Inspectors
SF Weekly (blog)
Chief Housing Inspector Rosemary Bosque said during a Monday afternoon hearing that in her 26 years doing code enforcement in San Francisco, she's never encountered a public safety hazard quite like bedbugs — especially in SRO hotels. …

San Francisco's handling of bedbug problems comes under fire
San Francisco Examiner
Alden Lougee, one of those who spoke in the public comment period, said he filmed thousands of bedbugs crawling out of a crack in the wall of a room commissioned by the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team. “They detect your breathing, and that's when …
Health Department Under Fire Over Bedbugs – Mar 30Beyond Chron

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If So Many Celebs Are Breastfeeding in Public, Why Do Some Mothers Still Feel …
Babble (blog)
Sunny Chanel resides in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, beagle and a tarantula named Lulu. She has strung words together for the SF Weekly, Bust, and Jane among others and currently writes for Babble's Famecrawler and Strollerderby blog. …

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Aliens bombard the multiplex — what's the attraction?
Kansas City Star
After San Francisco and San Diego fold, Los Angeles becomes the last human stronghold on the West Coast in "Battle: Los Angeles." Watch the skies. They're coming to get us all. Not from South of the Border. From outer space. …

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Five key labor and employment issues hospitality employers need to be aware of …
Lexology (registration)
Bed bugs have increasingly become a worrisome issue for the hospitality industry. An infestation or the appearance of an infestation in a hotel or a movie theatre, for example, can be disastrous for business. The failure to take proper action to …

Scratching below the surface of Toronto's Bedbug Registry
Open File
The site, created by computer programmer Maciej Ceg?owski in 2006 to deal with bedbugs in San Francisco, now includes data for New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Vancouver, as well as Toronto. Toronto currently boasts 2270 reports—second only to …

Beware of Leo Babauta's minimalist lifestyle
Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk (blog)
(For example, losing all my possessions to bed bugs.) Plus, I discredit all straight men who do not have a wife or kids and claim to be minimalists. They are not minimalists, they are just bachelors, programmed over thousands of years to use sex to …

Oakland Menlo Hotel owner charged with arson scam
Bay Area Indymedia
… over a lack of elevator service, bad plumbing, poor heating, roach and bed bug infestations, and other problems at the low-income residential hotel. …

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Back to Bullish
Hotel Interactive, Inc.
Despite a heightened sense of bedbug paranoia among travelers, 85 percent report that fears over bedbugs did not negatively impact their operations in the …

Wealthy Menlo Hotel owner charged with arson scam is back in court
San Francisco Bay View
… old and am the initiator of the lawsuit against the Menlo Hotel for the problems with the elevator, bedbugs, cockroaches and many other problems there. …