Yes, Paris Hilton is a noted admirer of the species -- which then lead to their astounding popularity among Daly City teenage girls, at least according to an unofficial SFist survey conducted at the Serramonte Center on Saturday -- but that's hardly the dogs' fault. See, the Marin Human society needs your help. This last Friday they took in over 750 dogs, most of them Chihuahuas, according to CBS 5, found at an Arizona......

Former editor of The Arizona Republic, vice president of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and top editor for the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Bay Area's Ward E. Bushee was just named executive VP and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. After graduating from San Diego State University (dude!) in 1971 with a degree in history, Bushee started his career at The Salinas Californian in 1975 and then over the Marin Independent Journal. Then,......

Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season....

Former A's pitcher Joe Kennedy, 28, died at his home in Florida this morning. At this time the cause of death is officially unknown, but it was "sudden" and a brain aneurysm is rumored to be at fault, according to the Chronicle. Making his major league debut in 2001 with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Kennedy went on to play for other teams such as the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Toronto Blue Jays, and of......

With over 70 shows since July 1st, MiGGs deserves a break but not until they play one last show in San Francisco. Featured on Monday in "This Week in Le Rock" MiGGs blend an alt/rock, emo, pop and classic rock sound to perfection. They are returning to Cafe du Nord this Saturday night before they take a month off to put the finishing touches of their newest album, Unraveled (which we'll be listening to at......

Oh my. According to the Snitch: Two executives of Village Voice Media, the parent company of the SF Weekly, were arrested in Arizona last night in connection with a story they wrote for Phoenix New Times this week. According to the Arizona Republic, Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey were charged with revealing secret grand jury information, a misdemeanor. Larkin (VVM CEO) and Lacey (VVM executive editor) got nabbed due to an article that they......

Update: Oh damn! The video's not working. It's a compilation of all the various calls we've gotten. We'll try re-uploading it when we get home from work. If you're like everyone else on the planet, you've been getting endless recorded calls about carpet cleaning. "Hi, this is Allison, blah blah blah, press 8 to schedule a carpet cleaning," the recording goes, or it's "Dave" with the same spiel. Sometimes it's "account services" calling about......

After staunching out the Arizona Cardinals last week, the Niners head to St. Louis to try to get ahead at the expense of the reeling Rams and claw ahead in the NFC West race....

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Do you have any information? A Fremont family is trying to get some answers about the circumstances of their father's mysterious death. The father suffered a heart attack at Van Ness and Market on June 5, and died five days later without ever regaining consciousness. The mystery is that they cannot find the car their father drove into the city that day. They have a garage parking ticket they found in his pocket, but it......

Who doesn't love free movies? Comcast and cable channel IFC are sponsoring three nights of free movies starting today through Thursday in Union Square, to celebrate the awesomeness of indie film. Plus: free! They're screening Raising Arizona tonight, and Napoleon Dynamite on Thursday, but the one we're guessing will have the entire town crammed onto that little concrete plaza outside Macy's is tomorrow's screening of every single human being in the world's favorite movie, The......

The Examiner's on Bobagate! They've now found out Ed Jew, through his father, rents a building to a pot club, at 1545 Ocean. Hope those cannabis users have water. Look at all these properties the Jew family owns too! 13 in San Francisco, 1 in Burlingame, and 4 in Arizona. Arizona? Is he running for supervisor there too? In other property-related news, it turns out Tapioca Ed has also evicted an African immigrant couple's hot......

Arizona recently executed their first prisoner in over seven years, Robert Comer. Comer was sentenced to death for murdering someone in a campsite and was also charged with rape and kidnapping. He was killed using lethal injection. ...

A couple good points came out of a talk by SustainLane's Warren Karlenzig at the Commonwealth club last week. He was talking about Green Economies (sustainable) versus Grey Economies (unsustainable), and pointed out that California responded to the melting freeway by offering a day of free public transit. "What would governor of Arizona do in a similar situation: offer free gas to everyone?" Ouch. Take that, Governor Janet Napolitano! But it wasn't all Grand-Canyon-State-bashing;......

Royals 2 A's 1- So who is this Jack Cust and where the hell did he come from? He's from New Jersey and was drafted in '97 by the Dbacks. He then went from Arizona to Colorado to Baltimore and to San Diego and his only major accomplishment in the bigs up until this past week was tripping on the basepaths during a rundown when he was on the Orioles. All along, he was known......

It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,measureables!...

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With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay......

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed. For LAist, strong winds attacked LA on the same day the Feds raided the Crips. Not to fear, though: the Japanese version......

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-49ers throw some more money around and replace Antonio Bryant with Ashlie Lelie. Besides missing an "s", Lelie has pretty much been a non-entity on the field. So, in other words, meh. -Stanford loses to Arizona in overtime putting them back on the bubble. -Everyone's healthy in Warriors-land, for what it's worth. -Omar Vizquel is arty. -In A's land, the Big Three is now the H Boys. -While the 49ers are making a lot of......

-Stanford beating ASU has them thinking Big Dance. After a loss to Arizona, Cal is thinking NIT. -In a surprise to nobody, the 49ers released Antonio Bryant. They're supposedly all set to go after some free agent DEs, something to which Monte Poole says beware. -Barry Z and Russ Ortiz are sharp in the Giants first spring training game. Which means, yes, that somewhere on God's green earth, baseball is finally being played. -Tim Kawakami......

-Warriors get 40 in the first quarter, then shoot the lights out in a 131-105 win at home. Mark Purdy isn't going to jump on the Warriors bandwagon just yet. -Cal men can't quite beat USC. -Stanford women beat Arizona State in OT. -Nancy Gay gets the Super Bowl hype officially started. -Art Spander loves "the lull," that one weekend between the playoffs and the Super Bowl. -The A's had their FanFest and Nick Swisher......

Well, the Powers that Be decided to actually give us two NFL games on TV this morning at once. That's the good news. The bad news is one features the Raiders and the other the Detroit Lions. Which means that someone, somewhere, thinks everyone here is so tied into who gets the #1 pick next year that everyone in the Bay Area wants to watch both teams at the same time. ...

The Oakland Raiders' 2006 slog of a season continues this Sunday at the Coliseum with their Week 15 scrap with the St. Louis Rams. Plenty of good tickets still available for the game. Well, there must be tickets, since the NFL is blacking the game out on TV....

This Week 15 sends the 49ers up to Seattle mid-week to grapple desperately in hopes of keeping their mathematically-possible playoff hopes alive....

Yikes -- that's not the kind of boost we wanted in our Jamba Juice! Our local healthy smoothie company recently discovered that one of its supplier's strawberries were possibly contaminated with the listeria bacteria. Only about 50 cases went out, and they all shipped to southern California, Arizona, and Nevada from November 25-Dec. 1 -- that's less than 3% of all the smoothies made in that region. (They go through over 1666 cases of strawberries......

Yatta! Our Raiders got that first win over the pathetic Arizona American football Cardinals! Thank goodness. Well, phew, that means no more "winless season" jabs. "The only thing more embarrassing than the franchise are the fans that support them," said American Football Spectacular's Arizona correspondent Chesko. "They've accepted perennial defeat to the point that Bengals and Browns fans can turn their noses up at the desert simply because they were good at least once." The Cards have fans? Must be a tough road to hoe. Unenviable. ...

Training camp. Whether you're fans of the Chicago Cubs, the Arizona Cardinals, the Boston Bruins, or even the Golden State Warriors, it is a time of hope. A time to believe. A time to go all in with the Karma chips and think the unthinkable. A time to take a flyer on 125-1 odds that the hometown squad can rise up and revel in the glory of a championship.

Man, there's a lot of sports going on right now. First up, baseball. Angles 6, A's 2- There was no champagne spilled in Oakland last night as the A's were held to a mere four hits and two runs, all in the fifth. The rest of the game, they did bupkus. Don't worry, A's fans, it's normal for a team about to clinch to tighten up a bit. The players get so excited at the thought of ending the game by piling on top of each other that they get too nervous to actually get into position to jump on top of each other. Today is not only the last game against the Angels of this series, but the last home game for the A's. So if they don't win today, the A's will have to do it on the road. Go A's! ...