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In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks all comments made by a user from view by anyone but themselves (upon login). That is to say, whenever the quasi-banned user logs in to the site, they see their comments intact; but to everyone else, the offending comment is simply...

Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many of us arrived. To wit:

We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news!

-- Norman Nsu to return to Redwood City. [ABC7]

Well, we suppose this is sort of like those Portraits In Grief type thumbnail portraits of murder victims we suggested to the Chron -- yesterday's paper featured a long article about Allan Broussard, a serial car burglar who was shot to death last month. He was shot clutching a car stereo he'd just stolen. A suspect has been arrested in the case, who has a long rap sheet of his own, but the cops won't say if the suspect's car was the one that had been burgled.

! Cover article: A guy who makes money suing small businesses under the ADA. A review of the Kiki & Herb show. The Simpsons movie is okay. Meredith didn't much like her North Beach wine bar. Why did political cartoonist Ted Rall get moved to the food listings? Let's Get Killed reviews the Pamela des Barres book, feels ambivalent about it. And Savage Love: "is this a weird fetish?" (The lady's clapping on a date story was pretty funny.)

-- Power outages enrage your editor, city dwellers. [Chron, KGO]

-- 4.2 tremor slightly moves the Bay Area, donuts. [Chron, Yahoo, Examiner, FCJ]

Last night when we and a few of our more tolerably-alcoholic friends took a break over at the St. Regis (why not?) -- which included SFist emerita and SF Gate/Chron rescuer Eve Batey for a few, short seconds -- we were jarred to find former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown kicking it right next to us. It should go without saying that insouciance was seeping out of William's ears, nose, and ass. What's more, this precious SF-celeb encounter totally put last month's St. Regis B.D. Wong sighting to shame.

Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Bronstein agreed to answer a few questions for us. His responses directly address issues brought up by SFist and SFist's readers a short time ago. Notably, you'll see from his answers below that he'd appreciate more of the same. Here's a chance hear and be heard from one of the most important drivers behind news coverage in our area. See what he had to say to us below -- and let him know what you think.

Curse you, Eve Batey! Our former co-editor is a huge horror/fantasy flick maven, and when she left SFist for greener pastures last October, we knew we'd have to watch some movies at the Indiefest Hole in the Head moviefest for her this year.

And the layoffs begin -- a source tells us the first person to be let go from the Chronicle in their 25% reduction-in-staff campaign is managing editor Robert "Rosey" Rosenthal. We got the news confirmed by Friend of SFist and Chron Blogging/Interactive Editor Eve Batey, who says:

It's mostly this guy's fault.

The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and -- what we stopped by to see this afternoon -- a series of panels about the state of cinema today.

. Boooo!). It's actually a pretty decent article about the future of the Chron online, the criminal lack of mentioning of Eve notwithstanding. Book section. Meredith Brody tries out Top Chef entrees around town. SFist Ced is outraged that she would review a TGI Friday's when there's no TGI Friday's in the City. Wasn't there a TGI Friday's in Fisherman's Wharf? What happened to that one? The (((folkYEAH!))) festival in Big Sur. Doc's Clock, everyone's second-choice hipster bar. And Dan Savage ate too much pot pumpkin cake.

We've got a killer North American premiere and a Tony Award-winning play with its Tony Award-winning actresses--we've even got some sketch comedy from New York.

After a holiday break, we're back with more of our conversation with Nathaniel P Ford, Muni's Executive director. As a refresher, check out parts one, two, three, four, five, and six.

We continue our conversation with Nathaniel Ford, Muni's executive director. If you need to catch up, here are parts one,two, three, and four and five.

Here's the fifth part of our conversation with Nathaniel Ford, Muni's executive director. Previously: Parts one,two, three, and four.

Part the fourth in our multi-part conversation with Nathaniel Ford, the Executive director of Muni. See part one here, part two here, and part three here.

Part three in our series detailing our conversation with Nathaniel P Ford, executive director of the MTA. See part one here, part two here.

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow.

We recently sat down with Muni's executive director, Nathaniel P. Ford, to ask him some of the questions our readers and we have been dying to get the answers to. We spent enough time with him that we felt it made sense to publish our conversation in serial form, as opposed to one oppressively long interview. This is the first segment in the series.

The more eagle eyed among you might have noticed some changes to our masthead today. SFist Jackson West, SFist's editor since our launch in July 2004, has taken on the role of SFist's Editor at Large. After a month-long and certainly well-deserved vacation, he promises all of us that he will be back writing the posts we all know and love and getting drunk with San Francisco's movers and shakers. Freed from the administrative duties of his former position, he's going to be spending more time on his own projects, all of which you can keep abreast of at his site. We can't wait to see what he does next.

EssEffist's own PR powerhouse shares her thoughts on fannypacks and SF wi fi names