Reliable tipster Jerry Jarvis reports that things are a bit damp right now in Market Street's combat zone. Somewhere in that no-man's land between Powell and the Castro, a truck bumped into a fire hydrant, and you know what that means: guerrilla water fountain! Crews are currently working to either shut it off, or to splash playfully.......

Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful details. Today's find was sent to us by SFist reader/commenter Jerry Jarvis, which he found somewhere along Howard Street. We can imagine how much it would suck to come to work and find someone sleeping/peeing in your storefront every morning, but the......

For those of you still a few SFist obsessions back (before Ed Jew, around the same time as Jennifer Siebel, and after the District 6 election), Gavin Newsom's Fake Question Time neighborhood lecture series is still plodding along. Even the chickens aren't bothering to show up anymore! Anyhow, chickens or no, they've just announced this month's session (.pdf), in Aaron Peskin's District 3, and it's on everyone at SFist's favorite topic -- MUNI! It's......

We're already getting tired of this story. Can we please get back to the Ed Jew investigations? The only coverage we're enjoying is Bad Reporter's! (We're enjoying Bad Reporter's coverage very, very much, though. "No oxygen: He could die.") Here's the latest in Daly Fight 2007: --Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is going to reintroduce a code of conduct for behavior before the Board of Supes. You may remember she introduced a motion to censure Daly for......

Bright and early Wednesday morning, and searchers say it looks like the two hapless whales are nowhere to be seen. Did they swim out to the Pacific in the middle of the night? Or are they just wandering around lost somewhere else in San Francisco Bay? Don't put it past them! Update: As of 11 a.m., volunteers have started taking down the whale command center units, as more and more people become convinced that......

First bedbugs, then crack addicts, then bone-rattling noise -- that's the sort of bad-neighboring up with which Tenderloin residents will not put. Residents of the Lawrence Hotel have been scowling for a long time now at the deafening noise generated by Club Six -- check out these complaints. Shaking windows and floors, people on medication for sleep deprivation due to noise, doors left illegally open, and crowds so big on the sidewalk that you......

There's never a good time to visit the emergency room, but being forced to do so on the same day as Bay to Breakers would definitely be an even bigger bummer. We thought our fianceé Daniel Phifer would be avoiding the whole mess altogether when he ventured over to Berkeley on Sunday morning to engage in some very adult activities. Unfortunately, he returned to San Francisco a few hours later with a shattered wrist (he should've attended the Safety Day in March!) and a visit to the Kaiser emergency room that inconveniently coincided with the winding down of SF's annual drunken marathon—well, one of them, at least. Here's the account told last night through Daniel's itchy, Percocet-induced haze, as he awaits surgery in the morning (they're putting a high-tech plate in his wrist that will get him well on the road to recovery in a couple of weeks):...

--It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the search page. --Mission High sells pies. These look great! --Gavin tries on eyeglasses. --Angry T-Third commuters give Nat Ford a piece of their mind. We may be covering this more in depth later on the site. --Sunshine law gadfly Kimo Crossman......

Frequent commenter Jerry Jarvis sent us this photo of what happens when a car encounters a motorcycle. Market @ Larkin. Yeesh! Thanks, Jerry. (Second pic after the jump)......

Uno, dos, tres, quatro!: the mayor's office has announced the fourth installment of his traveling lecture series, or, as he prefers to call it "the town hall open meeting where the public is not actually permitted to ask direct questions." Or -- as we prefer to call it -- FOURTH FAKE QUESTION TIME!!! Guess Gavin's still not going to do Actual Question Time before the Board of Supervisors, huh? Were all those sweet words......

Here's todays roundup of the news...

We already mentioned yesterday's shootings, but we have something to add to it. SFist reader Jerry Jarvis was in the area and got the aftermath on video. We don't see the actual shooting, but we do get to see eyewitnesses give accounts of the incident. Check it out-- it's total "you are there."...

To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm and rational point about the meeting by first shouting at Gavin and then approaching him while Gavin filibustered. We'll let SFist Elaine describe the scene. If you want more eyewitness accounts, Fog City has a recap as well as official Editor in Emeritus, Jackson West. ABC 7 has a video of the scene ...

Here's todays headlines....

Gavin, Schmavin -- bored now. Call us when a shorn-headed Gavin goes bananas outside Kimberly Guilfoyle's house and starts whacking an SUV with a bright-green umbrella! (Maybe Britney was just looking a little too much forward to a drink at the end of her workday as well.) Anyhow, since everyone insists on continuing not to run for mayor against Gavin Newsom (including us, though that's very sweet of you to suggest it, Jill and......

Well, it's not exactly muppets, but SFist reader Jerry Jarvis tipped us off to this three minute documentary on the Bush Man. Who doesn't love watching tourists jump back, scared half to death by some guy hiding behind a fake bush? Luckly, no editors of SFist were harmed in making this video....

--The Niners were thinking about including a House of Blues in their stadium proposal to Santa Clara. --Jake McGoldrick wants to make FastPasses cheaper for SF residents between the ages of 18 and 24. --Chronicle readers are coming out in favor of keeping the carpet on BART because tile floors will make the BART too loud. We must admit that this is an angle on the BART carpet issue that we've never before considered.......

It's a mishmash of random news items about -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Odds And Ends. Okay, most of these items are about Chris Daly -- because none of you Rob Black, Matt Drake, Manuel Jimenez, or anyone else supporters are sending us items. Rob Black hasn't even bothered to update his blog since August 25. Help us help you, Everybody But Chris candidates! --Daly's bought a bunch of ginormous......