A slow-moving daily parade of idling vehicles stretching up Masonic Avenue...

You know, maybe Tapioca Ed wouldn't have problems with fire if he had running water. Bobagate heats up -- literally! Matier and Ross report today on some issues regarding yet another house that Ed Jew owns. Ed Jew owns so many houses he didn't even report this one to the Board of Supes! (By the way, who owns this much property in San Francisco? If he were playing Monopoly, Ed could put up a little......

SFist Julie goes out in Oakland's Laurel District for some smokin' jazz. No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books, equine supplies, and the recently revived Laurel Lounge. Taken over in April 2006 by a local couple -- who also happen to be neighborhood activists -- the Laurel Lounge......

Ohmeed Popal, the hit-and-run SUV driver who rampaged through Pacific and Laurel Heights about three months ago, has been deemed sufficiently sane to be tried for 18 counts of attempted murder in San Francisco court. Popal's PD reported that Popal's mental health has markedly improved after they changed his medication. In court, Popal was reported to have smiled and greeted his family as he was brought in. However, Popal did not enter a formal......

We know the rest of you will be just as shocked as we are to hear of other elections going on besides the District 6 race (except for you, commenter poormojo!). Well, David Kiddoo, the write-in candidate for District 2 (Pac Heights, the Marina) running against incumbent Michela Alioto-Pier, has graciously agreed to submit to an SFist interview and tell us what they're worrying about up there north of Market. Thanks, David! Who are you,......

Up to eleven people have been seriously injured this afternoon by a man driving around town, deliberately running over pedestrians. At least one person is dead. Among other things: this is not going to help our stats for this year's Walk SF numbers at all. The police caught a driver in a black Honda SUV in Laurel Heights, at Laurel and California Streets, where he'd hit two people (one who died). A child was also......