First eco-friendly homeless shelter opens its doors. Glamour, glitz, green. [Oakland Tribune]The Mayor uses Muni funds to pay his posse. [SFGate, N Judah Chronicles]Speaking of which, buy your "The N Is Near" t-shirt now. No, now. [N-Judah Chronicles]Mary Ratcliff reports on the police state formerly known as Bayview-Hunter's Point.Yikes. [SF Bay View]Yerba Buena Loft cover up? Shady. [Curbed]Although he seems like more of a Mission fag, Gus takes over the Castro. [eBAR]Sir, there are no......

Merry Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [Examiner, Nature abhors a vacuum, SF Bay View, Beyond Chron]The TLDR spat between SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly continues at a steady, confusing pace. [SFBG, Weekly]Voter registration deadline is tomorrow, kids. [SF Gate]Metallica's Kirk Hammett's Divisadero Street manse is still for sale. [Examiner]Facebook will get an executive chef, but workers might have to pay for their meals. How devastating. [Valleyvag]Temperatures drop . As does some snow. [Mercury......

Wanda Sabir gets a call from Michelle Obama. [SF Bay View] Where to take that special someone you like, but don't like-like. Like, you know? [Gridskipper] Hasbro can go straight to hell wants to put an end to Scrabulous. [Valleywag] Rejoice, guilty white liberals! Sen. Barack Obama's TV ads will kickoff the vote-for-me ad campaigns we'll start seeing. Wee. [SFGate's Politics Blog] Engagements be damned. Beth returns for the sweet, sweet taste of Gavin......

Locally, the big news was the second best blog party last Friday thrown by TechCrunch down in Menlo Park. Scott Beale was commissioned to take the photos, including the one above featuring an uneasy handshake between Valleywag's Nick Douglas (left) and his favorite whipping boy, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Nick had been bumped off the exclusive invite list, but Michel must have relented. If he had been dis-invited, apparently crashing the party was not an......

Man, another man shot in an auto body shop in the SF Bayview on Monday. It's a different auto body shop than the shooting of the guy in the DA's witness protection program, though. The victim wasn't an employee of the body shop, nor did he have a car being repaired at the time. Police don't think this shooting is related to the witness-protection program one. You can call 415-575-4444 if you have any information......

Well, if you were looking for material to parody lefty activists, look no further than the recent strife over at KPFA's offices in Berkeley. Want your lawsuits, your conspiracy theories, your anonymous mudslinging and accusations of being a goverment and/or corporate coup by agent provocateurs hell bent on destroying the station? How about if we told you there's alleged sexual harassment, thrown chairs and threats to go mano-a-mano? Oh yes, it's a sordid mess......

Once a PD, always a PD -- Matt Gonzalez comes to the aid of fellow progressive (and former colleague at the public defender's office) Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, penning an editorial published on the front page of the local African-American paper, the SF Bay View. So Sandoval's in a fight with Republican political consultant Duane Baughman over "anonymous" attack flyers mailed out in the 2004 race. But who? Who was it? Well, Gonzalez calls 'em out, identifying the flyers as sent by.... Don Fisher from the Gap -- possibly in retaliation for Sandoval's vote supporting a Gonzalez-sponsored bill against chain stores (which failed). Aw, say it ain't so, Matt! We love our Gap hoodie! One of the flyers, which Matt calls "the dirtiest piece of political mail I've ever seen," had a swastika on it and called Sandoval anti-Semitic. Another one had a picture of Ashcroft with the phrase "thanks, Gerardo!" stamped on The Soaring Eagle's forehead, arguing that Sandoval's support of that proposition allowing non-citizens to vote in school board elections would lead to more deportations. What, Fisher couldn't get Joss Stone to go negative about Sandoval's failure to wear white denim this season too? Gonzalez and Sandoval are calling for better disclosure laws on local political mailers in the future. Us, we're calling for a more relaxed fit on Don Fisher's boot-cut sandblasted vintage jeans. This picture of Matt is awesome. From the Progressive Voter Project....