Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay, you caught me, I don't actually live here"), but his federal criminal extortion case ("a man can't get a $40,000 bubble tea once in awhile?") continues apace. In his federal case, Ed's now asked for a hearing on whether his former lawyer,......

We were busy at our day job all day today, so we're just now getting to posting something about the crazy red sun this morning! Blamed on the smoke from two wildfires in the area, it was certainly eye-catching. Here's a picture we found in the SFist Flickr stream from the Castro this morning. Picture by crow soup. We'd love to see your pictures too! Tag 'em SFist on Flickr.......

Did you see (video footage) all that smoke (pictures) yesterday? A fire at 17th and Noe Street between the Mission and the Castro at around 6:30 yesterday evening displaced at least 14 people, and sent seven to the hospital for smoke inhalation. One man had to be rescued off the roof. The fire spread to the building next door too, but firefighters managed to put it out before that building was too damaged. The SFFD......

Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you, reader gusmacroy! The story's gone national, with a picture of the taxi union leader testifying with devil horns on in the designated "wacky San Franciscans" spot in the national section of the New York Times. As we write, it's the seventh-most-emailed......

Wow, they work fast at BART! When we started this post, there were 30 minute delays to cross the Bay, and by the time we finished, BART updated its reports to announce that they've fixed the issue with the Transbay Tunnel and all trains are moving again. Turns out there was a crack in one of the tracks in the Transbay Tube (we thought the trains were running a little slow this morning!), so......

--East Bay garbage workers still locked out. [The Trib, the Chron, KTVU, CBS 5] --White supremacists keep writing the SF Weekly about popular SFist topic Harmon Leon's story from two years ago. [The Snitch.] --Chris Daly feeds the trolls. [Daly Blog comments] --65-year-old man walking home in North Beach at 11 p.m. shot in a failed robbery. [Chron.] --They arrested someone in the Dolores Park fireworks fiasco -- they don't have enough evidence to......

--Local photog Thomas Hawk gets assaulted for taking pictures -- again. [Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection, via the SFist tips line. update: From last year! Sorry! Keep those tips fresh, folks!] --C.W. Nevius didn't start the fire. [The Chron.] --Republicans busted by SF State for stomping on Muslim flags with the word "Allah" written on them are now suing. Oh, that's rich. [CBS 5.] --You thought Ed Jew Borderline was awesome? If that was Madonna,......

--Our city rules. [Examiner.] --Today's Matt Gonzalez Mayoral Candidate Magic Eight-Ball reading: Maybe yes. [Left in SF.] --The Punk Rock Sideshow at the Hemlock is hosting a benefit concert next Monday (July 16th) for Roisin Isner, the girl hit by the firecracker on July 4th. It'll feature a lot of all-girl bands. We're wishing you the best, Roisin! [Hemlock Tavern, via All Shook Down] --Do you play the piano? Paul Hogarth wants to talk......

--Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for calling the A's racist. [92510; read the original column cached on Google here.] --Come to California, Barack Obama! [Calitics.] --A pedestrian was hit by an SUV at Folsom and Main. [A reader, who requested that we give you the link to WalkSF,......

--We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc News, Palo Alto Daily News.] --A drag Loretta Lynn? Awesome! [Civic Center.] --Building housing over the main Caltrain station. [The Examiner.] --The return of the N-Judah to Mission Bay seems to have worked okay. [Chron, N Judah Chronicles.] --31 layoffs at......

Remember that couple we told you about that was stealing stuff from open houses? They got busted by the OnStar in their rental Hummer. Police won't reveal where they were, except to say they were "out of state." DA Kamala Harris went to the Board of Supes to ask for more money to fight misdemeanor crimes (usually your smaller quality-of-life ones). The SF DA's office only has nine attorneys handling misdemeanors, and they've got an......

--One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.] --The Lauryn Hill show sucked. [The Chron, All Shook Down, the Inside Bay Area Buzz blog.] --What's Berkeley going to do after this Supreme Court ruling? [The Trib.] --Blogging from the iPhone line in Walnut Creek. [Contra Costa Times.] --A fight over a local grad student's blog post about racial and class divisions on MySpace and......

--Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, now Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone to wait in line for you for an Apple iPhone? [Chron. More Chron iPhone madness here.] --Quit trying to recall people. [Beyond Chron.] --Sim art! (Picture a big green diamond over our head as our Fun bar zooms up.) [All......

--Doesn't that MUNI car look gorgeous? [Picture by DottieBoBottie from the SFist Flickr stream.] --No fireworks in Oakland this July 4. [Chron] --Enigmatic rock-tosser and Democratic presidential contender Mike Gravel was at Pride this weekend. [1115, via a tipster at Planet Out.] --The SFPD wants a raise. [ABC 7.] --Why aren't Oakland city politics as entertaining as SF? [Trib.] --Lotsa people on BART last Sunday [BART website.] --New dogs patiently waiting at parking meters!......

--This is an awesome picture from the Pride celebration yesterday. [37°C (we learned how to make the degree sign! Thanks, commenters!), from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Left in SF's Robert Haaland had fun as one of the grand marshals for Pride -- even though he didn't actually ride in his own car!. [two posts on Left in SF.] --People who read local real estate blog Socketsite are rich. [Socketsite.] --Remember the guy who drove......

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......

Look what we found in the SFist Flickr stream! Reader IMPEACH sends along this picture, confirming the reports we've gotten from a couple of other readers -- there's now 85 Galaxies on Frank Chu's sign, not just 12. Why the change? Will they need to impeach Clinton in the new extra galaxies as well? And most importantly -- what'll happen to the once-eponymous bar?......

--Hey! Did you ever do coke with Gavin? [Fog City Journal.] --Chris Daly explains himself. [SFGov.org.] --What's fun doing for Pride Weekend? [SFPartyParty, Bay Area Reporter, SF Weekly's All Shook Down.] --They busted JT Leroy. [Chron, via the AP.] --No more bottled water for the City and County of SF. [CBS 5.] --That local kid who tried to blow up the UC Riverside graduation? It was so he wouldn't have to tell his mom......

Well, isn't it interesting that this is happnening right after the Board of Supes votes to leave PG&E and pursue Community Choice Energy? Today, Gavin (Representing the City and County of San Francisco), PG&E, and Golden Gate Energy Company agreed to study harnessing the San Francisco Bay's tides for a greener kind of power. We're talking power that has zero-emmissions and is renewable. The study is slated to last a year and will examine envionmental impact, economic feasibility, and other issues regarding the practicality of harnessing energy from natural, highly predictable tide power....

--Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Fight at the Metreon! [Chron Culture Blog] --Pat Murphy claims to feel bad about his nemesis Chris Daly getting deposed as chair of the Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee. [SF Sentinel] --Chris Daly takes his reassignment like a man. [Fog City Journal] --Hey! Our Ed Jew coverage goes national! Thanks for the referral, reader DM! [TPMMuckraker.com]......

Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive device in his house, and they think he might have planted some bombs near SF General last month too. And yeah, you may have heard -- it turns out they were actual bombs. A student at Berkeley High and her date were......

--Everyone knows it's windy! (whistle, whistle-whistle, whistle, whistle-whistle-whistle whistle). --They're not sure what caused the Embarcadero station to fill up with smoke this morning, halting BART and MUNI service. --Chris Daly called Gavin Newsom a liar about the city budget. --Looks like they're getting their first Chinese-American city councilmember in San Jose. --It turns out the baby whale that got lost is a female. That was Delta, right? --There's apparently a gang war between......

Got any found photos, objects, or letters/notes/lists you'd like to share? Send them to found at sfist.com! The items must have been found in the Bay Area and their ownership unknown. Let us know where and when they were found and any other helpful info. The above tv was captured Monday by Marsha Vdovin on 20th between Valencia and Mission. Be sure to check out her fabulous blog! We found Marsha's photo via the SFist Flickr stream. So, label your found items with the sfist tag, and we'll be scouting you out, too! If you'd like to be even more helpful, put where and when you found the item in the caption. After the jump, check out SFist Jeremy's cool contribution!...

--Ha! The guy to your right ran for mayor of Barcelona, and doesn't he look like Matt Gonzalez? By copatbark from the SFist Flickr stream. --John Edwards was in town at Google. So was Hillary Clinton. --Yau-Man's back at work and gives the lowdown on the Survivor season to the UC Berkeley web newsletter. --Oh no, Ed Jew! Bevan Dufty's not living in his district right now either! (it's all okay, though, at least for......

--Does architecture critic John King ever like anything? --Sad! The San Franciscan speller in the National Bee got the dreaded misspelling bell of death this afternoon in the quarter finals, on the word "ursigram." --Giuliani's in town. Lock up your wives, cousins, and ferrets. Good thing Chron political writer Carla Marinucci loves him. --They reconvicted medicinal pot grower Ed Rosenthal, but he doesn't get any jail time. --BART may run more frequently, if they......

--Are you into those Iowa Futures Market invisible-hand-of-the-marketplace economic-based ways of predicting political races? Usual Suspects has started one for the SF mayoral race. Gavin Newsom is pegged to win at $36.78. --The ACLU is going to sue a San Jose company for arranging those "rendition" flights for outsourcing torture. --Don Perata and his spendthrift ways win him a Golden Pig! --Midwifery in San Francisco suffers another blow. --Wow, the real estate market must......

--Carnaval went well! --Jack Daly for mayor! Quote of the day: "Daddy, this party is no fun. Let's go to another party." Don't all the progressives say that? Bonus tidbit: Sarah Daly says there is no way Chris is running. --Fanime convention video. --What's going on with that Real Foods abandoned space on 24th Street? --Those whales finally got out of Sacramento and into the Bay Area (and are thus now fair game for......

--The Golden Gate Bridge opened 70 years ago today! The Golden Gate Bridge RULES. --Hilarious cartoons of vacations gone awry by Don Asmussen. (Even more in the print edition!) --M&R admit that they got Chris Daly's outfit wrong in their item about him busting in on Newsom's meeting last week. Chris magnanimously gives them a quote in response that he's growing a beard in tribute to Baron Davis. (M&R also have some more gossip......

--They are going to reopen the Macarthur Maze by Memorial Day weekend! That construction company totally deserves their $5 million bonus. --We know why Chris Daly interrupted Newsom's meeting with the Venezuelan ambassador! To tell Gavin there's another Daly on the way! Congratulations, Chris and Sarah! --Someone died at Bay to Breakers. --The city may try to move Halloween to behind AT&T Park. --They're going to try and get Wi-Fi on BART. --Condoleeza Rice is......

--We feel so bad for the Chron with the layoffs. They try to lift everyone's mood with a zillion articles about animals in today's paper. --Someone's listed a Pinole bridge for sale on Craigslist. --Dumpster diving in Berkeley. --A lifesize Mousetrap game! --Hyphy's played out. --Former SFist editor Jackson West brings his blog roundup to the SFGate Culture Blog! --And what with all the excitement yesterday, we plumb forgot to give you guys this......