-- Total lunar eclipse starts tonight. [NASA] -- GNS doesn't care for the new progressive candidate, Quintin Mecke. But after looking him over, we want to ask Quintin out for some coffee, maybe a movie, and...who knows? We're just saying is all. Heh. Yeah. [GNS] -- SF teenager shot three times. [Chron] -- Mother Teresa questioned God's existence. Heathen. [BeyondChron] -- Tiny 2.4 quake hardly rocks Berkeley this morning. [Chron] -- South Beach living,......

Now coming to you at the end of the day! --Hey, have fun tonight for Cinco de Mayo! --The feds are chipping in to repair the maze. Also, more people took BART this week. --Some guy paid $1.5 million for a leaky condo in South Beach. --Everyone loves the baby falcons in San Jose! --Everyone loves Jimmy Carter too! --and the city of Berkeley may start paying for transgender surgery. Picture from our Flickr......

It's photo-op time in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Reader Submissions. This one's from a reader, who writes: Why does everyone hate Chris? Because he doesn't know how to dress appropriately. Why would he wear a baseball cap and t-shirt to a debate but a suit for a bike ride? Chris got all dressed up to celebrate his endorsement by the SF Bike Coalition, and it looks like they did......

If we ever host a World Series of San Francisco Pop Culture contest, we're totally asking the question "Who's Laurie Beijen?" Ms. Beijen is, of course, the well-connected bride who made Gavin Newsom move last year's Cow Hollow ski jump event because she had a wedding planned at Flood Mansion the day it was originally set (August 27, 2005). And we can't think of a nicer anniversary present to get Laurie Beijen than the news......

All our lives we've been beset by allergies of one type or another, usually severe. In the fifth grade someone asked us why we breathed through our mouth, not our nose. Startled, and a little skeptical, we replied, "You can breathe through your nose?" Yes, that's how bad it was. Now combine our seeming lack of resistance to all things with dust, dairy, dander and . . . mold (sorry, there's just no way......

It is customary to start any post about the World Cup by stating that you should care. We won't do that. Y'all know what a big deal it is and how pretty much every part of the world that isn't Canada or the U.S. is effectively shutting itself down for a month to watch. Besides, we have a feeling part of the reason soccer has never really taken off here is because too many people tell you that you have to care. So getting into soccer becomes something like eating broccoli or the metric system or any other things you are told to do because it's good for you. As a result, people here start getting all huffy and get all "nuh-uh, we're 'merican's damnit. We like our sports with non-stop action, lots of beer commercials, and scoreboards telling us when to cheer and when not to cheer, you Euro Weenie One World-ist!" Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you have to be like everyone else, but as, well, kind of a way to travel around the world in a month without ever having to leave the city. ...

We've been wondering when, if ever, we'd see a "CSI: San Francisco". Now, before one of you clever commenters points out that part of the "CSI" formula involes cops actually solving crimes (seriously, do our cops ever do that?), we'd like to point out another drawback: not enough neon. After all, what is an episode of one of the three "CSI"s without an establishing shot of the noble gas lit Vegas strip, Times Square,......

A weekly review of high class wine tastings with appetizers of cured meats and various cheeses. Just replace the wine with dive bar-Pabst Blue Ribbon and the meats and cheese with one of those 'jerky cheddar' combo packs from the corner store. Brought to you each week by barrespondent Drew. Several areas throughout the city could be referred to as 'pitstop' locales, their primary purpose being to provide a slight rest when you're on your......

The tale of former Raider's center Barrett Robbins just got a lot sadder yesterday, as he is currently in crtical condition after being shot in an apparent robbery attempt inside a Miami nightclub. Mr. Robbins has had a number of run-ins with the law, including a recent incident on Christmas eve at Harry Denton's Starlight atop the Sir Francis Drake. Known to be bi-polar and an admitted alcoholic, Robbins was the starting center on the......