Sigh. The popular kids are at it again. No stranger to playing fast and loose with the law, noted homeless taxi driver Grasshopper Kaplan -- you remember, that guy who ran for mayor this year and received a decent 1,400 votes -- was arrested yesterday. Why? According to the Snitch, he was "sentenced on Monday to nine months in county jail for threatening a passenger while driving his unlicensed taxi." Hmm. How zany. Oh......

A little before 5 a.m. this morning, a taxi driver, Hariqbal Singh, was shot in the back at 23rd Avenue and Lincoln Way in the Sunset district, according to the Chronicle. After taking a non-fatal hit, the driver drove two blocks to meet "police and paramedics who transported him to San Francisco General Hospital." Jesus. Way to go, cabbie! If that had happened to us, we'd be curled in the fetal position shrieking like......

Cars Grotto Nights presents Driving Obsession, a free night of reportage, science, and art in the form of a subversive Valentine to our cars at Mezzanine (444 Jessie St at Mint). This cabaret-style variety show features Bucky Sinister reading his show-stopping poem on NASCAR, Dr. Graham Fleming of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory explaining how he and others are using synthetic biology to create fuels for the future, Baghdad taxi driver/art student Mounaf Shaker's screens his......

Man, work for four years on your groundbreaking police brutality story, and you screw up one little thing...... Well, it's actually not really a small screwup -- in illustrating its story about one very, very bad cop, Officer Paul Haggett (56 complaints in 7 years), the Chronicle accidentally used the photograph of another man, Jack Neeley Jr. Oops. The picture has since been removed. Mr. Neeley is a taxi driver who works as a security......

The Chronicle today said goodbye to yet another columnist, this time not out of economic hardship on part of the Chron, but on economic hardship on part of the columnist. Citing the need to move on from cabbing due to the hardships entailed by cab drivers, the Night Cabbie handed in the keys to his cab and signed off on his column in today’s paper, telling his readers that: Simply said, I got tired of......