While Oakland received tons of press over the weekend for its recent spate of murder, this Mission murder, which happened near 25th and South Van Ness (be careful, Phone Booth patrons!), went all but unnoticed. Around 6:45 p.m. last Friday, two men approached 21-year-old Jose Reynoso and shot him in the head and chest. He was taken to SF General Hospital where he died the following day. Police have "sketchy descriptions of the killers"......

Help save your local Naval Historical Monument...

Take a photo tour of a huge abandoned cruise ship that's been sitting around for years...

Although we've been in the snow only a fistful of times in our lifetime, maybe some of our ski-bunny readers can fill us in on this superstition: placing your skis (or snowboard or sled) under your bed in order to increase the chance of local snowfall. This seems like unnecessary clutter. Isn't this why we have clearly more logical rain- and snow-dances? Image credit: Telstar Logistics......

Photo a leaping Ford above San Francisco...

Photos of the 2007 E-surance Icer Air event at the baseball park ...

Since it's bound to open soon and we'll certainly never be able to step foot inside of the million dollar-plus apartments in SF's new and phallic-y One Rincon Hill -- biggest apartment building west of the Mississippi, damn straight -- the scary-sounding and fancy-named Telstar Logistics snapped some shots from inside the budding building. Enjoy them while you can, plebeians. (Images courtesy of Telstar Logistics)......

Bless the Chron's heart, they know kvetching about traffic is going to move a lot of papers on the newsstand -- so they go above the fold with their article about the twenty worst bottlenecks on the highway. As you'd've guessed, that horrendous interchange at Emeryville for 80/580/880 where you have to get over five lanes just to go south ranks high on the list. We did very much enjoy the descriptions of the worst......

--Here's today's mini-blotter: a family murder-suicide in Tilden Park; Man hit by a BART train at Balboa Park in the late morning today; a guy drove off the side of Mount Tam [Inside Bay Area, the EBX 92510, the Chron; CBS 5; Marin IJ]. --They're laying people off at the Merc News too? [SFBG Politics Blog]. --A blogger gets sued for defamation in small claims court by a journalist who didn't like, among other things,......

Yuck. A SFPD cop was arrested for soliciting a 14-year-old prostitute in Oakland. The cop's a motorcycle squad supervisor and is a 37-year veteran of the force. The 14-year-old said it was her first time on the streets, the cop was apparently cooperative when the Oakland PD caught the two of them in his car, and told the Oakland officers that he thought the girl was 18. How the mighty broker has fallen in these......