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Due to the continuing WGA strike, the Golden Globes look like they might - might - get the ax. (For all of you book-reading intelligentsia who claim to have TV sets only so that your can watch your Netflix DVDs of The Sopranos and The Wire, you can read more about the strike here.) While not necessarily Bay Area-related, this deeply affects all of us who look at awards season at something holy and......

Here's todays sports news...

Remember that budget surplus? Remember when we were flush with cash and we decided to go on this spending binge and Chris Daly got into a fight with everyone because he wanted to spend the money his way and not everyone else's way? Well goodbye to all that because Gavin announced that we know have a whopping $229 million dollar deficit....

The Tenderloin Housing Clinic's properties may be among the worst places in the city to live -- but hey, at least it's cheap! Jeff, the proprietor of the Bluoz blog, recently posted a slew of eviction notices, going back several years; and man, it ain't pretty. Knives, fistfights, spitting, floods and fires, a cleaver, an abandoned dog, ripped-up smoke alarms, garbage-hoarders, broken limbs, choking with a telephone cable, stabbings, and (most shockingly) hateful comments......

More giveaways! San Francisco's own Kronos Quartet has a new album out, of their acclaimed September 2003 live performance with Tom Waits of four of Waits's songs, for the Concert for Peace and Reconciliation by Richard Gere's Buddhist humanitarian organization Healing The Divide with the Dalai Lama in attendance. There's also performances by Norah Jones's sister Anoushka Shankar, Philip Glass, and the Guyto Tantric Choir. We've got a copy to give away! Even if......

Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students around, and the authorities think the fire was started by roofers working with tar. Some unscreened yutz snuck into Terminal 1 (the non-Southwest one) at Oakland Airport this morning, necessitating a two-hour search of the entire place as TSA tried in vain......

Okay, so we're a day late on this, but this post is still well worth it. Before we start, we'd like to issue this reminder-- if you got any questions for our driver, drop us a line at editor@sfist.com. We'd also like to say that next week we got a Very Special Ask a Muni Driver and we hear at SFist are pretty darn excited about it. Anyways, here we go, yo... ...

Yesterday, the 415 twosome, the only one's actually charged with anything, met up in court to once again enter their pleas. This time around, the second member of the 415 Gang, Brian Dwyer entered a plea of not guilty to charges he kicked the living sh-- out of one of the Yalies. The kid, Brian Dwyer, is charged with assault and battery and if found guilty and if actually sent to jail for all of this, could face seven years in prison. Yikes-- if we were Dwyer, we'd be totally freaked out right about now as this all came from one bad, drunken decision. The other one, Richard Aicardi, entered his plea of not guilty on March 8th. ...

Han Shin showed up in court in Contra Costa County yesterday to plead not guilty to the charges that he tried to run over an ex's roommate with his car in San Ramon. He smiled and wished the judge a good day. Meanwhile, the authorities also arrested an Oakland man who's been stalking Schwarzenegger. Good ol' Dan Noyes! His I-Team's sued MUNI to get access to bus safety records, and they just won an order......

It looks like we're not the only one's to have noticed an uptick in violence lately as the Powers That Be Have too. This in response to the four recent shootings over the weekend, two of them in broad daylight. ...

Hmmm... maybe there's something to Gavin Newsom's railings about his No On Double-Parking In Bus Lanes proposal -- a 24 Divisadero bus slid down Noe Street this morning when a double-parked garbage truck refused to move. The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver refused to move, so the bus......

Good news! The cops caught the last week's Golden Gate Park sexual assaulter. They caught him after he unsuccessfully attempted to assault another woman in the area (but fled when her children saw him), and after he exposed himself to a number of children as well. What a creep. Shootout in the Mission -- an altercation between teenagers robbing numerous stores on Mission Street and angry Mission residents witnessing the crime spree ended in gunfire......

There was a lot of exciting football played over the weekend, none of which involved Bay Area teams. Yeah, both games went down to the wire, but just because "Navy NCIS" has a season finale with a cliffhanger doesn't necessarily mean it's any worth watching. The teams combined for a total of sixteen whopping points. That's one TD and three field goals. If you threw every member of the Rai-duhs and the Niners into whatever fantasy football league scoring system, we'd bet Tiki Barber was responsible for more points than both teams combined. To be fair, though, both teams D showed that they still have some game (the Rai-duhs almost heroically so). The offenses, however, couldn't find game unless they googled it. ...

This is kind of a correction, kind of an apology, and kind of hilarious. Yesterday, while hunting up links for our Bay Area Blog Pulse, we were cruising Bloglines. The funny thing about RSS -- even if you've deleted something from your blog, once it's posted, it goes out over the wire. And apparently, if you're a MovableType user, once you've deleted something from your blog, the permalink doesn't necessarily die, either. So we......

This came over the wire from helpful tipster Thomas, who found it on Craigslist:Need topless model 18-30 to stomp my grapes for tastefull [sic] documentary film. Pay is negotiable. Will require about 2 hours of time. Please send pic and resume.Hmmm. SFist Derrick tells us that nobody actually stomps grapes anymore outside of Portugal, and we doubt it's traditional to do it topless. But hey, sounds like easy money. Figuring this item would feel......

Growing increasingly worried about safety, the union representing MUNI bus drivers have requested that the SFPD provide them with a dedicated police force....