- My capsule review of the [MonopoLee Twitter] account, which appears to be dedicated to taking Mayor Ed Lee to task: Punny name game is on point (how did no one think of and use this already?) and graphics are t-shirt-ready good. All caps in each Tweets text runs the risk of making the accountholder look like a crazy 100-year-old SF Gate commenter, so consider a dialback there.
- That green grass you see on 880 might alarm you, but it's OK. [KRON4]
- [Wired] takes on the mystery of the brand new Bay Bridge's corroded steel.
- Laverne Cox will be the first transgender person with a wax figure at Madame Tussauds, and of course it's happening at the one in SF. [Associated Press]
- [San Francisco Magazine] makes a list of all the people (and by "people" I mean dudes, because apparently there are no female political contenders in SF?!?) they wish were challenging Ed Lee in the mayor's race.
- SF's school board won't be changing the school assignment system. [SF Chronicle]
- Contemporary artist Ed Ruscha will have a show at the De Young next summer. [Wall Street Journal]
- Televangelist Franklin Graham sashays away from Wells Fargo over lesbian moms ad, but ends up with another seemingly non-bigoted bank. Whoops. [SF Business Times]
- SFPD Chief Greg Suhr backtracks from previous remarks, agrees to clear rape kit backlog. [SF Chronicle]
- Race is on to save huge Grace Cathedral window. [CBS5]
- Berkeley police are under fire for use of phrases like "get 'em running" (in reference to protesters). [KQED]
- The Board of Supes put off any decision on changes to SF's Airbnb laws last night. [Associated Press]
