SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
SF News Trash Talkin' Someone get Jake McGoldrick a green fuzzy costume -- he's gone all Oscar the Grouch about people who leave their big trash and recycling bins out on the sidewalk after trash pickup day.
SF News Sue You, Sue Me, Sue It Together, Naturally Well, the business types are saying that so far, no economic impact report has been reported and that the Board is still doing what it does so well, proposing this and proposing that
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
SF News Aftershocks Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
SF News Political Junkie: Lucky For Us No Buckshot Was Involved Man, there isn't Bay Area connection to Dick Cheney shooting that 78-year-old guy in the face? We're so jealous of DCist and Austinist right now. Well, we gotta content ourselves instead with reporting
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
SF News Hatin' On The Sentinel What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to
misc Yes, We're Kind After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board
SF News Oh Really, O'Reilly? As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles, including Chris Daly's, who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that
SF News Home Is Where the Depot Is Neither are opponents of Home Depot. Leading opponent Tom Ammiano said the vote "sucks." And Jake McGoldrick said that Home Depot came "into our community and caused deep and perhaps lasting harm by
SF News On the Waterfront Our drama begins with Aaron Peskin pulling out a rarely used, little known ordinance that ruled that any huge development has to be re-examined and analyzed part-way into the development to check on
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
SF News Sizzling Hot-Hot-Hot!! Love 'em for their policies? Love 'em for their sexy strut? Who cares! Clean out those cookies on your computer and stuff the ballot box for your hottie of choice! Super Hotties!Who
misc Condoize It We thought we'd update you on the latest brouhaha being currently ha'ed about in the city which is the Fairmont's announcement a week ago that they were kind of sort of thinking that
SF News Joltin' Joe O'Donaghue And how did O'Donoghue take it? Afterwards, he dismissed the resolution and referred to Board President Aaron Peskin as both an "angry dwarf" and Heinrich Peskin. We're not sure which probably got under
SF News Better Luck Next Time, Joe Believe it or not, the comments made during the last hearing totally backfired on Joe as there was such an outcry made against them that it totally overwhelmed the debate over who was
SF News Au Revoir, Twiggy The neighbor, who refuses to be identified but we’re guessing also hates small puppies, complained to Peters' Condo Board that Twiggy was "causing throngs of people to gather outside and strange men
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
SF News And They're Off It's only been a week and a half into the new year, but the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is already off to a roaring start. So far, we've seen the farewell of
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
