SF News SFPD Hopes To Nab Marina Revelers With Super Bowl Sunday DUI Checkpoint If you're headed out to watch commercials and drink watery, domestic beer this Sunday, be sure to designate your sober wheelman ahead of time. The SFPD has announced they'll be running a special
SF News Man Who Drove Through Muni Tunnel Blew A 0.20 BAC Scott Mitchell, the 40-year-old man from Sebastapol who tried to take a shortcut to the Embarcadero from Church Street in his Ford SUV last month, had a blood alcohol concentration nearly three times
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Gavin Newsom Breaks His Silence On Mirkarimi Case Even Gavin Newsom feels like the media is picking on Ross Mirkarimi. [SFWeekly] In media news, the Bay Citizen is maybe, possibly, sort of in talks to merge with the Center for Investigative
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts from February's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is our monthly tradition around here, we now present our favorite utterances from the February issue of San Francisco's "most exclusive news magazine". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order.
SF News It Happened: Facebook Files for IPO As expected, Facebook filed for its initial public offering today and the numbers are big: The securities filing places the social network's value somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Yesteryear: When There Was Way More Firepower In Hunters Point Friend of SFist and all-around fan of large vehicles, Telstar Logistics brings to our attention this vintage photo of three U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers docked at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard way
SF News Matt Gonzalez Is Suing The City That Pays Him Matt Gonzalez, the former Board of Supervisors President and current chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, has been doing some moonlighting for a client with a $16 million lawsuit out
SF News Cyclist <strike>In Critical Condition</strike> Injured After Collision With Postal Service Truck [Updated] A 39-year-old cyclist is in critical condition after she was hit by a U.S. Postal Service mail truck on Clement Street yesterday evening. The cyclist, who was traveling east on Clement, apparently
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Salami Factory Deemed Gassy, Blames It On Someone Else The Columbus Salame company, whose manufacturing operations are down in South San Francisco, was fined $700,000 by the EPA yesterday and ordered to spend $6 million upgrading their facilities in the wake
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: The Inevitable Facebook IPO News Cycle Are you ready for the insufferable Facebok IPO "news" frenzy today? [Gawker] A tale of two Occupy movements: Oakland and Miami [TheAwl] The Examiner gets in the Super Bowl spirit, reminds that Tom
SF News Day Around the Bay: Camping in the Castro A Castro Camp-out and a proposed ban on camping in the Castro were both derided as stunts. Either way camping in the Castro is now a thing that is legislated. [SFAppeal] The Brant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Human Placenta Deemed 'Ultimate Slow Food' From the Bold Italic's There Will Be Blood exploration of the many options new moms face when deciding what to do with their afterbirth, we finally learn where the whole slow food movement
SF News San Francisco Nightclub Patrons Just Want To Steal Your Stuff Last week, the Examiner ran slightly sensational story (with an exceptional lede, we might add) about the rise in thefts at local nightclubs. According to inspectors with the Entertainment Commission, the latest problem
SF News Gavin Newsom Donated $500 To Stephen Colbert's Super PAC [Updated] Stephen Colbert's "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" independent expenditure committee has been raising funds to support the comedian's real/parody run for the presidency since last fall. As is required by the
SF News Next Frontier For Occupy Oakland: Aquapying Lake Merritt After the Occupy movement returned to the streets of downtown Oakland this past weekend, the waterborne Aquapy movement also returned to the waters of Lake Merritt late Sunday night. Dubbed "Suburbia on the
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspects In Possible Bayview Kidnapping San Francisco Police are calling for witnesses and information after a woman in the Bayview was seen being assaulted and possibly kidnapped in broad daylight last Saturday afternoon. According to Bay City News,
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Coach Harbaugh's Offseason Activities What's coach Harbaugh doing now that the season's over? Golfing, of course. [Chron] David Lynch has a new advertisement for coffee. And it's as terrifying as you'd expect. [GrubSF] A fight over whose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Hamburger News: American Eatery Adds Poutine To A Burger Ignoring for a moment the fact that a place called The American Eatery shouldn't be serving up one of Canada's national treasures, the Stonebreaker Burger at the new Prather Ranch food counter in
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Double Milan Car On The Bay "A Streetcar Named No Passengers" shot by Matthew Granz.
SF News City's New Homeless Czar Sure Does Make A Lot Of Money As we mentioned on Friday, former Castro Supervisor Bevan Dufty was brought back in to the CIty Family fold last week after Mayor Lee gave him a new post as San Francisco's Next
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Surveys Occupy Damage At City Hall [Video] In the aftermath of Saturday's day of action in Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan came in to the office on a Sunday to see for herself the damage at City Hall, where dozens of
SF News San Leandro Murder Suspect Found Hanged At Port Of Oakland A 19-year-old man sought by authorities in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old San Leandro girl on Friday night turned up dead the next day at the Port of Oakland. According
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Gunfire in Hayes Valley Gunfire in Hayes Valley injured one victim Friday evening, after a day of seemingly random shootings in surrounding neighborhoods. [Haighteration] A bicyclist was struck by a car on Fell Street in the Panhandle
SF News Bevan Dufty Named City's New Homeless Czar When former Castro Supervisor Bevan Dufty announced he'd be working a public transit gig down in the peninsula, we guessed it wouldn't be too long before the unsuccessful candidate for mayor bounced back
Arts & Entertainment This Week In Willie Brown: Imported Ribs We've talked about Willie's rib obsession in the past, but during his Niners tailgate party last weekend Da Gourmayor took it to another level by importing a slab of baby back all the
