SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: David Campos Seeking Re-election District 9 (The Mission) Supervisor David Campos to run for re-election this year. This would be more interesting news if someone were announcing to run against him. [KTVU] 8-ton bronze sculpture going up
Arts & Entertainment Jed York Wants To Give You Tickets To the NFC Championship Game Although tickets don't go on sale until Wednesday, twitter-friendly Niners President and CEO Jed York wants to make sure one lucky member of the faithful gets a seat at the NFC Championship game.
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu Endorses... Mitt Romney? Noted local weirdo Frank Chu was spotted at an Occupy Wall Street West protest over the weekend. A Frank Chu appearance at an event where there is at least one camera present is
SF News Nobody Shot At 16th And Valencia Around 12:50 a.m. last night a 911 caller reported six to nine shots fired at the intersection of 16th and Valencia in the Mission. Police checking out the scene found six
SF News Richmond Cyclist Claims He Was Shot By Sniper In Richmond, California, a 43-year-old man walking his bicycle along some train tracks just North of Interstate 580 around 3 a.m. last night believes he was the target of a rooftop sniper.
SF News Two Niners Fans Shot Outside Georgia Applebee's In Georgia, two Niners fans taking in Saturday's Niners victory at a Duluth-area Applebee's became victims of some unnecessary violence when a disgruntled Saints fan reportedly took offense to their excitement and opened
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Volunteering On Martin Luther King Jr. Day Since it's a government holiday, you can park pretty much anywhere you want today, but you still have to pay the meters and avoid those 7-day street sweeping spots. [SFEx] Help volunteer and
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: A Coronation After our too-brief encounter with Willie Brown at the Palace Hotel the other night, Willie asked us to remind him to "never host another sit-down dinner for a mayor." Apparently, dealing with the
SF News Dastardly Woman Hates Whimsy, Calls Cops Over Tree Swing On Valencia street, one woman — presumably afraid of the danger a simple tree swing could bring to the streets of San Francisco — has taken it upon herself to rid the block of the
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Pops Up Again, Doing Six Shows At The Independent Next Week Dave Chappelle, who apparently has completely forgone scheduling anything more than a week in advance at this point, has just announced four six shows at The Independent on Divisadero next Tuesday and Wednesday
SF News Ross Mirkarimi To Face Three Misdemeanor Charges in Domestic Violence Case, Sources Say [Updated] According to reports, a source inside the investigation of Ross Mirkarimi's alleged domestic violence tells the Associated Press that the new sheriff will face three misdemeanor charges. The charges are one count each
SF News Mission Rape Suspect Pleads Not Guilty To 26 Felony Charges Frederick Dozier, the man accused of sexually assaulting three women near 24th Street in the Mission over the past six months, pled not guilty to all 26 felony counts he's been charged with
SF News Sunset District Home Invasion Leaves Two Women In Critical Condition A 76-year-old woman was attacked in her home on 20th Avenue near Moraga in the Sunset District Thursday night. A second 56-year-old woman delivering food to the elderly woman's home around 9:20
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni's Car #1 Debuts Muni tests out their historic and laboriously restored "Car #1" on the L-Taraval, probably getting ready to roll that baby out for Muni's 100-year anniversary. [MuniDiaries] Is drinking on one's stoop good for
SF News Day Around the Bay: Divisadero Is The New Valencia With its bike shops and coffee shops and fancy restaurants Divisadero is the new Valencia, says the Wall Street Journal, who just figured out what the rest of us who don't live in
SF News Eliana Lopez Spotted At Today's Anti-Domestic Violence Rally? [Updated] The San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium called a press conference on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, calling for Sheriff Mirkarimi to "step aside" while the investigation in to his possible domestic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Mixologist Becomes Soda Jerk For Vintage-Style Ice Cream Bar In frozen dessert news, there's a "1930's-inspired ice cream and artisanal soda shop" cleverly called Ice Cream Bar, opening in Cole Valley around the end of January. Judging from Eater's preview of the
SF News Highway 85 Shut Down In San Jose Due To Bomb Scare [Updated] Police have closed all lanes in both directions on Highway 85 while they investigate reports of a possible bomb inside of a wrecked vehicle near the junction with Highway 87. The two men
Arts & Entertainment C-List Celebrities Hang Out On Alcatraz For TV Premiere Last night was the private premiere party for J.J. Abrams' new San Francisco-based time-and-space-bending TV show Alcatraz. As far as we can tell, no one other than Entertainment Weekly and the show's
SF News Look, Just Don't Burn Anything Today, OK? Today, Thursday January 12th is the fourteenth Spare the Air day of the Winter Season. By now, you've gotten the gist of what that means: the air is cold and lung-clogging, phlegm-inducing particulates
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Ed Lee's Niners Wager Ed Lee makes foodie-centric mayoral bet with New Orleans. In the Niners win this weekend City Hall is getting a shipment of gulf shrimp, King Cake and Abita Beer. [InsideScoop] Lady Gaga was
SF News Note To Drug Traffickers: Airport Security Will Probably Find Nine Kilos of Cocaine And Crystal Meth A pair of U.S. citizens arriving at SFO from Mexico on December 29th were busted with $500,000 worth of cocaine and crystal meth in their luggage, thus ensuring at least one
SF News District Attorney Will Hit Sheriff Mirkarimi With Misdemeanor Charges City prosecutors from the District Attorney's office are convinced accusations of domestic abuse against newly sworn-in Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi are "very real," the Chronicle's mustachioed super sleuths report today. Although Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana
SF News The Flaming Lips Added To NoisePop 2012 Lineup This just in from the fine folks at NoisePop: noted alternative rock mainstays The Flaming Lips will join the 20th anniversary edition of San Francisco's citywide music festival for a special performance of
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: The Pizza Oven/Food Truck Of The Future Former flour + water pizza guy creates the food truck/pizza oven of the future. [Tablehopper] CalTrain southbound is slow this morning. Like slower than usual even. [SFEx] An in-bound N-Judah popped off the