SF News This Week In Willie Brown: In Search Of The New York Subway Willie Brown got lost in New York over the long holiday weekend. "I couldn't find the subway in New York," the avid city walker mentions in his Inside Scoop column, but Willie Brown's
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From December's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is our monthly tradition around here, we now present our favorite utterances from the December issue of San Francisco's "most exclusive news magazine". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order.
SF News Cole Valley Stickup Turns Out To Be <strike>Unlicensed</strike> Film Shoot [Updated] In Cole Valley, police officers responding to calls of a masked gunman holding up the Alpha Market on the corner of Cole and Parnassus discovered a much more pedestrian crime in progress. When
SF News Only Two Arrested After Occupy SF Protests Police Barricades As we noted, SFPD moved in Justin Herman Plaza to set up barricades around the Occupy Camp yesterday evening. SFPD spokescop Sgt. Mike Andraychak told the press the move was intended to "define
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mission Girl Seeks Cooler Friends At least one motherly lawyer thinks McDonald's donations-for-toys tactic may not be legal. As if that were a real thing we should bother arguing about. [Grist] Mission girl seeking cooler friends. [Mission Mission]
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Golden Gate Park... In honor of World AIDS Day, flowers lay on a plaque bearing names of those lost to the epidemic at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. The Grove, a documentary about the creation of
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Cancels Tonight's Show At The Fox Theater Sad news, Moz fans: Morrissey has just announced that tonight's show at Oakland's Fox Theater has been cancelled due to a bandmate's injury. According to an email from Morrissey's publicist, his drummer has
SF News Another Thing Johannes Mehserle Is Not Guilty Of Doing Excessive force, according to a federal jury in San Francisco today. Mehserle and four other BART police officers were deemed not guilty of using excessive force in a civil trial over a 2008
SF News Group Of 99% Supporters Wants To Occupy Ad Space In The Chron A small group of East Bay Occupy supporters hopes to put their message in front of thousands of Chronicle subscribers by taking out a full-page ad in the Bay Area's paper of record.
SF News Nob Hill Stabbing Victim Run Over By Middle-Aged El Camino Driver A fight between some middle-aged goons and a 40-year-old victim almost turned in to a case of vehicular manslaughter in Nob Hill Wednesday evening. According to Bay City News, the victim suffered life-threatening
Arts & Entertainment Brian Boitano Visits Union Square Ice Rink Tonight For 'Speed Dating Skating' Olympic Gold Medalist, TV Chef and street food enthusiast Brian Boitano will make an appearance at the Union Square holiday skating rink tonight for a very special mash-up of ice skating and speed
SF News Tiny Overnight Earthquake Fails To Inconvenience Anyone Late last night, around 11 p.m. when everyone but the USGS was asleep, a tiny 2.3-magnitude earthquake struck about a mile northeast of Berkeley. According to Bay City News, "many Berkeley
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Duc Loi Thanksgiving The owners Duc Loi Supermarket in the Mission fed 450 people on Thanksgiving with a meal cooked by Mission Street Food's Anthony Myint. [Mission Local] 2012's Mavericks surf contest could paddle out as
SF News SFFD Battles Early Morning Mission Apartment Fire A two-alarm fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. this morning near Bartlett and 24th Street in the Mission, leaving two victims in critical condition. SFFD has yet to determine the cause
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Releases New Details on Planned Expansion Behold: a new look at SFMOMA's expansion. We've caught earlier glimpses of the overall design for the new space that will add 100,000 square feet of gallery space and house the Doris
Arts & Entertainment Alt-Weekly Cover Art Smackdown: Hate Crimes vs. Groceries We're doing away with our weekly roundups in which we read the weeklies for you because, well, reading is hard! No, but seriously, it's usually the cover pieces that are of worthy note
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Caffeinated Beer Brewery Coming To Dolores Park, If Nobody Protests First MateVeza, makers of cervezas brewed with yerba mate (get it?) so they're naturally caffeinated, announced yesterday they'll be opening up their own Dolores Park-adjacent restaurant and brewery at Church and 18th Streets. Owner/
SF News Occupy SF Says No Thanks To Sketchy Mission Campsite San Francisco's Occupy contingent voted last night to stay put on the relatively luxurious bocce ball grounds at Justin Herman Plaza, thereby shooting down the Mayor's offer to move to a pre-blighted block
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Dodges Happy Meal Toy Ban San Francisco's much-publicized Happy Meal Ban, goes in to effect tomorrow, December 1st. By Monday morning, we expect the city of San Francisco to have saved America by eliminating childhood obesity altogether. Except
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Michael Bauer, Ichthyologist Michael Bauer wonders: "How do I know if I'm really eating Halibut?" [InsideScoop] List of noteworthy Napa restaurants leaves off some noteworthy Napa restaurants. [GrubStreetSF] The early word on San Francisco's Umami Burger
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook's Inevitable IPO Facebook wants to raise $10 billion when it goes public next year, putting the value of the company around $100 billion. [Bloomberg] Meanwhile, Yelp and Zynga IPOs are driving up real estate prices
SF News Occupy Oakland Erects Teepee Honoring Sioux Indians & AIDS Activists Zachary Runningwolf, the Occupy Oakland tree camper, burns sage after erecting a teepee on the North side of the plaza to honor Sioux Indians, homeless workers and AIDS activists. When Runningwolf and Oakland
SF News Occupy SF Basically Clearing Out, Says The Chronicle With news from various local Occupy camps mostly settling down, the Chronicle's number one homeless camping critic weighs in on the current state of Justin Herman Plaza today. According to C.W. Nevius,
SF News Todd Mehserle Banned From Court Room For Cell Phone Photos, Being A Jerk Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the Oscar Grant case, is currently back in court standing trial along with four other BART PD officers for alleged police misconduct
SF News City Testing Pay-By-Phone For Parking Meters Despite having one of the highest expired meter fines in the country, it turns out the Municipal Transportation Agency is not, in fact, out to stick drivers with costly tickets. Or rather, the
