SF News Day Around the Bay This mayoral election signals a shift to the right, says the New York Times/Bay Citizen. [NYT] The Guardian looks at San Francisco's political spectrum. [SFBG] La Boulange doesn't care what you think
SF News John Avalos Releases Statement on Election Results After holding out for those uncounted ballots for a couple days, the Avalos for Mayor camp has finally given up the ghost. This afternoon, Team Avalos released a concession letter of sorts. Observe:
SF News Occupy SFist: Vets Enlist in S.F, Permit-Camping in Santa Rosa, Strike Called for Berkeley The veterans speak up, Oakland PD are fed up, property managers are ticked and Santa Rosa City Hall is basically a state park: Ferry Building shenanigans aside, things are happening around the various
SF News Start Your Speculation Engines: Who Will Ed Lee Put in District 5? With the race for Sheriff wrapped up for Ross Mirkarimi, the next round of political handwringing turns to focus on who the mayor will install to cover the last year of Mirkarimi's term
SF News Federal Court Orders Twitter to Hand Over User Data in WikiLeaks Case A Federal Judge in Virginia ruled Thursday that Twitter must turn over the IP addresses of three users possibly connected to WikiLeaks. The case has raised a number of Internet privacy and free
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional The guy who creeped out Senator Barbara Boxer gets 182 days in the slammer and 3 years probation for his threatening voicemails. [BCN/Appeal] The planning commission approved the new Don Fisher museum
SF News Pat Burrell Announces He's Probably Done With Baseball Although the San Francisco Giants managed to hold on to slugger Pat Burrell for an extra year in the wake of the 2010 World Series, the occasional kinkster's injury-laden 2011 season seems to
SF News Unload Your Tenderloin 'Pooplet' Opinions Tonight Recall back in September when we stepped in a proposed plan to install streetside public toilets in the Tenderloin. At the time the plan promised to bring eco-friendly, drug use-free johns to some
SF News Reports of Disorderly Conduct Near Occupy SF Not Helping Camp's Image While things have generally been quiet around Justin Herman Plaza lately, no camp raids or riots to speak of, the Occupy SF camp attracted rowdy out-of-towners over the past few days. And that
SF News Tuesday's Election: S.F.'s Lowest for a Mayoral Contest Suspicions confirmed: Tuesday's election had terrible voter turnout. How terrible? Including the ballots we're stil waiting to see counted, the total turnout will be around 40% of registered voters. Or: the lowest turnout
SF News Avalos Will Wait for Outstanding Ballots, Won't Concede Just Yet Despite every daily paper calling this Mayor's race for interim Mayor Ed Lee, John Avalos continues to stick it to the man, as it were. Although Lee promised to call every one of
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Abducted pound pup returned safely, but the dognappers are still on the loose. [BCN/Appeal] The other Holiday ice rink, at the Embarcadero Center opened yesterday, dangerously (not dangerously) close to the Occupy
SF News Meanwhile, in Berkeley... A large number of police gather to remove an Occupy Cal encampment that sprung up on Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley this afternoon. On Monday UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
SF News Willie Brown, Rose Pak Lash Out at the Media Over at the Chronicle, City Insider finally managed to get a word in with Willie Brown and Rose Pak at last night's gala. And the pair had some harsh words for the members
SF News Ed Lee Wins San Francisco Mayor's Race [UPDATED] With 61.2% of the votes after eleven rounds of preliminary ranked-choice results, Ed Lee (unofficially) wins the San Francisco Mayor's race, making him the city's first elected Asian-American Mayor. John Avalos, who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Nocturnes, Lykke Li, Sex at Dawn Art Openings: The Harvey Milk Photo Center by Duboce Park hosts an opening reception for the 20th anniversary of "The Nocturnes" — a group of ten Bay Area photographers who pioneered new techniques in
SF News Pac Heights Housewife Busted in Insider Trading Probe Up in tony Pacific Heights, the wife of an accounting firm partner received 11 months in prison after using abusing her husband's trust to engage in some insider trading. Annabel McClellan (perfect Pac
SF News Three-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch In the North Bay, a chimney fire in the Main House of George Lucas' bucolic retreat sparked three alarms after it became too much to handle for the Star Wars director's private Skywalker
SF News Gascón Holds Clear Lead in District Attorney's Race, Still Lacks Majority As with the Mayoral and Sheriff's races, yesterday's contest for the District Attorney's office left a clear frontrunner but not a clear majority. Current interim DA George Gascón leads the contest after the
SF News Mirkarimi Leads Close Sheriff's Race In another tense decision, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi currently leads the race for the Sheriff's seat with just a hair over 38% of the votes. As with the the mayor's race, no clear majority
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Have you seen this adorable puppy? He was stolen from the San Francisco SPCA Tuesday afternoon. [SFAppeal] After being cut from his college basketball team, a player from Fresno went on a naked
SF News Day Around the Bay A leak in a ConocoPhilips crude oil pipeline made Concord smell even worse than normal. [Chron] There was another #OpBART protest last night. A few people showed up. [SFEx] Delightful, fantastical new five-panel
SF News Deplorable Teens Busted After Knocking Off Richmond District Medical Marijuana Dealer Two late-stage teenagers from Alameda are in police custody after raiding the Richmond district home of a medical marijuana distributor Saturday afternoon. According to police, 18-year-old Kevin Carey Harvell II pulled a handgun
SF News Gary Scott Holland Pleads Guilty in Russian Hill Murder As expected Gary Scott Holland, the parolee accused of murdering 46-year-old Kate Horan after posing as a utility worker to gain entry to her Russian Hill home, pled guilty to murder in Superior
Arts & Entertainment Where to Watch Tonight's Election Results After doing your civic duty and picking your favorite three candidates for mayor you'll probably want to keep an eye on those election results tonight to find out just which one of your
