SF News Fox News Picks Up Ed Lee Voter Fraud Story Over on Foxnews.com, allegations of voter fraud and mishandling of absentee ballots on the part of Ed Lee supporters have put Mayor Lee's face front and center on the conservative news site.
SF News San Jose Protester Occupies Perch Over City Hall Occupy San Jose protester Shaun O'Kelly, who goes by the name of "Cracker", has been sitting on top a three-story wall at City Hall since early Monday morning. Cracker refuses to come down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Panisse-Inspired Fashion, A Gavin-esque Brasserie, John's Ocean Beach Alice Waters inspires a lot of things: White House veggie gardens, edible schoolyards, general mirth, etc. — but this line of Chez Panisse-inspired fashion that popped up in the Chronicle's Sunday Style section is
SF News Muni Switchbacks Down by 40%, Outerlands Residents Continue to Complain Taking a look at one possible metric for gauging Ed Reiskin's performance since he took over Nat Ford's gig as Muni chief back in July, the Examiner reveals today that the always-frustrating switchbacks
Arts & Entertainment Brian Wilson, Biz Stone, MC Hammer Claim Ed Lee is '2 Legit 2 Quit' [Video] Here's Ashkon (of the Giants World Series/Don't Stop Believing forced-meme fame) doing MC Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" with Hammer himself, Twitter co-founder/Ed Lee spammer Biz Stone and Giants Closer/Taco
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup A major PG&E gas transmission line that serves San Francisco ruptured during a pressure test, "blowing a crater in an alfalfa field," south of Bakersfield. [KTVU] The "App gap" is a
SF News Day Around the Bay Mission Street bouncy ball party gets rowdy, turns in to a street melee, ends in a couple of arrests. [SFAppeal] Carlos Santana dropped in to Mission High School (his alma mater) to congratulate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien Slaps Noodles With Martha Stewart [Video] Incredibly popular Mission Street takeout option and restaurant-within-a-restaurant Mission Chinese Food has seen an impressive rise to power in the past year and change that it's been open. Case in point: Chef Danny
SF News Skewered Golden Gate Park Hawk Rescued, Recovering Nicely The red-tailed hawk speared with a framing nail shot from a nail gun has been successfully rescued, reports Bay City News and the Wild Rescue team. The injured bird, which turned out to
SF News Brazen Brass Thieves Lift Historic Bell from St. Mary's Cathedral Metal thieves struck again over the weekend, this time lifting an historic church bell from the plaza in front of St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard sometime in between Saturday night and the
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Responds to Last Week's Earthquakes "Canst thou quake and change thy color/ Murder thy breath in middle of a word." - Kevin Spacey on stage as Richard III, heard post-quake by Chronicle scribe Leah Garchik, or in its
SF News Aggressive Panhandlers Blamed for San Francisco's Slipping Tourism Ranking The well-heeled readers of Condé Nast Traveler have spoken: San Francisco is no longer their favorite city to visit in North America. Sadly, Charleston, South Carolina — which is like a Civil War-era version
SF News Monday Morning Roundup The bikeway on JFK in Golden Gate Park won final approval from the Rec & Parks, making it the first parking-protected bike lane in the city. [Streetsblog] If someone claiming to be from
SF News Late Night SOMA Crash Leaves Seven Injured, One Paralyzed Last night around 12:30 a.m, a GMC van reportedly traveling at 80 miles per hour through SOMA T-boned a Dodge Charger carrying six unbuckled passengers at the intersection of Tenth and
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown For his first trick this week, Willie Brown is pointing to the grandstands and calling the Republican VP nomination for Hermain Cain. Why? Because a black pizza man is the GOP's only hope
SF News San Francisco Startup Helps Put Occupy Wall Street Commercial on National TV Now here's a heartwarming nugget of startup PR: a San Francisco-based advertising startup is helping to put the voice of the 99% in front of the same target market as the big banks
SF News SFPD on the Lookout for "Scruffy-Looking" Bank Robber Police are on the hunt for a "scruffy-looking white man" who stole thousands of dollars from a Market Street bank yesterday afternoon, Bay City News reports. The suspect, who was wearing loose jeans
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton to Become Parallel 37 After a twenty-year run, the dining room at the Ritz-Carlton shuttered last month to make way for a "less formal, more approachable" concept. Yesterday, Inside Scoop followed up with a few more details
SF News San Francisco Gets Its Own Special Victims Unit No, not an addition to the Law & Order franchise, an actual division of the San Francisco Police Department: Mayor Lee and SFPD Chief Greg Suhr announced yesterday the department would be consolidating
SF News Car Hits Fire Hydrant, Floods Valencia Street [Video] Last night around 12:30 a.m, a bystander walking on Valencia near Duboce happened upon this wet and wild scene: A car apparently took out a fire hydrant on Valencia Street near
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Occupy Muni is a nebulous movement that pops up every time someone on the train is reading Chain of Blame. [MuniDiaries] Building worker makes mistake of having sex with stalker tenant. [SFEx] John
Arts & Entertainment Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine Expected to Play Occupy SF Today According to the Occupy SF twitter account, liberal activist and radical guitarist Tom Morello is expected to make an appearance on Justin Herman Plaza this afternoon at 4 p.m. We don't have
SF News Day Around the Bay The teen accused of killing a Hog and Rocks chef was commended as a youth program "success story." [Appeal] Witnesses sought in Mission Street hate crime that occurred in front of Taqueria Cancun
SF News Updates from Occupy SF: Pep Talks from Robert Reich, Police Commission Meeting Disrupted and Occupying the Castro The Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza got another high-profile visitor yesterday evening when former Clinton administration Labor Secretary and current UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich dropped in to show his support.
