SF News Monday Morning Roundup Your weekend Giants-Padres series scores in brief: Lincecum took the 6-1 win over the Padres in PetCo Park on Friday, Barry Zito didn't fare quite as well on the mound on Saturday, giving
SF News Muni Fare Evader Killed by SFPD Was Washington Murder Suspect SFPD has identified the man shot and killed by officers after a Muni fare inspection turned in to a shootout Saturday afternoon. According to the Chronicle this morning, SFPD identified the victim as
SF News Day Around the Bay Why does the Bay Citizen hate bike lanes so much? (Hint: It's because cars need more room, duh.) [BayCitizen] Southern Pacific Brewing, the forthcoming local brewery in the city's newly dubbed "brewing district"
SF News This Week in Willie Brown As we noted earlier in the week, Willie dropped by Locanda in the Mission where the food is Roman and the parking is Angeleno. Vehicular pleasantries aside, Willie says the food is "not
Arts & Entertainment Your Brief List of Neighborhood Video Stores It seems like just yesterday we were lamenting the death of Blockbuster. Now that everyone is suddenly OVER Netflix and their fascist rate hike, here's a brief list of neighborhood video stores where
SF News Casual Picasso Thief Had a Soft Spot for Cubism, Fine Wines Mark Lugo, the sockless Picasso pilferer who is currently awaiting trial on $5 million dollar bail, had a real taste for the Spanish painter apparently. Back East, Cops raided Lugo's New Jersey apartment
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional The Giants were down in San Diego last night, where Aubrey Huff tied the game in the top of the Ninth. Final score: 6-2, San Francisco. [MLB.com] Staff at the Bay Citizen
Arts & Entertainment Steven Soderbergh's SF-Shot 'Contagion' Has a Trailer Fancy this: Contagion, that flick Steven Soderbergh was in town filming just a few short months ago got a trailer already. What we know already: Contagion stars pretty much every actor who has
Arts & Entertainment Mister Lew's Win Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium: Now With Wednesday Double Features For those who like a little lowbrow visual stimulation while they tipple their highbrow cocktails, the tenderloin bar with the lengthy name has started regular Wednesday night movie screenings. Via the bar's Facebook
SF News Which Tenderloin Block Has 35 Times More Crime Than the Rest of the City? According to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic's "Taking Back Turk" study the first block of Turk Street has 35 times as much crime per capita than the rest of San Francisco. Some may better
SF News UC Board Sticks Students With Another Bump in Tuition The Board of Regents for the University of California system approved another 9.6% increase to tuition at UC schools today. According to KTVU, the new cost of a year's tuition comes to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBY Fight Heats Up Over Hot Dogs Near AT&T Park In SoMa, where AT&T Park has driven more than its fair share of development in the past ten years, residents of the hermetic South Beach high rises around Third and King
SF News Mayoral Cameo: DJ John Avalos to Appear at The Knockout Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night, popular retro-dive hangout The Knockout is getting a special guest DJ. According to the Examiner and the event's Facebook page, D11 Supervisor/Mayoral hopeful John Avalos will be taking a turn
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Carmen Chu is hopeful for the City's Budget: she managed to save most of health and human services and Ross Mirkarimi gets his new Police Academy class. [Chron] Bryan Stow (or his family,
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 As you might have guessed by now, Mayor Lee didn't bring any major surprises with him to Question Time yesterday. Batting around questions like "How will you stimulate the economy?" (from Farrell) and
Arts & Entertainment DVR Reminder: San Francisco Giants Reality Show 'The Franchise' Airs Tonight Consider this your last reminder: Tonight at 10 p.m. the proper season premiere of The Franchise, the docu-series about the San Francisco Giants that we previewed a couple months back, airs on
SF News Powell Street: Now With Parklets On Powell Street, Mayor Lee unveiled the latest addition to the city's roster of parking spaces-turned-parks this morning. As far as these parklet projects go, the Powell Street Promenade is the city's most
SF News We Read the Weeklies: July 13th, 2011 The word "Wednesday" is derived from the Middle English Wednesdei, which translates roughly to "the day the alt-weekly papers are released." (Look it up.) While you do that, we'll be here rounding up
SF News Charges Dropped in Droopy Pants Predicament Criminal charges brought against Deshon Marman, the University of New Mexico football player and San Francisco native pulled off a U.S. Airways flight during a scuffle over his saggy pants, have been
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Sure, no one is watching the All-Star Game, but if you were you would have seen Brian Wilson step in for two crucial outs to get the save for the National League. Good
SF News Day Around the Bay No system advisories for BART at the moment. Commute home at your leisure, BARTers. [BART.gov] And yet, commuters aren't really sure how they feel about protests (or more specifically: delays) on BART.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Single-Day Tickets on Sale Tomorrow We've already checked out the Food Lineup and the Night Shows, now for anyone hoping to go to next month's Outside Lands festival without that pesky 3-day commitment, festival organizers have announced (via
SF News Behold, the America's Cup Development Bounty Yesterday, the Planning Department released their 1,600 page environmental impact report. Tucked among heaps of mundane things like how much audible noise a helicopter floating over Crissy Field makes (Appendix NO-2), it
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 24: Muni or Death, A Mayor's Tale Remember that time the mayor wanted to do away with San Francisco's Cable Cars? Of course you don't, it was in the 1940s. Here now, the Tenderloin Geographic Society adds historical perspective to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Who Poisoned Michael Bauer? In a cruel twist of fate, the Chronicle's venerable food critic has been "felled by food poisoning." And right after he wrote about the many loopholes in California's food handling law, even. Bauer,
