SF News BART Protesters Chant, Vandalize and Grind Evening Commute to a Halt Yesterday's protest of the officer-involved shootings of Charles Hill on July 3rd and the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant drew some 70-80 protestors to Civic Center Station just before the evening rush hour.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup Community leaders and the SPUR geniuses are meeting up today to discuss further plans for turning Market Street into the Champs-Élysées. [SFAppeal] If Ed Lee isn't running for Mayor, then why was he
SF News Day Around the Bay Local media figures toil for, and may appear in, Rob Lowe's forthcoming Knife Fight flick. [SFAppeal] A lawyer for Mark Lugo, the now-notorious Picasso thief, wonders why this whole thing is such a
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for July 12th, 2011 Temporary Mayor Ed Lee will be joining us at 2 p.m. for his regularly scheduled appearance before the board tomorrow, so expect the usual round of softball questions to kick off the
SF News Group Demanding BART Police Be Disbanded Might Be Disbanded by BART Police The No Justice, No BART group calling for the complete shutdown of the BART Police Department might run in to some resistance from (wait for it...) the BART Police Department during their protest
SF News Your New Data-Driven Parking Meter Rates Those fancy electronic parking meters installed around town have been gathering information about the parking habits of local drivers for a while now and as the Chronicle reports, they've got enough data to
SF News Riverside, Ca. Lawmaker Wants SoCal to Secede Jeff Stone, a supervisor from Riverside County is calling for 12 counties to join his own in seceding from the state of California. According to CBS Los Angeles, Stone wants San Diego county,
SF News Zombie Plunder Hits Park Presidio Boulevard Over the weekend, mischievous disciples of George Romero used a Caltrans sign on Park Presidio Boulevard to issue an advisory to all the braindead drivers out there. Instead of an alert about the
SF News Monday Morning Roundup Your weekend Giants scores in brief: Friday: A little 5-2 slip-up as the Mets started the series off with a win. Saturday: The Giants bounce back with a 3-1 win for Timmy. Sunday:
SF News This Week in Willie Brown This week, Willie eats crow while continuing to feed his obsession with where the real San Franciscans dine. He also dishes on New York's Governor, reviews a movie made for children, gives Nat
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Time-Lapse Evening On 22nd Street Local photographer Ken Murphy shot this dizzying time-lapse panorama on the parklet in front of Revolution Cafe over two hours on a recent Friday night. Using some nerdy-sounding photo techniques he managed to
SF News Volunteer Oversight Panel Thinks Central Subway is Expensive, Not That Great In a 55-page report released yesterday, a Civil Grand Jury tasked with keeping an eye on SFMTA's Central Subway Project called out the project for being too expensive and poorly laid out. While
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kink.com Gets a Bar: The Armory Club With all the theme bars popping up around here, we're about due for one with a little less childhood nostalgia and a little more adult sensibility. This morning, Grubstreet reports the Kink.com-owned
SF News Bay Area Apartment to Require Dog Poo DNA Samples? A Redwood City apartment complex stands to be the first in the Bay Area to track lazy dog owners who don't pick up after their pets using a DNA database. A database of
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Barry Zito is looking "crisp" coming off the disabled list. He only allowed one run and four hits in a 2-1 win over San Diego and now we would like someone to go
SF News Day Around the Bay Muni operators and Cab Drivers are teaming up to plan a 24-hour strike on August 2nd. Consider alternative forms of transport for that Tuesday. [SFAppeal] [TheSnitch] a stolen life [sic] Jaycee Dugard's memoir
SF News BART Shooting Victim IDed, Authorities Questioning Witnesses Before Releasing Surveillance Footage The San Francisco medical examiner's office has identified the victim in Sunday's officer-involved shooting as Charles Hill, a 45-year-old man without a permanent residence. A spokesman for the coroner told the Bay Citizen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Muppet-Themed Bar Arrives on Mission Street On the Food and Cocktails beat today, the latest news from the Mission is the arrival of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem a new bar and pub-food joint from the guys responsible
SF News Muni Breaks a Nice Lady's Apartment Window A dear reader sent in some photos of an unfortunate Muni mishap this morning: one of the 30-Stockton's antennae has popped loose to wreak havoc -- havoc! -- on the apartment window of
SF News Were You Doing It When the Giants Won the World Series? Then Comcast Sportsnet Wants Your Baby CSN Bay Area, your local station for Giants games, wants to know how you celebrated the Giants' World Series win on that fateful night in November. More to the point: were you having
SF News Updated: Suspected Picasso Thief Arrested on Burglary Charges and Narcotics Possession In the case of the missing Picasso pencil sketch, a man suspected of lifting the drawing from the Weinstein Gallery is currently in SFPD custody reports the SFAppeal this morning. Police won't confirm
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Schierholtz! The same guy who once swung at two balls that hit him in the same season homered twice last night. The second in a crucial 14th inning leadoff at-bat to lift the
SF News Day Around the Bay The Appeal's Katie Baker rounds up This Week in Lady News. [SFAppeal] In Picasso theft developments: police have impounded the taxi cab used to make the getaway. No word on whether the cabbie
SF News Casual Art Thief Swipes Picasso from Union Square Gallery In an act of casual midday thievery noted in yesterday's blotter, an art thief walked in to the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square yesterday and strolled out with Pablo Picasso's "Tête de Femme"
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts from the July Issue of the Nob Hill Gazette Presented (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order, our favorite utterances from the July issue of San Francisco's most exclusive news magazine. This month's theme is: Summering, prepping for Fall Galas, some
