SF News Tenny the Bison Put to Sleep The bison family in Golden Gate Park just got a little bit smaller yesterday. (Sidenote: you know there are bison in Golden Gate Park, right?) Tenny, one of five bison at the paddock,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The Giants managed to bring in three runs at AT&T Park last night against the Padres. Unfortunately the Padres brought in five. Looks like the days of 1-0 and 2-0 wins
SF News Meanwhile, in the Richmond: Gavin Newsom Rides a Skateboard Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom was out at Rochambeau Playground in the Richmond District this afternoon to accept a $250,000 donation to the San Francisco Rec & Parks Department from the Coca-Cola Corporation.
SF News 'It's Not Us, It's You': PR Agency Breaks Up With High-Speed Rail Authority California's High-Speed Rail project, which has received plenty of badmouthing from peninsula crybabies already, lost it's public relations firm last week when Ogilvy PR decided they just couldn't bear to be in the
SF News Local Pilots Experience Small Aircraft Mishaps Over the Holiday Weekend Apparently the holiday weekend wasn't completely successful for a couple of light aircraft pilots in the Bay Area. One flight out of San Carlos Airport ended in an emergency landing on the 280
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 23: Ambulatory Histories Remember that Willie Brown walking tour we got so excited about? We couldn't let it slide by without a follow-up report, so we sent our senior walking tour correspondents from the Tenderloin Geographic
SF News BART Cops Shoot, Kill 'Wobbly Drunk' at Civic Center Station Sunday A suspect armed with a knife and a broken bottle of booze on the Civic Center station BART platform was shot and killed during a confrontation Sunday night. Two BART police officers responded
SF News Post-Holiday Roundup Giants holiday weekend box scores in brief: Friday, July 1: 4-3 win against Detroit. Saturday, July 2nd: 15-3 mauling of the Tigers. Sunday, July 3rd: 6-3 loss to the Tigers. Monday, July 4th:
SF News This Week in Willie Brown The former mayor has been traveling for the past few weeks, which explains the conspicuous absence of his voice on Inside Scoop. Luckily for us Willie Watchers, he just couldn't wait to get
SF News Internet Super Sleuths Crown Bradford Street San Francisco's Steepest While the city's Bureau of Engineering would have you believe that Filbert Street and 22nd Street are tied for San Francisco's steepest, the mild obsessives at local data blog DataPointed discovered a freshly
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Addendum: Willie Brown's San Francisco - A Walking Tour Ever wondered what San Francisco looks like through the eyes of former mayor Willie Brown? We have. At least twice a day we find ourselves feeling sad for our shoes that didn't come
SF News City Attorney's Office Sizes Up Proposed Circumcision Ban New developments today as the proposed circumcision ban inches its way towards popping up on the November ballot: After religious groups whipped out a lawsuit last week, calling the proposed ban an attack
SF News Defense Begins in MS-13 Trial Prosecutors in the ongoing federal racketeering and murder conspiracy trial of seven alleged members of the violent MS-13 gang in San Francisco turned over the case to defense attorneys after months of arguments
SF News Reminder: Muni Passes, Cable Car Fares and Tolls Get a Bit More Expensive Today Sales taxes might be dropping slightly today, but prices for services getting you around the Bay Area are going up a bit. Muni's regular monthly Fast Passes got a $2 bump, so you'll
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional The Giants suffer "an excruciating 5-2 defeat" over 13 innings of futility. Ouch. [MLB.com] California Home + Design takes a tour of Square's slick downtown office (in the Chronicle building even). Look: there
SF News Red Pen/Black Pen: Jerry Brown Signs State Budget After Slashing Another $24 Million The state budget that no one seems particularly pleased with got Jerry Brown's John Hancock on it earlier this afternoon —but not before the governor got a chance to spill some red ink
SF News Your Holiday Weekend DUI Checkpoint Advisory Drunk drivers are deplorable. Yes, we know. As Captain Casciato, SFPD's chairman of DUI crackdowns, put it in his media release for this weekend's sobriety checkpoints: "even drunk drivers hate drunk drivers." So
SF News Time to Go Shopping! California Sales Tax Drops Tomorrow Since Jerry Brown couldn't rally enough Republicans to extend the state sales tax, San Francisco's steep 9.5% tariff on retail goods will drop slightly to an almost-manageable 8.5% rate starting tomorrow.
SF News Copper Wire Pilfered from Future Facebook HQ At the future site of Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, police are investigating some 1,000 pounds of missing copper wire. Like the mineral-hungry prospectors that made the Bay Area a playground
SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 29, 2011 A brief format change here for We Read the Weeklies, by which we mean We Read the Weeklies will be going for brevity. So without further ado: the Must Reads, the Funny Reads
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup The Cubbies snapped the Giants out of their 7-game win streak, but a 2-1 loss ain't all that bad. And anyway, the Diamondbacks lost too. [CBS5] [McCoveyChron] In-N-Out Burger is the best! Science
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Yesterday's brief meeting of the kumbaya board was either incredibly efficient or just a lazy way to slouch towards next week's holiday recess, depending on how desperate you are to know whether those
Arts & Entertainment Say Hello to Martha, S.F. Zoo's New Siberian Tigress A new girl at the San Francisco Zoo made her debut today: Martha, an 11-year-old Siberian Tiger, has joined the lineup of big cats out on Sloat Blvd. Like so many fierce women
SF News Inappropriate Comments Lead to Machete Attack, Biting at South S.F. Barbecue Who's excited for barbecue season? In South San Francisco, one man was apparently a little too excited for a backyard grill session in his neighborhood last Sunday. While it's unclear if Pedro Garcia
SF News Does California Have a Budget Yet? Short Answer: Yes, but nobody's happy about it. Long Answer: Democrats in the state legislature sent Jerry Brown a budget plan that closed the $9.6 billion gap last night, but it still
