SF News Fiona Ma Calls for Southwest Airline Boycott After Pilot Broadcasts Anti-Gay Rant Tapes of a Southwest Airlines pilot making anti-gay comments over FAA air traffic control frequencies surfaced this week just in time to cause a stir before Pride Week and, coincidentally, the lovey-dovey airline's
SF News Prosecutors Weigh Extra Innings in Barry Bonds Trial Last we heard from the ongoing Barry Bonds trial, the thick-necked homerun swatter was convicted of obstruction of justice for holding up the 2003 doping investigation. But Barry was back in court today
SF News Hate Crime Charges Dismissed in Attack on Transgender Woman A San Francisco Superior Court Judge has dismissed the felony hate crime charges brought against two men accused of assaulting a 20-year-old transgender woman at the 16th and Mission BART Plaza back in
SF News Guard Your Electronics: Multiple Gadget Muggings Yesterday From the beat reports today: a slight uptick in the number of street muggings involving portable electronics. In the Western Addition, a man was relieved of his laptop, cellphone and cash during an
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup The Giants ended their losing streak after with Ryan Vogelsong pitching for 7 innings, allowing only three hits and one run. Tim Lincecum takes the mound tonight to wrap up this series against
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Debate! Intrigue! Public Hearings! Jane Kim! Recess! Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting had just about everything one could want from a meeting that ran just a hair over five and a half hours.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: President Obama Silences a Crying Baby Here it is. The video that's been about three years in the making: Michelle Obama can't handle a crying baby, hands it off to the President, said baby stops crying. Just look as
SF News Ed Lee's Campaign Office Opening Saturday, Rose Pak Ordered 20,000 Fake Mustaches The accused astroturfers from Left Coast Consulting plan to step up their attempts to nudge temporary mayor Ed Lee in to the current mayor's race by opening up an unofficial official campaign HQ
SF News Gavin Newsom Makes an Important Twitter Announcement Gavin Newsom, an authority when it comes to social media and politics, made an important announcement via that most concise social medium this morning. And the news may come as a surprise: .bbpBox{
SF News Portola Valley: As Close to S.F. as Mitt Romney Would Like to Be Noted teetotaler and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was in the Bay Area for what one of his volunteers called "a low key" fundraiser yesterday. But the strong-jawed former missionary didn't make it
SF News SFMTA Approves Nat Ford's Big Payout While Pool of Replacement Candidates Shrinks Slightly At the SFMTA meeting last night, board members unanimously approved Nat Ford's $384,000 separation agreement. That "poof" sound you're hearing is Ford's golden parachute deploying to slow his fall after years of
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The Giants did pretty well last night... if you don't count the miserable first inning when Bumgarner gave up 8 runs to the Twins in 25 pitches. The losing streak continues with a
SF News Buster Posey's Cast Now Tweeting For Some Reason In case you've ever wanted to send a brief, timely update to the plaster and gauze encasing a rookie of the year's broken lower extremity (and why wouldn't you?), here's your chance. At
SF News State Controller Doesn't Like Budget Deal, Freezes Lawmaker Pay John Chiang, the Democratic controller in Sacramento, has put a hold on pay for state lawmakers today citing some bad math that went in to the spending plan his party sent to Governor
SF News Cabbie Strike: Prepared for Loud, Annoying Lunch Break at Civic Center The Taxi Driver strike planned for this afternoon has a set schedule this morning. According to KTVU, the cabbies plan to rally around City Hall and Civic Center between the hours of Noon
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 21: Mayoral Shrinky Dinks After taking a couple weeks off to go on Pigeon Safari, the Tenderloin Geographic Society returns to grace this space with their weekly wit and wisdom. This week's episode: getting crafty with the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup In case the morning heat didn't remind you: It's a Spare the Air day. Kindly curb your air-choking habits. Don't expect any crazy moves from Golden State Warriors GM Larry Riley when he's
SF News Day Around the Bay Shirley Fong-Torres: the woman who both ate Chinatown and became the unofficial mayor of it (sorry, Rose Pak), passed away this weekend. The 64-year-old Fong-Torres was recognized for her service to the Chinese-American
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for June 21st, 2011 Tomorrow's agenda is deceptively long thanks to a slew of budget-related items (items 6-12) and Memorandums of Understanding between the City and various unions or professional associations (items 13-36). We wouldn't be surprised
SF News While Cabbies Plan a Strike, Uber Cab Strikes a Blow at Cabs As a brief reminder: scores of taxi drivers plan to strike tomorrow to protest new credit card fees and delays to cab fare increases. As one driver-activist in charge of rallying the cabbies
SF News Supervisor Wiener Slips in to Mayor's Role While Ed Lee Visits Baltimore Temporary Mayor Ed Lee was in Baltimore for the U.S. Conference of Mayors over the weekend, but since no one cares what happens in Baltimore unless it was scripted for HBO, we
SF News Monday Morning Roundup Not exactly having an easy catch with Dad yesterday, the Giants lost to the A's by one run. In typical Oakland fashion, the A's made off with the Bay Bridge series and the
SF News This Week in Willie Brown Since we've already covered Willie Brown's budding television career, we turn now to his Sunday rantings. There's no fun Willie-posing photo to go along with it this week. Instead he (or his editors
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's SF Mayoral Open Government Forum Arriving late to the Pier 38 offices of Automattic yesterday evening for a mayoral candidate forum on Open Government, we caught the tail end of opening remarks from a panel comprised of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'How the Spot Was Won' Completely shot, edited and scored in two days as part of the 48 Hour Film Festival this spot-on, San Francisco-set sendup of classic westerns ought to shoot down those last five minutes before
