SF News Surprise: Botox Mom is a Dirty Hoax-ster After news broke that the San Francisco mom who told Good Morning America she repeatedly botoxed her daughter in the face was not who she said she was, TMZ followed up on the
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup The Giants bounced back from that slump in Colorado by pounding on the Dodgers in LA last night. Cody Ross knocked a three-run homer to put the Giants up 8-5. [CBS5] In case
SF News We Read the Weeklies: May 18, 2011 It's that time of year again. Time for SFWeekly's Best of the Bay Issue. It would take us all week to fully express our multitude of opinions on all the winners in each
Arts & Entertainment Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 President Chiu called this week's board meeting to order a full 15 minutes late yesterday. We'll leave it to the math geniuses to figure out how much we're paying these clowns to shoot
SF News Draft Ed Lee for Mayor Website Pops Up, Unsurprisingly We're pretty sure everyone saw this coming: a group calling themselves the Draft Mayor Ed Lee Organizing Committee has popped up to gently encourage His Impermanency to run for a full term in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Willie Brown-ism: Fried Chicken Knows No Race Normally we'd hold comment on Willie Brown's foodie thoughts until the end of the week, but today's Inside Scoop column, in which our crispy former Mayor goes in search of the Bay Area's
SF News California Budget Deficit Slips Below $10 Billion Governor Jerry Brown released a revised version of his budget plan this week, and guess what? We're not doing so bad! Instead of the $25-billion-and-change deficit we had at the beginning of the
SF News 'Alcatraz' Gets a Teaser Trailer Alcatraz, the latest time-traveling island psychodrama from J.J. Abrams and company got picked up by Fox for the 2012 season. Wonderful, and now we have this teaser trailer. It looks very... mysterious?
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump District Attorney Gascón taps Rebecca Prozan to head up community courts programs in the Mission and Bayview. [Chron] Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers were without power yesterday. No seagulls involved in
SF News Board of Supervisors Votes to Ban Yellow Pages (Sort Of) In what will hopefully be the final update on the Yellow Pages ban until it actually takes effect in 2012, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 in favor of David Chiu's legislation this
SF News Meanwhile, in Berkeley... A reminder on the campus of UC Berkeley that we've only got five days left until the billboard-predicted apocalypse. Couldn't it wait until after payday when we'll have more cash to spend on
SF News Alameda County Prosecutor Steps Up to Challenge Gascón in District Attorney's Race In election year news, the race for the District Attorney's office just got a tiny bit more interesting as Alameda County Prosecutor Sharmin Bock throws her hat in to the ring today. (We
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 18: Don't Feed the Pigeons In today's history lesson, a sequel of sorts to last week's Pigeon of the Month episode, our friends from the Tenderloin Geographic Society dive in to the archives to find a classic, yet
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup Lincecum got roughed up in last night's game. The Rockies rallied to a 7-4 win. [CBSLocal] How much does it cost to hang out with Dave Eggers and Catherine Keener (for charity)? Only
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for May 17, 2011 Yikes, we've got 53 items on the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting. That's about twice as many items as last week's meeting that clocked in at nearly five hours long after
SF News SFMTA Ponders Most Expensive Cab Fares in the Country At tomorrow's Board of Directors meeting, the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Agency will review a proposal that would raise taxi meter rates to 55 cents per fifth of a mile or minute of
SF News Dianne Feinstein Reviews: Osama bin Laden Kill Photos As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein knows about a lot of things way before you do. She knew about Osama bin Laden's Abbotabad pleasure palace five whole months ago! After
SF News Yemeni In-Flight Brawler Had History of Hallucinations, Ordered to Stay in Jail for Now As it turns out, Rageh Al-Murisi, the Yemeni ex-pat who attempted to bum rush the cockpit door of an SFO-bound flight last week, might be just a little bit unstable. In interviews with
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers Centennial Edition By most accounts the 100th running of Bay to Breakers was more tame than past years, but from the looks of the photos still flooding our flickr stream plenty of costumed runners, walkers,
SF News Dog, Bird Cage Rescued from Capp Street Fire We're happy to report that no injuries were recorded in the three-alarm fire that captivated every photographer in the Mission on Friday afternoon. According to the Examiner, the fire started around 4:15
Arts & Entertainment Monday Morning Street Sweeping What you might have missed during Bay to Breakers: The scene from Bay to Breakers 100 years ago. [B2B Flickr] Fox News reports only 25 people were arrested. That doesn't seem like so
SF News Three-Alarm Fire Burning on Capp Street UPDATE: Extinguished. According to various reports from around the neighborhood, a three-alarm fire broke at 506 Capp Street near 20th around 4:30 p.m. KRON4 and the Appeal are scarce with the info, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week in Willie Brown: Staging a Sandwich Intervention It's no big secret that our illustrious former mayor likes to namedrop touchstones of society life. Hermes, McCalls, Kokkari, Getty, Shulz, ad nauseum - It's like a trail of breadcrumbs that lead you
Arts & Entertainment 'Bullitt' Redux Shooting in Financial District Tomorrow Steve McQueen fans and Mustang enthusiasts might want to take note, our hardworking San Francisco Film Office has announced that an LA-based production company will be in town tomorrow shooting a commercial recreating
SF News 26 Teachers Arrested in Sacramento While Protesting Education Cuts Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers
