SF News Late-Breaking Jane Kim News: Stylish D6 Supe Hitched a Ride to Work on Bike to Work Day San Francisco's best dressed Supervisor has never experienced the joy of taking off her training wheels, apparently. As she told a crowd at City Hall yesterday, "I grew up a city girl and
SF News Craig Newmark and USF Team Up For Tenderloin Tech Lab The University of San Francisco, being the state-of-the-art campus that it is, has donated 50 of their old but not obsolete PCs to the Tenderloin Technology Lab. The lab, a joint program between
SF News No Powell-Mason Service Today Oh, the joys of the cable car commuter: To breezily rush out the door at the sound of the gripman's bell. To feel the California sun on your face and the cool Bay
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional The Giants held off the Diamondbacks yet again with a final score of 3 runs to 2. Now please enjoy this ode to Matt Cain. [McCoveyChronicles] The Sharks beat the Red Wings, also
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Our friends over at Curbed hipped us to these (ahem) Lawn Chairs on the campus of UC Berkeley. Twitterer Javier Panzar, who snapped the photo out on Sproul Plaza, rightly calls them "the
SF News As Brian Stow's Family Prepares to Bring Him Back to the Bay Area, "Wanted" Billboards Appear in LA The family of Brian Stow, the Giants fan who remains in a coma after being beaten by two Dodger fans on opening day in Los Angeles, has started making preparations to move him
SF News Johannes Mehserle Could Be Out of Jail With Less Than Half His Sentence Served Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop sentenced to two years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant, is scheduled to be back in court for a hearing on June 1st where
SF News Dirty CoCo County Cop Accused of Running an Office Park Brothel Norman Wielsch, the former Contra Costa County drug czar currently under investigation for selling confiscated narcotics, is back in the news today after his former accomplice Chris Butler ratted him out for running
SF News Treasure Island Opponents Get New Derogatory Acronym: NIMLOS As the Treasure Island development plan continues to move forward, a new variation on the NIMBY has emerged. The Examiner's Ken Garcia gives us: NIMLOS. Unpacking that leads us to: "Not in My
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Aubrey Huff and Henry Blanco homered in another win over the D-backs. Andres Torres knocked an RBI double and might be the most likable Giant ever. [McCoveyChronicles] Lauryn Hill is playing a one-off
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 11th 2011 As promised, this week's Board of Supervisors meeting opened with an appearance from Temporary Mayor Ed Lee for Mayor Question Time. The best part of Mayor Question Time is that all of the
SF News Fox Picks Up J.J. Abrams' 'Alcatraz' UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot
SF News Violin Thief Has Apparently Not Seen the Internet, Pleads Not Guilty Scott Sylvester, the 27-year old man videotaped leaving the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a $23,000 violin on his back, appeared in court yesterday. Despite the fact that two witnesses have
SF News Estranged San Francisco Romance Novelist Thinks Your Style is Lacking "San Francisco is a great city to raise children, but I was very happy to leave it. There's no style, nobody dresses up—you can't be chic there. It's all shorts and hiking
SF News Floridians, Too Lazy for High Speed Rail, Donate Their Funds to California While California looks for additional funding to cover the $43 billion price tag on our high-speed rail project, Florida Governor Rock Scott recently turned down $2.4 billion in federal dollars for a
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump After the Herrera/Stow Lake mess, Alex Tourk dips out of Gascón's campaign for DA. [Appeal] "The Giants' offense is filled with egalitarian idealists," which we can get down with as long as
SF News Be Extra Nice To Teachers This Week Not that you fine upstanding citizens would ever be mean to a our noble class of educators, but the San Francisco Unified School District expects to hand out 60-day layoff notices to 150
SF News Man Accused of Attacking the Cockpit on SFO-Bound Flight Carried Only $47 and an Apple Charger Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi, the Yemeni immigrant who attempted to storm the cockpit of an American Airlines flight headed for SFO was travelling from New York to San Francisco with two postdated checks
SF News Alex Tourk Resigns from Herrera's Campaign, Probably Botched Some Records on That Stow Lake Deal The Examiner reports that Alex Tourk, campaign consultant and lobbyist-about-town, resigned from Dennis Herrera's campaign for mayor today. In a statement, Tourk said Herrera should be spending more time focusing on his campaign
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Skating the Barge Ramp in McCovey Cove Because if there was ever a good time to listen to Otis Redding, it would be while watching some skaters celebrate legendary skate rag Thrasher Magazine's 30th anniversary by losing their boards in
SF News 67-Year-Old Woman Suspected of Running Over Her Elderly Boyfriend After Argument In sleepy San Jose, officers responding to reports that a man had been struck by a vehicle on the 1600 block of Pala Drive Sunday morning arrived to find 69-year-old Li Jiang Wu
SF News Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 17: Pigeon of the Month Club By: Tenderloin Geographic Society Technically rock doves, popularly sky rats, you’ll find every city in the world lousy with them. Pablo Picasso named his youngest daughter Paloma--interchangeably translated as dove or pigeon
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup It didn't take long for the rumor mill around Arnold and Maria to get churning. But then again, this BlindGossip item about a Hollywood power couple splitting up because of the husband's flip-flopping
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for May 10, 2011 Two things are back on the agenda for tomorrow's board meeting: The ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages and Temporary Mayor Ed Lee's monthly book report. Since we can hardly contain the wave of
SF News Former Foreign War Correspondent Examines Mission Gang Violence In his column this morning, Chronicle Editor-at-Large Phil Bronstein brings us a look inside the federal courtroom where seven members of notorious MS-13 gang have been on trial for murder, extortion, drug charges
