Arts & Entertainment Photos: How Weird Street Faire 2011 The "peace and creativity" theme for yesterday's 12th annual How Weird Street Faire might seem a little ironic now, given last night's major development in the war on terror, but from the looks
SF News San Francisco to LA via Public Transit: Only $45 and 30 Hours of Travel The transit geeks over at CalStreets have figured out a hypothetical San Francisco to Los Angeles travel itinerary that uses public transit exclusively. Thanks to two new bus routes in Monterey, people looking
SF News SFPD Crime Lab: Horribly Understaffed, Expensive After promising nearly a year ago to hire additional DNA analysts to cut through a backlog of cases, the Police Department's crime lab still has less than half the staff it needs to
SF News Monday Morning Roundup After last night's news of Osama bin Laden's death, the world reacted in their various ways: In immediate local news: SFPD announced this morning they're on alert for possible protests, demonstrations or public
SF News This Week in Willie Brown Willie started his week with an insider account of that singing protest during Pres. Obama's fundraising lunch at the St. Regis. While Dianne Feinstein was busy peer pressuring Temporary Mayor Ed Lee in
SF News 49ers Take Another Smith as Their First Round Draft Pick Because the team sucked so bad last year, the Niners got a decent position for the first round of the NFL draft last night. Picking seventh overall, the team snagged up Aldon Smith
SF News Bay to Breakers Drunk Tents to Offer Free Juice, Nap Time Anyone who thought the 100th running of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers 12k urine-a-thon was going to be boring ought to check out the organizers' plan to handle the drunkards. As race spokesman
Arts & Entertainment Two More Dave Chappelle Shows Announced for Tonight at the Independent As he's been doing a lot lately, Dave Chappelle, the comedic genius behind every buzzphrase you hated so much by the end of 2006, has just announced two more last-minute shows tonight at
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional A cute English girl became a princess today. But she had to marry that toothy guy with the long face first. The Official Royal YouTube Channel has all the highlights.. [England] BART moves
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Berkeley... Photographer Leah R. goes for the easy caption: "In Berkeley, our cars are THE GREENEST." Now the question remains: do homeowners in Berkeley opt for electric or gas-powered hedge clippers?
SF News SFist Blotter: Golden Gate Park Vandalism, Downtown Bank Robbery, Peninsula Car Chase Vandalism/Golden Gate Park: Vandals struck in Golden Gate Park again, this time near Dough Boy Meadow where "three redwood, one dogwood, one magnolia and one red plum" saplings were lopped off at
SF News Jaycee Dugard's Kidnappers Turn in Their Guilty Pleas As expected, Phillip and Nancy Garrido appeared in court in Placerville, CA today to hand in their guilty pleas for kidnapping and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard in their Antioch backyard. According to the Chronicle,
SF News Show Dogs Creates Ideal Happy Hour Conditions for Charity The Mid-Market gourmet tubesteak purveyors at Show Dogs are hosting the first of their bi-monthly Rescue Dog Days for charity tonight. During the convenient and happy hours of 6 and 8 p.m,
SF News SPUR Planning Genius Cautions Against San Francisco's Boulder, CO Future In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal this morning, SPUR's executive director Gabriel Metcalf goes on the record to describe the biggest issues he see facing development in the city. Metcalf
SF News Morning Link Dump The Examiner has two perspectives on our new police chief: Ken Garcia thinks we've finally found our perfect top cop. While Brent Begin reminds us layoffs are on the horizon and the FBI
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 27th 2011 The board was all giggles as Clerk Calvillo called roll to open yesterday's board meeting. We may never know what caused an outburst of Supervisor Avalos' recognizable laugh, but we do know Calvillo
SF News Day Around the Bay Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. The Awl presents "Revisiting the Magical Land of Northern California", a travelogue of San Francisco framed by YouTube videos of our
SF News Yelp Considers Going Public, Even Without Changes to the Payroll Tax In an interview with the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the paper that "an IPO is back on the table" for the local reviews site. After accepting a cool
SF News Five Public Comment Speaking Points Provided by AT&T at Last Night's Hearing on Infrastructure Upgrades At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors delayed their decision on whether or not to call for an Environmental Impact Review of AT&T's proposed high-speed broadband infrastructure improvements. Although we won't
SF News Oakland Coliseum Becomes Overstock.com Coliseum According to the Chronicle's intrepid reporting duo Matier & Ross, Utah-based discount clearance site Overstock.com has taken over the naming rights to the home of the Raiders and the Athletics. Appropriately enough,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Blast from the past: A 1972 KPIX Eyewitness News report from San Francisco's Garden of Eden strip club in North Beach where the Lady Barker out front gives reporter Ed Arrow a lesson
SF News Forthcoming Mission Bowling Club Joins Forces with Former Mission Street Food Chef to Become Ultimate "Mission" Thing The actually-happening, six-lane bowling alley slash locally sourced eatery coming to the Mission next spring released a couple pieces of key info this afternoon: A name, address and a chef. Co-owner Sommer Peterson
SF News Witnesses Sought After Lower Haight Cycling Hit and Run In bike safety news: a cyclist in the Lower Haight was the victim of car-on-bike hit and run incident this past weekend. The rider was allegedly cut off by and then collided with
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Vol. 16: On Our Continuing Love Affair with the Dollar Stores of Mid-Market By Tenderloin Geographic Society: My, we got serious there. Last week, religion. The previous week...religion. Let’s lighten up, shall we? Maybe go shopping? A lot of chatter on the wires about
SF News Mayoral Candidates Trade Words Over Pay Raises [Mayor Fight!] The Examiner's Ken Garcia might be bored by the Mayor's Race, but over at the Chronicle the mud has started to fly. After last week's news that some city officials will be getting
