SF News Morning Link Dump Big contributions from Jonathan Sanchez, Pablo Sandoval, Sergio Romo and Brian Wilson as the Giants came back to beat LA last night. [McCoveyChronicles] Dorothy Duggar, BART's General Manager, is on her way out
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 13th 2011 Just as everyone who showed up for Question Time with Ed Lee at yesterday's Board Meeting started to nod off to the Mayor's smooth-as-felt, Kermit the Frog voice, Board President David Chiu skipped
SF News Jury Finds Barry Bonds GUILTY of Obstruction of Justice [UPDATES] After four weeks of Barry Bonds' perjury trial, the Jury has reached a verdict on one of the four charges facing the record holding homerun slugger. According to KTVU news by way of
SF News Local Animal Care Worker Proposes Animal Abuse Registry While it's not much more than rumblings at the moment, local animal care attendant Sandra Bernal wants the Animal Care and Control commission to create a database of recorded animal abusers. Unlike say,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Martini-Loving Jewish Folk Rejoice: No. 209 Kosher Gin for Passover Returns Last year San Francisco's No. 209 Distillery, makers of some of the finest gin this side of the Prime Meridian if you don't mind us saying, produced a limited run of Kosher for
SF News BART Train Strikes Person Near Rockridge Station Late Tuesday Night Just after 10 p.m. last night, a Pittsburg/Bay Point Train struck a person who had apparently been laying on the tracks at the Rockridge BART Station. According to a BART spokesman,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Temporary Mayor Ed Lee postponed last night's Entertainment Commission hearing to discuss increased security at nightclubs. Lee wants further analysis. [SFEx] The Giants bounced back after the Monday's loss to the Dodgers, beating
SF News Day Around the Bay Contributor-about-town Matt Baume gives you: This Week in Prop 8 [LGBTQNation] Stores that ask for your zipcode when you pay with a credit card (like, pretty much all gas stations? OK, so gas
SF News Medjool Owner Comes Clean: Nightclub, Hostel and Roof Deck Restaurant Are All Up for Sale After a couple months of sitting on the fence, Mission Street mogul Gus Murad has finally confirmed that Medjool and the Elements hostel that holds up it's roof deck restaurant are all on
SF News Inaugural Edition of Mayoral Question Time Gently Lulls Everyone to Sleep Look, we know local politics is a bore. If it were exciting we'd probably be in the middle of a revolution. Our eleven supervisors would be replaced by eleven champions chosen for their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tim Lincecum in Super-Slo-Mo After Bumgarner's shaky 5-inning performance last night, we're looking forward to wonderboy Tim Lincecum taking the mound tonight against the Dodgers. So here's Timmy all slowed down thanks to the miracle of high-speed
SF News Muni Gone Wild: Driver Gives Family the Boot, 24-Divisadero Now Home to Worst-Behaved Operators After last week's texting-while-driving scandal on the 24-Divisadero, Muni is about to have another terrible day for PR. According to witnesses quoted on the Examiner, over the weekend a Muni driver on the
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 14: A Field Guide to Sportsmanship: Playing Along with Stereotype It's time, ladies and gentlesportsmen, to return to the high school rivalry known as the Giants-Dodgers series. Round one in Los Angeles didn't sit well with anyone, so you know you can do
SF News Tuesday Morning Breakfast Links Former supe and current candidate for Mayor Bevan Dufty spoke at the Eagle Tavern last night, and local musicians Ty Segall and John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees showed up as well. [See
SF News Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 12, 2011 Last week's meeting turned out surprisingly short after most of the supes managed to keep their discussions of the Twitter tax break relatively brief. This week, a slightly longer list of agenda items,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Truck Scene Comes Full Circle: Pop Up Food Truck Pops Up Inside Another Food Truck While it's not exactly a jump-the-shark moment for the gourmet food truck movement, Off the Grid's new for-rent rolling kitchen has lowered the barrier to entry for mobile vending. Matt Cohen, organizer of
Arts & Entertainment Pitchfork Reviews: San Francisco's Garage Rock Scene Pitchfork, the simultaneously celebrated and maligned music reviews site that continues to serve as an musical divining rod for the bet-you-haven't-heard-of-it set, posted a comprehensive view of San Francisco's New Garage Rock this
SF News SFist Blotter: Bystander Caught in Mission Shootout, Shootings Continue in Richmond, Fatal Stabbing in Concord Mission / Shooting: Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, two suspects near Alabama and 16th Street in the Mission fired shots at each other, hitting an uninvolved bystander in the process. The victim was
SF News Supes' Twitter Proficiency Foreshadowed Tax Break Vote Over on the Chronicle, City Insider figured out the key to the Board's vote on the Twitter Tax Break: "The more you tweet, the more likely you were to vote for Twitter." (As
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2011 Lineup Announced: Muse, A Double Dose Of Phish And Arcade Fire To Headline San Francisco's something-for-everyone summer music festival announced their artist lineup this morning and it's not too far off from some of January's early predictions. The schedule isn't out yet, but your 2011 Headliners
SF News Monday Morning Roundup The Mayor's question time in front of the Board of Supes is probably going to be boring. (File under: duh.) [Chron] Scott Wiener's Off-Leash Dog area proposal will be heard by the Board's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week in Willie Brown What do Willie Brown and Brian Wilson have in common? Orange shoes. It's how you'll identify him at the ballpark, Willie explains in this week's Sunday Column. And the only thing Da Mayor
Arts & Entertainment A Call For Whimsy In McCovey Cove As the Giants take the field today, we expect seafaring fans will be paddling, rowing and sailing in to McCovey Cove for the afternoon game as well. While we love everyone hardy enough
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Your San Francisco Giants Home Opener Bingo Card The Giants finally return to AT&T park for the home opener today, so to get everyone in the mood for baseball in South Beach: here's our San Francisco Giants Bingo card.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional There's a strong chance the federal government could shut down if Congress doesn't work out a budget deal today. Mother Jones explains how condoms are to blame for all this. [MoJo] Or, if
