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Morning Links

Yelpers scolded for their voraciousness at Yelp-sponsored Elite parties. Waiters everywhere fear for their fingers. [Eater] San Francisco has more "structurally deficient" bridges than any other Bay Area locale, it's a miracle the

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Attends: Monday Night's CAA Meet the Mayoral Candidates Event

Monday night in the gymnasium of the Chinatown YMCA, seven of the total 24 declared candidates for Mayor showed up to discuss their respective platforms and shill for an audience assembled by Chinese

Day Around the Bay

Gascón's hair translates nicely to cartoon form in Susie Cagle's SF: SFPD Seems More Confident Than Ever [SFAppeal] We didn't realize Lars Ulrich had a role in Hemingway & Gellhorn. The Metallica drummer

Nat Ford Watch: MTA Board Goes Easy on Wayward Muni Chief for Now

We've been keeping an eye on Nat Ford's possible departure to Washington DC (or Northern Virginia, rather) for awhile now and after today's closed-session, come-to-Jesus meeting between Ford and the MTA board, it

Arts & Entertainment

Banksy's Alter-Ego Revealed. Also: He's Happily Married, Leads Mostly Normal Life.

While the identity of the secretive stencil-painter, street artist and documentarian Banksy has been available to anyone with some basic googling skills (or several thousand dollars) for awhile now, the Daily Mail laid

Could This Tiny Doohickey Solve All Our Cellphone Antenna-Related NIMBY Problems?

Behold the lightRadio Cube: a 60-millimeter cube that has all the necessary bits of a large and unsightly cellphone antenna in a much smaller package. Industry types are all abuzz about how the

Arts & Entertainment

Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 11: The Public Library is Decadent and Depraved

After a brief hiatus, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society return this week to take a look at that other serialized novel of the 70s-era Bay Area life. As much as we

Morning Link Dump

That one ban we actually like - David Chiu's ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages - was approved in committee, will be headed to the full board for a vote. [BCN/SFAppeal] Jersey Shore's

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Arizona House of Representatives Passes a Ban on Banning Happy Meal Toys

So weary were we of last year's Happy Meal Ban that we almost missed this nugget from the Chronicle entirely: Worried that someone will take away their precious plastic toys, the freedom-happy states

What's Going on at Barry Bonds Perjury Trial?

As we mentioned this morning, Barry Bonds is in court today to face accusations that he lied under oath way back in December of 2003 when he denied that he knowingly took steroids

Twitter Tax Break Issue Causes a Stir, Could End Up on November Ballot

As the Board's Budget and Finance committee gets set to review the Twitter Tax Break (neé "Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion in Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area") this Wednesday, rumblings are afoot. A

Golden Gate Park: San Francisco's Second Whitest Neighborhood

The Examiner took some time to, er, examine the neighborhood-level data from the 2010 census this weekend. Most of the trends could easily be predicted by anyone who has lived here for more

Happy Belated Birthday, Willie Lewis Brown, Jr.

Yesterday, Sunday March 20th was Willie Brown's Birthday. We feel pretty horrible that we didn't mention it earlier, but if you see him today be sure to send a glass of that Duckhorn

Arts & Entertainment

San Francisco Beats LA in Baseball Fan Loyalty

A New York-based research firm has quantified the loyalty of every major league baseball team by "assessing the data based on factors driven by on-field success, fan bonding with players and the franchise's

Monday Morning Links

Barry Bonds perjury trial finally begins today. When this thing is over we'll finally know whether he really knew if he was taking steroids or if he was really dumb enough to think

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week in Willie Brown

We know from Chronicle gal-about-town Leah Garchik's column that Willie started this week with a late arrival to Ruth Dewson's birthday party due to last Saturday's incredibly early St. Patrick's Day Parade that

Morning Link Hangover

Supervisor Wiener was nominated for the Metro Transit Commission after the Rules Committee rejects the nomination of David Campos. Meanwhile, Jane Kim (a Campos supporter) asks the board to ignore what she said

Board of Appeals Finds Divisadero NIMBYs to be the Most Civil

Last night, SFist attended a Board of Appeals meeting at City Hall with the intention of checking out some hot NIMBY-on-Neighbor action. The agenda was literally chock-full of territorial battles in progress, so

Nat Ford Watch: DC Job Seems Unlikely, SFMTA Schedules Some Time for a Heart-to-Heart

As we mentioned yesterday, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's decision to postpone hiring a new Executive Director has exposed our Muni Chief's desire to get the eff out of San Francisco and probably

Arts & Entertainment

Play "Everyone's Irish" Bingo (Because You're Already Drunk)

It's St. Patrick's Day, so everyone gets a free pass for being drunk at an inappropriately early hour. And while you're out there hopping from a stereotypically named Irish bar to an unnecessarily

Sympathy for the Farmville: Ed Lee and David Chiu Want to Keep Zynga in Town Too

One of the biggest arguments against offering Twitter a tax break for staying in San Francisco and (hopefully) injecting some life in to mid-Market is the precedent it would set for other companies

Top O' the Mornin' Links

Can we all support Ragazza's patio so that we may enjoy an oasis of outdoor dining on Divisadero? Yes, we can. [Haighteration] Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had dinner at Waterbar on the

Twitter Intends to Stick Around (Assuming that Tax Break Goes Through)

As we suspected, the fashionable employees at Twitter don't want to move to Brisbane any more than the city does. The company's CFO penned a letter of intent stating the company would sign

Comparing Ancient Rituals

"The court could say the state's interest would outweigh the free exercise of religion: If I'm an Aztec and my religion says I must go up on top of a high, pointed building

Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Would Be a Real Mayor If We Voted Today, Poll Shows

In an exclusive poll conducted by CBS5 and SurveyUSA (sounds official!), the local news station found that Ed Lee would be moving in to the Mayor's office for a full term if we