misc Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 16th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
SF News Nat Ford's Possible East Coast Gig Still Uncertain Muni Chief Nat Ford is in Washington DC this week trying to score a job and get the hell out of San Francisco attending a transportation conference. Even though Ford has been in
misc Morning Links Day by Day Transbay gives you all the experience of working in a building adjacent to the dismantled Transbay Terminal, without all that annoying racket. [DayByDayTransbay] Meanwhile, in Hayes Valley: Proxy - the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nominate Your Favorite (Or Least Favorite) Local Restaurants to be Berated by Gordon Ramsay If you don't know, Fox's Kitchen Nightmares is a reality TV show in which less-than-celebrity chefs allow a foul-mouthed British jerk to swoop in and save their troubled restaurants by yelling at the
misc Turns Out Penguins Can Fly (On Southwest) [Adorable Video] On a recent Southwest flight, a couple of penguins headed from SFO to San Diego for a SeaWorld show (presumably to be in it, not to watch it) suddenly found themselves free to
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for March 15, 2011 As the meeting gets underway in the People's Chambers this afternoon, we should point out that there are actually two agendas for today's Board of Supervisors meeting (Dueling agendas, huh? Imagine that...): The
misc Vallejo Man Jumps Railing, Becomes Stuck in Mud Yesterday, a grown man of 36 years of age had to be rescued from waist-deep mud by the Vallejo Fire Department after he jumped over a railing lining a waterfront promenade along the
SF News Sit/Lie Now Being Gently Enforced in the Haight Over at the Park Police Station, it sounds like they got the memo after last week's Sit/Lie Update - the Examiner reports that cops in the Haight finally began enforcing the ordinance
misc Microsoft Kills the Zune, That One Weird Guy on the Bus is Bummed Bloomberg reported yesterday that Microsoft won't be cranking out any new versions of their somewhat popular Zune media player, which means the boys in Redmond didn't quite reach their goal of breaking Cupertino's
misc Morning Links In City News: Will Nat Ford actually be leaving for DC or what?Tune in tomorrow to find out. [Spoiler alert: SFMTA is already working on a succession plan.] [SFEx] Speaking of the
SF News BREAKING: 20+ Shots Fired in the Mission Reports from the Mission have heard "20+ shots fired" inside El Tin Tan on 16th between Valencia and Mission around 11 p.m tonight. According to MissionMission and nearby witnesses there were 5
SF News Protestors Rally In Support of Phone Books Nobody Wants According to Bay City News, a group of about 200 people converged on City Hall today to protest David Chiu's proposed ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages - proving once again that San Francisco
SF News Storied Conservative Enclave Denied Their Right to Harvest Wood In a tiny win for the treehuggers on the left, the Bohemian Grove - the mysterious campground in Sonoma County that hosts the conservative equivalent of Burning Man for the members of the
SF News Clipper Cards Stealing Money Right Out of Your Pockets The Examiner's Will Reisman investigates some excessive charges handed to Clipper Card users last month when they tried to reload their one-card-to-rule-them-all bus passes. One man who tried to deposit $100 on his
misc A Mea Culpa of Sorts "It is very possible to make a fool of me (not a stretch). I can't check for accuracy of overhearing, so I have to trust contributors' accuracy. I can't check to make sure
SF News Common San Francisco Complaints Ranked by Chamber of Commerce San Franciscans love to complain about things, we know this. The Chamber of Commerce probably knows this too (unless they are completely out of touch), so in order to quantify exactly which complaints
misc Morning Link Drizzle Two members of that group of punks that attacked a 47-year old man on Caltrain and left him in critical condition were busted using the victim's credit card to buy pizza and booze.
SF News Slight BART Delays this Morning BART is considerate enough to give riders some extra time to dry off before hopping on their trains this morning - the system is recovering from earlier problems and there's a lingering 10-minute
misc Saturday Afternoon Roundup iPad 2 re-sale racket digitally documented [YMFY] Chronicle Editor-at-Large and former foreign war correspondent Phil Bronstein goes on his most dangerous assignment yet: a Friday night patrol in the Mission with the Guardian
misc This Week in Willie Brown Nowhere in his scribblings and keyboard poundings (or, more likely: dictations) this week did Willie Brown mention Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's lavish CrabFest that irked him the other day. That's kind of disappointing because
SF News <em>You're Recused</em>: Gascón Lets the FBI Take Over Police Misconduct Case In a statement to the media, reprinted on the Appeal, the nicely coifed District Attorney explained that "new information has come to light" in the investigation of alleged police misconduct at the Henry
SF News CoCo County Dirty DUI Deputy Resigns Not necessarily an admission of guilt, but Stephen Tanabe, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy accused of setting up DUI busts to sully the good names of men who found themselves on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Updates on the Local Dining Habits of Celebrities Since we've had a few more of the Hollywood-celebrity types around town lately, you might have noticed we've been loosely keeping track of their whereabouts if for no other reason than to validate
misc John Madden Describes the Surf from Carmel In today's most unnecessary Tsunami report: Super Bowl commentator and video game voiceover artist John Madden gives a brief play-by-play of the surf near Carmel where "the waves were pretty big, but now
SF News In the Richmond, Neighbors Politely Decline Their PG&E SmartMeters Previously we saw how controversy over accuracy and health concerns surrounding PG&E's new SmartMeters flared up in the North Bay and then fizzled a bit in the Marina, but the latest
