SF News Shooting at Harrison Street and 24th [UPDATES] Not a whole lot of details yet, but BCN says police responded to reports of a shooting at 24th and Harrison in the Mission about an hour ago at 12:15 p.m.
SF News Volvo SUV Driver Claims He's a Cop, Steals Wallet Contents The rash of nefarious police impersonators continues: this time Bay City News reports on what might be the whitest drive-by ever: The suspect a white man in his 30's driving a dark Volvo
SF News Cabal of Nanny-Aided Moms Knows How to Get Cheap Parking Permits Mothers in San Francisco have been lobbying for months to get parking permits for their nannies, thus allowing their frazzled and exhausted hired help to park closer to the homes they work in
SF News We're Calling Temporary Mayor Ed Lee "The Velvet Hammer" Now Because apparently that is a cool thing to call your Mayor. The Pro Tem nickname comes from one Tania Modic, owner of an Investment Firm in Incline Village, Nevada (which is not part
misc Morning Link Drizzle It's rainy today and if there's one thing San Francisco is terrible at, it's waking up when there's the slightest bit of cloud cover. So, here are some conversation starters that will help
SF News Latest Anti-Graffiti Vigilante Possibly Just a Tagger With Extra Paint This morning the repeatedly painted frontage of the Harding Theater on Divisadero near SFist's Western Branch office saw some much-needed white washing. You might remember the space, which has been tagged over three
SF News Eight People in the Marina Don't Want SmartMeters Either After PG&E's new wireless-equipped SmartMeters became the target of protests from both the freedom-loving far right in the North Bay and the don't-harsh-on-my-brainwaves far left from West Marin, we thought there
SF News Kamala Harris Asks Courts to Allow Same-Sex Marriages While They Mull Prop 8 Jerry Brown may have refused to defend Proposition 8 in front of the 9th Circuit and Harris has previously said she would do the same, but today she has gone ahead and taken
SF News Small Militia Takes Over Fremont Firm in a High-Tech Heist On Sunday, a group of 15 men armed with automatic rifles and handguns jumped six employees of Unigen, the Fremont-based maker of memory cards and wireless internet adapters, in an early-morning heist at
misc Vanessa Getty Models The Shorts We'll All Be Wearing This Year The other day we briefly mentioned Willie Brown's report from New York Fashion Week in which Da Mayor predicted we'd all be wearing, "those short shorts seen in San Francisco only on Vanessa
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 9: History for Those Who Slept Through it the First Time It should come as no surprise that we love maps around here. Our oddly shaped, but nicely constrained little city looks handsome in map form. Plus, maps and infographics are an easy way
SF News Penniless Vallejo Experiencing Gentrification-by-Hookers Ever since Vallejo filed for bankruptcy a couple years back, we've been pulling for the home of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom to experience a miraculous renaissance. Well, that hasn't quite happened yet and
SF News Caltrans Burglars Running Loose on the Peninsula Last Friday, a man in a passable Caltrans uniform knocked on the door of a home in Woodside, claiming to be performing inspections for possible post-storm landslides. As it turns out, while the
misc What Would You Name the Chronicle's Artisan Honey? In an Inside Scoop post today, Chronicle food critic and man-of-impeccable-taste, Michael Bauer proves he's only in it for the honey. In a partnership with the Marin Bee Company and the paper's Home
misc Adorable Animal Safety Announcement: Please Don't Touch the Seal Pups It's harbor seal birthing season, which means local shores will be infested with adorable, plush-toy-like newborn pups. As much as you'd like to take them home and keep them in your bathtub forever
SF News Meanwhile, in Washington: Airport Authority Not Sure They Want Nat Ford Either Over in DC, it seems that the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is split on whether or not they want Nat Ford. In an informal poll that doesn't really mean anything,
SF News Muni Operators Found to Be Not Operating Muni, On Occasion The California Public Utilities Commission has released hundreds of pages of reports documenting the past three years of Muni inspections, confirming what many of us already knew - our light rail system is
misc This Week in Willie Brown Last week Willie called our attention to his celebrity status by namedropping his way through a trip to Los Angeles for the Grammys. This week Willie used his Sunday column to once again
misc "Jazz Hands", "Sexting" Now Officially Dictionary Words As if we needed the folks in Oxford to lend some legitimacy to the term for "a gesture with hands waved to express excitement", they've gone ahead and added that definition and [cough]
SF News DUI Checkpoint Alert: Saturday Night at Geary and 9th Avenue SFPD has alerted the media that they'll be setting up a DUI checkpoint out in this Richmond this Saturday night at Geary Blvd and 9th Ave. There's always a tiny moral quandary whenever
SF News Britney Spears, Good Morning America Coming to the Castro Two things we sometimes forget exist will be coming to the Castro next month to bring San Francisco - nay - the entire country "a morning to remember." According to the Examiner, famous
SF News Bicycle Activists Lightly Grill Temporary Mayor Now that Ed Lee has gotten a couple breakfasts with Willie Brown out of the way he had a moment to sit down with the bike/walk/train activists over at Streetsblog and
misc Stephen Colbert Nails Local Anarchist Get your mind out of the gutter, we're talking about the Colbert Report's recurring Nailed 'Em segment which last night featured self-titled "independent journalist, media activist and web developer" Mark Burdett getting "nailed
SF News Chronicle Columnist Discovers Poo in the Tenderloin Chuck Nevius' nostrils are burning. In his column today about the simple economics of human waste, the Chronicle staffer and fairly recent city resident explains the biggest problem facing the community in the
misc We Read the Weeklies: February 23, 2010 Noise pop is taking over venues and concert halls around the city this week, as you know, so the Weekly rags are focused on Music. Actually, that's not true at all. Only SF
