SF News Teen Stabbing Last Night Makes a Dozen Homicides in 2011 According to the Examiner this morning, 16-year-old Victor Zheng was fatally stabbed in Ingleside Heights last night near CCSF. Zheng and a friend were walking in the neighborhood just before 11 p.m.
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 6. In Defense of Paper: a Manifesto of Uselessness Recently there's been quite a bit of talk about the value of paper. More specifically, if something were designed fleetingly with the intention of being disposed of - but then it wasn't -
SF News Michela Alioto-Pier Throws Her Hat in to the Mayor's Race Were she the sort to be spotted wearing a hat, we imagine it would be a sassy fedora, but all personal style issues aside: former District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is now Mayoral
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City Might Ease Up on New Restaurant Limits, Still Doesn't Want Your Filthy Chains Pacific Heights supervisor Mark Farrell is leading a new push to ease up on regulations that have prevented new restaurants from opening up on the swanky section of Fillmore Street in his district.
SF News Market Street to Get Fabulous Walk of Fame Over on the Chronicle's City Insider, Will Kane reports that Market Street could be getting it's own Hollywood-style Walk of Fame - albeit with that certain San Francisco flair. San Francisco's Rainbow Honor
SF News Early Morning Two-Alarm Blaze was Suspiciously Castro-Adjacent Another two-alarm fire broke out early this morning, just up the hill from the Castro at 1370 Clayton Street. According to Bay City News, the latest fire was reported around 3 a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay Remember to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter Jane Kim's brave stand on the Pledge of Allegiance [Chronicle] Police say this spike in homocides will level off [SFExaminer] The Internet
misc This Week in Willie Brown In case you couldn't tell from the "Happy & Casual Willie Brown" photo the Chron ran with his Sunday column, it sounds like Willie was in a good mood this week, kicking it
SF News Fake Veterinarian is a Real Canine Mutilator Down in Salinas, local police and officers from the SPCA searched the home of a local man who is accused of mutilating dogs while posing as a licensed veterinarian. Apparently, unsuspecting dog owners
SF News SFFD Suspects Foul Play in Multiple Early Morning Castro Fires Sounds like a hectic morning for the Fire Department as three separate fires broke out in the Castro - all around 16th and Market and all within an hour of each other between
misc Spider Dan the Climbin' Man Won't Do Jail Time for Climbing Millenium Tower 55-year-old Spider Dan who scaled the Millenium Tower on Labor Day last year to combat, "a national lack of preparedness to fight skyscraper fires" of last year won't be doing any jail time
SF News Verizon iPhone Plans Will Have Minutes, Use Data, Cost Money If you've been living in iPhone-less shame while patiently awaiting Apple's wonder device to become compatible with your big red wireless carrier you'll probably want to check the price tag on those fancy
SF News The Gap Rips Off Hobbyist's Flickr Photo for Baby-Sized T-Shirt It's nice being in San Francisco where there are more photoblogs, twitpics and Flickr pro accounts than privately-owned motor vehicles. It makes it real easy to find a photo of pretty much anything
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 5: Cheating on BART Bay Area public transportation options often leave much to be desired. Mostly, our various agencies just leave us with the desire to take a different form of transportation. But still we wonder: is
misc Here Are Some People Trying to Catch a Remote Controlled Duck With Nets The folks at WildRescue.org, the very same ones who have been working to free those seagulls imprisoned in tiny beer can collars, have been training some new volunteers in the use of
SF News How's That Fundraising Going, Mayoral Hopefuls? Campaign Financing reports for 2011 Mayoral hopefuls started coming in to the city's Ethics Commission yesterday, meaning we get an early look at who has how much money behind their campaign. According to
misc Meet Livermore's Chicken Whisperer, Age 5 Forgive us if we thought 4-H Clubs were a thing of the past (one of the H's is "Horses", right?), but apparently the clubs are still growing and now include such exciting activities
SF News How Many People Showed Up for a Chance at a Big Hollywood Debut? According to NBC Bay Area about 2,000 of you turned out for Steven Soderbergh's Contagion casting call at Fort Mason on Saturday. Which means a significant number of you care more about
SF News Scenes from Today's Egypt Solidarity Protest While many people in San Francisco are getting updates about this week's protests in Egypt from the flood of twitter updates on the subject or by watching the livestream of Al Jazeera English
SF News Arboreal Berkeley-ite Arrested After Knifing This one is just too good to let it go: UC Berkeley Police arrested one Matt Dodt of Berkeley yesterday after he attacked someone in his makeshift treehouse in People's Park. Dodt had
misc This Week in Willie Brown We start the recap of Willie's Week by backing up to MLK Jr. Day - you'll remember last week, Willie wanted us to know none of the breakfast events he attended had anything
SF News Bernal Heights Experiencing Rash of Coordinated Muggings The folks over at Bernalwood would like to call your attention to a recent crimespree that's been going on in their neighborhood. Citing reports from the Bernalsafe mailing list and the San Francisco
SF News New Thai Airline is the First to Hire Transsexual Air Hostesses According to The Telegraph today, a brand-new airline out of Thailand hopes to promote equal opportunities for Thailand's "third sex" by hiring three ladyboys among their first round of employees this week. Peter
SF News Local Cyclists Propose "Berkeley-Like" Traffic Pattern for Popular Bike Route Pedal-pushers on the Wiggle will be familiar with the harrowing intersection at Fell and Scott Streets - where relatively tame neighborhood traffic takes a left turn to meet the one-way torrent that rushing
misc Your Rent Might Go Up A Tiny Bit Every year, the Rent Board announces how much landlords are allowed to increase the rent on rent-controlled apartments (aka: the good ones). For some, the anticipation before the annual rent increase announcement is
