SF News Open Invitation: Ed Lee to Chinese President Temporary Mayor Ed Lee is a big deal in China apparently. So, as one would expect from a kind-of-appointed mayor, Lee is making it a point to continue Lite Gov Newsom's ChinaSF program
misc Anonymous San Franciscan Concerned Rec & Parks Logo Promotes Unsafe Swinging Over at the Examiner, Melissa Griffin got ahold of an anonymous letter sent to San Francisco's Rec and Parks Department from someone who seems to have experienced some rope swing-related trauma in their
SF News Muni Employees To Start Actually Paying For Parking On the heels of the rest of those new parking enforcement guidelines comes news that Muni employees will have to start paying for their parking spots at work. At $80, the monthly parking
misc Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 3: The Other Pet Cemeterey Once again, we turn over our platform to our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society, whose extensive knowledge of San Francisco's many hidden gems occasionally impresses even themselves. Presumably to celebrate some 27
SF News San Francisco Hopes To Get An IT Upgrade Did you know the SFPD didn't even have email until last year? (One wonders how Newsom and Gascón traded grooming tips.) This and other facts about the city's aging IT infrastructure come to
misc Happy 100th Birthday, Naval Aviation The fine folks at Telstar Logistics (still the only logistics company worth following on twitter) are celebrating the one hundredth birthday of the aircraft carrier today. The first landing of an airplane on
SF News Supervisors Will Get Question Time with Mayor Ed Lee Our current mayor will be making more appearances at Board of Supervisors meetings than our previous one thanks to that question-time ballot measure no one really cared about back in November. You'll remember
SF News Who's Losing Space For Ellison's Boat Race? We've already celebrated the fact that our fair city was selected to host the 2013 America's Cup. (Lots of love to Lite Gov Newsom for successfully wooing Larry Ellison and his boating buddies.
SF News How Was Gavin Newsom's First Week In Sacramento? Yesterday, the Sunday Chronicle (or maybe just the normal Chronicle? who even gets the paper anymore?) posted an update on Gavin's first week in office. While the lede says he's got a lot
misc James Franco To Direct Himself As <em>The Night Stalker</em> Locally-born and widely-loved actor/writer/artist/scholar James Franco will be adding "director" to his resume when he shoots his himself (with a camera, we mean) in an adaptation of Philip Carlo's true-crime
misc This Week in Willie Brown While a few blogs and media outlets in San Francisco continued wringing their hands over Da Mayor's involvement in any potential backroom deals and shady political goings-on surrounding Ed Lee's rise to the
SF News Toxic Cleanup in Fisherman's Wharf Closes Well-Known House of Seafood Besides having an inviting, old-school name, the family-owned Alioto-Lazio Fish Company has been known for selling it's fish and crab products in Fisherman's Wharf for the past 70 years. Now as the Examiner
SF News The Golden Gate Bridge is Violating Your Right to Free Speech The Golden Gate Bridge has surprisingly strict guidelines about how groups can conduct a protest along its walkways. According to the Chronicle, as it stands small groups of less than 50 must apply
SF News Temporary Transbay Terminal to House Most Closely-Guarded Public Restroom in Town If you've recently found yourself questioning your continence while waiting for a bus back to the East Bay, then you probably found yourself out of luck with regards to the on-hand facilities at
misc BART: Not a Monorail In their official answer to the burning question, "What is a Monorail?" single-track enthusiasts at The Monorail Society (apparently a real thing) would like to clear up some common misconceptions about monorails. Like
SF News Temple Nightclub Increases Security, Decreases Bottled Beer Sales After a UCSF student died from severe brain injuries that occurred during one of two brawls in and around Temple nightclub on Howard street last weekend, the popular (and generally peaceful, we might
SF News Facebook Displays Amber Alerts In a smart move from the social media giant, Facebook will now display relevant alerts from the 15-year-old child-abduction alert system to users who opt in to the program. Just remember you won't
SF News Gavin Newsom Becomes Ambassador to America's Cup Whatever it is a Lieutenant Governor does in Sacramento must not be as important as the sailboat race in San Francisco because Gavin Newsom has accepted the title of "Ambassador at Large" to
SF News Caltrain Conductor Arrested for Creeping on Lady Passengers A 60-year-old South San Francisco man and contract employee for CalTrain was recently arrested on charges of falsely imprisoning two female passengers, one of whom was a minor. Aside from the two false
SF News California Schools Get a C Grade In a national survey released yesterday, schools in California received an overall grade of a 76.2 out of 100, putting the quality of education in the Golden State just below the national
SF News The Easiest Ways to Get a Parking Ticket in 2011 As we mentioned last week, the SFMTA plans to hand out more tickets this year in order to make up a huge budget shortfall. While the harsh reality of urban car ownership dictates
SF News Geyserville Spurt of Dead Birds Determined to Not Actually be Sign of the Apocalypse The real cool heads at Bay City News followed up on yesterday's apocalypse scare about the flock of birds that suddenly turned up dead last weekend outside of Geyserville. It turns out it
misc The Inaugural Class of Gavin Newsom's San Francisco Hall of Fame Well, would you look at that: the Chronicle reports that in a quirky last-minute move before leaving City Hall for Sacramento yesterday, our now-previous mayor established a San Francisco Hall of Fame to
SF News Sitting On Blankets In Parks: Still Free Yesterday some concerned Dolores Park neighbors feared that the Rec & Parks Department would be imposing a $100 security deposit on picnics in the much-loved and occasionally quite crowded park. As the Examiner
SF News Muni Operations Chief Would Like You to Suck it Up, Outerlands Train Riders In a hearing yesterday regarding unscheduled "switch-backs" on the N-Judah and L-Taraval lines, Supes Carmen Chu and John Avalos voiced concerns from their constituents in the Sunset and Excelsior districts about what a
