SF News Bacon Street Stabbing Ends in Fatal Shooting by SFPD Yesterday afternoon police officers responding to a call from a teenage girl reporting that she had been stabbed arrived at the 600 block of Bacon Street in Portola where they found a house
SF News Cable Cars Are Dangerous, Expensive and Break Sometimes. Still Historic Though. This morning the Examiner posted a breakdown of payouts from lawsuits that followed a couple of cable car mishaps. According to the report, the 2008 derailing of a car on the Powell-Mason line
SF News East Coast Airport Delays Force SFO Passengers to Go Without Pretzels Yesterday, yet another flight out of SFO headed for snow-man's-land was delayed due to backups at New York area airports. According to the Examiner this morning, Delta Flight 1940 was scheduled to depart
misc Bored of Supervisors "As someone with Irish heritage, I have long been fascinated with the role of the pub in Irish culture and politics. As a progressive, I am interested in testing how well pub culture
SF News SF Public Housing Gets Free Broadband, WiFi Residents of San Francisco's 6,500 public housing units: Welcome to the Internet! Yesterday, Mayor Newsom's office announced 33 public housing sites around the city now have free broadband and wireless Internet access
SF News Target All Set to Move Forward in the Metreon Gavin Newsom will have a long legacy no doubt, but fans of Method soap products and Paul Frank bedding might remember him most for putting aside the anti-gay controversy and pushing through all
misc Bronstein Beat-Down "At 19, I was a drop-out in bell bottoms selling Great Books of the Western World door-to-door to support a meager journalism career. You, on the other hand, make even the two high-end
misc Miss Willie Brown Hails from Nashville, Not Related to Da Mayor In our weekly chronicles of the whereabouts and activities of Former Mayor Willie Brown, we often stumble on a red herring or two in our research. Case in point: Miss Willie Brown, a
misc Meanwhile, in Berkeley: UC Tuition Riots Inspire Photography Course In a slow-week feature yesterday, the Chronicle detailed a one-credit, freshman seminar at UC Berkeley that strives to help students perfect the art of "Photographing History in the Making." Of course, we've all
SF News Shotgunned Sea Lion Seeking Sanctuary When last we checked in with Silent Knight, the regal-looking Sausalito sea lion injured by a shotgun blast in early December, his Vets were optimistic that he could make it back out in
misc Celebrity Everyman Spotted "Actor Brian Baumgartner of 'The Office' [the TV Show] was spotted by Tom Fuller at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa." - Leah Garchik, illustrating either: a) even the Chronicle has slow days,
SF News Downtown Nightclub Was Near a Shooting Saturday Night At the risk of implying a connection between a nightclub and a shooting, both Bay City News and the Examiner are reporting that two men were shot outside of Lot 46 nightclub on
SF News This Year, Properly Memorialize Your Christmas Tree's Sacrifice SFist would like to remind you that it is unsightly to keep a rotting evergreen corpse in your living room past January 1st, but exceptions will be made in order to properly dispose
SF News San Mateo Teen Impersonates Cops, Sells Pot A mischievous San Mateo teen tried and failed multiple times to extort local drivers by impersonating a police officer and threatening them with speeding tickets. 19 year old Alex Grabovetsky used a siren
Arts & Entertainment And Here We Are: Divisadero Street Art Incident Explained After our Laser Kitten Vandalized! post went up yesterday, we received a landslide of comments, many of them rightly questioning what makes one piece of artwork more valid than another. A few others
misc This Week in Willie Brown The Chronicle ran the "Serious Willie in a Trench Coat" photo alongside Willie's Sunday Column this week. You might think that was because of all the rain last weekend, but you'd be wrong.
SF News Chris Daly Now Owns a Bar Or a liquor license, at least: Over at Grubstreet, SFist's own Jay Barmann spotted the approved license for Chris Daly and his business partner Teddy Stawser at Buck Tavern on Market Street. Meaning
SF News Oakland City Council backs off plan for wholesale pot farms Apparently spooked by warnings from the Alameda County DA that city officials could face prosecution if they approved permits for possibly-illegal, "industrial-scale pot farms", the Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to put the
misc Gavin Newsom, still talking: "Whoever gets there will be immediately discredited as the political appointee. Everybody running against that person is going to say that. I will say that, and I'm not going anywhere." -Mayor Newsom, explaining
SF News Fiona Ma Attempts to Define "Raves" (So She Can Ban Them) The State assemblywoman, whose district includes the Daly City home of the Cow Palace, has introduced legislation to ban those all-night bamp-bamp dance parties from public land across the state. Unsurprisingly, it's called
SF News South San Francisco Drive-By Leaves 2 Dead, 4 Wounded Last night around 7:15 p.m. two people were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting at Linden Ave and Eighth Lane in South San Francisco, a neighborhood "prone to gang activity" according
misc Day Around the Bay Remember to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter Things San Franciscans Like: Nopa (the restaurant*) [SFAppeal] Noisebridge, SF's Only Hackerspace, Could Be Forced to Close [UptownAlmanac] Amandeep, the guy with
SF News We Read the Weeklies: December 22, 2010 Weekly newspapers aren't just free gift wrap, they also contain articles and sexy back page ads. Here's what you'll find on streetcorners around town this week: SFWeekly The Weekly's big story takes a
