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Thursday Morning Roundup: Regarding The Mission's Liquor Moratorium

Supervisor David Campos discusses the Mission's liquor license moratorium. Meanwhile, other Missionites react. [MissionLocal] [Mission Mission] U.S. Open fans are swarming usually tourist-free neighborhoods. [SFEx] Development watch: more urban waterfront dreaming in

Fire Halts BART Service Between Oakland and S.F. [Updates]

A three-alarm fire at a construction site near the West Oakland BART station has shut down the Transbay Tube this morning, completely halting service in both directions between the East Bay and San

Matt Cain Throws A Perfect Game

Tonight in AT&T Park, Matt Cain pitched nine flawless innings for the 22nd perfect game in the history of Major League Baseball and the first for the 130-year-old Giants franchise. Cain

Day Around The Bay: Muni Is Just One Big Garbage Bag, Basically

Over at the Weekly, this week's cover story pulls out all the stops and crashes a 6-page takedown in to a veritable fire hydrant of Muni PR nightmares. (Get it? Public transit jokes.

Your Muni Driver Probably Has To Pee Real Bad

Finally offering some explanation for what Muni operators are doing when they hop off the bus and run inside the Burger King at Market and Eighth, the Examiner takes a look at Muni's

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Woman Attacks Trolley, Gets Punched

It's been awhile since we've had a solid Muni fight video. The latest comes to us today from Mid-Market, where some spectators camped out in front of Sheik Shoes at Fifth Street waiting

Free Puppies Used To Stop Panhandling In San Francisco

With sit-lie proving more or less ineffective at curbing the city's panhandling problem, San Francisco's Homeless Czar Bevan Dufty launched a new program that he hopes will get beggars off sidewalks and into

Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Bumgarner's Astronomical Homer

Madison Bumgarner keeps getting better and better with a homer and twelve Ks in last night's win against the Astros. [McCoveyChron] [CBS] Mitt Romney says "sport" instead of "sports". Gross, Mittens. [Mother Jones]

Arts & Entertainment

Painfully Cute Bicycle Wedding Documented In Equally Twee Video

Summer wedding season is here — which means City Hall is flooded with photo shoots, the Castro is inundated with bachelorette parties, and hordes of self-curators are posting their Internet-ready, nuptial videos to the

Knife Crime 2012: Man Jumped, Stabbed By Gang Of Six In The Tenderloin

San Francisco's wave of knife crime struck again in the Tenderloin early Sunday morning. A 42-year-old victim was left in critical condition after a group of six men in their 20s approached him

Photo Released: Possible Bay To Breakers Murder Suspect

In a press conference yesterday, SFPD released new photos showing two persons believed to be involved in an attack on 30-year-old Stephen Martin at Bay to Breakers last month. Police investigators are now

Tuesday Morning Roundup: Peninsula Deemed Boring

If you hadn't noticed, startups are already bored with the peninsula and are once again flocking to San Francisco thanks to efforts like Twitter's tax break. Also, Aaron Peskin weighs in with “I’

Day Around The Bay: Eddie Rickenbacker's Sells Off Motorcycle Collection

Landmark SoMa fern bar Eddie Rickenbacker's has closed. It will re-open in a couple weeks under new management and without most of the bar's iconic motorcycles, which are going to auction along with

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Oliver Stone To Gavin Newsom: 'We Have The Best Weed In The World'

Oliver Stone dropped in to Current TV's studios to rap about his new movie Savages with anti-Sacramento Lite Gov Gavin Newsom last week. The film is a new piece of "hypothetical fiction" about

Eliana Lopez Goes After Mayor Lee, City Attorney Accuses False Martyrdom

Here we go: Eliana Lopez has been condemning the District Attorney's office for publicly releasing cellphone video of her displaying a bruise and talking about her marriage to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi ever since

Apple Designs Thing To (Hopefully) Make People Less Annoying

At today's World Wide Developer's Conference, Tim Cook and company did as guru Steve always taught and unveiled some big things Apple has been working on to make all of our lives a

BART Escalator Watch 2012: 10 Repaired, 19 To Go

Brief updates today as we check in with BART's progress on their promise to repair all those broken down escalators around the system. In their latest press release, the transit agency congratulated itself

Monday Morning Roundup: Backyards Of The Lower Haight

Ahead of the forthcoming foie gras ban, all-foie menus abound around town. [GrubsF] Prepare to be jealous of your neighbor: backyards of the Lower Haight exposed. [Haighteration] If you don't have your own

Warren Buffett's Glide Benefit Lunch Auctioned for $3.5 Million

When we checked in late yesterday afternoon, the bidding on lunch with Warren Buffett — auctioned off every year to benefit Glide's efforts to help the homeless in San Francisco — was hovering around $420,

Day Around The Bay: Man's Hand-Built Eco Metropolis Threatened By Marin County

In Marin County, officials want to evict 67-year-old David Lee Hoffman from a fascinating, hand-built, 30-structure eco oasis he spent 40 years building. Their reasons? The county needs the money apparently. [Vice] Liquor

Cyclist Busted For Riding On The Sidewalk (Also: Meth)

Earlier this week, a cyclist near Laurel Heights was stopped by two plainclothes cops while riding on the sidewalk along on Pine Street near Baker. The two cops suspected the biker had stolen

Oakland Hills Brushfire Breaks Out Near 580 [Updates]

A smokey brushfire broke out in the Oakland Hills around 1:45 p.m. this afternoon. The fire was apparently started by fallen power lines on an access road by the freeway. The

Man Rescued From Under F-Market Wheels

Firefighters rescuing a man who became stuck under the wheels of an historic F-Market trolley car remind us why we should all have a healthy fear of anything on rails this morning. The

Friday Morning Constitutional: Muni's 'Smart' Surveillance Cameras

Reports of Muni getting "smart" security cameras in underground stations are all over the news this week. The Appeal helpfully explains why your fears of a dystopian future are a little bit crazy.

Day Around The Bay: Proper Tech Etiquette

Take note, geeky San Franciscans: here are your suggested tech etiquette tips for a variety of situations. [BoldItalic] House of Crawfish and Seafood coming to an appropriately cursed spot on Van Ness. Voodoo