SF News Day Around the Bay Duc Loi Market at 18th and Mission: impressive selection, reasonable prices, clean and bright. [Mission Mission] Both sides of TiscuitGate. [Eater] Gavin's car blocking handicapped access ramps and crosswalks? [SF Weekly] Sheriff chalking
SF News Jennifer Siebel Knocked Up, Says Nathan Ballard Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard just confirmed it. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - February 18, 2009 -- "We are pleased to confirm that Mayor Gavin Newsom and First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom are starting a
SF News Jennifer Siebel Pregnant<s>?</s> Valleywag's Owen Thomas has word that San Francisco First Lady Jennifer Siebel is pregnant. Now, this rumor pops up every few months, but since Thomas is a trustworthy source on all things tech
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART/OPEN MIC: At Pecha Kucha, eight to 12 designers will each present 20 images of their work. This month's theme is change. Like a grownup version of show-and-tell, each person gets 20
misc Images: Fleishhacker Pool House Back in the 1920s, the Fleishhacker Pool was the finishing touch in "the symbolic 'watering' of San Francisco," and the city of San Francisco had spared no expense. San Francisco banker Herbert Fleishhacker
Arts & Entertainment SF Blues Festival Canceled Although the event has been running every year since 1973, the founder of the San Francisco Blues Festival has canceled the event for 2009 and the foreseeable future. San Francisco Blues Festival founder
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Says Yes to Nudity, Floats in Bay to Breakers San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi spoke to Matier & Ross about the new Bay to Breakers rules, telling them that "there is no reason to go this far ... Nudity and floats are part
SF News DNA Lounge Being Singled Out by California ABC? According to an angry missive from the fine folks over at SoMa's DNA Lounge, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is trying to put them permanently out of business. It seems the
SF News Angry Union Member Causes A.M. Muni Delay Around 70 Muni buses serving more than two dozen biodiesel buses were delayed this morning after a union steward with Transport Workers Union Local 250-A blocked the gate and prevented the buses from
SF News Your Official California State Worker Layoff Notice "In the face of a $42 billion budget shortfall, and still no budget, measures are needed to preserve the State’s cash." And with that begins the official layoff letter sent out to
SF News Marin Sewage Plant Leaks 300,000 Gallons of Sewage Into Bay Repairs to a faulty pipe that has leaked an estimated 300,000 gallons of shit, piss, and miscellaneous into the Bay will be fixed later today. According to KCBS, "A pipe that ruptured
SF News Day Around the Bay More details on USF rapes. [CBS5, KNTV] Love that is tainted. [SFBG] Academy Awards cocktail party. (Psst, if you're eating at an Oscars party, you're doing it wrong.) [CHOW] Free coffee at Caffe
SF News Porta-Potty Blaze Caught on Film Flickr photog Erik Gibb managed to snap these super pics of Sunday's Portreo Hill porta-potty immolation, which brought the number of blazes to 23 since November. If we're not mistaken, these are the
SF News <s>2 Million Jobs for California If Elected, Says Meg Whitman</s> Meg Whitman Gets a Makeover Former eBay CEO, homophobe, and staunch Republican Meg Whitman, who has tossed her bonnet into the California gubernatorial ring, has promised to create 2 million private-sector jobs in California within the first five
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hyde Street Seafood House Loves the Taste of a Triscuit From what we hear, Valentine's Day was heartbreaking for many Bay Area restaurants. Take, for example, Hyde Street Seafood House, who charged $70 for a three-course prix-fixe, but resorted to serving Nabisco Triscuits
SF News Judiciary Committee Passes Resolution Opposing Prop 8 California is one step closer to getting Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that passed in November, overturned. Hopefully. A judiciary committee passed House Resolution 5 today (care of one Tom Ammiano, D-San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Hunx of Hunx and His Punx and Liza Thorne hosts "Suicide Tuesday's Thingnite" over in the Historic Tenderloin District. Joining them are DJs Alexis and Sarah Adorable, Moira Scar, a "goth/garage
SF News #23: Toilet Torcher Copycat? Another porta-potty was found torched in San Francisco this past Sunday afternoon, but this it happened in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. Reported at 4:25 p.m., the flame-up happened at the intersection
Arts & Entertainment AMC 2009 Best Picture Showcase: We Have a Winner Wow. All of you who entered our AMC 2009 Best Picture Showcase did an excellent job with the haiku writing. We mean that. Choosing a winner proved difficult. But after much deliberation, the
SF News Bay Area, Drenched The recent (and much-needed) rainfall in the Bay Area has resulted in power outages, fallen trees, and road closures. Hail has been reported in Potrero Hill. The Upper Haight was "like a monsoon.
SF News First Bay Area Toll Lane Scheduled for 2010 The Bay Area's first-ever "high occupancy toll" lane will hit 680 next year. The HOT lanes, according to KCBS, "would be designated for non-carpool drivers who pay a toll to use a high
SF News Anti-Bay 2 Breakers Rally at City Hall, Thursday, 2/19 Since more people have taken the time to air their disapproval (7000+ on one Facebook page alone, according to SFCitizen) of ING’s new rules for the Bay to Breakers race than have
SF News SFUSD Sued Over Sodomizing Bullies A teen is suing the San Francisco Unified School District "who says two schoolmates 'sodomized' him with an umbrella handle at an after-school program." The incidents occurred in 2007 within three days of
