SF News $3.75 Million Dollar Settlement In The Works For Local Musician Mowed Down By Street Sweeper Local musician Jay Korber was dragged about 41 feet by the San Francisco street sweeper that struck his as he rode his bike in December, 2012. A year and a half later, the
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making
SF News Archaic Law Limiting Arcade Games To Maybe Get Repealed [Update] Because this is San Francisco, and because we've legislated everything from the satchels you carry your beer and tampons home in to the number of Chipotles allowed in a neighborhood, there
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles
SF News SF Comedians Speak Out Against Evictions During Set At City Hall Back in the day, comedians were known to roam the city's landscape offering golden nuggets of wisdom in between fart jokes. Some comedians even made big-time names fir themselves. Luckily,
SF News Gypsy Taub's Nude Nuptials Scheduled For Thursday Well, this should be fun. As we discussed a couple weeks back, local nudism activist Gypsy Taub and her newfound love Jaymz Smith are planning to be wed on Thursday, in the nude,
SF News Board Of Supes Passes Two Measures Aimed At Preserving Rental Stock At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, two measures drawn up by Supervisor John Avalos aimed at increasing and preserving the city's stock of rental apartments passed unanimously on initial
SF News Supervisor Campos To Introduce Anti-Eviction Legislation Supervisor David Campos revealed over the weekend that he plans to introduce some new legislation to counteract the eviction trend. He's hoping that a new law would provide "incentives against
SF News Candace Chen Makes An Honest Man Out Of David Chiu Well, how about that. D3 Supervisor David Chiu finally—finally!—tied the proverbial knot on Saturday and married his special friend Candace Chen. Delightful. The two got hitched at a private ceremony at
SF News Van Ness To Get Speedy New Bus Line (Eventually) After what seems like years of talking and even more spent waiting for the 47-Van Ness, the San Francisco County Transit Authority and the Board of Supervisors finally cleared the way for
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF News Supervisor Wants City Parks To Have Regular Closing Hours During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Scott Wiener will propose setting regular hours for the city's 220 parks from 5 a.m. to midnight. According to the SFGate,
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
Arts & Entertainment London Breed Is The Amanda Bynes Of S.F. Supervisors [Update] We have a new favorite crazy cannon on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And her name is London Breed. For whatever reason, Ms. Breed will only respond to a constituent with respect
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.g.
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Rad S.F. Bars Deemed Historic Speaking of bars, two local bars noted for catering to two (dwindling?) minority groups were declared a historic landmarks by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Sam Jordan's in Bayview and
SF News Chiu Re-Elected to Third Term as President of the Board of Supes At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu was once again chosen as President of the Board, for his third consecutive term. Speculation about a possible changing of the guard in
SF News Nudity Ban Approved, for Real, By Same Six Supervisors; One Protester Arrested The Board of Supervisors once again got an eyeful of ass, breasts, balls, and bush today in the Board chambers, and they once again voted to approve the citywide ban on nudity, which
SF News Final Vote Today For San Francisco's Nudity Ban Supporters of San Francisco's right to get naked in public could show up at City Hall today when the Board of Supervisors give their final vote on the city's
SF News More Wiener Drama: Blogger Arrested for Taking Photo Of Supervisor? It may be difficult to see the drama in this if one is not ensconced deeply in the politics of the Castro, but bear with us. Local blogger and activist Michael Petrelis claims
SF News Scott Wiener Seeking to Make Environmental Review Process Easier For Developers On the Planning Commission agenda this week is the continuation of a somewhat controversial item introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this month that would limit the citizenry's ability to hold
SF News Nudists Hire a Lawyer Our city's gaggle of fervent nudists has lawyered up, ladies and gentlemen. This is about to get fun. Today we get word via Mitch Hightower, nudist ringleader, that he and his
