SF News Homeless Encampment Continues To Render Cesar Chavez Bike Bridge Virtually Unusable One part of town that has seen persistent homeless encampments over the past year is the area around Cesar Chavez and the 101/Potrero interchange, sometimes referred to as "The Hairball." About 100
SF News Hayes Valley Shepard Fairey Mural Already Tagged With Graffiti In what is either a brilliant exploration of the line between graffiti tagging and public art, or else a typical case of a couple of dudes with too much time and spray paint
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Palace Steak House To Re-Open This Weekend As Retro, Whole-Beast Joint The retro-classy Palace Steak House closed their doors way back in 2009, leaving late night carnivores without a place to find reasonably priced steaks at 2 a.m. on Mission Street. Although the
SF News Obama Arrives in California, Dedicates Cesar Chavez Home a National Monument Today President Obama lands in California for a couple of fundraisers up here in SF, and he's currently attending a ceremony in Keene, California at the onetime home of labor and civil rights
misc Feel the Rain on Your Skin Get out your brellies, Wellies, and slickers - the rain is on its way. Meteorologists are expecting the rain to start falling this afternoon. Expect high winds and heavy rain. Flooding is a
misc <strike>November</strike> January Rain Got that parapluie? The Chron reports that the skies are going to open up starting tomorrow, with not one, not two, but three separate weather systems barreling on in from Alaska. They're expecting
SF News <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Free Bike Lights! <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Anybody can get a light, even this guy. But there's a catch -- you have to show up . So, see you at the following locations this afternoon: • Upper Market: Market St. at Duboce
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at 8 p.m. at Chez Poulet,
SF News Less Than Jake (McGoldrick) Well, at least he lives in the Richmond, right? (Some) affordable housing advocates and ethicists are shaking their heads over District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's poor party timing this week. Remember that lot
SF News Day Around the Bay -- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] -- Beautiful, steel, and glassy Rincon Hill (and its streets) want a little love, too, you know? [RinconHillSF] -- The Cesar Chavez/
SF News The Bolt-Cutters Are Back Tents! Man, we'd love to have a tent across the street from the Palace Steak House. Twelve people were arrested as a group of about 80 protestors chanted anti-high end housing slogans. Fog
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --LAist Zach is coming to town as part of the CalArtsf alumni art festival: dance, spoken word, world music, animation, paintings, and lots more artistic expression at Cowell Theater and the Herbst Cafe
SF News SFist Blotter As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Pick your poison -- it's either flyering for Gavin Newsom or going to the Progressive Convention this afternoon. If politics isn't your game, here's some other options for today and tonight: --Bring a
SF News Weekday Non-School? For example, did you know that "On Cesar Chavez Day, March 30, 2007, weekday non-school schedules will be in effect"? Oh, you didn't? That must be because you don't check their alerts page
SF News Third Fake Question Time The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog
SF News Already Over Fake Question Time Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple
SF News Go To The Third Fake Question Time For Us! Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar
SF News News Of The Gavin: Late, Delayed, and Cancelled Late word: What? Gavin Newsom lied to us! At the last Fake Question Time, Gavin clearly told us that the next "town hall meeting" would be in April and address the issue of
SF News Lost Highway This all started around 5:40 on Friday when police were called in on reports of a body found at Indiana and Cesar Chavez. The body has not been identified yet, but police
SF News News Roundup Also, the grandmother of two children whose mother was killed when the tire of a cab came loose and struck the mother filed suit with the cab company, Luxor Cab. The lawsuit claims
SF News The DPW is Doing a Heckuva Job For example, there's tree pruning, something of importance considering Gavin's plans to go around and plant trees everywhere. Trees are supposed to be pruned every three years. They're pruned every seven. But because
SF News Your Commute: Time For New Shock Absorbers It's not just that you're bad drivers, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year,
