SF News Palms, Palms, Palms for the Poor We were reading the Chron this morning and read up on their story about the planting of palm trees throughout the city. Let's just say right off we like palm trees. And let's
SF News Castro Car Fires Wow, this is pretty awful. Yesterday around 6:30 p.m., a guy running the red down the Castro hill across Market drifted into the northbound lane and slammed into a BMW turning
SF News OMG TCB! The Chron breaks it down for you: apparently, the questioning young person texts "sexinfo" to (917) 957-4280 on MetroPCS phones or 36617 on other carriers. You'll get a response text (in "teen-friendly text
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
Arts & Entertainment April 18, 2006 As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to
SF News Big Wheels Keep On Turnin' We did a little Flickr searching and found this excellent picture of the Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down the curvy part of Lombard Street yesterday by kwajkid. There's some more pictures
SF News This Week in Barry: Here Comes the Judge Yesterday CNN reported that a federal grand jury is looking into whether Barry should be indicted for saying in the BALCO trial that he didn't knowingly and purposely do steroids when it's looking
SF News That's A Lot Of Reading From what we understand from Chron piece, the booklet contains not only his platform but also includes a biography detaining his professional achievements and personal failures. According to De La Fuente, "he put
SF News The Chron's Stomping In Its Air Force Ones Wow, we're kind of embarrassed to admit that when we first read this article about how "the Chronicle" exposed a major security breach on the President's Air Force One, we automatically assumed it
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about
SF News GitMo-ntgomery Man, our office is by the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop and we didn't see this. Well, we did overoptimistically think we wouldn't need an umbrella today, so we were a little distracted by
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Say It Isn't So! No one can really replace Patty, but making a very impressive effort, we find Marcia Gagliardi of the TableHopper newsletter. It comes out on Tuesdays, cutting the grass under the feet of the
SF News Sofia Milos + Guest Hooray to us! We have now officially flogged the Gavin Newsom & Sofia Milos thing to death. But hey, we got in the paper of record -- thanks, Swells! We'd like to thank
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Called On The Carpet When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003 remains in the exact
SF News CSI: Plumpjack (Enter the Naming Contest!) We've got Gavin-Sofia fever! Thanks, SFist Jackson, for the bang-up Photoshop job showing what the union of Mr. Newsom and Ms. Milos might look like! (Scientology Sea Org cap added by Jackson.) And
SF News Watch Out Bush/Cheney, Here Comes the Board of Supes The measure brought out the snark from Gavin, of all people, who said in response: "I imagine, immediately, Congress will probably convene into session and begin impeachment proceedings.'' Hey, that's our line.
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised
SF News Can You Hear the Drums, Gerardo? Doing some damage control, Gerardo wrote an editorial in Monday's Chron trying to explain what he meant when he said he didn't think we needed a military. What he wanted to say is
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Ira We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of
SF News Model Plaintiffs It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
