SF News SFist Blotter There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Residency Requirement And the hits keep on coming! Now the Chron's reporting that Ed Jew's been told he has five (5) days to prove that he lives in San Francisco, through tax records or a
SF News Day Around The Bay --It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the
SF News Gavin in the Clear City Attorney Dennis Herrera declined to give a comment but just told everyone to check out the report. So here it is. While the report says Gavin did nothing illegal, it did go
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News Injunction Junction, What's Your Function? A Gang Injunction is basically a restraining-order banning any known gang members from doing any gang related activity. And that goes for everything from tagging to dance offs. While the constitutionality of injunctions
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
SF News Ron, Not Matt: Our New Column! We thought we saw some bubbling vats of tar and a pile of feathers from freshly-plucked fowl in San Jose the other day -- the San Jose city council's got humiliation on the
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
SF News Hatin' On The Sentinel What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to
SF News Tow This Dennis Herrera's already moving to reward the 98% of San Franciscans who reelected him city attorney (not you, SFist Jackson!) by announcing that he's extracted $5.7 million in settlement for the City
SF News SFist Votes Folks who voted before work were smiling and nodding at each other on public transportation today (in part because -- really, these red "I Voted! Ya Vote!" stickers they're giving out in SF
SF News Courtyard Marriott Employees Paid Less than Minimum Wage Last Wednesday, word got out about a class-action suit being brought by Gonzalez & Leigh on behalf of employees at the Courtyard Marriott in San Francisco Superior Court. Originally filed September 23rd, the
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
SF News We're Counting to Ten -- the City Attorney and the Mayor's Office are pointing (counting) fingers at each other about a screwup over the number of days Mayor Newsom has to exercise his veto power. So on
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Shake your Dufty Well, we still don't know what he's listening to on his portable music player, but ouuu-ouuu-ouuu-OUUUUUUUU!! Supervisor Bevan Dufty's modeling in his skivvies for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel! The ALRP's holding its
SF News Sophie Maxwell Pisses Off The Blogosphere Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends
Arts & Entertainment Always Take A Transfer People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Supervisors Can Be Such Bitches We all know it -- bloggers really be such bitches (buy your SFist t-shirt bearing said message right here right now!) -- so guess who's the City's newest entrant in the blogrolls? That's
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News Garden Hose The City Attorney's months-long investigation into election coercion has confirmed that the now-defunct city organization SLUG (the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners) illegally coerced its workers to campaign and vote for Gavin
SF News Love is Love is Love San Francisco supervisors Tom Ammiano and Bevan Dufty have introduced a resolution urging the city attorney's office to draft legislation allowing domestic partnership status for those whose marriages were invalidated by the state
