SF News Racist Zoom-Bombs at Emeryville City Council Meeting Test Remote Public Comment Policies Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
SF News Neo-Nazis Turn to Crowdfunding Just So They Can Show Up to Make Racist Comments at City Council Meetings A character who showed up to make Nazi salutes at a Walnut Creek City Council meeting last week is actually part of a larger network of racist grifters who are starting to rely on crowdfunding to finance their antics.
SF News Richmond City Council Picks Unfortunate Moment to Vote on More Tasers At last night's meeting of the City Council in Richmond, an ill-timed request from the police department for the purchase of 75 new Tasers led to some extended and awkward discussion. The request,
misc Week Around the -ists A posthumous tribute wall dedicated to singer/songwriter Elliot Smith sat defaced by graffiti for months on end -- LAist said enough, so did the fans and city council. SFist was surprised to
SF News Un Film Du Move America Forward Over at The Snitch, we came across this fury-inducing commercial conceived by heart-warming conservative group Move America Forward. (You know, the one chaired by KSFO 560 AM's Melanie Morgan?) Anyway, in it moms
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
SF News East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later
SF News Punitive Funding Cuts for Berkeley's Shocking -- Shocking! -- Leftist Tone? Republican (it goes without saying) Assemblyman Guy Houston of San Ramon wants to slice off more than $3 million in state funding from Berkeley for their stance against Marine recruiting. He will introduce
misc Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Sport -Bud and Donald went to Washington yesterday for the annual brow-beating on baseball by congress. Taking the most heat were the Giants, who were shame-shame-shamed (shame of fools) for not doing anything about
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Endgame --Resignation is irrevocable --Ed cannot hold office in SF for 5 years. (Is Burlingame city council still up for grabs, though?) --No admission of guilt by Ed (so will this come in for
SF News Rapist Ignacio De La Fuente Jr. Sentenced Ha. You foolish bastard. The son of Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente, Ignacio De La Fuente Jr., 34, got smacked upside the head with a 14-year prison sentence for raping
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Bans Rich, Smooth, Satisfying Smoking In Public Spaces Today, the Oakland City Council voted to ban smoking in "ATM lines, parks and other public places," which is smurfy, health-conscious, makes the bitch behind you at the ATM line stops her self-righteous
SF News SFist Blotter In a somewhat-better type of neighborhood self-policing in Berkeley, neighbors are now going in large groups to Becky Temko Tot Park in downtown Berkeley, so another neighbor won't yell at them. Local parents
SF News SFist Blotter Phew, let's get to the less life-endangering stuff. Politicians! Matt Gonzalez's 2003 mayoral campaign team was fined $3300 for failing to provide donor information to the Ethics Commission (they said it was a
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, oh.... the SF Weekly. Matt Smith finds out that Don Fisher got arrested for getting 15 year old girls drunk (when he was 19). The power of investigative journalism, folks! ....and HA!
misc In Living Color The proposal calls for the building of a business park, retail stores, luxury hotel, and a movie/TV production studio. The idea of a theme park has been shelved which, sadly, takes away
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Favorite Football Team Is? The consultant, Bill Rhoda, told the City Council that the stadium would generate $249 million for the county. Monorail! He then added that it'll bring in $12.3 million dollars annually in tax
SF News Crosses to Stay So here's what they did: they just created a new code making it so the crosses can stay, but this will be it for long-drawn out political protests. Earlier there were tight codes
misc Thank You For Smoking The ordinance, however, isn't going down easily. Many people, including non-smokers, are thinking the measure is a little too harsh. Says a flak for the California Apartment Association, “we are in no way
SF News Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign The artist in question, Michael McDonald, has been putting little art displays in front of his house for years but this one in question got the law involved. They not only paid him
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
