SF News Take A Walk on the Polk Side To remedy the situation, officials are planning on adding historic street lamps (ooohhh) and planting more trees to pretty the place up. There is also a call for a moratorium on liquor stores
SF News There's Nothing Funny About this Post Recently, we linked to a story about a group of people setting up a "tent city" in Richmond to protest all of the escalating violence there. Well, over the weekend, a twenty year
misc A Very Late Day Around the Bay Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there.
SF News Amos and Arnie Strangely enough, word is also getting out there that Amos is on the payroll of the Governor as a political consultant. Hmmmm...you wouldn't think...no, not even possible. Brown is saying that
SF News Indictments in H.P. Case "using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes." Each charge is a
SF News Marijuana Clubs Busted A medicinal marijuana club at 14th & Mission was raided by the D.E.A yesterday as well as eight other places throughout San Francisco and Oakland. In total, fifteen people were arrested
Arts & Entertainment The Kooky Adventures of the Superfisters Even as Dr. DeBunko exhorts us to subscribe to Skeptic Magazine, we can't help but feel that there are some missed opportunities here to ponder some real mysteries -- namely, how otherwise intelligent
SF News Brinks Truck Heist Goes Bad In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and
SF News 911 Hit and Run Tapes Released On Live 105's morning show, they were playing the recordings and sort of snarking on the people who called for being a little too casual. Oh so "San Francisco" they were saying. Which,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even MORE TV Tonight Alas, there is one show on Thursday night we have decided to pass on, and that is CBS's much-hyped "Shark," starring James Woods. Now, we're not passing on the show because it's bad.
SF News Don't Answer The Phone, Don't Open The Door Friday's incident at the Cloyne Court co-op involved a recent graduate from the stats department, who was found unresponsive in the dorm room of a friend he was visiting. An autopsy is scheduled
SF News Everybody Must Get Stoned Actually, it's not calling for decriminalizing but something almost along the lines-- declaring it "the lowest law enforcement priority." This would put it on the same level as other non-enforced crimes such public
SF News Gavin Gets Tough on Crime The measures will cost $3.7 million which means the Board of Supervisors have to weigh in on it. This is where the fun begins because the Board have been pretty cranky about
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
misc Photoshop Gavin Contest! Where was Gavin Newsom last week? a) On the playa at Burning Man; b) On a date with a barely-legal model; c) On a date with a C-list reality TV star; d) Trying
SF News East Bay Crime A Hayward teenager was beaten up and left bloody on a stranger's porch. In the pleasant upscale suburb of Lafayette, on Happy Valley Road, no less, a human body was found burned to
SF News Ohmeed Popal -- The Latest Ohmeed Popal's parents had apparently been very overprotective of him throughout his life, to protect him from America's "evil society." Popal got in a big argument with his parents starting over the weekend
SF News Tragic End To The Missing Baby Story For those of you who thought something about this case didn't sound right, consider yourselves vindicated: the father is now considered the main suspect in the murder. (We knew those Mission hipsters going
SF News Hit-and-Run Driver, Day 2 The police are continuing their investigation of Ohmeed Popal and his deadly series of hit-and-run accidents in Fremont and San Francisco yesterday. Here's the latest: The Chron's put together a chronology of events:
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
SF News Copper Thieves In The Mission? Last night, it was weird to see an unmarked white work truck show up on our street after 10 p.m. We have long held fantasies about being a private investigator or lately,
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
SF News Prurient Interest We assume you know all the lurider and lurider details about this, so we're not going into it here. But what's the local angle? Karr used to be a substitute teacher in San
Arts & Entertainment The Mysterious, Scientific, and Theatrical Adventures of the Superfisters And then there's "Frank Ironwine," by Warren Ellis and Carla Speed McNeil. Warren certainly does seem to like writing about gritty, flawed characters who have nothing left to lose and are willing to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: John Barleycorn And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. ~ From The Ballad of John Barleycorn
