A gallery of cartoons banned by Apple. [Valleywag] Take your top off. [Daily Clog] Why our local major league baseball franchise is struggling: an analysis. [40 Going On 28] No cigarette zone falters

Walking tour of San Francisco protests. [Zombietime] Oakland mayor defends city's use of stimulus funds. [CBS 5] Service cuts on Muni on May 8th - where's the schedules and trip planning updates? [Akit]

Cancer-stricken Chron writer Alicia Parlette dies. [SF Chronicle] Steve Hildebrand, Obama's wondergay, sends local writer/activist a no-so nice letter. How rude. [Petrelis] Pelosi endorses Kamala Harris in Attorney General race. [SF Weekly]

Riding while pregnant. [SF Bike Coalition] BART casting for TV commercials. [SFBART’s Blog, ] Facebook makes people mad. Again. [Eye On Blogs, Valleywag] Speaking of which, check out your D8 candidates Facebook pages.

SF SPCA would like you to control your pest problem the natural way. [Pawesome] Boat Hall's pro-torture teacher now has his very own toilet paper. [Yoo Toilet Paper, via Gawker] Leland Yee stirs

Angry landlord + renters armed with construction paper and a Sharipe = fun [Mission Mission] How did the iPhone 4G end up in a Redwood City bar? [SF Appeal] Carnivores to boycott San Francisco over

Alicia Parlette, the ex-Chron copywriter who chronicled her life with cancer, is now in hospice care. (To read "Alicia's Story" from The Chron, go here.) [SF Chronicle] Lincoln Park Playground open for business.

AARP convention or tea party rally in Union Square? [Generic] Tea party guy breaks law, gets ticket. [Claycord] Touching strangers on a plane. [Spotswood] It's on: Giants versus Dodgers series preview. [McCovey Chronicles]

by Brock Keeling (who is currently having technical difficulties) Is Muni in a death spiral? [SF Weekly] Beth Spotswood lives the dream of calling, telling off a commenter. [SF Appeal] 49ers stadium vote:

Local elite types, politicians and regular ilk come out to see SF Giants play ball on opening day. [SFGate] Michael Minna to shutter Union Square locale? [Eater] Moms and dads need diapers. [Help

Would you like to have local literary kingpin Tag Savage (Sex Pigeon) sketch your portrait? Of course you would. [Sleepover, via Mission Mission] The horror of having houseguests. [SF Appeal] What's the best

Bay Area cities rediscover the creeks under their streets. [Streetsblog] Inside the Kink.com armory. [Mission Mission] Anti-Israel queer group Q.U.I.T protests Out in Israel film festival. [Zombie] Conservation groups

Riding the zip line at Justin Herman Plaza. [SF Appeal] Checking in with our local Michelin man. [Grub Street] Q&A with Toro y Moi. [SFBG] Argonne community garden party this Saturday.

Turn-on not for months, city celebrates huge solar project nonetheless. [SF Appeal] Refreshing art deco light buttons thingies illuminate the graffiti-saturated Mission district. [My Lucky Number's One, via Mission Mission] August Longo, Democratic

Moving forward, SFist will feature meat-based recipes and meat-related restaurant deals on Mondays. [Examiner] Streetsblog/SF Gate deal draws questions. [Eye On Blogs] Cunnilingus or penetration, which do you prefer? [SF Appeal] Oakland

Could Noe Valley street plaza get axed for fear of too much congestion? [Curbed] Woman mugged for her laptop outside Medjool. [Uptown Almanac] Bill Gates brings his show-stopping cabaret act to UC Berkeley.

Google's 5 funniest April Fools' jokes. [PC World] HRC's full page ad in the Bay Area Reporter is cute and all, but why isn't HRC placing ads in DC's more political rags? [Petrelis]

Supes approve parking garage restrictions. [SF Examiner] Finding a mean bartender in SF is much harder than we thought. [SFGate] Oy. Tomorrow it the most annoying day on the Internet. Brace yourselves. [Laughing

Q&A with Bay Area band Camp Out. [SF Weekly] CSU East Bay professor, arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, accused of molesting baby. [Chronicle] SF cable car system to be shut

Sausalito installs bicycle signs contradicting CA law [Streetsblog] Average rent down by nearly 200/month. [SF Appeal] San Francisco continues to be gayest city on Earth. [Uptown Almanac] Newsom snubs a fan. [SFGate]

World's strongest beer at Toronado. [Eater] San Francisco, a backwards city. [Uptown Almanac] Nine Oakland police corral combative crash suspect. [Chronicle] Turn juice into booze! [CHOW] Joe’s Ice Cream moving after 50

Catamaran constructed of 12,500 plastic bottle sets sail tomorrow from Sausalito to Australia. [Chronicle] Phenomenal food writer Paolo Lucchesi, is back! [SFGate] Discarded to Divine fashion preview. [SF Indie Fashion] Careful if

The horrible dream killers on the arts commission deemed the pink cloud hovering over in the Castro "infeasible," nixing it altogether. [BAR] SFO vs The Bad Airport [SFGate] The Mayor of Hamburger Haven

SF Weekly and SF Bay Guardian: "They're like dinosaurs, fighting over the rotting bones of a soon-to-be-extinct animal." [Stranger] Summer Shields, your District 8 Lyndon LaRouche candidate of choice. [40 Going On 28]

How to carry your feline while riding BART. [SFBART's Blog] Pro-life censorship advocate pies food critic in face at Anarchist Book Festival in Golden Gate Park. [Eye On Blogs] SF's recycling centers hurting