misc It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp The woman in question, Deborah Palfrey, supposedly has forty-six pounds of client records with around 10,000 names. She also is threatening to call as witnesses all sorts of high-powered people during her
SF News Chron Reporters Not Going Up the River It looks like the Chronicle's two BALCO reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, will not be joining Josh Wolf in prison as they're no longer on the hook. The main reason being the
Arts & Entertainment The SF Assassination Attempt on Gerald Ford With the death of Gerald Ford has come renewed interest in the various events in his life, including (for SFist's purposes, anyways) Sara Jane Moore's attempt to assassinate him in San Francisco on
SF News Did the Lawyer Leak? Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched
SF News Nancy's Rough Start The rise to Speaker didn't go without a hitch, however, as Pelosi's choice to replace her as House Majority Leader didn't go so well. Pelosi backed John Murtha, the big bear of a
SF News The Only Bomb That Will Go Off on Sunday Will Be the Raiders According to officials, an online discussion somewhere on the site "New Attack on America Be Afraid" (we're big fans of that site that site but we hate how they draw over pictures of
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i> As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because
SF News You Want Me To Wear What? Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National Bank of Northern
SF News Suspect in Fat Tone Murder Captured Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Trudell</i>! A documentary telling the life story of Sioux Tribe member John Trudell, this film begins in the sixties with his 21 month occupation of Alcatraz Island with group Indians of All Tribes, an
SF News The Most Exciting Antiques Roadshow Ever 150 FBI, Immigration & Customs, Fish & Game and IRS raided eight stores located in Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square, as well as warehouses on the piers. It's thought that all eight businesses
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
Arts & Entertainment Gays Love Cowboys? Who Knew! We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne
SF News More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know -Investigations continue in the Lodi terrorism case, spreading to a religious mosque in East Palo Alto. Five people are currently being held in custody for charges unrelated to terrorism (lots of charges of
SF News Deep Throat Revealed No, not that Deep Throat. Or the documentary. Via Chris Lopez, we've learned that Vanity Fair is reporting W. Mark Felt, former FBI second-in-command, revealed himself to be the famous anonymous source for
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
SF News FBI Not LOL on Schiavo Threat Ms. Jones, who was once in a band called Fatalblastwhip, is now facing federal charges for threatening both Michael Schiavo and a Federal Judge. In light of the recent shootings of Judges in
SF News As the 'Roids Turn You know how in all this steroid hullabaloo, Tony LaRussa has been running around adamantly saying there was nothing going on, nothing happening, and nothing to see? Well, it turns out there was.
misc Former City Supervisor Kevin Shelley Resigns as Secretary of State We s**t you not, we just went to the 'Gate to find a link to this brief news item buried in a Bay Area section sidebar about the FBI setting up a
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of
SF News Poison in the Post The Los Gatos post office was evacuated yesterday after 14 postal workers and one customer became mysteriously ill. People reported an odd odor and a weird metallic taste, and a few people broke
