SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Part II Oh, Ed. Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed. This does not seem speedy like you promised. Then again, you promised a lot of things. Sigh. After yesterday's whopping indictment by a federal grand jury,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Indicted It is done. According to the Chronicle, a "federal grand jury indicted suspended San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew today on charges of soliciting $80,000 in bribes from local businesses by threatening their
SF News SFist Blotter Oh No, Chris Kavanaugh! Berkeley's own Ed Jew, a Green Party member of the Berkeley rent board who was actually living (and litigating with his landlord) in Oakland, pled not guilty to three
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Duct Tape We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news! Fang qi means
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Newsom's Intervention "Enough is enough," Newsom said to reporters this morning. "He needs to do the right thing and step aside." Interesting words there, Gavin. Irony aside, the Mayor renewed his call for disgraced supervisor
SF News Oh No Chris Kavanagh!: Ed Jew Copycat It seems that he actually lived on 63rd Street in Oakland, where he was in the process of fighting his own eviction by new landlords, and in order to be on the board,
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Please Mr. Postman We just can't keep Ed down for a day. And we feel sorry for him at this point. Almost. In addition to the nine state felony charges filed against him by La Kamala,
SF News Oh No Ed Jew: Plea Bargain! Anyway, according to ABC7, prosecution just offered a plea bargain to Mr. Ed, one that would have him step down as your favorite fibbing San Francisco Supervisor -- as well as some other
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Plea This might be the perfect time for City Hall's favorite cabaret star to hone up on his Kander and Ebb. (Some "Cell Block Tango," maybe?) SF supervisor and mysterious resident Ed Jew entered
SF News Did Barry Give Mustard Gas to Saddam Hussein? There's big legal news concerning the Barry, none of which involves Curt Schilling or Grand Juries. Oh no. Barry has just been slapped with a lawsuit by an inmate in a South Carolina
SF News Guilty Of Backdating The damning part of the trial came when the HR director in charge of benefits testified that Reyes told her that "it's not illegal if you don't get caught," though on cross-examination, the
SF News Chauncey Bailey's Source The Chronicle reports that Yusuf Bey's son-in-law, Saleem Bey, 43, who worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery for ten years, was the main source for journalist Chauncey Bailey's unpublished stories about the bakery.
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Conrad Black Postscript: I am writing this from the San Francisco Bay Area, where all summer a local politician named Ed Jew has been in trouble over his filing of an allegedly bogus claim of
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After A's 6 Reds 1- It looks like as long as the A's play the Reds and not the Red Birds, all is well with the world. Joe Blanton did the pitching deed this
SF News A Little Piece of the Puzzle The little part of the story involves the ex-Prosecutor Kevin Ryan and his replacement, Scott Schools. Now Ryan was one of the eight attorneys let go in the purge, although there doesn't seem
misc SFist Answers: Crack Cocaine, MUNI, And Bettie Page This week we cover hard drugs, bodily functions, and most agonizing of all -- MUNI. Keep those questions flowin' to [email protected]. Include your question, your name, and your city/neighborhood – just
SF News The Warriors: Thank you Spurs, May We Have Another What a stinking dog of a putrid rotting corpse of a disgusting disgrace of an abomination of a disgrace of a debacle of a sham of a fraud of a spectacle of a
SF News Voting Stories? But just because we haven't voted doesn't mean you haven't voted yet. So, in the comment section, if you got some interesting story to tell, post away. Got caught in voter fraud? Some
SF News Solid, Liquid, Gas The three forms of water, in your daily news! Solid: Authorities continue to be baffled about a huge piece of ice that fell from the sky over Oakland, landing in Bushrod Park by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin + Sofia: Democracy In Action Gavin Newsom + Sofia Milos! We can't get enough! So, like the New Yorker cartoon caption contest, this is where get involved. We've scientifically picked the six finalists in the Name That Couple contest
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
misc Redefeat Bush Rallies are being called throughout the day tomorrow, including several large ones in D.C., and we can bet your bottom dollar that there’ll be some sort of rally here. Meanwhile, people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hope She Didn't Steal The Shoes Shoplifting, Courtney-Love-drug-sharing, indie-rock cradle robber Winona Ryder went all Lebowski at Hayward's Holiday Bowl last week as she and Joseph Fiennes filmed scenes for their upcoming movie, The Darwin Awards (it's about insurance
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a