Arts & Entertainment Your CRT monitor is now obsolete Sure, your bulky old monitor still works fine. But it's obsolete anyway. Here's how we can tell: perfectly good CRT monitors abandoned on sidewalks and streets of San Francisco are now getting tagged
SF News Don't Be A Litter Bug So today, Gavin introduced a new campaign to stop littering. This time, the campaign will be mainly educational as that appears to be the problem. We don't understand why people wouldn't think littering
SF News Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
SF News Recycling Your Christmas Tree Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Arrow Bar If you're going to be wending your way through crack addicts, men wearing garbage bags as clothing and general oddities of the night you might as well do it for the right reasons.
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
SF News Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire
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 Talking Trash In other garbage news, the City of Oakland is complaining about the trash accumulating in the DIY Bordertown Skatepark, built by skateboarders and legitimized by CalTrans last year. Bordertown is now faced with
Arts & Entertainment Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role
SF News Then he Growled, with his Grinch Fingers Nervously Drumming... Holy crap! Is it even possible? Supervisor Dufty wants to a holiday? According to a statement from the Duftster's office, he wants to make "an effort to send the message that there’s
SF News Trash Talkin' Someone get Jake McGoldrick a green fuzzy costume -- he's gone all Oscar the Grouch about people who leave their big trash and recycling bins out on the sidewalk after trash pickup day.
SF News Political Junkie: Sanity Alert! We are very sad to report to you that Chris Daly is in the Chron today -- but not for hauling off and hitting anyone, or yelling at someone so loud that the
SF News Ron, Not Matt: Our New Column! We thought we saw some bubbling vats of tar and a pile of feathers from freshly-plucked fowl in San Jose the other day -- the San Jose city council's got humiliation on the
SF News Political Junkie: Since We Been Gone We're back from vacation -- and it's to get caught up on two weeks of news! Why didn't anyone tell us San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales got indicted? Over a garbage-services contract, no
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Titian: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he has amassed a collection of junk that would make any
SF News Only Happy When It Rains Well, at least Shirley Manson from Garbage is happy: it's still raining and we've got more rain predicted, off and on, for the next two weeks. Thanks to the persistent rain, newscasters have
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on the Fairer Sex Submissions go to Yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Man: "It's cold." Woman: "It's so cold I'm going to freeze my tiny nipples off." --From Eve/ In front of the
Arts & Entertainment The Reviews Are In: Nobody Likes Current TV Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
misc Coyote Ugly South Bay residents are seeing significantly larger numbers of coyotes moving into their residential areas. So far, 12 cats and 2 dogs have been killed in one Los Gatos neighborhood, and neighbors report
SF News Urban Ornithology Pigeons - with their penchant for cooing, darting, eating garbage, and soiling cars and innocent passersby-may comprise the biggest bird population in the City, but they aren't the only avian species around. The
