misc Dear Mr Ford: Special Bay To Breakers Edition After finishing the Bay to Breakers, my spouse and I were good little citizens and walked to the MUNI buses that were lined up to take us back toward downtown. We had paid
SF News Two Wheels Are Better Than Four Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only
SF News Your Commute: Road Slowdowns Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Our press-loving governor thought it'd be a fun stunt to sign a bill to reduce congestion at the always-jammed
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems to
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
SF News Have You Seen Jerry Tang? See this PDF for a better picture of Tang, who experienced a stroke which has left him with balance, memory and epilepsy issues at age 37. He is on an anti-seizure medication
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass How amazing is Dolly Parton? From "9 To 5" to "I Will Always Love You" and beyond, the woman has written a zillion classic songs and has sung them
SF News Billboard Liberation Front Strikes in San Francisco THIS EMAIL IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY—PLEASE EAT EMAIL AFTER READING. You've been sent this email because you are a Person of Special Interest. The Billboard Liberation Front is planning
misc Resting in Peace with the Essefficist Good news, Everyone! The Essefficist is back! Actually, we've just returned from Denver and our heads are still a little woozy from all that thin air up there. But we'
SF News Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. The quality of San Francisco's eavesdropping has never really impressed us -- the character of our overhearings always seemed more like disembodied one-chuckle quotes from "Kids Say The Darndest Things&
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why?
SF News Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Garage Unlike previous campaigns, activists at the rally held last week stressed that they were not trying to oppose the parking garage (which would be hard to do since they're more than
Arts & Entertainment Re-Creationism How will this take place? By immersing ourselves in the time. Get your fill of jousting, wench tossing, thee-ing, thou-ing, and belching this weekend. Check out the First Annual Renaissance Faire
Arts & Entertainment Duck and Cover We warn you because the DMB is around town all the time, and boy do we have lots of bridges. Many of their top albums were recorded accross the Golden Gate at The
SF News Sunset Tragedy Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30
SF News Sudden Oak Death Hits the Bay Area Last week, sudden oak death, was confirmed to have infected two oak trees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Sudden oak death, also known as the pathogen , has been disasterous in the west
