SF News Sheer Volume Of Excrement In Machinery Breaking BART Escalators What in the?! Who is defecating with such frequency on our BART station escalators that, after it oozes down and gums up the machinery, it is causing them to break? Well, according to
Arts & Entertainment New Blog Pokes Fun At Lower Haight Homeless Lady [Updated] Well, this is enthralling/depressing. A new Tumblr account (noted in today's Morning Links) called Lower Haight Sleeping Bag Lady asks obnoxious Lower Haight residents and its fans to submit photos of a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Guy Invites Homeless Man Home To Shower, Eat Stefano Caprile, who shot this footage of Drippy Art on Bernal Hill, send us this new video of a real life recording from a homeless man in San Francisco asking for something to
SF News Homeless Deaths Memorialized Tonight At Civic Center The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco Network Ministries, and the general public will gather tonight to honor those who died while homeless. The memorial will happen at 5:30 p.m. at Civic
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Brokenhearted Sofa? Photographer Erik Wilson (famous for his abandoned sofa oeuvre) snapped this shot of a message from brokenhearted Pappy to his very special Bugaloo. Pappy wrote similar pleas here and here. Here's to hoping
SF News Oakland Man Shot While Helping Homeless Dies Paris Powell, the Oakland man shot just after midnight on Tuesday while trying to deliver a fish dinner to a homeless man with whom he'd formed a relationship, died late last night. He
SF News Sit-Lie Ordinance Useless, Says SF Police San Francisco's controversial sit-lie ordinance, which passed in November by a narrow margin, has accomplished what many predicted: nothing. The law, making it verboten to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Paw Fund to Help Pets of the Homeless Berkeleyside effortlessly tugs our heart strings today with a story about Paw Fund, a clinic for pets of homeless people started by Jill Posener, a photographer and onetime Animal Care Commissioner. Behold: In
SF News 48-Unit SoMa Fire Displaces at Least 75 Wednesday night's three-alarm fire that ravaged Park Hotel on Folsom Street left over 75 San Franciscans homeless. The Red Cross set up shelters to cover the displaced for the night, and will continue
SF News Common San Francisco Complaints Ranked by Chamber of Commerce San Franciscans love to complain about things, we know this. The Chamber of Commerce probably knows this too (unless they are completely out of touch), so in order to quantify exactly which complaints
misc Castro Arson Fires Prompt Awesome Fundraiser for Displaced Victims Please, please, please join us at The Lookout on Tuesday, February 15, for a fundraiser to benefit the displaced residents of the Castro arson fires. As many of you know, four fires in
SF News Afternoon Palate Filler: Homeless Drunk Boys YouTube user Photorikki captured several recessionistas living it up near former Supervisor Chris Daly's new bar, Buck's Tavern, on Stevenson Street. (This was shot before Daly took over, by the way.) In the
SF News 48 Displaced After North Beach Fire Early New Year's Day A two-alarm fire broke out in a North Beach apartment building early New Year's Day, displacing 48 residents, two-thirds of whom only speak Cantonese and many of them low-income. The fire was reported
SF News Photo du Jour 736 James Jeter gets a beard trim and haircut during the Veterans Connect event at the downtown VA clinic in San Francisco on Wednesday. Veterans Connect, which targets roughly 2,500 homeless veterans in
SF News Haight Voters Rejected Sit/Lie: But Money and Votes from City's Richest Hoods Made for Successful Measure L While Haight residents rejected Measure L -- election 2010's divisive sit/lie law that, after passing, will now keep city sidewalks sparkling clean, or whatever -- loads of cash and plenty of votes
SF News Homeless Woman Burns Tourist's Face With Cigarette at Fisherman's Wharf In a new endorsement for S.F. as America's number-one tourist destination (18th year in a row, boyeee), two "transients" attacked a tourist couple near Fisherman's Wharf last week. As Mike Aldax reports
SF News Homeless Advocates Take Over S.F. Hotel On Sunday, during a rally for World Homeless Day starting at Civic Center, activists took over a vacant San Francisco residential hotel in the Tenderloin. IndyBay reveals that the Creative Housing Liberation and
SF News S.F. Considers a 'Wet House' Where Homeless Alcoholics Can Live and Drink In Peace You know how the Board of Supervisors are trying to make up for some $17 million spent annually on medical care and law enforcement related to alcohol abuse by taxing all alcohol sold?
SF News Haight McDonald's Nixes Dollar Menu Well, this seems downright mean, depriving someone of a $1 McDouble. And that, dear readers, is just what the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's has done. See, according to the Chronicle, the store "eliminated
SF News Obama to End Homelessness Via Project Homeless Connect? Today, President Obama announced the launch of Opening Doors, which will, ideally, help prevent homelessness by using a San Francisco-based model. Not so simply put, Opening Doors is "a more targeted approach by
SF News Bypassing BOS, Newsom Asks Voters To Decide On Sit-Lie In lieu of dealing with the Board of Supervisors, Gavin Newsom will have voters decide on the sensitive sit-lie law, which would make it illegal for folks to sit or lie down on
