SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The al fresco SF Mayoral race debate, featuring full frontal. Gosh. What madcap wackiness will they unload on us next? [SFBG] -- "Not guilty," says Ed Jew. [Examiner] -- CW Nevius on
SF News SFist Blotter Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Plea E to the Dizzo, J to the Ew-wo -- not guilty, we gots to feel him! Ed Jew, in an American flag tie, appeared in state criminal court today and pled not guilty
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Jury Duty Many were a-twitter today when Ed Jew showed up at the Hall of Justice this morning for jury duty. Apparently he received his summons at his Sunset "home" address. And apparently, he had
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Forget-Me-Nots --Matier and Ross report that it looks like everyone's going to punt to Jerry Brown to make the final decision about whether to throw Ed Jew out of office or not over the
SF News One Mile Better Ain't Enough Truckin' For 'Moonbeam' Jerry Brown, our recenty elected State Attorney General and St. Ignatius College Prep alum, isn't afraid to take the Bush Administration to task for its weak stand on fuel efficency for SUVs, minivans
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Brown Caught Swearing There was more bible holding and swearing oaths today than a Pat Robertson "300 Club" revival as Jerry Brown also got sworn in today as the new Attorney General. Like the Board of
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
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 Runoff? You know this correspondent doesn't know much about Oakland city politics, but we're trying to get up to speed so we can fully relish the exciting Florida-like state of affairs over there in
SF News Moonbeam Thug? According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
SF News The Huffington Roast Okay, we're going to go ahead and put our two cents in on this, while scrupulously avoiding actually linking to it -- we will, however, link to the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke's thoughts
SF News Wah-huh? Now SFist is all about consensus and compromise and bi-partisan politics, but unless the cake was chock-full of laxatives, we don't see how getting friendly with a man who Ted Kennedy accused of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Bay Area Hog the Camera This Week Well, after checking out what goes on on some of these local programs, we don't think that'll really be an issue. First up is "Bay Area Focus", which airs Sundays at 8:30
SF News Making It Oak-ficial We're a little late on this, but mazel tov to newly-affianced Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland and his girlfriend of 15 years, Gap executive Anne Gust! (We apologize for using the picture of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Supervisors Can Be Such Bitches We all know it -- bloggers really be such bitches (buy your SFist t-shirt bearing said message right here right now!) -- so guess who's the City's newest entrant in the blogrolls? That's
SF News Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay Seems Dan Siegel, member of the lame-duck Oakland School Board and likely candidate for Jerry Brown's job, had "less than an ounce" of marijuana discovered in his checked luggage on his way out
