SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
SF News Gavin Continues His March To Victory: Tony Hall's Out Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and wears clothes, of
SF News Day Around The Bay --Local photog Thomas Hawk gets assaulted for taking pictures -- again. [Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection, via the SFist tips line. update: From last year! Sorry! Keep those tips fresh, folks!] --C.W. Nevius
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Early Bird What's Ed Jew doing today, now that he's been excused from jury duty? This has got to be the first time anyone's been to get San Francisco jury duty, ever. --The Chron's got
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Part II And away we go... Why do the fare inspectors seem to cluster together in packs of 4 or more? Safety in numbers? Or because it's an easier way to check for passes/transfers?
SF News Day Around The Bay --There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye
SF News Happy Birthday, Care Not Cash In honor of the anniversary, Team Gavin has launched a full court press showing that despite appearances, things have improved. Question: what is the proof? Answer: according to Trent Roher, about 1,800
SF News Smile For the Camera, Double Parkers The plan would have cameras placed on Muni buses that face outwards and take videos of their drives. Maybe they could post it online so everyone could see what they’re drives are
SF News The San Francisco District Attorney's Office Does Their Job Lawyers for the two people charged say that the case is more complicated than everyone thinks as there was alcohol involved and kids will be kids. Whitney Leigh, the lawyer for Aziz says
SF News Today in Transportation -The Chron discovers that there's plenty of fare-evading scofflaws out there in MUNI land. And not only that, it's one of the reasons for MUNI's budget deficit. Anyways, yadda… yadda… yadda… increasing the
SF News And Now For Something Completely Different...GleeGate! So let's go the families. A couple of days ago, the parents of one of the kids who got beat up sent a letter to Kamala Harris wondering what's up. They apparently got
SF News Today in <em>As the Gav Turns</em> As SFist Rita mentioned, Gavin has figured out that the best way to not have there being any sort of impropriety regarding Alex Tourk's severance using city coffers is by agreeing to pay
SF News Today's Installment of <em>As the Gav Turns</em> ANYWAYS, let's take a look at all the big picture stuff out there, starting with the rumor that DiFi wanted Gavin to resign. This morning, the rumor was completly denied by DiFi's people.
SF News The Day After One day after Gavin's big My Bad moment, the big question is what does this all mean for him, the city, and his reelection bid. After all, as bad as this all sounds,
SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
Arts & Entertainment Ken Garcia Lands Job at the Ex "This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia said. "I'm looking
Arts & Entertainment Deadly Juice Squeeze Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San
Arts & Entertainment Bye, Ken Garcia Okay, we confess, Ken Garcia the dentist isn't the same Ken Garcia who just took early retirement from the Chronicle. For one thing, Ken Garcia the dentist also plays in a jammin' Latin/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Bad Reporter As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And