SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
SF News SFist Blotter There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
SF News Step One In Insidious Scheme To Legalize Pot Complete Assembly Bill 684 seeks to legalize the growing of hemp for industrial uses -- rope, cloth, oil, all that good stuff. It's not for smoking, okay? Okay?! In fact, the bill, which passed
SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
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 Cracking Down on Parking Scofflaws First up, cracking down on handicap placards. Turns out those handicap placards are all the rage these days, as they seem to be everywhere. According to statistics, the amount of those handy-dandy blue
SF News Get Me to the J Church On Time Starting on Monday, MUNI will roll out their improvement plan which mainly consists of actually fully staffing the sucker and having parking control officers actually enforce traffic laws. In other words, the plan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Refrigerate Your Moon Cakes? Did you know that Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days? The last day, March 4, 2007, is the Lantern Festival. So, we're not too late in getting this crucial holiday food
SF News She Sells Sanctuary A recent wave of immigration sweeps (or, as Indy Bay calls it "Gestapo Immigration Raiders") is creating a bit of a fuss not only in San Francisco but throughout the Peninsula and East
SF News Checking in on Gavin's Re-election campaign. The Examiner has a story this morning saying Gavin's re-election campaign is up and running and has already raised a million dollars. The fund raising was suspended for a few weeks after the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mangia, Mangia The Chron went around and asked a bunch of restaurants about how all of these fees are going to affect them. A lot of restaurants have said that the measures passed has already
SF News We're Moving On Up But that's all about to change because the idea of moving the California primary up to February is becoming more and more of a done deal.The reason is because for politicians in
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
misc Lafayette Crosses Go Neon The reasons for the new sign is because of last night's little speech that the President gave. Activists behind the crosses are calling it a "panic button" or "stop sign" and hope that
SF News IDs, You Don't Need Our Stinking IDs But no, that's not the fun part, the fun part is that Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a millionaire thanks to being in early at Sun Microsystems,
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
Arts & Entertainment They Walk Amongt Us Who are these people? Posters on SFWall.net Why are these people so dangerous? Because some of them might be moderate or even....Republican. Luckily, thanks to H Brown, these people might actually
SF News Beat on the Parking Officer If yesterday's theme was transportation, today's theme is looking like parking. Yay! The reason is because we have not just one, but two (two!) stories involving parking. First up is Matier & Ross
SF News Today In the Board of Supervisors: the Results Are In Pot decriminalization: Passed the bill and pass the roach. Styrofoam in restaurants: Buh-bye Foot patrols: Better luck next time, Gavin. Phew. Big winners? Dope Smokers! Big losers: Gavin, the SFPD, the POA and
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
misc Craigslist Encounters: This "Crook"-ed Saga Continues Just as we were putting away the original Jason Fortuny Seattle Craigslist scandal, a copy-cat comes along and tries to run the same prank again. This time with "better" results (Better only in
