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Telegraph Hill is Going to the Birds

For those who don't know, the Parrots of Telegraph Hill are a bunch of parrots who one day showed up in Telegraph Hill and made themselves home in some of the trees there.

Meet Me at the Coffee Shop/We Can Dance Like Iggy Pop

It's two in the afternoon, doesn't anybody have jobs? And it's the worst kind of coffee shop denizens too, the kind who have their laptop on and are pretty much camped out there

News About The Mayor

Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions

Arts & Entertainment

Josh Wolf Breaks a Record

If you want more background to the story, click here and here but long story, short-- Wolf videotaped a bunch of anarchists get with the anarchy, a cop was hurt, Wolf showed it

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

Downtown Train

Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the

The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom)

--The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all

The Meters Jam

The Chron says that while the meter's don't take in enough money, tickets do. Or at least in relation to other cites. Here comes the numbers: last year people plunked in about $29.

Arts & Entertainment

<i>Top Chef</i>: Stick A Fork In It; It's Done

Hey, folks, welcome to our weekly opinions on the past week's , which we hope will spur you to watch tonight's episo-- What? Last week was it? No after-season wrap-up where they contestants yell

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Cocola is a No-No-La. . . At Least For The Coffee

There are many fine examples of patisseries and boulangeries that make wonderful coffee. Cocola, located in the Westfield, that wondrous new monstrosity of a shopping complex, is not one of them. While we're

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.

Insert Bad Beatles Pun Here

This whole thing started way back in the '80's when Beatles Corp got a little pissy about the trademark infringement on the use of Apple's apple logo. A deal was struck allowing Apple

The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table

Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New

BART Extensions

The money comes from the California Transportation Commission and is more than half the $700 million that the Valley Transportation Authority needs to do the engineering on it. In fact, the engineering has

...And They Have a Plan

In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,

Driveway Parking

What does this have to do with anything other than being one of our favorite stories? Well, there's been an influx of driveway parking, especially in the Richmond, and Supervisor Jake McG wants

Free Parking

According to Budget Analyst Harvey Rose San Francisco's 23,000 meters or so average between $2.61 and $5.59 a day. That's about three hours of usage on the meters. Over the

Moving Up the Primary

The reasons for the move are mainly that we get a bit more say in electing the President. You could also make the argument that since we're more representative of America than, say,

More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand

They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction

Cabalicious

Turns out that one of the biggest complaints members of the Taxi cab commission hear is that there isn't enough cabs?. Really? So the obvious answer is adding new cabs, as well as

Let it Ride

At last night's meeting, they talked about ways to make up the budget shortfalls. Proposed ideas are the usual ones: lots of fee increases (parking, license and tickets) and selling residential parking passes

A Peek Into the Secret, Exciting Life of the MTA Board

The excitement begins with a call to order! Then a roll call, an announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices, approval of minutes, and then, at long last, "communications." Communications with whom? We're

American Football Spectacular: Baltimore vs Indianapolis vs Baltimore vs Cleveland

* Indianapolis vs. Baltimore Saturday, January 13, 2007. 1:30 PM, PST. 2007 Divisional Playoffs The Battle Of The Stolen Much has been made of the Colts' exit from Charm City -- one of

TEPping Out With My Baby

In order to get the buses to run on time, MUNI tried out all sorts of whacky things like having supervisors monitor the buses, have people work overtime to make up for absent

It's Friday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is?

As any Raider fan would tell you, if a team wants to move to another city, there's really nothing the NFL could do about it. It's Al Davis' favorite rule. The reason why