SF News Prop D: Take a Look, It's In A Book! We're leery of blank-check bonds and the proposition's license to borrow in a kind of indefinite manner, but how many other things on the ballot have the support of the Mayor and the
SF News For Scott Peterson, Murder Doesn't Pay Growl. The world's sexiest uxoricidist (and infanticidist, depending on which side of the fence you're on) is out a whole lot of cash now. It seems he's not entitled to the $250,000
SF News BART Will Know When You're Sleeping, Awake, Riding the Last Car With a cool $5.4 million in new state bond money, according to the Chronicle, "BART will upgrade and expand its security camera system" to the likes of which you've never seen before!
SF News American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has . There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop
SF News Advertising Won't Grace Golden Gate Bridge Much to everyone's delight, we're certain, today Golden Gate Bridge corporate officials rejected an offer that would have seen the city rolling around naked in millions of dollars from advertising. A plan that
SF News No Snoop for You: SF Dishonors Dogg, Exotic Erotic Ball Founder Yesterday, we got a press release touting the fact that the city was going to issue a proclamation to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and Snoop Dogg. Our reaction? Get!
Arts & Entertainment In this Metaphor, the Mayor is Jafar, and the Proposed Events Office is the Lamp, and Halloween is Aladdin (and Bevan is Jasmine) And those answers are: Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, you're not surprised? Well excuuuuse us, Amazing Kreskin. Anyway, the report has a whole slew of very specific instructions (but they're barricaded behind a stupid
SF News Loitering for Biden Yesterday, presidential hopeful Joe Biden released details of his plan for the health care system, and coincidentally, we spotted this sign in an area of San Francisco that our 2001 Muni map calls
SF News We Suspect that this Film was Secretly Financed by the Exploding Fake Blood Packet Industry Ho hum. The outside-of-Tahoe location looks pretty, at least. And WTF is up with Atom's videoplayer not letting you fast-forward? Those four minutes of stewing just gave us extra time to think up
Arts & Entertainment Photo of a Yellow Corvette at Laguna Seca = $1,000 This is strange. And gimmicky. But, hey, it's $1,000! Here's the deal: Jalopnik is offering $1,000 to someone who snaps up and sends them an image of a yellow 2009 Corvette
misc Twin Peaks Properties The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently,
SF News Question Time, Unwillingly Mine Hey, remember that Question Time thingy? You know, that non-binding measure that voters passed which called for Gavin to appear in front of the Board of Supes and answer questions thrown his way
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero: Smelly, Dirty, Dangerous, and We Liked it That Way Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put,
SF News Sunnyvale Madame / Sex Trafficker Gets 2.5 Years in the Clink Sue Yung Song, 48, former co-owner of the Sunnyvale-based Crystal Palace (a house of ill-repute) received a mere two and a half years in federal prison for "smuggle in Korean immigrants to work
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
SF News More On That Crazy Sean Penn Story A little birdie sent us an e-mail concerning the story about Sean Penn's recent desire to wade into the wonderful world of SF politics. According to said birdie, Madonna’s ex was watching
SF News All I Need are Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Buzz, Matt Gonzalez, and I'm Fine According to the story, Matt really wasn't sure if his bud Sean was making a joke or not (although we've yet to hear Sean Penn make a joke and can't be sure he
SF News Google Still Hating America If you may remember, Google first got in trouble when they didn't do one of those cute logo cartoons to Support the Troops. Now they're in some more trouble with conservatives for celebrating
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tastes of the City: Help raise money for the George Mark Children's House in San Leandro by attending this culinary bash. Young and "philanthropic-minded" guys and gals meet and mingle while binge
Arts & Entertainment Connecting Worlds Benefit -- Tonight If you're going to drink this Saturday, make it for a good cause! El Rio is hosting the Connecting Worlds benefit from 4-7 p.m. Jam band Chemystry Set will be playing, there's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Coo-Yah: Stoners rejoice! And dance! Green B and Daneekah pump out roots, reggae, and dancehall tunes tonight in the Mission. Starts at 10 p.m. at Bruno's, free. -- Papillon (1973) and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
