SF News Your Commute: Wire Woes Well, on the down side, they're now charging so much for cable cars ($5) that no one wants to ride them anymore. On the up side, no one's going to be able to
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches "the Daily Show" We've tried to make fun of this whole Hackgate thing and we thought we did a slightly better than a half-assed job, but we have been bested. And so now we bow to
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Saddest Game Ever. The Chargers utterly dominated the Raiders on both sides of the ball in an ugly display that carried no positive inertia. The men of the Silver And Black were dominated, cowed, and blown
SF News Everybody Must Get Stoned Actually, it's not calling for decriminalizing but something almost along the lines-- declaring it "the lowest law enforcement priority." This would put it on the same level as other non-enforced crimes such public
SF News <a href=http://gorillamask.net/videoelnino.shtml>El Nino Is Spanish For the Nino</A> El Nino is a weather pattern that occurs every so often, in which temperatures in parts of the Pacific warm up and change weather patterns. In California, it'll usually means more rain, the
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Hacked Anyways, after the tape was leaked, Arnie's office announced that they had proof that somebody had broken into the computer system. They suspected someone from the Angelides camp and had proof to back
SF News Your Commute: Tying Up Traffic There's a report that a MUNI bus managed to snarl all the traffic on 580 after getting in an accident with a big rig? Sure, we can believe a MUNI bus tied up
Arts & Entertainment U-S-A Loses Again What is it with Americans going oversees and losing in sports that should be ours? First it was our soccer team, then our basketball team, and now this-- Alameda's very own Craig "Hot
SF News Gavin Gets Tough on Crime The measures will cost $3.7 million which means the Board of Supervisors have to weigh in on it. This is where the fun begins because the Board have been pretty cranky about
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Library The book was written by Barbara Outland Baker who was his live in girlfriend during Arnie's weightlifting heyday, back in the early 70's. Of course, y'all want the dirt and there's plenty of
SF News Wolf Appeal Denied "Wolf does not claim that he filmed anything confidential nor that he promised anyone anonymity or confidentiality. Therefore, this case does not raise the usual concerns in cases involving journalists." Wolf, however, disagreed
SF News What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today? Cardinals 34- Niners 27: Sometimes a loss can be a victory and this is one of those losses that looks like a victory. Except in the win column where it really counts. The
SF News Watching You Watching You Watching You Hewlett Packard takes us back to 1981 with the recent revelations that they hired private eyes (clap clap), to watch their board -- they saw their every move. (It is totally time for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The End of Kelly's Burgers? While walking down 16th today we noticed something off, something unusual, something different and then we figured out what it was-- Kelly's Burgers looked not only closed but boarded up. The familiar outdoor
SF News Schwartzenwatcher Has a Big Mouth Your latest victim of taped recordings is our Governor who is occasionally taping himself for all the future historians out there to document his governing genius. As if. A six minute part of
SF News The Warriors: If It Wasn't for Bad Luck . . . This is how it plays when you're payin' for your snakebit ways. The Warriors caught a, uh, bad break Wednesday when they learned that first round draft choice Patrick O'Bryant will likely miss
SF News Pac Zen: The Way of Bay Football This SFist was actually kind of excited about the chances of the college football programs around the Bay this season, with the Pac 10 looking wide open. Then Cal got whipped like cream
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
SF News Ohmeed Popal In Court Ohmeed Popal, the man who ran down 18 pedestrians last week, appeared in court today, dressed in the prison jumpsuit and looking "bewildered" at the proceedings. Popal first pled not guilty to the
SF News Your Commute: BART and Caltrain Isn't everyone glad the Bay Bridge is reopened? Well, maybe not BART -- they're reporting a 13% increase in ridership over Labor Day weekend, including 10,200 riders who used the overnight service.
SF News We Are the Coach Gone Wild So last Saturday, this 36 year old father is watching his thirteen year old son play youth league football in Stockton. The 36 year old father is also an assistant coach on his
SF News East Bay Crime A Hayward teenager was beaten up and left bloody on a stranger's porch. In the pleasant upscale suburb of Lafayette, on Happy Valley Road, no less, a human body was found burned to
SF News Who Reads Yesterdays Sports Papers? First, onto baseball: The Giants are now on a three-game roll after taking two from the Cubbies and beating the Reds in ten innings Monday. Your Black & Orange hero? Shea Hillenbrand who
SF News Your Commute: No Bridge, Just Tunnel You know how everyone says San Francisco is a little bubble utopia isolated from the realities of the rest of the world? Well, you might as well embrace it this Labor Day, because
