SF News Susan Polk Found Guilty Susan Polk, the Orinda woman accused of murdering her therapist husband, has been found guilty of second-degree murder, with an enhancement of use of a deadly weapon. Jurors began deliberations on the 2002
SF News Seersucker Sashay Chante Our own Dianne Feinstein continues to put her own stamp on Congress' annual "Seersucker Thursday" tribute to Southern style. Not since the last "Jeans Day" at their local Catholic High School has this
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Win a Few Jon was going to write up a blurb about the Giants taking two-out-of-three from the D-Backs, but he was way-laid by a prawn quesidilla at Taco Bell. And yes, you might be thinking
SF News Anderson Cooper Sighting I heard a rumor that Anderson Cooper was in town today, shooting a live show this evening. Can you substantiate this rumor? Please? While we here at SFist haven't heard jack about a
SF News Barry in '07? Just Say No While most of the speculation has it that Barry will be AL-bound, to some place where he can just DH and while away his time on the bench during the other team's ups,
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
SF News 4.7 Quake on Calaveras Fault Anybody else feel the seismic alarm clock go off this morning at 5:24? A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Calaveras Fault, centered approximately six miles from San Martin, California. It was
SF News All the Small Things So naturally, this morning, we checked out the Examiner's web site only to see that a court hearing has been set over the Bush administration wanting to put a biodefense lab at the
SF News Armando Cries Us a River Remember those halcyon days of 2005 when it became apparent the Giants season was not going to go as expected and everyone on the team started in with the kvetching? Well, it's happening
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF News Gavin Walks The Talk SFist Reader Amy tipped us off to these photos of our green mayor at the Walk the Talk eco-fashion show and event Saturday night. Check out how casual he is, all open necked
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
SF News Leave No Child Behind You know what they need in Redwood City? The Redwood City Twirlers kids baton troupe (ages 9-14) has been told they will not be permitted to march in the city's annual July 4
SF News Weird News Of The Day You know, some days you log onto SFGate.com and you think, wow, there's a lot of weird local news today. *A man carjacked, kidnapped, and raped a nun in the Mission, and
SF News Runoff? You know this correspondent doesn't know much about Oakland city politics, but we're trying to get up to speed so we can fully relish the exciting Florida-like state of affairs over there in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
SF News <strike>John Haggett</strike> Jack Neeley The man to your left is a cabdriver named Jack Neeley, not rogue cop John Haggett -- and he's richer by an undisclosed amount after settling his lawsuit with the Chronicle for their
SF News The Warriors: Executives Deciding Badly On June 28, the Warriors have the ninth pick in the 2006 NBA draft. With anxiety over their drafting position now relieved, the Warriors can get down to the business of deciding who
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Down, But Not Out Maybe there is something to this 6/6/06 numerological weirdness after all. The mood seems dark and sinister for an election day. And it was certainly some devilish characters who have shut
SF News It Takes a Village to Shoot Smack The plan is to post banners up everywhere in the Gulch announcing that you're in Polk Village, then making it official in three years after everybody had gotten used to it by putting
SF News Vote?! We bounded out of bed this morning, (that is, once we made sure that our floor hadn't been replaced by brimstone) eager to vote in today's election. OK, the eager one was actually
SF News Gratefully Dead in San Mateo Foucrault, of course, denies the charges. The allegations matter even more because Foucrault is up for election as San Mateo County Coroner. Yes, for whatever reason, there is an actual election on who
SF News Not Dead Yet Over the weekend, a compromise was reached in that people who wanted to drink booze inside Washington Square Park, where the music could be heard, can. It's just that they'll be cordoned off
SF News The Warriors: Down and Out in Old Monterrey So what do you do when you haven't made the playoffs in 11 years, you refuse to hold the front office and the head coach responsible, and can't seem to come up with
