SF News Putting The Beach Back In North Beach Surf's up! Two water mains on Lombard between Stockton and Powell Streets burst this morning at about 4 a.m., flooding North Beach streets. The Public Utilities Commission says it might be from
SF News The Continuing Adventures of Amy Lee The appeal was filed by noted "eviction attorney" Andrew Zacks. Zacks filed it on behest of "Citizens for the Equal Treatment in the Permit Process” (CETPP?), a shady and mysterious new group whose
misc H. Brown & Anti-Semitism "For taking one for the team in fighting Donald Fisher pretty much alone. I feel almost responsible because I kept writing about the Jewish cabal of Fisher & Shorenstein & Blum & Goldman
SF News Muni Union Gnawing Off Own Leg? But what happens when the union starts turning on itself? Being Stallone fans, we know where this can end up. Given the fearful power of our Local 250, could this schism be a
SF News We're Still Poor, How About You? The California Budget Project* today released a report that "examines how the Bay Area’s workers and their families have fared before, during, and since the boom and subsequent bust." Their findings (beware,
SF News TechConnect Public Hearing Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog the event, which you can watch on SFGTV here [RealPlayer]. We have to commend kicking it off with a good old, single-source, un-verifiable rumor:Google proposed
SF News Four Out Of Five Unsolved We've gotten kind of into this show on A&E called "The First 48," which follows homicide detectives during the first 48 hours of a murder investigation. As the narrator intones over
SF News SF Getting Its V Card If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect
SF News Clemency Denied As many legal observers expected, Gov. Schwarzenegger denied Stanley "Tookie" Williams's request for clemency, stating that (.pdf) there was strong evidence supporting the jury's guilty verdict, and that he doesn't really believe that
SF News Mini Golf Terror Watch out for that 16th hole -- it's a doozy! The sandtrap and rotating windmill take on a sinister tone now at San Jose's mini golf haven Golfland, as authorities discover that the
misc Justice for Strippers According to plaintiff's attorney Greg Walston, this hourly minimum (derived from the rate at the worker-owned and operated Lusty Lady), is meant to protect dancers from having to resort to prostitution or face
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
SF News Bedbug Army Attacks San Francisco After the New York Times recently published an article on bedbugs (Boo, TimesSelect), their media profile has certainly risen. Our old friend Sam Dodge at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who have been dealing
SF News Will We Get What We Paid For? His base pay will be $298,000, but he has eligibility for up to "$337,000 when all compensation is taken into account." We got excited hearing that last bit, thinking "maybe they'll
SF News Jerry Tang Update In addition to posting fliers posted all over the city, they've created a wiki on the effort to find him, which is being constantly updated withinformatin on whom to contact if you can
SF News The Perils of Pelosi So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized
SF News SF Murder Rate 2005 Well, the 2005 body count in SF is now up to 92, after a man was found strangled to death in a SoMA hotel, making this the worst year in SF for murders
Arts & Entertainment Ken Garcia Lands Job at the Ex "This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia said. "I'm looking
SF News Super Softball Action “It is great to have the win, but our team is looking to forward to the playoffs,” said a modest Elsbernd, who put the Super in Supervisor with his outstanding play. Boris Delepine
misc Wells Embargo Red state on blue state violence! The conservative Colorado-based group Focus on the Family (the guys who came out against SpongeBob Squarepants) has announced that it's withdrawing all its money from Wells Fargo
SF News Pistol Packin' Pardners Piss on Prop H In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands of a firearm, for a totaly of 3,410 deaths according to the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention.
SF News Welcome Houstonist! In our parent company's continuing spread across the globe, we're happy to welcome Houstonist to the fold. We've heard tell of some sort of barbecue-related rivalry between them and Austinist, and words have
SF News Big Brother: No Longer Spying on You At first, ISKMIFP denied keeping tabs on the anti-war rally yet refused to release any document that could absolve said thing, even going so far as to claim that the units' notes were
