SF News Give Trees A Chance In a location where our car gets broken into and vandalized on a regular basis, we are not surprised that there are people who for some reason think it's clever, smart or even
SF News Bay Bridge Shut Down Thomas Hawk shares this picture of a very, very quiet Bay Bridge from the Oakland side. According to the Mercury News, there were two closures during the day due to a suspicious package:
SF News Safe Havens What with the news today about the dead baby found in a dumpster in Redwood City, we'll copy KTVU and pass along some information about the Safe Haven (or Safely Surrendered Baby) law.
SF News Have You Seen Jerry Tang? See this PDF for a better picture of Tang, who experienced a stroke which has left him with balance, memory and epilepsy issues at age 37. He is on an anti-seizure medication that
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
SF News Meet Your New Reliever, Same as the Old Reliever Worrell chose not to resign with the G-Men in 2004, opting for the Phillies, something that didn't quite work out that well. Last year, he left for undisclosed "personal reasons" (juicy rumor of
misc SFist Raves: Chinatown Sidewalks The days of being bopped on the shins by little old Chinese ladies carrying pink and white striped plastic bags and suspiciously poking the flesh of fresh fish may be numbered, as DPW
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
SF News Barry in the U.S.A From a marketing standpoint, it's great for baseball. Barry gives the games legitimacy they might not have gotten if say, the biggest guy on the U.S.A team is Mark Grudzielanek. It'll
SF News Political Junkie: Smother Mother Come here, widdle Andrew, let Mommy bury you in her bosom! San Francisco's current best Freudian drama took another lurch into the Viennese land of cigars and trains steaming into tunnels, as the
misc Down and Out at the University of California What's been going on is that the UC have been hiring people for average kind of salaries (for professors and school administrators) but then giving them lots of free stuff on top of
SF News Follow-Ups We know you're probably just dying to know what's been happening on all those fascinating news items we've been telling you about. Well, fret no more! Your prayers have been answered! Supervisor Gerardo
SF News Pelosi Calls For Withdrawal So the President gave his big "Wait! I got a Plan! I swear" speech today which went over as well, as, well, we don't know how well it went over, but we did
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
SF News Pay Up, Sandoval First he loses the race for assessor (and the sweet almost 100% pay raise it would have entailed), and now this? Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval will be arguing on his own behalf (who is
SF News Suspects Arrested for Oakland Vandalism Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland convenience store vandalism case. According the Chronicle, two men have been taken into custody and four more warrants have been issued for other suspects. As
SF News Violence Erupts in Oakland According to the Oakland Tribune, last Wednesday, a number of men in black suits, white shirts and bow ties vandalized two liquor stores in West Oakland. Starting with San Pablo Market and Liquor,
SF News It's Hammer -- And Pizza -- Time She sent us to this craigslist entry, which contains identical verbiage to the one we posted earlier, except that it lists an additional audition venue: Monday November 21st between 7 -9 Round Table
SF News Crabby Peace in Our Times As reported earlier, fishermen and processors had been unable to agree on per pound pricing until this past Saturday, when "the two groups agreed on a price of $1.75 a pound and
SF News Buy Everything Day Lying comfortably in bed, watching the KRON Morning News, we burrowed deeper into the covers at their piece on the mad crush of people at Walmart in Oakland. When we see a crowd
SF News R.I.P., Pat Morita Best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in , Pat Morita passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. A look at his bio, however, makes it clear that Morita was much
SF News Recall Gavin Chief of Police Heather Fong, bless her heart, says she's doing the best she can and has authorized more hires for the PD, and her deputies keep emphasizing that there's only so much
SF News Craigslist is a Starmaker So there we were, on craigslist again, when we came across this ticket out of obscurity: NEED: Interior Designer who POPS on TV (SOMA / south beach) Are you a working designer or decorator
Arts & Entertainment Does C.W. Nevius Suck? Ever since Deadspin started running their "Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks" feature we've been eagerly awaiting to see if one of our hometown sports columnists is indeed deemed as sucking. Not just because
SF News R.I.P. Sam Admirers of non-traditionally attractive animals mourn the recent passing of Sam, 3 time winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog title at the Sonoma-Marin fair. We had been worried about Sam since hearing
