SF News Pics of SJ Grand Prix Well, better late than never. Behold: Images from this past weekend's vroom-y San Jose Grand Prix, which was almost as masculine and titillating as this past weekend's Up Your Alley Fair [NSFW]: Jason
SF News American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75. The importance of Bill Walsh to San Francisco sports, and the whole of the
SF News Home, Home on the Range \C.W. Nevius continues his Homeless Encampment 2007 Tour with a visit to Corona Heights. His verdict? Not so good. He found twenty possible separate campsites as well as broken bottles and needles.
SF News A Cop's Perspective On Use of Force At AT&T Park It must be oddly freeing to have an ongoing, very public work-related crisis, because Officer Andrew Cohen seems to have a lot to say these days. And why the heck not? It's an
SF News Tsk, Tsk: A Little Background On Ethics While we've been digesting the dueling banjos style competition for a Board of Supes Code of Conduct, we were left pickin' our skulls as to why the Supes don't already have a code
SF News Oh No Ed Jew! Please, Please Mr. Postman Sorry, readers -- Rita's not around today -- hope you can enjoy this Ed Jew update nonetheless! Still not a lot of info on Ed Jew's prelim court proceedings, but there is a
SF News R.I.P Bill Walsh We have some sad news to report-- Bill Walsh has passed away at the age of 75. The Genius had been battling leukemia for awhile and died sometime this morning. We guess at
Arts & Entertainment More Bay Area Print Media Jobs Getting Axed Oy gevalt. The Denver Biz Times is reporting that Denver-based MediaNews Group -- the owner of the Alameda Newspaper Group (which includes the Oakland Tribune) and the Contra Costa Times, will be reducing
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Day One Ed Jew Preliminary Hearing, Day 1 San Francisco Criminal Court (sorry, we can't find out what courtroom he's in) Picture by SFist Jim, who was at the plastic bag event taking pictures and
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News Your Commute: Meltdown! (Sorry, We're Not MattyMatt) Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all folks asking about him in
SF News Tsk, Tsk: The Latest On The Board Of Supes Code Of Conduct Proposals As you may remember, Alioto-Pier (or MAP, as we like to call her) is spearheading the push to institute a code of conduct for supervisors, after the flap about Chris Daly saying that
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
SF News A Brutal Murder In San Jose Last Sunday, San had walked a mile from her home in East San Jose at 6 a.m. to catch the bus to her job as a janitor at a doughnut shop in
SF News Unhappy Local News Involving Cars There was a huge crash on South 280 this morning just after 7:30 a.m., when a car speeding over 100 mph from Los Altos to San Jose lost control. A witness
Arts & Entertainment The Photo Of The Taxi Beast Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you,
SF News Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Buy Sharks Merchandise The new logo (logos, actually, as a whole bunch of new logos have been created-- all the better for marketing purposes) features a darker teal, a dollop of orange, and teal on the
SF News Update on Satan's Cab By a 5-1 vote, the San Francisco Taxi Commission said that poor Michael Byrne will have to keep taxi cab medallion #666. The meeting sounded like a hoot too as the head of
SF News Shootings Heard Around Town --Shots at Page and Buchanan around 8 p.m. last night. --Shots in the Lower Haight (from SFist Dan -- not sure if this is the same as the Page/Buchanan incident listed
SF News Dirty Golden Gate Park Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's come out swinging at the lackadaisical response from Mayor Gavin Newsom on the state of Golden Gate Park, after public outcry that the city was more concerned about two dogs
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: SF"Chron"-Gate! Most people can't comprehend our near OCD level obsession with Chris Daly, Ed Jew, Gavin, and the Board of Supes. So, we're cool when people ask us questions like, "How do you know
SF News Random Local Tech News A lot fewer people activated their iPhones than expected. Apple stock drops about 5% on the news. That guy who started Netscape just sold his new company to HP for $1.6 billion
SF News 666-- the Taxi of the Beast Cab driver Michael Byrne wants a new medallion number. The reason? Because his is #666 and he's thinking it's giving him bad luck. For those not up on their apocalypse, 666, is the
SF News SFist Blotter Phew, let's get to the less life-endangering stuff. Politicians! Matt Gonzalez's 2003 mayoral campaign team was fined $3300 for failing to provide donor information to the Ethics Commission (they said it was a
SF News Shooting At Powell And Market You may know this area, as it's right by the cable car turnaround we send all the tourists to, right by the San Francisco Shopping Center, and right by the Powell Street BART
