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The Warriors: Just Livin' the Dream

Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena, the Warriors have taken a 3-1

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Conan O'Brien Ticket Giveaway in S.F.

Adorable local newsbabe Laura Garcia-Cannon emcee'd a free VIP ticket drawing for the 50 or so people who showed up at 848 Battery yesterday morning. A good time was had by all in

Your Commute: Oy Vey

Update on the Update- 511.org has the 411 on what commute will be like for the next few days-- it's pretty much like on Tuesday except not free. Check it out Update:

John Diaz-- Troublemaker

In Friday's Chronicle, the paper's editorial page editor, John Diaz, writes that he recently discovered that he was placed on the Government's "Watch List." Which makes sense, we guess, because Diaz is Arabic

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Sloan's Patrick Pentland

Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely

Maze Collapse Update

Update: All Bay Area public transportation will be free tomorrow -- but does that means all public transportation, including MUNI and Caltrain and SamTrans? We think so, anyways. People who drove to Oakland

It's In the Hole

Yesterday, a hearing was held about this very issue in front of the Board of Supes budget committee. The problem is that the courses are in the hole for about $1.4 million

Snitching-- Not Just For Witnesses to Shootings Anymore

The bill calls for the DMV to set up a special toll-free number and/or e-mail address for people to report carpool crooks. And hey, that way people who see them will have

Now That's What We Call an "Undercover Mission"

The cop in question is San Mateo County Sheriff Greg Munks. Munks and Undersheriff Carlos Bolanos were both caught up in a police sweep of a bunch of brothels right outside of Vegas.

Station to BioStation

On Tuesday, Gavin cut the ribbon on the city's very first commercial B20 biodiesel refueling station. B20 fuel is fuel made up of 20% biomass, 75% diesel, and 5% tomato juice and the

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APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags

The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators

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No Fun

Tomorrow at 7, the Democratic County Central Committee is going to vote on a resolution in support of fun. It's far for sure that this resolution is going to pass, so everyone is

City College Locked Down

Sadly, because the Virginia Tech shootings have, in a perverted way, inspired copycats, City College today was shut down because a copy cat threatened to start shooting students. This all happened this morning

Immigrant Song

What's been happening is the INS has been cracking down on immigrants throughout the Bay Area. It seems to be really willy-nilly to as they've been pretty much sweeping people up in nets

What to do About the Angels Blue?

But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation

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Go Warriors

Because people can't jump on the Warriors bandwagon fast enough, here's a cool YouTube clip showing nothing but Warriors highlights from this season.

If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere

Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast

News Shocker: Muni Aware of its own Shortcomings

In case you were wondering how Muni was going to explain the near-meltdown two weeks ago, look no further than the agenda for the April 25th meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Committee. (It's

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Black Eyed Peas to the Rescue!

You may be shocked -- SHOCKED -- to learn that sometimes, some of the people who come to the Castro for Halloween are not entirely well-behaved. Fortunately, after last year's shootings and stabbings,

We Are Family

In his speech, Gavin added that he understands why people would feel the need to leave the city as his mother did the same when Gavin was just a wee little lad. Have

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Good Dance vs. Bad Dance

(Handy tip: text "follow deepasaurus" to 40404 to get Twitter updates from the organizer -- it'll be canceled if the rain gets to be too much.) But! There's more! If you've got a

We'll Show Up For 4th Fake Question Time -- Will Gavin?

Don't forget, the next Fake Question Time (or, as we call it around here: FQT4) is this Saturday, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club in Excelsior (163 London Street, x Excelsior

Breaking News-- People Don't Pay Full Fares on Cable Cars

This information was uncovered by the MTA's crack team of Muni riding Ninjas who rode the cable car forty-two times and took notes. The good news is that the Muni Ninjas didn’t'

Smile For the Camera, Double Parkers

The plan would have cameras placed on Muni buses that face outwards and take videos of their drives. Maybe they could post it online so everyone could see what they’re drives are

It's Got to Be the Morning After

Lots of sports today Warriors 120 Blazers 98- Okay, let's put this in perspective, the last time the Warriors made the playoffs was thirteen years ago. This is what the world was like