SF News Major NorCal Suburban Pot Ring Busted by Feds Obama's Justice Department may be loosening up about medical marijuana, but right on cue the DEA just busted a huge marijuana grow operation that was running out of dozens of half-million-dollar homes in
SF News Sacto Mayor Robbed In SF's Union Square Well, this stinks. Former NBA player and current Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson was mugged robbed over the weekend while acting like a Boy Scout in San Francisco's Union Square. NBC Bay Area
SF News Sacramento Businesses Ban <i>Sacramento News & Review</i> Over Gay Cover (Allegedly) The July 2 issue of Sacramento News & Review, it seems, wasn't the most popular issue of SN&R. Why? Well, the cover story -- featuring a safe couple, Ben and Lonny
SF News Newsom Throws $100,000 Block Party While trolling over in Sacramento this past weekend at the Democratic convention, Mayor Gavin Newsom, according to Matier et Ross, threw a $100,000 block party. Would you expect anything less? Anyway, the
SF News Sacramento Tent City Coming Down With coverage on Oprah, followed by countless other media stories on the Third World-ish homeless camp, Sacramento's 'Tent Camp' will officially close over the next few weeks. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who's clearly
SF News California State Budget Passed It is done. (Well, almost done.) By 7 a.m., both houses of the Legislature passed the shiny budget plan. The 33 bills include "$15 billion in spending cuts, $11.4 billion in
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
SF News Take It To Sacramento: Prop 8 Protest Today Today there's yet another Prop 8 protest planned. Which is great news. This time it's in Sacramento at the State Capitol Building scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Are you going? Care
SF News Scenes from Prop. 8 Protest in Sacramento, CA, 11/9 Sorry to inundate you with even more protest-ness, but this is happening all over the state today, citizens protesting Prop. 8's passing -- e.g., the protest at Oakland's Mormon Temple, the big
SF News [insert bestiality joke here] They do crazy things over in Sacramento. Take, for example, Kelly Pecor who was arrested last night after his sister caught him using her five-month-old bulldog, Chateau, for masterbatory purposes. Sis made a
SF News Teenager Rapes, Shoots 14-Year-Old Girl In the Mission District SF Crime (via Bay City News) has harrowing details that a 17-year-old boy sexually assaulted and then shot a girl on March 8. The alleged crime occurred somewhere on Cesar Chavez Street. So
SF News Swarm of Bees Snarls Highway 99 In Sacramento Beekeepers had to be called in to "wrangle" the insects back into their crates and back on the truck. The highway has since reopened. (Shudder.)
SF News Governor Gavin Newsom? It looks like Mayor Gavin Newsom will take a stab at running for Governor of California in 2010. In addition to the gaggle of Democratic hopefuls looking to succeed Gov. Schwarzenegger after his
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend But it's not all blocked onramps and gas stations this weekend! There's also some bus reroutes, courtesy of the delightful YMCA Chinese New Year Run on Sunday at the Chinatown YMCA (855 Sacramento
SF News Downtown Lawyer Sues SF Over That One Guy Who Beats Those Plastic Buckets and Metal Pots at the Ferry Building 60-year-old attorney William McGrane is fit to be tied. Why? Because of noted Ferry Building street percussionist John King's daily performances. It seems that his groovy beats, which stem from the many plastic
SF News W ISO Hit Man (Sacramento) Sure, we've gone onto Craigslist for our apartment hunting and job search needs, but not for anything as illegal as finding a hitman. Ann Marie Liscott from Michigan is accused of placing an
misc A Kennedyesque Inaugural Unda the Rotunda Gavin Newsom began his second term as mayor of San Francisco this morning in front of a huge crowd under the largest dome in the western hemisphere. (Yes, even larger than those found
misc Gerald Ford's Would-Be SF Assassin Freed On Parole Former president Gerald Ford died almost exactly a year ago today, which makes it that much more notable that Sara Jane Moore, one of his two would-be assassins, was released from prison on
misc See Joe Alioto Veronese. See Joe Run. Run, Joe, Run He hasn't gotten the attention that a few others in the race have, but that will probably change soon for 2008 and beyond. So, see Joe Alioto Veronese here.
SF News Good Riddance, Grapevine Never having to drive through this again? Sob. The East Bay and South Bay (more or less) are vying to be one of the destination points that will send travelers from SF to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Red Meat: God bless the Rickshaw Stop. And if (s)he existed, he totally would. Why? For many reasons. Take, for example, the fact that they often have extraordinary talent gracing the
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 103 Kings 96- Yawn, another day, another Warriors win. And when was the last time somebody said anything like that? The Warriors had to earn this game as they were down by
SF News SFist Blotter It's been quiet over the past couple of days. A little too quiet. Hop to it, hoodlums of SF, we need crime-y content! -- In the foreign realm of Fremont, a routine traffic
misc Blocker: 200 Front Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Happy Colts/Pats Sunday This whole thing has been widely entertaining because it's become a veritable issue-- we've heard it discussed on KNBR, on local news, and several blogs. The hilarious part is that it seems like
