SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Large Lake Tahoe fire under control. [Oakland Tribune, via AP] -- Small Presidio fire controlled, injures no one. [Examiner, via BCN] -- Two SF hit-and-runs kill two. [Chron] -- Carlos Cruz, 25, shot and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The 2007 Bay Area Rhythm Exchange: Stepology (which we can only hope is very much like "Vibeology") presents tap stars Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles), John Kloss
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High School Musical 2
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: The Savage Jew Nation Springing forth from SF's thigh, a new power couple is born: Savage Jew. Wednesday, Ed Jew appeared on hyperbolic grandpa/genius performance artist Michael Savage's show, The Savage Nation.
SF News SFist Blotter Yet another pedestrian hit by yet another MUNI bus in the Richmond -- this time, the 1 California at 22nd Ave. Plus, Caltrain hit a car this morning too. More murder counts for the
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash. [Examiner]
SF News Walking Down Bad Uniform Lane The column also mentioned that in 1993, the Giants considered changing the black lettering on their unis to orange. Iyick on that too-- that season was painful enough without having to endure all
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Verified Identity Pass. Scary. But kind of cool. [Chron] -- Mark Leno, the scribe. [SFBG] -- After yesterday's fire in the Castro -- or as the Examiner still calls it, "Eureka Valley"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Oooh, Ho, Hoh! (said with heavy French accent, mimicking one of our
SF News We're Never Going To Get Translink But no! A BART official working on the Translink project has said, while they've got the system running for AC Transit, Golden Gate ferries and buses, and MUNI trains, he doesn&
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The very attractive Yusuf Bey IV, Your Black Muslim Bakery chief and sudden media darling, now faces real-estate scam charges. Gulp again, dude. [Chron] -- Blue Angels still allowed to soar; Daly still
SF News Meter Maid Assaults Escalate in SF The absurdity of SF's parking ticket-dispensing habits aside, this is awful. A year ago, we saw a couple of altercations on Valencia Street, with vile douche bags puffing up their
Arts & Entertainment Carmel Hell: 71 Miles' Midsummer Travel Tip/Warning Who doesn't love a weekend jaunt to Carmel? Well, those of us who can afford it, anyway. What's more, those of us who can tolerate its cloying horror. John
Arts & Entertainment Free Movies In Union Square? Inconceivable! Who doesn't love free movies? Comcast and cable channel IFC are sponsoring three nights of free movies starting today through Thursday in Union Square, to celebrate the awesomeness of indie film.
SF News SFist Blotter Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Blue Angels to be banned in SF? [Examiner] -- Islamic Center of the East Bay's recent blaze decried as an "act of terror" by local Muslim leaders. [Chron] -- Man who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Dublin-Pleasanton BART station closure times, dates. (Our apologies for posting this unforgivably late.) [BART, Chron] -- Pirates beat Giants. Arrr, indeed. [Examiner] -- Fish sandwiches and bean pies: what could have been but never
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Bush, Nixon; Nixon, Bush. [Beyond Chron] -- Bill's Song: Walsh remembered. [Chron] -- Tim Goodman on Nancy's return in Weeds. Also, Mary-Louise Parker is just awesome, period. [Chron] -- SF tries
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last week was a great week for live music, and we managed to see three fantastic shows. Last Friday we started off seeing Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. Having (somehow) never
SF News Marke Bieschke On The Presidential Debates And who better to breakdown and break through all of the rhetoric than SF Bay Guardian's Marke Bieschke (AKA Super Ego). He'll be a pundit on CBS Radio, on
misc Chris Daly Closer To Making This An Interesting Race Now all he has to do is get some signatures, cough up a $3,776 filing fee, and fill out some more paperwork. Then, SF media has fodder to last us until God
