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Blocker: 1800 8th Ave.

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. Blocker, No. 3: 8th Ave.

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Today

Lotta stuff going on today, a lot of which we've mentioned before: Another Hole In The Head continues and the Black Film Festival gets started! Also, it's the Berkeley Edge Fest. Here's some

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Water

Well, lookee here! The Bay Guardian's gone and done it -- and there is no running water in the flower shop. NO!!!! Well, to be precise, the flower shop (at 117 Waverly in

Who's Aaron Peskin? We .... Can't Recall!

The Examiner confirms the reports we'd been hearing that someone's decided to start a recall campaign against District 3 Supervisor (and Board of Supes president) Aaron Peskin. So according to the Ex, this

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Two Showers

Ed Jew's latest excuse for the low water levels in his District 4 house? He showers at the family flower shop. Also, he works very, very late at City Hall. Weeeeeeelllllll.... and also,

Day Around The Bay

--Another shooting in District 5. And a man robbed at gunpoint in the Sunset. --Jerry McNerny, the man who unseated Pombo, is having a fun time in Congress. --Yikes! A guy took a

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Leaving Work Early

First of all, a big sloppy THANKS! to SFist MattyMatt for yesterday evening's Oh No Ed Jew news update! We were out. So what's the latest on Tapioca Ed for today? Well, he

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Two Houses

Thank goodness the Chron got those pieces translated! The Chinese newspaper Sing Tao reported that the Sunset house appeared "sparsely decorated and furnished." On Monday, when the Chron drove by the Sunset house

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping

According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Chinese Media

Yay, Tapioca Ed! We're counting down the days until he's scheduled to get back! (5 days to go.) Today's Chronicle runs a story about how Ed Jew's travails have been covered in the

SFist Blotter

One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some

Arts & Entertainment

Caption Action

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Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits

--So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea

Day Around The Bay

--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by

Oh No, Ed Jew!: "Things"

His latest defense? That whole thing where his house didn't have water? Jew's response: "Ask yourself this: When it comes down to government run operations, do they ever make mistakes?" It is when

Ed Jew Update!

We considered calling this post "And then they came for Jew, and we said nothing," but decided that was in poor taste. So what's been up with our favorite beleaguered conservative Sunset Supervisor?

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SFist Today

Other events: --Bowling for Rhinos! It's like the name of some kind of ska band, but it's actually a benefit for the zoo. $25 gets you two hours of bowling and pizza at

Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus

Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably

SFist Blotter

It's a tough biz, the tourism industry -- the cops had to break up a fight between the Bush Man, the Clown Man, and the Fisherman over who got to work what turf

Arts & Entertainment

SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i>

A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience

Family In The City

The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,

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Interview: Mark Mulroney

Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy

Tales of Parking Woes

Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time

Did You Feel That?

At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity

American Football Spectacular: Our Villains Are Bleeding And So Are We

* Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, November 19, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 11 The Battle Of The Wounded Hawks Talk about gettin' up after being challenged, in the last two weeks the