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 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 Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc
SF News Day Around The Bay --Apple iPhone madness begins! That's a picture of the line in SF yesterday night by photo genius Steve Rhodes, who reported around 60 people in line by midnight. We're hoping to have more
SF News 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
SF News SFist Blotter A lot of weird car accidents in the news yesterday: an impatient guy trying to pass around congestion on the road killed a pedestrian on 19th Avenue in San Francisco, a drunk off-duty
misc The Examiner Trafficking In Rough Trade The previous picture was also a male midsection -- a torso clutching a dangling hammer, as a matter of fact. Is this the paper's way of getting us to read the classifieds? Sorry,
SF News Mr. Ford Assesses So let's start with the story in the Chron, the main gist of which is "happy days are here again." Or, as they call it "Transit chief upbeat on Muni." The story is
SF News Not Gonna Happen We always thought the Glover thing was merely wish fulfillment for a lot of people wishing that someone, anyone, would run against Gavin and carry the progressive flag. But Luke Thomas said the
SF News I'm Getting Too Old For this Sh--- Now the rumor was debunked earlier by Luke Thomas on Fog City who said it was a ploy to take heat off the Matt Gonzalez bandwagon. Matier & Ross, however, contacted Danny's publicist
SF News Don't Rip Up Your Muni Passes Just Yet But wait. The Examiner, a local advertising flier, quotes Gavin thusly: "It's so much more complex than that." Oh. And when we spoke to Muni to get their side, they just directed us
SF News Checking in on Gavin's Re-election campaign. The Examiner has a story this morning saying Gavin's re-election campaign is up and running and has already raised a million dollars. The fund raising was suspended for a few weeks after the
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News Give the Gift of Front-Page News To be fair, The Examiner is co-sponsoring the event that was being advertised; so they're not completely giving away control of the front page. (They're saying goodbye to actual news.) And fortunately, even
SF News Fiona v. Janet: Bring It On! Anyone who's played one-on-one against Mayor Newsom's gotta have some game! Look at the fire in Fiona's eyes in this picture! Bring! It! On! After a fairly moribund start (for our purposes, "moribund"
SF News Paying For a Muni Ride (And Other Activities for Chumps) Hey, take one guess: what's the worst place on the web for finding up-to-date news about Muni? That would be Muni's very own website, of course, which despite having a section for "new
SF News Will We Get What We Paid For? His base pay will be $298,000, but he has eligibility for up to "$337,000 when all compensation is taken into account." We got excited hearing that last bit, thinking "maybe they'll
Arts & Entertainment Ken Garcia Lands Job at the Ex "This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia said. "I'm looking
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
SF News Political Junkie: The Daily Daly Show This is going to be a great day. First Tom DeLay gets indicted, and now this! The Examiner reports that Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly !!!!! OMG! OMFG!!! OMFG!! You know in those segments
SF News Political Junkie: Ross Will Save The Day! Did you look up the other day and see that big Green R rotating slowly in the sky? That's the Mirkarimi-signal! To the Ross-cave! We'll take the Prius-mobile! Remember when District 5 supervisor
SF News Isn't It Ironic? Don't You Think? So last week the Gavster announced this big, huge plan to build more housing, even low-cost housing. The point being, of course, the more housing the better, especially more low-cost housing, because the
misc Housing Bubbles: Monkey Knife Fight Oh, boo frickin' hoo. The Examiner today profiles an angry yuppie living across from the ballpark who says that a piece of graffiti is ruining his "million-dollar view." The disgruntled homeowner paid $850,
