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Day Around The Bay

--A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Photo: The Mysterious CHP 11-99 Foundation

So that's the mystery. Do these license plate holders (in conjunction with the ID cards) get people out of speeding tickets they would otherwise get? Mmmmm. People who drive fast in $100k vehicles

Stabbing At Local Club

The Chron's reporting that two people were stabbed outside the club Loft 11 on 11th and Folsom around 1:30 this morning. Apparently at the Loft 11 "Famous" Sunday night party, a fight

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Today

You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of

Cyclists vs. Cars, Volume CXIX

One of the things we love about the Intertubes is our newfound ability to put everything on video, like this one, from our pals at the SF Party Party. This video proves what

Day Around The Bay

--Gavin's now all pretending he meant for Theresa Sparks to get on the Police Commission after all. --The Merc News names its top five area Venture Capitalists under 40. --The KFOG KaBoom fest

Your Commute: "People Love To Talk About MUNI"

Guess who's back talking about MUNI for the ABC 7 I-Team?????? (4:33 on the video). Since Gavin hasn't done anything outrageous lately, Dan Noyes turns his attention to the perennial favorite of

Shooting At Fresno State

The shooter, Jonquel Brooks from Hayward, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous. From the information the police have released, Brooks got in a fight with three men (all of whom

Baby Bull Busted

The Baby Bull and the man who gave us AT&T Park's ChaCha Bowl has had drug problems throughout his career, even spending some time in the slammer in 1975 for trafficking

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

Bloody, Bloody Weekend

The deaths in question involved two shootings, the murder of a Marina nail and beauty salon owner, a person who was chased down by a car, and the fifth was a hit-and-run by

I Can't Drive 55

Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number

People try to Put Us D-down, Just Because We Get Around

And we quote: "… Quite simply, this appears to be a generation that has little interest in working nights, weekends, or for that matter a 40-hour work week. It cuts into their leisure time

Death Race 2007

Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a

Lost Highway

This all started around 5:40 on Friday when police were called in on reports of a body found at Indiana and Cesar Chavez. The body has not been identified yet, but police

GleeGate Goes Legal

The main reason for the lawsuit is because, well, no justice, no peace. Junior was the one most seriously beaten and as of yet, there were no charges filed to what happened to

More Police Walking the Streets.

Currently, four projects have patrols set up. Those are ones in Sunnydale (in Visitacion Valley, not the Hell Mouth), Potrero, Hunters Point and Alice Griffith. Since putting in the foot patrols, crime is

Shootings in SoMa

The first one occurred early this morning at Townsend and Seventh streets when police saw a man acting suspiciously and talking to people in a jeep. When the police went to investigate, they

Get Gleeful

-One of the of the 415 Gang who was charged is in police custody, that being Brian Dwyer who surrendered to the police. He is said to have admitted to kicking one of

Arts & Entertainment

Green Dragons And Purple Gloves

The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down)

Ode to Han Sup Shin

Police say that amongst the possessions of Gavin's stalker, Han Sup Shin's they found these song lyrics, scribbled down on a cocktail napkin. I never meant 2 cause u any problems I never

Asian-American Embarrassment: An Update

Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had

Well the Landslide Will Bring it Down

This all happened around 3 in the morning and luckily all sorts of alarms went off alerting people that something was up. As a result, nobody was hurt. The landslide pushed a pile

Today in Crime

This morning, police looked for a suspect who robbed and shot a 42-year old man. The suspect, however, ran off after the robbery, evading the police. They police searched a nearby residence looking

Doing Something About Crime

Right now, the SFPD are going to try and protect people by, yes, sending in more cops to police the projects in the Western Addition. Besides more cops, Police Chief Heather Fong is