SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
SF News Another Pedestrian Killed by Caltrain The rise in fatalities in recent years has caused people to call for better safety measures. The fact that most of the fatalities are due to suicide will probably call for other types
SF News But Do You Get to Carry a Whip? Today's story about Oakland having trouble recruiting cops brings to mind a story that ran in last Sunday's Chron about the SFPD having trouble recruiting cops. How desperate are they? They set up
SF News Political Junkie: Now That's More Like It! .....well, hooray! He's back! Slipped into your Saturday paper, there's a report that Daly, the current head of the budget and finance committee, has told Gavin Newsom's aide Noelle Simmons (we're sure he
SF News Pink Jam Because nothing says potent political protest like causing traffic, the gals at Code Pink marched along the Golden Gate Bridge today disrupting traffic. Of course, this is one of those things that turn
SF News Don't Answer The Phone, Don't Open The Door Friday's incident at the Cloyne Court co-op involved a recent graduate from the stats department, who was found unresponsive in the dorm room of a friend he was visiting. An autopsy is scheduled
SF News So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin) Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first
SF News Hit-and-Run Driver, Day 2 The police are continuing their investigation of Ohmeed Popal and his deadly series of hit-and-run accidents in Fremont and San Francisco yesterday. Here's the latest: The Chron's put together a chronology of events:
SF News Driver Hitting Pedestrians The police caught a driver in a black Honda SUV in Laurel Heights, at Laurel and California Streets, where he'd hit two people (one who died). A child was also struck and suffered
SF News When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife? The story of the ex-spouses running against each other for city council in Daly City re-ups the sordid factor as Frank Berlanga, whose ex-wife Leah accused him of running for the seat in
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
SF News Missing Person At Sutro Baths The police are still piecing together the story, but they know Attaie must have fallen in some time after 11 a.m., because his friend has a digital photo of Attaie from around
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin/Chris An excerpt from our torrid San Francisco romance novel, "One Carlton B. Goodlett Hall, Room 200." Chapter LXVIII: That's The Way I Roll: Spent, Chris ran his fingers through Gavin's hair. I need
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
Arts & Entertainment Catch Lucky! And, hey, did you see the comment from Anshuman on how to hack NextBus to reflect your desired route? We tried it for all our favorite Muni lines, and it totally works! Anshuman,
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
SF News Rocky Horror Picture Article Man, work for four years on your groundbreaking police brutality story, and you screw up one little thing...... Well, it's actually not really a small screwup -- in illustrating its story about one
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
SF News Help Spider Davila Spider was on his bike at the corner of 20th and Florida in the Mission at about 12:30 p.m. a.m. on December 17, making a cell phone call, when a
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
misc Yes, We're Kind After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board
SF News SFist Blotter Special Edition We usually run the blotter crime roundup on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we're sorry to say that there's been enough breaking news in the area that we're running a special edition today. Everyone's
SF News Oh, Arnold. The problem with a protest on the peninsula, of course, is that without Frank Chu how do you know it really happened? We took some pictures just in case. Since no news station
