SF News A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Ross Mirkarimi Sandwich Ross Mirkarimi, the supervisor for the Western Addition/Lower Haight's District 5, was out for a jog this morning around 9:45 a.m. (guess Ross doesn't get into the office early) when
SF News Gucci Storefront Afternoon Robbery Some very sad news. According to Bay City News, "[t]wo men among the midday shoppers" smashed the storefront window at Gucci (Union Square) and stole an undisclosed amount of jewelry. No one
SF News Attacks in the Marina District We called Michela Alioto-Pier's office, and they confirmed the report of the attacks. (If you want to contact her office for more information, call: 415-554-7752.) Much of the neighborhood patrol, we hear, has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people
misc Blocker: 800 Divisadero 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. 5: Divisadero St.
misc Top 5 Comments of The Week Hi, folks -- welcome to the latest edition of the Top 5. As SFist is community driven, we enjoy picking out some of the best comments that you folks contributed -- the ones
misc Week Around The -Ists Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. Due to some sad shootings in
SF News Update on Yesterday's Shooting This situation with Thursday's Western Addition shooting is just sad, sad, sad, and not just because a lot of people got hurt (seven, according to the news outlets who actually have time to
SF News Busy 24 Hours At SF General At around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, there was a stabbing at Capp and 17th -- a guy was stabbed with an ice pick after getting out of a car. The stabber then
SF News Shooting in Western Addition this Morning San Francisco's most pleasant neighborhood had its cheery, safe veneer shattered this morning with a shooting -- 8:50am, Steiner and McAllister. We are shocked, simply shocked. Surely, city officials, police leaders, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Well, all of San Francisco politics is trivial, isn't it? Get that confirmed at tonight's 4th Annual Political Trivia Contest, featuring Chris "Whiskers" Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, and Jake McGoldrick, at a benefit for
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
misc 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
SF News Doing Something About the Violence As a result, people in the neighborhood are in full "mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" mode and organizing. Their request? Send cards, letters, and e-mails to Gavin,
SF News 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
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
SF News So Fresh and So Clean San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being
SF News Miss Murder Maybe you should have voted for Prop A this election cycle after all -- at the halfway mark for 2006, there've been 45 murders this year, putting us on pace for 90 by
SF News It Takes a Village to Shoot Smack The plan is to post banners up everywhere in the Gulch announcing that you're in Polk Village, then making it official in three years after everybody had gotten used to it by putting
misc SFist Answers: Things To Make You Cry A friend of SFist writes: "Someone in my office was just arrested for possession of child pornography. The case has been relatively high-profile in the area. The suspect seemed like a nice guy,
SF News SF Murder Rate 2005 Well, the 2005 body count in SF is now up to 92, after a man was found strangled to death in a SoMA hotel, making this the worst year in SF for murders
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Deep Dish Dissent. That would be Patxi's, a Palo Alto institution which just bore an off-spring in the city. Patxi's, like Little Star before, is filling a big void in the SF culinary landscape: the equivalent
misc Housing Bubbles: Luck Of The Draw Shirley Jackson, put down that rock! At 7:30 a.m. yesterday, the SF Redevelopment Agency hosted a low-income housing lottery that attracted over 4300 applicants. The SF Redevelopment Agency, along with Centurion
misc Get Stuffed: Mifune But where to go when there was no sponsored vittles in the hospitality lounge? Critics can not live on beer and cheesecake alone! Okay, maybe Roger Ebert did for a few decades, but
SF News Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. The quality of San Francisco's eavesdropping has never really impressed us -- the character of our overhearings always seemed more like disembodied one-chuckle quotes from "Kids Say The Darndest Things" than anything having
