SF News Sacramento's Collective Indifference Just Renamed A Landmark This morning in Sacramento, the herd of water buffalo we refer to as the "State Senate" collectively decided that the west, city-facing span of San Francisco Bay Bridge shall henceforth be known as
SF News The Willie Brown Bridge Must Be Stopped Since we first mentioned it last month the petition to rename the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton I has accumulated roughly 2,800 signatures in support of the effort. The Sacramento-based
SF News The Wax Museum At Fisherman's Wharf Closes Today After 50 Years The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf is closing today, and even though we've never set foot inside and wax museums are generally creepy and archaic, this seems notable. Interestingly, it does not seem
SF News Effort To Rename Bay Bridge After Emperor Norton Revived By Online Petition Although Sacramento's bright idea to name the western span of the Bay Bridge in honor of noted local hat wearer Willie Brown was met with derision locally, the effort did remind us of
Arts & Entertainment Vintage San Francisco: Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Steve Jobs Open An Apple Store In early 2004 then-mayor Gavin Newsom, still-sorta-mayor Willie Brown and mayor of your laptop Steve Jobs opened the flagship Apple Store on Stockton Street. The press release reads like something announcing the arrival
SF News Sacramento Wants To Rename The Bay Bridge After Willie Brown A group of State Assembly members in Sacramento, their palms still greasy from their lunch of Subway no doubt, introduced a resolution Wednesday to name the big, flashy western span of the Bay
SF News We're Not The Only Ones Who Notice That The 'Chronicle' Has Problems We pointed you to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review in a link dump the other day, but in case you missed it, it's worth a read. Former SF Weekly editor John
SF News Corporations May Soon Bear More Tax Burden Via Changes to Prop 13 Democrats now have supermajorities in both the California State Senate and Assembly, and this means that some long overdue changes to the state tax code with regard to corporate property are soon on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Tries Dim Sum, Wanted To Go To Subway Instead San Francisco's most cultured food eater, former Mayor Willie Brown went outside his comfort zone recently. Meaning his girlfriend took him out for dim sum at the city's decorated house of dumplings, Yank
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat A Power Breakfast Like Willie Brown Today in his semi-regular column for the Inside Scoop blog on SFGate, Da Former Mayor Willie Brown explains for us pleebs where the movers and shakers of San Francisco have their big, influential
SF News Central Subway Secures Federal Funding; Park Property Lawsuit Moves Forward The federal Department of Transportation yesterday issued their Full Funding Grant Agreement to Muni's Central Subway project, which means they can breathe a sigh of relief having secured $942 million in federal money.
Arts & Entertainment Eight Photos Of Willie Brown And Gavin Newsom Making Faces At Each Other Tonight on the Lieutenant Governor's groundbreaking television talk show, the former mayor will match wits (or match something) with another former occupant of San Francisco City Hall's Room 200: Subway sandwich spokesperson and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Ditched Outside Lands To Go Watch People Have Motel Sex In Willie Brown's weekly food blog/local restaurant commercial, the former Mayor offers one piece of advice for anyone thinking about attending the Outside Lands Festival in the future: "eat before you go
SF News How Will Traffic Suck in S.F. This Year? Let Us Count the Ways Despite one pending lawsuit and one already filed, construction of the Central Subway begins next week, and that is going to entail the partial closure of Columbus Avenue near Washington Square Park. That's
SF News Regarding Willie Brown and How He Will Never Stop Being Mayor For those just tuning in or just recently transplanted here from elsewhere, Willie Brown is still, for all intents and purposes, running San Francisco. Many of you know this already, and understand that
SF News Willie Brown Predicts Booming Black Market For Cigarettes Avuncular former Mayor and noted political soothsayer Willie Brown has seen the future of California's tobacco trade, and it is about to go underground. With Proposition 29 on the ballot tomorrow*, Willie believes
Arts & Entertainment Willie Brown Takes Credit For Matt Cain's Stellar Pitching Job Former Mayor Willie Brown, currently serving his role as the city's weird rich uncle, is at it again with the befuddling Chronicle columns this week. After spouting nonsense about MC Hammer on the
Arts & Entertainment Bemused: Willie Brown Column On M.C. Hammer's Birthday Bash Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, it seems, was one of the lucky attendees at MC Hammer's 50th birthday party at the Tonga Room. He wrote about the festivities in his Sunday column
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Municipal Railway... Mayor Ed Lee celebrated 100 years of San Francisco's Municipal Railway today by re-launching Muni's first streetcar, the restored Car No. 1. Joining the Mayor for the dignitaries-only first ride in the century-old
Arts & Entertainment Why Are Willie Brown And Ed Lee Spending So Much Time Together? They're everywhere together these days, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Whether dining about town, attending political parties, or just bro-ing it up wonk-style, the two power
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $1 Vodkas At Gold Dust Lounge On Friday Also, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown will be in attendance. Far more importantly, however, is the face that Gold Dust Lounge, now beeping on life support, will offer patrons $1 vodka drinks
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: Solving The Taxi Problem Another cab driver recognized Willie Brown this week. Not only did the cabbie recognize the former mayor climbing in to the backseat, hoping to be driven down to the Hotel Vitale — but the
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown: Presiding Over North Beach's Holy Trinity This week, Willie Brown is all about the Lunar New Year. More than just a traditional celebration, it's also turns out the festival is another way for the former mayor to get the
Arts & Entertainment This Week In Willie Brown: Imported Ribs We've talked about Willie's rib obsession in the past, but during his Niners tailgate party last weekend Da Gourmayor took it to another level by importing a slab of baby back all the
SF News This Week In Willie Brown: Ragging on Mirkarimi San Francisco's erstwhile mayor managed to mostly keep himself out of trouble this week. The noted 49ers fan had zero words of good luck for our boys in the NFL playoffs, but he
