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| SFist |
| Day Around The Bay |
| 09/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Adoptable bunnies strike poses at East Bay SPCA. [ Pawesome ] BART's bike accessibility has much room for improvement. [ Mission Mission , SF Bike Coalition ] An online, tuition-free public charter school in Union Square? [ Tenderblog ] Weekend open house round-up for loo-lovers. [ Curbed SF ] Get a free car wash, … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Alameda fire chief put on administrative leave |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
David Kapler, Alameda's $195,702-a-year fire chief who had been filling up his BMW convertible on the city's dime, was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday. Kapler, who has a $250-a-month car allowance in addition to his salary, said the free gas was... 
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| CurbedSF |
| Live the Good Life: Looking to move out of your... |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Looking to move out of your studio apartment and into San Rafael in Marin county? Purchase a $150 raffle ticket and you could win a $2,000,000 "dream home" that is actually just a beige McMansion. Proceeds help the less fortunate... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Party Foul: BART has been running medical marijuana... |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| BART has been running medical marijuana ads for years. Muni recently decided to run them as well. And now: "Upon further examination, we have decided we are going to reject the ads, because they don't meet our board policy," says... |
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| CurbedSF |
| On the Market: Views of Bobbing Sails Available for $649,000 |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. A 1-bed, 1-bath, 890 square foot condo is available at Portside I, the award-winning building on Bryant. $649,000 gets you views of "bobbing sails, chugging tugs, silvery palms, and steamers from... |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Contest for Kids of All Ages |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| LiveSOMA.com has a contest for kids of all ages that plays off of the Star Wars™: The Clone Wars Weekend at Yerba Buena’s Zeum on the weekend of September 10-12. Head over to LiveSOMA.com to learn more about the contest. |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Update on Need for Children’s Playground by Ferry Building |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Good news for those of us rooting for a childrens playground near the Ferry Building. You may have seen Tuesday’s article in the Chronicle. Since then, we have focused on some concrete space just south of the grassy space that has potential to be a playground space. Neighborhood leaders from the South Beach/Rincon/Mission Bay Neighborhood [...] |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Preview: Shaun White Skateboarding |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
I had my doubts about Shaun White Skateboarding, because I didn't think that 1. Shaun White also skated (on which the above video quickly set me straight) and 2. we needed another...
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Chron pulls Nevius from political fundraiser |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Chris Roberts of the SF Appeal (an online newspaper led by Eve Batey) reports that the Chronicle has pulled columnist C.W. "Chuck" Nevius from speaking at a $200-per-person fundraiser for a local political group. The group is the Coalition for Responsible Growth, which "in 2008 backed moderate candidates for city supervisor over progressive candidates," according to SF Appeal. Managing Editor Stephen Proctor told the SF Appeal he didn't know … |
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| SFist |
| Grassroots Campaign Urges Ike's Place to Relocate In Lower Haight |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo by Nancy Einhart / Between the Bread Andrew Dudley from Haighteration brings our attention to a budding grassroot campaign to get Ike's Place to relocate in the Lower Haight. They even crafted a Facebook page , which reads: IKE's PLACE makes serious sandwiches (ilikeikesplace.com) and adds serious foot traffic to … |
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| The Snitch |
| Will Sit-Lie Law Destroy Haight's Dating Scene? |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Where is the love? Cookbook suggests proposed sit-lie law could destroy local dating sceneSan Francisco has long suffered notoriety as a place where it's difficult to get a date despite the exis... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Pricechopper: Pacific Heights Mansion Hacks $1,100,000 Off |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Was: $12,800,000 Now: $11,700,000 You Save: $1,100,000 Back in late June we introduced you to 2420 Pacific in Pacific Heights; the 10-bed, 8.5-bath, 10,650 square foot mega house built by Julia... |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| KRON hires rapping weatherman |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| An Akron, Ohio, meteorologist and DJ, who gained fame on Youtube as the "Rapping Weatherman" is headed to KRON 4. But KRON general manager Brian Greif said he hired Nick Kosir for his skills as a weather anchor, not a rapper. "He's very good on-air. He has a good personality -- without having to rap. He knows weather. He's proven himself to be very flexible." Greif told the SF Weekly . Media blogger Rich Lieberman, who first reported the … |
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| SFist |
| This Weekend: Listen to These People at SF Zine Fest |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Although SF Zine Fest is all about tables and tables of choice zines, comics, phenomenal DIY doodads, and more -- psst, be sure to read Laura Beck's article on making her very first zine -- it's also a great opportunity to learn from a bevvy of successful independent publishers and local scribes. This … |
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| SFist |
| Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Green Apple's Book of the Month |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
This week we bring you a delightful double -dose of Green Apple Books . Check out the bookstore's latest cute and quirky commercial featuring their "Courageous Commando Cuties" advertising Green Apple's September Book of the Month, C by Tom McCarthy. 
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| The 61% Lie |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| You have to be impressed with Muni's PR department. They can pretty much get the mainstream press to print whatever they want, and make everything sound great. Take for example, this "61% restoration" meme that you're hearing everywhere. Sounds great,... |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| The News Links - September 1-3, 2010 |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Commercial Real Estate Tenants, landlords could face dramatic changes from new lease accounting rules . Distress contributing to a ' shaky bottom ' for CRE Sales, pricing. San Francisco Gavin Newsom won't give up on Jobs Now ( What is this? ). Muni riders, there's good news. Really . Union tries to put brakes on Muni restoration plan. Future of Mid-Market car restrictions unclear. Leaders say S.F. ready to bounce back strongly . Ken … |
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| The Snitch |
| Beer Truck Driver Says He Crashed Intentionally |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Expert says crashing beer-filled big rig may have been only optionThe driver of a big rig carrying 3,000 gallons of beer, who doused morning traffic yesterday by flipping over on Highway 17, tol... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Open House Report: Weekend Open House Report: Bathroom Edition |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| In honor of those out there obsessed with bathrooms, we offer three open houses with superb bathing facilities of various persuasions. Click on the photo to enlarge. Location: 267 Bonview Street Size: 4 bedrooms/ 3 bathrooms? Price: $1,385,000 Pitch: "This... |
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| SFist |
| Partial Skeleton Discovered In Marin Headlands |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
After a kayaker found a skull in a cove below Battery Spencer on Monday in the Marin Headlands, authorities uncovered a partial skeleton, clothes, and jewelry. "After rappelling 600 feet down a cliff in heavy fog, crews recovered the intact skull, along with several upper body and torso bones," reports … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Drinks: The Green Wire at Locanda da Eva |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Local food writer and avid CHOWhound Robert Lauriston recently opened his own restaurant in Berkeley, Locanda da Eva (2826 Telegraph Avenue), featuring Italian cuisine from chef Huw Thornton (formerly a sous chef at SPQR and A16), and a cocktail program created by Jackie Patterson. Like several other … |
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| The Snitch |
| Uruguayan Press Gaga Over Ross Mirkarimi |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
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?El Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi spread the San Francisco no-plastic-bag gospel to Uruguay this week, and the local press apparently went gaga for San Francisco's good-looking ambassador ... |
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| SFist |
| Two Men Sought In Connection With Fremont Murder |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Trujillo, Kahn Alameda Country authorities are looking for Manuel Trujillo, 62, and Mohammed Kahn, 47, who allegedly kidnapped and killed 27-year-old Francisco Lopez "after mistakenly believing Lopez wanted to steal their marijuana." According to AP/CBS 5 , "Lopez and his brother, Fernando, had gone to a home where Kahn … |
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| SFist |
| Helicopter Crashes On Highway 101 In Salinas |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
If you're trying to get a jumpstart on your Labor Day Weekend, be advised that a crop-dusting helicopter crashed on 101 in Salinas a little after 6 a.m. No one, including the pilot, sustained any injuries. However, after the CHP temporarily closed all southbound lanes, traffic remains sluggish throughout the … |
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| SFist |
| Photo du Jour 685 |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
"Havi V. Lens" by Ariel Dovas .
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| SFist |
| Tourism Up, But Tourist Spending Not So Much |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
People are doing more free stuff, like queuing up to roll down a certain crooked street. 2010 has proven a far better year for tourism in San Francisco than the dismal year that was 2009, but tourists on average seem to be spending less. According to the Chron , hotel occupancy was up over last … |
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| SFist |
| Two Adorable Baby Sea Lions, Orphaned at Pier 39, Find Home in Chicago |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune Two baby sea lions, whose mother gave birth to them at Pier 39 and abandoned them there for reasons unknown, have settled into their new home at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago. They don't have names yet, but they were born in June and subsequently picked up by the Marine Mammal … |
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| Friday: The Week In Review, Some Fun Things, And More... |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| This week has been interesting, to say the least. And by "interesting" I mean "OMGWTFLOL" or something. I mean, the evening commutes this week have been marked by incredible delays and failures. You'd think by now someone at Muni might... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Development Watch: 25-35 Dolores Gets Approved |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| 25 and 35 Dolores Street is currently home to two (shuttered since 2006) auto repair shops that have been there since 1917 and 1918. Last night the City Planning Commission moved a project forward that would allow a four-story,... |
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| The Snitch |
| Stabbing Follows Quarrel Over Baseball Cap |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
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?A sporting argument over a man's baseball-style cap culminated in a stabbing last night in the Mission. A Hispanic man in his 30s was approached by a black man he did not know at Mission and 18t... |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| DelVecchio new editor of Catholic San Francisco |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Rick DelVecchio, an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years of experience, has been appointed editor of Catholic San Francisco, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. His first issue of Catholic San Francisco is Sept. 10. The publication is a weekly most of the year. DelVecchio spent most of his career with the Chronicle, where he was a reporter for 22 years. In 2007, he joined the staff of Catholic San Francisco … |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| BOMA California Update - 2010 California Legislative Session Ends |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
BOMA San Francisco Members: The 2009-2010 California Legislative Session ended on Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Your tireless BOMA California Advocacy Team had been following almost one hundred bills as they wound their way through the legislative process. Here is the status of the high … |
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| The Snitch |
| Marijuana Ads Dumped By BART |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
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?SF Weekly recently broke the news that Muni is now accepting ads for medical marijuana. BART, meanwhile, began taking pot ads years ago. But, BART officials now tell us, right as Muni has agreed... |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| UPDATE: Are You Ready For CALGreen? Sign-Up for a Seminar! |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| UPDATE - September 3, 2010 BOMA San Francisco Members: In cooperation with the California Building Standards Commission and the California Department of Housing and Community Development , Green Technology is providing seminars throughout the state to introduce and orient each trade and profession around the new code. Upcoming seminars are being offered in the following cities. Each has limited seating, so register as … |
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| The Snitch |
| Helicopter Crashes on Highway 101 |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
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?First beer, then choppers. Odd items have plagued Bay Area highways in consecutive days (what's next? Frogs? Locusts?). A helicopter crashed onto Highway 101, almost exactly 24 hours after a bee... |
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| BeyondChron |
| The 12th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival Comes to Speedway Meadows |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Next Saturday, September 11, 2010, visionary musician and human rights worker, Michael Franti, along with Guerrilla Management present the 12th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival (PTTP) at Speedway Meadow in San Francisco?s Golden Gate Park. Beginning in 1998, this diverse music, arts, action and yoga festival has become a premiere San Francisco tradition dedicated to educating attendees on issues of social justice, non- violence, cultural … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Catholic Leader Exhibits Foot-in-Mouth Disease |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Given the outrageous sex scandals that have rocked the Catholic church for years now (and which show no sign of abating), you?d think that leaders of that institution would have learned never to cast the first stone. Edmund Adamus, director of pastoral affairs at the very influential diocese of Westminster in England, obviously missed the lecture on that particular biblical quote. Or perhaps he simply suffers from foot-in-mouth disease, a … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Hyatt Faces Strikes, Protests in Cities Across North America |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Just days before Labor Day, Hyatt workers in several cities across North America are striking, as part of a wave of demonstrations this week by thousands of hotel workers protesting Hyatt (NYSE: H) and its billionaire ownership family, the Pritzkers. Workers say the company is trying to make the recession permanent for its employees, despite significantly improving industry conditions and Hyatt's increased profitability and huge cash reserves. … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
Photo by Troy Holden Dolores Park jumps the proverbial shark; alt-weekly feature stories on Dolores Park TBA. [ Mission Local , Mission Mission , UA ] Will Mark Zuckerberg finally discuss his mystery ex-girlfriend? [ Valleywag ] Hyatt Hotel workers protest persists. [ ABC 7 ] Today people celebrated 90210 , popular … |
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| The Snitch |
| Spare the Air Day No Longer Gets You a Free Ride |
| 09/03/2010 12:00 AM |
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?Aside from people dressing sexy, what advantages are there for us on blazing hot days with crappy air conditions? "Spare the Air Days" used to get you a free ride on Bay Area public transportat... |
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| The SF K Files |
| The 3-day count continues....and continues...well beyond 3 days |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| This from a reader: There are still many people waiting and I see August 23 post "The 3 Day Count Continues" has over 400 replies (and still going). The latest controversy is that the waitlist was supposed to be dissolved August 31. It now seems they are keeping the waitlist at least until September 10. For some families, it's a relief. For others, it's an outrage. Regardless, I want to see if there is still movement. I'm especially curious to … |
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| SFist |
| Small Plane Crashes in Redwood City Lagoon, at Least 1 Dead |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Credit: CBS 5 A little before noon today, a small plane crashed into a lagoon in Redwood Shores. At least one person, an unidentified woman, died. According to BCN (via CBS 5 ), "The plane had taken off from the nearby San Carlos Airport and was headed to San Martin, [Battalion Chief Dave Pucci] said. FAA spokesman Lynn … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Digests: Foodie Kids, Fleeing Ladies, and Refreshing Chè |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Chè revolution! (Photo: Jonathan Kauffman) What in heaven's name is chè ? Jonathan Kauffman explains . Some sort of XX chromosome chef migration is afoot downtown. First, according to Grub Street , Jennie Lorenzo leaves Fifth Floor , and then Erica Holland-Toll exits Ducca , notes Inside Scoop . Burger King sold for a … |
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| SFist |
| Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Massive Water Balloon Fight |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| An estimated 4,000 people in Provo, Utah "attempting to set the world record for the largest water balloon fight, throwing a total of 120,000 water balloons," noted Laughing Squid who brought this refreshing video to our attention. Oh, and said water balloon fight is the framework for “You Always Make Me Smile” by Kyle Andrews . Enjoy. [img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Saturday Night Soiree! Our Walt Disney Family Museum Celebrates First Anniversary October 1-3 |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Our Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio is celebrating one year of operations with a weekend of fun including the debut of the half-price Saturday Night Soiree ( avec cash bar!) program. I’m telling you, you’re going to want to win the treasure hunt . Get all the deets below. The WDFM is fantastic. See? [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-21389" title="IMG_8372 copy" … |
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| The Snitch |
| Immigrants Not Taking Your Job, Study Claims |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
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?People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from&n... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Mexican Museum Gets New Director: The hiring of Mr. Yorba is... |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| The hiring of Mr. Yorba is another significant step in the growth of this vital cultural institution as we work together with the Museum and our development partner, Millennium Partners, toward this long-sought goal Fred Blackwell at the Redevelopment Agency,... |
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| SFist |
| Oakland Gay Pride, 9/5 |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Oakland Pride, forgotten mousy cousin of San Francisco Pride? Maybe a little. But this year's LGBT Pride celebration on the other side of the bridge promises to be worth a BART trip under the Bay. Headlining the queer festivities is none other than Chaka Khan . She feels for you. She thinks she loves you. … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Victory Over Copper Thieves! The Presidio’s Wyman Houses are Now Move-in Ready – $25K/Mo? |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Get a load of this drive-by cutie on Wyman Avenue in our Presidio. It used to be graffitoed beyond recognition but now it’s ready for bidness with all its copper pipe replaced. What’s stopping you from moving in asides from rents as high as $25k per month ? (Of course, they also have smaller ones for a lot less .) As you might expect, the completely awesome Richmond District Blog is all over this situation, what with photos, … |
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| SFist |
| Another Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| There was an explosion this morning on the Vermilion Oil Rig 380, 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast, west of the site of the Deep Water Horizon blast. 13 workers were rescued by the Coast Guard, with only one seriously injured. The rig is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy, and it's unclear whether it was a drilling rig or production platform. [ CNN , NPR ] [img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Some of the Nude Beaches of Marin County Can be a Little Hard to Get To These Days |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| You’ll have to figure out for yourself just exactly where in Marin County this nude beach is, in this here mostly-SFW photo from a while ago. This place was officially closed at the time and it’s more-than-likely officially closed at this time . But actually, your nudist types like out-of-the-way places anyway, the kind that require long descents from the nearest road. Now, your San Francisco Bay Guardian occupies the field of … |
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| CurbedSF |
| on the market: Mill Valley: Bolt Hole/Hideaway/Tear-Down |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. In the woods near downtown Mill Valley, a 3-bedroom/2-bath house by Demetri Vedansky, a little-known Marin modernist. From 1967, on a prime acre, asking $1.449M. Sweet enough, and very basic. We... |
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| Greenerati |
| Small Vines Wines – High Denisty and Sustainable Wine Thinking |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Small Vines Wines vineyard We took a few days off to hit the wine country, no not Napa or Sonoma but rather the Russian River Valley . Keeping with our true nature, we explored and tasted our way through some of the more possessive thinking sustainable … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Interviews: The Eels' Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
by Daniel Phifer The Eels have just released their ninth album, Tomorrow Morning , which is the final installment in their recent trilogy of records, preceded by 2009's Hombre Lobo and 2010's End Times , and will be at the Fillmore on October 11th. Before releasing the trilogy, frontman Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) … |
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| SFist |
| Sales of Burning Man Supplies, Silly Outfits Way Up Over Last Year |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
(A photo from 2009's fest - AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) Another sure apparent sign of economic recovery: Sales of Burning Man-related supplies at places like REI and Haight-based costume shop Piedmont Boutique are way up over last year, indicating both that more people … |
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| CurbedSF |
| City Lights: SF Weekly hipped us to a... |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| SF Weekly hipped us to a beautiful photo essay by Hoseph Schell. Schell grabbed his camera and hit the streets when the sun went down, documenting San Francisco life at night. [SF Weekly] |
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| Rescue Muni |
| Muni Drivers Try to Block Service Restoration |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
You just can’t make this stuff up. The Muni operators’ union, TWU Local 250-A, filed a brief with the California Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) to block the restoration of 61% of the service cuts that took effect in May. The restoration is supposed to take place Saturday, but if the board grants TWU an [...]
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| SFist |
| 3.3 Earthquake Hits East Bay |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
At 9:35 a.m. this morning, a small 3.3 earthquake hit the Bay Area, just northwest of San Pablo, reports UCGS . The jolt, according to KRON 4, was felt in Berkeley, Oakland, and up in Marin. On the Twitter front, @ DJEROCKSF1 says, "No matter how long you've lived in the bay area, you can never get used … |
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| SFist |
| Photo du Jour 684 |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Speaking of Bjork , Darwin Bell snapped this shot at last week's Bjork Tribute Night at Trannyshack.
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| SFist |
| Woman Killed After Prius Hit And Run |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Sad news. A 70-year-old woman was stuck and killed by a Priu in the Haight on Wednesday. According to BCN (via SF Appeal ), the "woman had been crossing the street at Waller and Cole streets at about 8 a.m. when she was struck by a black Toyota Prius." After hitting the woman, later identified as Joyce … |
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| Sweet Melissa |
| She's also friends with Cory Booker... |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| This week, entrepreneur Joanna Rees filed to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2011. I got a chance to speak with Rees, who began our conversation by explaining that she chose Sept. 1 to file because that’s former Texas Gov. Ann Richards’ birthday. Apparently, Richards is a former mentor to Rees. Obviously, I had to constrain my jealousy about that fact to bring you the rest of the interview. Do you have any experience in local government? … |
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| Sweet Melissa |
| Another election lawsuit... |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| About two weeks ago, a mystery man named Richard Socchera filed a complaint in San Francisco Superior Court asking Judge Peter Busch to delete from the November ballot the job description of District 6 supervisor candidate Theresa Sparks. His complaint was that, in the voter guide, Sparks lists her occupation as human-rights director, which “is misleading to voters by implying that Sparks’ occupation or profession is somehow that of directing … |
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| Sweet Melissa |
| November 2010 Voter Guide: Prop M, Foot Patrols and the Sit-Lie Ordinance |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| ‘I think as popular as foot beats are, I think our [police] chief, frankly, is just as popular,” Supervisor Bevan Dufty said right before the Board of Supervisors elected, over Dufty’s objection, to put Proposition M on November’s ballot. That proposition would require the Police Commission to develop a policy on community policing and direct the Police Department to draft and implement a foot patrol program. Dufty’s comment addresses one … |
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| SFist |
| Get Off Grindr, And Get Into Your Nearest Sex Club |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Scheduling male-on-male sex dates using Craigslist, Grindr, or any number of social media outlets devoted to penetration, some might argue, is a tad impersonal. Downright rude sometimes . Instead, why not visit one of the many fine sex clubs still left in the … |
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| SFist |
| Phrenological San Francisco: Another Wacky Neighborhood Map from 7x7 |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
For their Fall Arts Preview, 7x7 has produced yet another kooky neighborhood map, this time using the theme of phrenology, and like, human tendencies? Or something? Anyway, we live somewhere in the vicinity of Cautiousness and Love of Sex, but we have no goddamn idea what Veneration is … |
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| CurbedSF |
| On the Market: Looks are Deceiving in Duboce Triangle |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Built in 1900, this 3-bed, 2-bath, 1,300 square foot home is not what she seems. Step inside and you realize you're probably about to be in the midst of an Architectural... |
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| SFist |
| Girlfriend of Murder Suspect Efren Valdemoro Spoke to Boss During Car Chase |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Cindy Tran The girlfriend of now deceased suspected killer Efren Valdemoro spoke to her boss at the nail salon where she worked, on her cell phone, from the car she was in with Valdemoro during Tuesday night's high-speed police chase through Richmond. Cindy Tran, 46, was killed in the car during that chase and just after … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| KALW Does a Bit on Bolinas, That Marin County Town That’s Friendly, and yet Not Friendly |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| KALW ‘s Steven Short finds Bolinas, CA a “ friendly town ” – check out his new CrossCurrents bit here , why not? Now, here’s my version of the story. Enjoy: Inbetwixt the friendly elephant seals of the Point Reyes National Seashore… Click to expand: [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-21379" title="elephant_copy" src="http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elephant_copy-450x232.jpg" … |
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| CurbedSF |
| Tower of Ugly: Should a 55-foot tall cell phone... |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Should a 55-foot tall cell phone tower be built in Los Altos? This is NIMBYism at its finest. One family owns property that already has three cell towers on it, and now they want another (they get cash from AT&T,... |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
'Alphabet Memories' by Mati McDonough ART: Artists Jennifer Judd-McGee and Mati McDonough celebrate the bold, graphic punch of vintage board games in Spin , in which they've incorporated elements from the old games like winding pathways, typography, colors, characters, and textures and have re-spun them … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| “Payday on Sixth Street” – Shooting Up Drugs While Nude in the Mid-Market Area |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| How do you find your Bliss? Do you put the Freelance Whales (as seen at Outside Lands 2010!) on repeat and crank the volume until people tell you to stop, please stop? Or do you take off your clothes and shoot up on or around Sixth Street in the Mid-Market ? Bluoz has the deets. 6th Street at 560mm telephoto ( mas o menos ): [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-21365" title="4950230116_5185f8ba10_o copy" … |
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| CurbedSF |
| On The Market: Miraloma Park: Throwback on Juanita Way |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. More untouched San Francisco, this 2-bedroom/1.25-bath from 1936 in Miraloma Park. Asking $695K. The third bedroom and quarter-bath are unwarranted (and behind the two-car tandem garage) and look like they belong... |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Alameda fire chief put on administrative leave |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 PM |
David Kapler, Alameda's $195,702-a-year fire chief who had been filling up his BMW convertible on the city's dime, was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday. Kapler, who has a $250-a-month car allowance in addition to his salary, said the free gas was...
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Rincon Hill e-news link for September 1, 2010 |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| If you are not a subscriber, here is the latest Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association e-news sent this morning. Sign Up Today! * required Email Address: * First Name: Last Name: Email Marketing by VerticalResponse |
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| Fog City Journal |
| ICE Confirms S-Comm is a Voluntary Program |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| S-Comm is a program that automatically shares with ICE any fingerprints taken by local law enforcement right after any individuals are arrested, no matter how minimal the charge or whether the individual is eventually found to be innocent of alleged charges, thereby resulting in increased deportations and the tearing apart of families. In the past six months, ICE has tripled the number of jurisdictions operating S-Comm, and it is now in 494 … |
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| Daily Kos |
| How Bush supported the troops |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| In speaking of Iraq, President Obama was gracious to his predecessor: Yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security. Meteor Blades addressed the duplicity, cruelty, and inhumanity of the Bush-Cheney administration's devastation of Iraq, but I would like to focus more narrowly. Because it is one of those perpetually promulgated lies that Republicans support the troops, and … |
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| Fog City Journal |
| Overheard in Fog City: DCCC to Reconsider D6 Endorsement? |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| In its last endorsement meeting, the majority of progressive members aligned with Walker on the DCCC voted against endorsing a second and third candidate in the D6 race in large part because Walker fears a second place endorsement of School Board President Jane Kim will increase the probability that Kim will win the seat. Instead, the DCCC anointed Walker as the Democratic Party’s sole choice for the seat. |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
After his iconic March show in Oakland, comedian Dave Chappelle returns to New Parish. [ 38th Notes ] Botanical garden that spends $10K/month on PR cutting services for residents. [ SF Appeal ] Papalote’s salsa to hit shelves in 2010. [ Aggressive Panhandler ] Economic leaders say S.F. ready … |
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| The SF K Files |
| Yale professor offers advice for college-bound kids |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| Yale professor Walter Russell Mead posted a story on his American Interest blog painting a picture of our children's future and offering advice for parents as we guide them through life and particularly college. It's a long read but powerful and thought-provoking: The anxious emails from students are hitting my in-boxes once again: What time are office hours? Are places in the seminar still available? Where can they get advance copies of the … |
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| BeyondChron |
| From the Festival Circuit -- Interview with ?Lost in the Crowd? Director Susi Graf |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| Susi Graf?s documentary ?Lost in the Crowd? had its world premiere screening at this year?s S.F. International LGBT Film Festival. A portrait of a group of homeless LGBT teens trying to survive on the streets of New York City, the film was shot over the course of seven years beginning in 2003 and ending in 2010. These teens of all races and locations came to NYC for a variety of reasons. What they have in common is a lack of resources and the … |
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| BeyondChron |
| School Beat: How Much Will Federal Education Dollars Cost Us? |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| Since he took office, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has had a lot of cash to give out. Starting with the first American Recovery and Reconstruction Act (ARRA) funding, an unprecedented amount of money has come from Washington to schools across the country. Those dollars though, even at their current scale, haven?t been enough to stave off layoffs, bring required levels of staff back into classrooms, pay for new playgrounds and PE … |
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| BeyondChron |
| If Republicans Win, Have ?the Terrorists? Already Won? |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| When Markos Moulitsas asked me to review his new book, (after I had reviewed his two earlier ones ), he said he had the most fun writing it. And it?s abundantly clear why. American Taliban hit the bookstores yesterday, and it?s a very entertaining and enjoyable read. The founder of Daily Kos is now a well-known personality, and his new book reads very much like he speaks ? and blogs. My one major criticism is that it reads too much like a blog … |
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| Daily Kos |
| Abbreviated pundit round-up |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| Your one stop pundit shop. Gail Collins : Sarah Palin is going to Iowa to be the headliner at a Republican fund-raiser. In the state that will be the first to hold a contest in the 2012 presidential campaign, even if it has to do it in 2011. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Her staff says this means nothing whatsoever, but let us acknowledge that Palin is on a roll. She’s got her own TV show, not counting Fox News. And she twitters! Or … |
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| BeyondChron |
| New Poll on Latino Voting Confirms Obama?s Missteps |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| A new weekly tracking poll by Latino Decisions has troubling news for President Obama and the Democratic Party about Latino voting in November. Despite massive and nearly unanimous Republican opposition to comprehensive immigration reform, only 34% of respondents said the GOP was opposing reform; 14% said this about Democrats. And those who felt that the Democratic or Republican Party?s were ignoring reform were virtually the same (38% to … |
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| The SF K Files |
| SFGate: Pleasant surprise for DonorsChoose.org, schools |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
| This from SFGate: Out of the blue, in the middle of a recession, the phone rang. What would it cost, the caller asked the founder of DonorsChoose.org , to fund every California teacher's wish list posted on the Web site? The founder, Charles Best, thought perhaps the female caller would hang up when he tossed out his best guess: "Something over $1 million," he told her. Twelve hours later, the woman, Hilda Yao, executive director of the Claire … |
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| The Snitch |
| SF Weekly Seeks a Tech Blogger |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
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SF Weekly is seeking a freelance writer acquainted with the internets and the rise, fall, and evolution of tech companies, trends, and personalities. We're not looking for someone to just report t... |
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| The Snitch |
| Beer Truck Overturns, Ruins Morning Commute |
| 09/02/2010 12:00 AM |
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?Tragedy has enveloped both beer-drinkers and commuters today in the Bay Area. A truck carrying a purported 43,000 pounds of beer has hit an embankment and overturned on Highway 17. Its precious,... |
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| SFist |
| Great White Shark Spotted Eating Sea Lion In Pacifica |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Several onlookers in Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica spotted what they described to be a great white shark attack and devour a sea lion about 200 yards from the beach on Monday afternoon. The shark was reported as being approximately 18 feet long or larger, and half a dozen witnesses reported seeing it jump out of the water … |
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| CurbedSF |
| sold!: Hillsborough: Craig Elwood Sells, Finally |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| The wonderful but sad-looking Craig Ellwood house in Hillsborough closed escrow yesterday, a month after an offer was accepted. On the market (and off) for two years, the most recent asking price was $2.85M, and it closed for $2.525M.... |
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| SFist |
| Heavy September |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
by Erick Pressman San Francisco has been an epicenter of great metal and hard rock throughout the years, and judging by some of the live music coming this month, the earth-shattering, head-splitting madness shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. The two biggest shows of the month are the back to back … |
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| CurbedSF |
| Goodbyes: Levi's popup project that was in... |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| Levi's popup project that was in the now very old location of Charles Phan's Slanted Door on Valencia Street has packed its bags and loaded the U-Haul. Mission Mission reports that after the popup's few months in San Francisco, the... |
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| Matier & Ross |
| S.F. supe hopeful owes $20,000 in back taxes |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
BART board member Lynette Sweet, who is running for supervisor in San Francisco this fall, owes the federal government at least $20,000 in back taxes and penalties, records show. The Internal Revenue Service slapped a lien on Sweet's home in the Bayview after...
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| SFist |
| NIMBY WATCH: Dolores Park Battle Goes Down Tonight |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
We here at SFist are ever the fans of civilized disagreement, and we shun all public meetings that devolve into crazy rantings by over-loud complainants, and/or shouting matches. But we just might have to show up at Mission High School tonight at 6 p.m. to watch the battle to the death … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Blotter |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
8/31, CASTRO: A female walking south on Castro Street (near Sussex) was accosted by a 20- to 30-year-old black man who grabbed her purse from behind, pulled her sweater over her head, and swiped her cell phone. The incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. The suspect took off north on Castro. No arrests. … |
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| SFist |
| Apple Announces New Stuff to Buy; Steve Jobs' Forehead Questioned |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Apple made some big announcements today. This morning at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs previewed updates to the iOS system, "unveiled updated iPods including a redesigned iPod nano and iPod shuffle as well as a camera-equipped iPod touch, and released … |
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| CurbedSF |
| On the market: Flat with Perks on Russian Hill |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Well isn't that just adorable: your own private patio right off of your eat-in kitchen. And it's even got a fountain! This 2-bed, 2-bath, 1,599 square foot flat just hit the... |
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| Bluoz |
| payday on 6th street |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
it's that time of the month again, the 1st. Payday for welfare and Social Security disabilty benefits, and 3-2-1...here we go certainly don't have to go to the Playa to see people lounging around naked after slamming some meth 
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| 9/2 & 9/3: Jenny and Johnny @ GAMH |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Taking a break from Rilo Kiley and her solo work, Jenny Lewis has teamed up with singer-songwriter Jonathan Rice to record I'm Having Fun Now . On September 2 and 3, Bay Area concert organizer...
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| CurbedSF |
| Plastic Bags Get a Reprieve: A sad day for California says... |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| A sad day for California says Assemblywoman Julia Brownlee (D- Malibu) sponsor of the statewide ban on single-use plastic bags AB1998, which failed last night in the remaining minutes of the legislative session. Cities are widely expected to now impose... |
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| Fog City Journal |
| Supreme Court Rejects Alioto-Pier Petition For Stay |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| In rejecting the appeal, the high court has effectively affirmed the legal opinion of City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office, which advised Alioto-Pier in February 2008 that she was ineligible to seek another term on the board in 2010 under the City Charter’s term limits provisions. |
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| Fog City Journal |
| Alioto-Pier Issues Statement |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| "I will continue to work hard for the residents of my district and the people of San Francisco for the remainder of my time in office.” |
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| SFist |
| Spare the Air, Please |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Today's warm weather prompted another Spare the Air Day. This means no wood fire, public transit, and other clean air such as, according to BCN (via CBS 5 ), biking to work or around town, working at home or telecommuting, stringing together errands for fewer driving trips, and cooking indoors rather … |
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| SFist |
| Police Discover Two Dead Women, Bomb Materials in Vallejo Home |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Valdemoro (center) and his two latest alleged victims It's been a bizarre and bloody few days in the North and East Bays, with five people dead and one still missing in a violent string of events culminating in a police showdown last night. The bodies of two missing women, Segundina Allen and her friend Marcaria … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
FILM: You can still check out the much-hyped Banksy doc, Exit Through the Gift Shop , at the Roxie until September 6th. The film is "part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype." 8:30 p.m. … |
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| SFist |
| Joanna Rees Makes S.F. Mayoral Bid |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Matier & Ross have word that Joanna Rees, wealthy-ish venture capitalist and educator , will toss her adorable sweater set into the San Francisco mayoral ring. Part of her platform? Hot, hot, hot hyperlocalism. According to JoinJoanna , "This is going to be a campaign rooted in the neighborhoods. It's going … |
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| SFist |
| Muslim Job Applicant Accuses Abercrombie & Fitch of Bias |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Credit: Glassdoor.com Abercrombie & Fitch's unyielding adherence to one kind of beauty has, once again, gotten them in trouble. A Mulsim woman accuses the clothing retailer of not hiring due to her head scarf. Mercury News reports, "Federal civil rights lawyers today sued clothing retailer … |
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| SFist |
| That's a Wrap: Alioto-Pier Ineligible to Run for Re-election |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Today the California Supreme Court refused to listen to D-2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier's "request to review her legal bid to run for re-election in November - a decision that effectively ends her campaign," reports the Chronicle . This comes on the heels of the longtime Supe taking her case to the … |
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| SFist |
| 'Like,' Follow SFist, Won't You? |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Have you heard of this newfangled Facebook thingamajig the kids talk about these days? Sticky privacy issues notwithstanding, it's pretty neat-o. And that Twitter? That sure is fun. Have you also heard that SFist is on Facebook and Twitter ? True. They're easy ways to keep up on our … |
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| Fog City Journal |
| Newsom Swears In Brinkman to SFMTA Board |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| The former Board of Directors President for Livable City, a non-profit that promotes mass-transit and bicycle/walking-friendly neighborhoods, was appointed by Newsom to the seven-member Board because she is qualified and capable, Newsom said. |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Tivoli Success |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Here's the final entry in the blog journal of the San Francisco Ballet's triumphant tour to Copenhagen, by Ballet Master and Assistant to the Artistic Director Bruce Sansom : Saturday,...
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| SFist |
| Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Robyn Covering Bjork's "Hyperballad" |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
Can we be frank? We're not the biggest Bjork fan. (More like Byuck , eh? Eh? *crickets*) However, we do enjoy Bjork's "Hyperballad" and we enjoy chanteuse Robyn, and here they are together. Best of all, Robyn is covering it in front of the Icelandic poster child herself. Chilling. Hat Tip: The Awl
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| CurbedSF |
| pm linkage: Go the Limo Way, Fashion Tribes, Evil Trees |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| [Back Yards, Pacific Heights, August 2010, via iPhone -PF] · Taxi (as a verb) like a rockstar [TechCrunch] · Fun for kids or unmitigated product placement? Both? [LiveSoma] · Utterly baffled, Guy Trebay finds himself in San Francisco [NYTimes]... |
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| SFist |
| That Temporary Transbay Terminal? It Has No Toilets. |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
For the next seven years, as a new Transbay Terminal is constructed, commuters gathering at the temporary, mostly al fresco transit hub downtown will be going without restrooms -- or just finding a discreet spot, Dolores Park-style. Greyhound passengers are allowed a restroom, and AC Transit … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| OMG, Yet Another Cartoon Neighborhood Map of San Francisco from 7×7 Mag for You to Fret Over! |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| I’ll tell you why I get 7×7 magazine delivered to my hovel – it’s cause the price is right, baby. (In fact you can’t possibly overestimate the amount they got from me for a subscription.) Anywho, if I knewed what all the words meant in Phrenological San Francisco (September 2000, Page 36) maybe I’d get all offended the way people did with this bit from Wendy MacNaughton. (Did you find Wendy’s map … |
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| The Snitch |
| The Case for Apple's 'Ping' Social Network |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that his company is hopping on the social network bandwagon with a service, called Ping, that will connect music fans, musicians, and their friends and follo... |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| First medical marijuana ad on TV airs |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| Broadcasting & Cable's Michael Malone reports that KTXL, the Tribune-owned Fox affiliate in Sacramento, this week aired what it says is the first TV ad for a medical marijuana dispensary. The ad, produced by KTXL, features patients of the dispensary giving testimonials. The word "marijuana" isn't said in the spot, but cannibis is mentioned. FM music stations have been running such spots for a couple of years now, but this is a first … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Anti-paparazzi bill hits governor's desk |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 PM |
| The bill by former Assembly speaker Karen Bass to crackdown on paparazzi, AB2479 , was approved Tuesday by the Legislature over the objections of media organizations which argued it criminalizes news-gathering. It now heads to Gov. Schwarzenegger, whose family was the victim of paparazzi driving recklessly. Before the bill was approved, Bass amended it so that three types of vehicle code violations — tailgating, reckless driving and … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Recreation and Parks Meeting on Bocce Ball Courts |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| If you were unable to join Rincon Hill neighbors on Tuesday, August 24th when Lev Kushner from the Recreation and Parks Department discussed the proposed bocce ball courts for the grassy park space by the Railway Museum, you have another opportunity to hear about the proposed idea this coming Tuesday. Public Meeting Notice Tuesday, September [...] |
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| SFist |
| Day Around The Bay |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
The haunted Moss Beach Distillery (credit: Chris Heuer /Flickr) Explore some Bay Area haunt spots. [ Eye on Blogs ] Drinking in S.F. could soon be more taxing. [ Bay Area Bites ] American Apparel gets their perky asses sued. [ SF Citizen ] Jeff Adachi celebrates good times, common. [ generic ]
Noe Valley Victorian goes goth. [ … |
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| The Snitch |
| The Top 10 Closeted Conservatives of All Time |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
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?When Ken Mehlman crawled out of the closet last week he dragged a legion of filthy dust bunnies along with him. For years, Mehlman was the mouthpiece -- and brain trust -- of the political... |
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| The SF K Files |
| SFGate: Bill raising age limit for kindergarten passes |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| This from SFGate: The California Legislature approved a bill Tuesday that will require children to reach their fifth birthday by Sept. 1 to enroll in kindergarten. The passage came on the last night for lawmakers to pass bills to send to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger . The governor has until Sept. 30 to act on the bills. Read the full story [img width='1' height='1' … |
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| The Snitch |
| 'Rapping Weatherman' Nick Kosir Hired By KRON |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
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?Rich Lieberman's Media 415 site is reporting that KRON is hiring a new weatherman. Now, talent comes and goes (mostly goes) with brutal regularity here in the world of Bay Area televised news. B... |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| 9/11 Truth Film Festival Coming to VIZ Cinema in Japantown September 10-12 |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| VIZ Cinema in the New People Building at 1746 Post in Japantown will play host to a 9/11 Truth Film Festival. (Hey, speaking of nutty conspiracy theories, did you know that Oliver Stone totally messed up his point about Lee Harvey Oswald (you know, that “patsy” who, on his own, also shot at other authority figures both before and after he killed JFK on his own) not having enough time to get off three shots? Well, take a look .) … |
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| BeyondChron |
| ?I Heard That?: Hurricane Katrina 5th Anniversary; Giants Baseball; District 10 Politics! ... |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| KEEPIN? IT LIVE! Last Sunday afternoon, Jazz Heritage Center (JHC) under the creative leadership of PETER FITZSIMMONS, Executive Director, planned the New Orleans Celebration in remembrance of the 5-years Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. August 29th was a tragic day for New Orleans and the world who watched the horrific sight on TV. The celebration honored the resiliency of the people and culture of New Orleans. The event kicked off with the … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Nine Propositions You?ll Be Voting On ? But Won?t Hear Much About |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| There are 15 propositions on the San Francisco ballot this November, but only six are high-profile and will attract much attention. Yesterday, Beyond Chron analyzed the ballot arguments for those six measures. Today, we look at the nine other propositions that voters will be weighing on ? even if they never hear about them until Election Day. Four are so non-controversial, that only Republican Terrence Faulkner penned (literally) the official … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Tony La Russa & Albert Pujols Go to Bat for Glenn Beck; Lifelong Fan Quits Cardinal Nation |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| When St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and his star player, Albert Pujols, decided that their participation in the revolting Glenn Beck rally in Washington last Saturday was both appropriate and ?non-political,? they broke a bond with me ? a native St. Louisan for whom pulling for the Redbirds from both coasts had internalized the still-flickering Midwestern populism of my adulthood. |
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| The SF K Files |
| Bay Guardian Editorial: School board race shouldn't be personal |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
| This from the Bay Guardian : There are plenty of issues to talk about in the San Francisco School Board race. The new student assignment process marks a dramatic shift in the way parents and kids get to choose schools. The district's decision to pursue federal Race to the Top money was a mistake. There are too many charter schools, and not enough money for basic programs. The district has made great strides in closing the achievement gap, but … |
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| The Snitch |
| Plastic Bag Ban Fails in Senate |
| 09/01/2010 12:00 AM |
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?In a move held at around the hour you'd expect our elected legislators to be watching The Tonight Show, the state senate voted down a bevy of high-profile bills, including one that would have b... |
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| The SF K Files |
| Share your good news stories with The SF K Files |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| Awhile back an SF K Files reader and parent of a student at Miraloma sent me an email sharing a warm and fuzzy story about attending an SFUSD music concert. Students attending schools around the city performed, and this parent was impressed. She wrote to me: At a time when the news is often about what our schools our lacking, I wanted to share some good news happening every day in San Francisco public schools – the elementary instrumental … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| S.F. supe hopeful owes $20,000 in back taxes |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
BART board member Lynette Sweet, who is running for supervisor in San Francisco this fall, owes the federal government at least $20,000 in back taxes and penalties, records show. The Internal Revenue Service slapped a lien on Sweet's home in the Bayview after...
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| A different perspective on Mafia II |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
If you think about it, Luca Brasi was overrated. For all his fearsome reputation, the guy was choked out right as "The Godfather" was getting started. But anyone who wants to experience a day in...
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| SFist |
| The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 8/31 - 9/5 |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
(Photo by Jason Fisher ) Plenty of shows to choose from this week with Portland's rising dance favorites Reporter at Milk Thursday, the previously profiled Cold Cave alongside the previously profiled Abe Vigoda at Great American Music Hall Sunday and the jam packed Hoodstock throughout Oakland all weekend … |
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| SFist |
| SFO Emergency Landing After Qantas 747 Engine Blows Up |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: KTVU A plane heading to Australia "was forced to make an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday after an engine exploded in flight over the Pacific," reports KTVU . (In the esteemed words of Rachel Zoe, shut the front door!) The plane, carrying 212 passengers, "had departed SFO … |
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| SFist |
| Debra Saunders Slams Obama for Sporting Bike Helmet |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
President Barack Obama rides bicycles with his family, not seen, in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Mass., while the first family vacations on Martha's Vineyard, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Self-consciously conservative Debra Saunders, The Chronicle's anti-gay "token conservative," … |
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| SFist |
| Photo du Jour 682 |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
"Pork Delivery. Chinatown." Photo by Julie Mitchel/tangobaby . Hat tip: Uptown Almanac
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| CurbedSF |
| Pricechopper: Large Axe Seen Lurking in St. Francis Wood |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Are prices indeed dropping to below 2003 levels? Here's one: a 4-bedroom/2.5-bath Spanish-style house in St. Francis Wood. purchased in June, 2003 for $2.5M. Listed a month ago for for $2.495M... |
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| CurbedSF |
| The Good Ol' Days: Back in the 70s, there was... |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| Back in the 70s, there was a house on the 100 block of Precita Avenue that had a painted mural of the Beatles on it. A young woman named Jane Weems painted the mural in her spare time between going... |
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| SFist |
| 888 O'Farrell Fire Might Have Been Suicide/Murder Attempt |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| We reported yesterday on a fire in the tenderloin where a woman jumped to her death . According to The Chronicle , the "woman who leaped from the eighth story of her burning apartment in the Tenderloin may have tried to murder a man by setting fire to the unit and then killed herself." The man in question, still in the hospital, is expected to survive. [img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' … |
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| CurbedSF |
| Raw Sewage Leaking into Redwood City Lagoon |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| Ah, yes. You flipped your first home, pinched pennies, and now you're living comfortably suburban bliss-style in Redwood City's Redwood Shores neighborhood, home to a beautiful lagoon, park, and a tennis court. Well, sorry, residents. Although you do have a... |
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| SFist |
| Point-by-point Takedown of National Organization of Marriage's Lies |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| National Organization of Marriage (NOM), an anti-gay and anti-San Francisco group with strong ties to the Mormon church, unleashed this video on Aug. 27 about--what else--gay marriage and "San Francisco values." The video is deplorable, offensive, and worst of all, wrong -- nothing unusual for NOM. Matt Baume (local writer and founder of Stop8.org ) just came out with this impressive, sensible, and most best of all accurate rebuttal to NOM's … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| PG&E is Going All Out to Get You to Loooooove SmartMeters – Testing Old Meters Side-By-Side |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| I’m not exactly sure what you people are worried about with the new SmartMeters from our corporate overlords at Pigs, Giraffes, and Elephants . One issue is radiation. Really? Can a frequency make you sick ? “Hart says the electromagnetic frequency, the EMF, which is used to remotely send information from the SmartMeter on the side of your home to PG&E can make people sick.” I don’t think so, pardner. Anyway, … |
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| Sam Spade's San Francisco |
| Yuch! Read this report: disgusting conditions led chickens to produce poison eggs |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| I read the following post on Marler Blog which describes itself as providing commentary on food poisoning outbreaks and litigation. The Marler Blog is written by Bill Marler , a personal injury and products liability attorney. Here's the truth about the egg producers responsible for the salmonella poisoning outbreak. These people should have never been able to supply eggs to the national food chain. The degree of their negligence is so … |
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| SFist |
| Police Shoot Mountain Lion On Shattuck Avenue |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
Early this morning, Berkeley police shot and killed a mountain lion on Shattuck Avenue, "not far from popular restaurants and shops in the north side of the city, reports KTVU . The early morning murder happened "just around the corner from Chez Panisse, Peet’s Coffee and other popular businesses on … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Is Mayor Newsom Trying to Shut Down the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council Recycling Center? |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| The people at our Yelp-rated Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) Recycling Center and Native Plant Nursery at 780 Frederick Street betwixt Argeullo and Lincoln think that Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to, before he leaves local politics, shut the place down. Why? Well, they think that due to all the skivvy from: “Anonymous sources in the Mayor’s Office, the Department of the Environment, and Recreation and Parks…” … |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| San Francisco Controller's Monthly Economic Barometer - June 2010 |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
Click on the image to enlarge From the Controller's Office: June's unemployment rate in San Francisco was 9.6% in June, unchanged from the previous June. While this marks an improvement over the double-digit unemployment seen earlier in the year, and San Francisco is still … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
ART: Check out Circular Time , "a live reading of artist Packard Jenning's project, Longshot: Dining Labor and Ponies on view now at the SFAC Gallery as part of the exhibition Now & When. For the project, Jennings "invited eight conceptual artists to meet in the private … |
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| SFist |
| Mission Burrito Book Crowns #1 Burrito In S.F. |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
While some argue that a steamy San Francisco burrito is as complex and interesting as a clam chowder sourdough bread bowl , the local foil-wrapped burrito -- packed with rice... and stuff -- has its fans. Many of them, in fact. Probably you. Which is why the superb 2010 Mission Burrito Book , a site devoted to … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| This Aging Lexus SC400 Coupe in the Western Addition has been Revivified with 24-Inch Wheels |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| I’ll tell you, there was never anything too much wrong with the Clinton-era Lexus SC400 / Toyota Soarer . The 1UZ-FE engine inside these rigs was built to last so there’s nothing stopping these vehicles from rolling into the future, excepting for the small stock wheels they came with. The owner of this ride is saved from that embarrasment by a set of aftermarket wheels, 24 inchers if I had to guess. See? You can’t say these … |
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| The Snitch |
| The Cure for Camel Toe? |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Tight pants-wearing women worried about exposing the shape of your pelvic region -- which has been said to resemble the shape of a camel's toe: pay heed!A new product cleverly dubbed "the CamelN... |
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| SFist |
| Apple to Make Big Announcement Tomorrow |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
Like all of Cupertino company's announcements, tomorrow's Apple declaration will be big. What's more it will involve music, something big about music. And here is our contribution to the hype: What will the big announcement be, other than being big? Well, Macword predicts a new iPod touch, a revamped iTV, … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Pwned! San Francisco Law Firm Barroway Topaz Drops the Hammer on American Apparel |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| I’ll tell you, when your stock price goes from $15 per share all the way down to less than the cost of a BK Buck Double , you’ve got to start worrying about one of them shareholder derivative class action lawsuits . As here, today, in the 415, where the San Francisco law offices of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP right there at 580 California Street has just announced such a suit. What’s the beef? Well: … |
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| SFist |
| Lady Gaga's Rosamunde Story Continues |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
You know how Lady Gaga was spotted at Rosamunde last week in the Mission? Well, Mission Mission got right to the bottom of what happened, exactly. Well, Gaga, it seems, ordered some wine, asked for the correct spelling of "diarrhea," requested an employee to design her necklace for next week's MTV Music Awards, El … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Does Matt Gonzalez Want to “Defeat Pelosi Now?” – Rally for John Dennis in Civic Center Sept 4th |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
| Steve Rhodes has all the deets about this rally coming to town , the one that features Ron Paul , Matt Gonzalez and some Republican guy going after Nancy Pelosi’s job. Now, after the rally, you’ll have three events to choose from. Shall it be: The Cocktail Hour at $150; The Exclusive Dinner at $1000; or The West Coast Liberty Party at $25? I’ve got to say that this one’s a shocker. See you there? Here are ever more … |
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| The Snitch |
| Baylinks: Cougars, American Apparel, and Gaga |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Get your culture on at the Divisadero Art Walk Thursday. [Haighteration]More on the Lady Gaga Saga! (Best new catchphrase ever.) [MissionMission]S.F. firm announces class action lawsuit against ... |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| ESPN's attitude riles high school coaches |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| SacBee sportswriter Joe Davidson says ESPN created a lot of animosity when it decided to telecast a high school football game between teams from Folsom and Sacramento's nationally-ranked Grant High School: Coaches said the sports network barged into Folsom this week, flexed its biceps and took control of seemingly every working detail of the Folsom-Grant encounter, turning a lot of heads and stomachs. It wasn't the broadcasters or reporters or … |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| The News Links - August 30-31, 2010 |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| Commercial Real Estate Office market vacancy expected to peak in fourth quarter . San Francisco Gavin Newsom to Reddit: Ask me anything (Videos). Muni putting service back into gear. Newsom names new economic development chief . Herrera promises progressive approach. Judge denies legal challenge to pension and health care measure. Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Port of San Francisco release RFQ for Pier 70 waterfront site . Car-free Market meets … |
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| Sam Spade's San Francisco |
| Coast Guard answers mayday from 4 boaters near Horseshoe Cove, Sausalito |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| The Coast Guard Sector San Francisco escorted four boaters to safety early Monday morning near Horseshoe Cove near Sausalito after responding to a mayday call at 9:12 p.m. Sunday evening. The Coast Guard issued an urgent marine information broadcast and directed an MH-65 helicopter from Air Station San Francisco and a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Golden Gate in response to the distress call from the crew of the 42-foot boat Carina. … |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| The SFpark Program |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| BOMA San Francisco Members: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is testing a new parking management system: SFpark . It uses sensors , new meters , and real-time parking data to take the guesswork out of parking in the City. These elements work together to, according to the SFMTA, make parking easier to find and more convenient. The benefits will cascade to drivers, Muni riders, bicyclists, pedestrians, … |
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| The Snitch |
| Shark Devours Sea Lion off Pacifica |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
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A battalion of witnesses watched a shark estimated at 18 feet long, eviscerate and devour a sea lion yesterday at Pacifica's Linda Mar Beach, a well-known haunt for surfers and boaters. The sig... |
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| The Snitch |
| Motorcycle Noise Bill on Governor's Desk |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
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?California doesn't have a budget, but it may soon have quieter choppers. A bill aimed at cutting down the din of motorcycles passed out of the state Senate yesterday. If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg... |
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| Fog City Journal |
| Mendoza Kicks Off Re-Election Campaign for School Board |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| First elected to the Board in 2006, Mendoza decided to run for re-election in large part because of the accomplishments the current Board has achieved, not least of which is a spirit of cooperation between Board members to achieve results, a stark contrast to previous Board compositions plagued by infighting. |
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| BeyondChron |
| Attacks on Labor & Dueling Measures Dominate S.F. Ballot |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| While San Francisco voters won?t get their handbooks for the November election for a few weeks, ballot arguments are now available for public view in the basement of City Hall ? at the Department of Elections. It?s always fun for political junkies to read these now, as it shows what the hotly contested measures will be ? and what groups are on each side. Today, Beyond Chron reviews the six propositions that ballot arguments show will be the … |
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| BeyondChron |
| As Voters Focus on Economy, Obama Gives Prime-Time Speech ? on Iraq |
| 08/31/2010 12:00 AM |
| President Obama?s vacation coincided with a series of bad economic reports that left millions of Americans anxious about the future. One would think that Obama would seize upon his return with a national address calling for major new public investment, which would also put Republican opponents on the defensive. But when President Obama addresses the nation tonight, he will not be talking tonight about jobs or the economy. Instead, he will talk … |
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| SFist |
| Photo du Jour 682 |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo shot from Golden Gate Heights, snapped by Flickr photog exxonvaldez/Terence Chang .
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| City Insider |
| Is it time to end or move LovEvolution? |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
The popular and oft-nude end-of-summer street party called LovEvolution (formerly LoveFest) could be held at Candlestick Park this year, after the city said the October event couldn't happen at the Civic Center. The city committee that oversees street closures denied the groups...
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| CurbedSF |
| Pricechopper: Huge Loss for Metropolitan Condo |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Was: $1,295,000 Then: $1,250,000 Now: $1,199,000 You Save: $96,000 Unit #2302 at the Metropolitan sold back in February of 2006 for $1,725,000. Shoot forward to July of this year and it... |
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| Mayor Newsom Blog |
| Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Port of San Francisco Release RFQ for Pier 70 Waterfront Site |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Port of San Francisco announced the issuance of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Pier 70, the first step in selecting a development partner to begin the remarkable process of converting industrial lands that have been in use since the Spanish American War into a 21st century working waterfront. Responses to the RFQ are due by November 18, 2010.
Considered the most intact 19th Century maritime industrial … |
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| SFist |
| NIMBY Watch: S.F.'s Only Gun Store Comes--Wait for It--Under Fire |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Altered image credit: Mission Mission Guns. They're bad. Or good. Depending. They kill people, sure; but Shockwave , our first Transformers action figure, turned into a gun. Obviously, like a profound game of chess played at an East Coast liberal arts institution, it's a complicated issue. Or … |
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| SFist |
| Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds Play Buddies In New S.F. Film |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Gawker (via Hollywood Reporter ) brings us some tempting celebrity news. Ryan Reynolds totally-not-at-all-no-way-no-how-a-homosexual Bradley Cooper will star in an untitled action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner ( Up in the Air ) that takes place in San Francisco. The two will play cops who … |
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| The Snitch |
| San Franciscans Throw 'Too Soon' Costume Party |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Friday night, scores of irreverently dressed people gathered at a house on Chattanooga Street in San Francisco. There were a couple of black-faced coal miners, lots of pregnant women, some oiled ... |
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| Mayor Newsom Blog |
| Mayor Newsom Appoints Jennifer Entine Matz as Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Mayor Gavin Newsom named Jennifer Entine Matz as the Director of the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) to replace Michael Cohen, who is stepping down effective September 30.
“Jennifer’s extensive experience in the economic development of our City will provide a smooth transition and continue the legacy of economic development and job creation we have seen under Michael Cohen,” said Mayor Newsom. “Jennifer is … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Digests: Authenticity In LA, TyFlo, Pony Abuse |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Bayless, Florence, Morimoto's Toro Tartare (photo: Virginia Miller) Michael Bauer spews out 2.5 stars to Wayward Tavern , the new venture of Applebee's/Wish-Bone salad dressing spokesman Tyler Florence . The place, it seems, "has a masculine American look" and "is bringing back a little piece of old-time San Francisco." Also, … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Mark Your Calendars: Public Health Service District Green Grand Opening in the Presidio September 25th |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| You (but not your car) are invited to the “Green” Grand Opening of the Presidio’s Public Health Service District on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. This joint will occur in and around the Presidio Landmark , which is just north of Lake and 15th Avenue. Check it: An Open House Celebrating the Public Health Service District Saturday, September 25 11 am to 4 pm The Public Health Service District – site of the park’s largest … |
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| SFist |
| Meanwhile, In Berkeley... |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Making the world a better place... and letting you know it. ("Let's play 'Find the Tailpipe'" found by the minds over at Go Back To Berkeley .)
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo by Todd Lappin/Telstar Logistics The lost history of San Francisco’s Beatles House. [ Laughing Squid ] TechCrunch editor has some advice for women. [ Valleywag/Business Insider ] Moment of luxury, anyone? [ Meowmix ] Fairfield councilman killer gets 50-to-life. [ CBS 5 ] How did the term "mixologist" return … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Think Pink – The San Francisco Zoo Invites You to See the Flamingo Chicks This Weekend |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Those new born -hatched Chilean flamingo chicks are getting all kinds of attention at our San Francisco Zoo these days. Check it: The San Francisco Zoological Society is tickled pink after the hatching of three Chilean flamingo chicks. Come celebrate these exciting deliveries Labor Day weekend, September 4, 5 & 6 , during a special “pink-themed” extravaganza. Pink flamingo lawn ornaments, ribbons and bows will line Zoo Street … |
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| The SF K Files |
| Check out the new reader forum |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| If you haven't already noticed, the SF K Files is now using a three-column format and on the left-hand side of the page you'll find a reader forum. In the past readers have emailed me "hot topics" and questions about schools that they'd like answered by readers. Now, I'm hoping readers can start using the forum and post their own questions and topics. Also, please feel free to share news of events and interesting articles on schools in this … |
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| Inside the SFPD |
| Egg On Their Face |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Again,
prior to my continuing onward with the Comm-issue, I’ve wanted to shine a light
on a very important topic; one that I feel is best discussed sooner, rather
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| Matier & Ross |
| Time for Muni drivers to pay to park |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Muni drivers, who recently refused to forgo their legally mandated pay raises, are about to be hit with an $80-a-month charge to park their cars at work. The new fee to park at Muni yards comes to $960 a year, or about a third of drivers' 5.75 percent raise....
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| CurbedSF |
| On the market: Room With a View on Telegraph Hill |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Built in 1906 and rebuilt in 1999, 41 Castle has just landed on the market with an asking price of $2,750,000. The deets: 4-bed, 4.5-bath, 3,170 square feet single-family dwelling with... |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - This Week's TV Picks |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Monday August 30th The second season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" has come to an end. But that just means it's time for the good stuff: The reunion show! And judging from the promo...
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| SFist |
| S.F. Taxis May Soon Use 'For Hire' Lights to Indicate Availability |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Those who've spent any time in New York likely have found it frustrating to hear that those 'For Hire' lights on the top of cabs in S.F. often don't denote available taxis -- the explanation we always got was that more people call cabs here, via telephone, and an empty cab with the light on is … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Yalie NIMBY Outed by Uptown Almanac after SFPD Shuts Down 4 Loko Party in Dolores Park |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Uptown Almanac ‘s Kevin Montgomery is all steamed this AM about an Eli who had the popo shut down * our recent Four Loko party in Dolores Park. Learn about Crackdown Deja Vu all over again at Dolores Park Works and consider attending the public meeting , if you’d care to. Is this man Local McNimbydouche ? Via KevMo : [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-21256" title="DSC_0562 copy" … |
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| CurbedSF |
| on the market: Open House Report: A Re-Cap From the Hills |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| We hopped into our car-share Mini-Cooper yesterday and headed out to the Berkeley and Oakland Hills to check out last week's three open house recommendations. We managed to penetrate two. Herewith, the results: Location: 2701 Darnby Drive, Oakland ?Size: 3... |
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| Daily Kos |
| Midday open thread |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Bay-area folks are invited to join Senate candidate Jack Conway and Markos at a reception tonight. Details: When: Monday, Aug. 30th, 2010, 8:00-11:00 pm Where: 83 Proof, 83 First Street, San Francisco How much: $25 suggested minimum RSVP email rsvp@jackconway.org Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on a presidential bid from Newt Gingrich: “He's the last person I'd vote for for president of the … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Tourist Trapped: Eat, Shop, Sleep |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
While I have rarely been one of them, lots of people travel alone all the time. Usually, these solo travelers end up in hotel bars for business, but the brave few travel for pleasure. This past...
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| SFist |
| Former Home of Sacramento Serial Killer Sold at Auction |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Dorothea Puente The former home of notorious Sacramento serial killer (and onetime brothel owner) Dorothea Puente , behind which Puente buried seven of her victims, sold for $215,000 this past weekend at auction. Bay Area natives and longtime residents may recall the story of Puente, who ran a boarding house at the … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
LECTURE: Award-winning artist/author Eric Drooker will give a slide lecture on the new book, Howl: A Graphic Novel , based on Allen Ginsberg's epic poem. Drooker also designed the animation for the film, Howl (starring James Franco). 7 p.m. // City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (261 Columbus Ave) … |
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| SFist |
| Check Out These Local Writers' New News Satire Show |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Beth Spotswood ( Eye On Blogs editor) and Melissa Griffin (local politics columnist at SF Examiner ) dipped their toes in the sketch comedy pool recently with a delightful new online show, Necessary Conversation . Think SNL's "Weekend Update," but set in the '70s and tinged with local … |
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| CurbedSF |
| For hire: A very small island in the... |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| A very small island in the North Bay called East Brother Island has an inn, views, and a lighthouse. In November the current keepers are leaving. The nonprofit that maintains the island is looking to hire a hermit with a... |
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| CurbedSF |
| Back on track: Merchants on the 20th Street business... |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Merchants on the 20th Street business corridor were bummed when the 23-month project to renovate Potrero Hill's 60-year old library began back in May 2008. They experienced a decline in business, an SF Examiner article reports. However, since its reopening... |
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| SFist |
| Woman Jumps to Death During Tenderloin Fire |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Google Maps Early Sunday morning, a woman jumped to her death from an eighth floor apartment building at 888 O'Farrell . The scene, according to SF Appeal , was grim. The unidentified woman, while jumping from the burning apartment "hit a street-level tree during the fall and was killed." A second man was whisked to the … |
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| SFist |
| Car Rams Tourist Bus In North Beach |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
| Unbeknown to them, a gaggle of tourists went through the city's Street of San Francisco live-action experience on Sunday. See, according to ABC 7, their double-decker bus collided with a vehicle in North Beach, which rattled the crew. "We were waiting to cross. The sign was on stop. Obviously, the bus went past and massive bang, and suddenly this massive crash happened," pip pip cheerio'd British tourist Tim Seed. One passenger on the bus was … |
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| City Insider |
| Parking experiment: So far so good |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Anna Ranier manages a shop on Hayes Street and, come to think of it, she said, there's been something different about her customers during the past few weeks. ''There's just not the stress there was before,'' she said. ''People are a little bit calmer.'' The source of serenity, she speculates,...
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| SFist |
| Man Beaten to Death In Golden Gate Park |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
An transient man in his 50s was found dead in Golden Gate Park on Saturday morning. "It looked like he was assaulted and died from his injuries," SFPD Sgt. Troy Dangerfield explained to BCN (via SF Appeal ). The victim has been identified as 53-year-old Michael Ponder . His body was discovered near Kezar … |
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| SFist |
| Lances, Shields, Helmets, Not Sold at Green Apple Books |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 PM |
Yesterday's gem of a note from Marcello's Pizza reminded us of this sign we spotted a couple of months ago at Green Apple Books, which reads: LANCES, SHIELDS, HELMETS, ETC ARE NOT SOLD HERE .
Green Apple deals in books and music. Sadly, jousting equipment is not made available to the … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Hundreds Show for Ukranian Day in Golden Gate Park – 19th Anniversary of Independence |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Ukranian Independence Day drew quite a crowd to the Golden Gate Park Bandshell yesterday. “ The Ukrainian Day Concert will take place at the Music Concourse Bandshell in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, August 29, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. In celebration of the 19th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, Golden Gate Park will fill with local Ukrainian performers displaying traditional costumes and sharing folk dances with the … |
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| The Snitch |
| Michael Ponder Beaten to Death: Homicide No. 34 |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
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?The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office has identified the homeless man found beaten to death Saturday morning near Kezar Stadium as Michael Ponder. The 53-year-old succumbed to his wounds wa... |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Van Jones and Arianna Huffington to Star at APCOA Climate Change Forum August 30-31 |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| The CAPCOA Climate Change Forum is upon us, down at the Jukebox Marriott on Fourth. “The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) will host the CAPCOA Climate Change Forum at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel on Monday and Tuesday, August 30-31, 2010. Leaders from federal, state, and local levels of government will join stakeholders from green businesses, energy and technology providers, universities and … |
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| BeyondChron |
| The Right-Wing Judy Garland Courts the Gay GOP |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| What could be more fun than a nasty cat fight between two right-wing leaders, especially when one of them is Ann Coulter, a columnist who attacks the ?gay agenda? while claiming to be ?the right wing Judy Garland?? The fur started flying when Coulter, who uses ?fag? as a putdown, accepted an invite to speak at next month?s ?Homocon,? the convention of gay Republicans (yes, Virginia, there are queer GOPers) sponsored by a group calling itself … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Linda McMahon?s Senate Campaign Picks Up Some More Baggage: Body Bags |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| As a freelance writer, I thought I?d seen it all in exploitive contracts. When I was assistant director of the National Writers Union in the mid-1990s, fellow scribes flooded the office with examples of all-rights grabs by periodical publishers. One contract required the contributor to cede to the publisher rights to his work ?in any medium now existing or hereafter invented, from now until the end of time, in this or any future universe.? I?m … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Obama?s Double Standard |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| The netroots is ablaze at comments made by retired GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who President Obama appointed to his Deficit Reduction Commission. Simpson told a prominent women?s rights advocate to get a ?real job? ? and called Social Security a ?milk cow with 310 million tits.? A growing chorus of Democrats are calling for his resignation, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has launched a website called stuffalansimpsonsays.com . But … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Progressive Media Bolstering Republican / FOX News Agenda |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Since President Obama took office, the Republican Party?s agenda has dominated the public debate. FOX News and right-wing talk radio decide what?s news, and the traditional media either echoes the story or is criticized for not doing so, as occurred when the New York Times Public Editor chastised the paper for inadequately covering right-wing falsehoods about ACORN. But progressive media has also allowed conservatives to set the terms of the … |
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| The Snitch |
| Free Parking On Way Out for Muni, City Workers |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
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?A broke city offering a small army of municipal employees free parking is a situation it appears will cease to exist in December. Muni workers were informed earlier this month in a memo by Munici... |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Community Patrol Crime Activity Report |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| Thank you to Ken Craig for providing this information – and note the call at the end for your attendance and testimonials for the Patrol Special Police at Wednesday’s Police Commission meeting! SOUTH BEACH / RINCON HILL / MISSION BAY NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME ACTIVITY REPORT 08/28/2010 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDING THE [...] |
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| SFGTV Video On Demand: Mayor's Office |
| Mayor Newsom's City Update: August 27, 2010 - Aug 30, 2010 |
| 08/30/2010 12:00 AM |
| The agenda for Mayor Newsom's City Update: August 27, 2010 dated Monday, 30 August 2010 has been archived. Access it here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=18&clip_id=10655 Download File |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Lieutenant governor hopefuls to go negative |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
If there's one point that Democrat Gavin Newsom and Republican Abel Maldonado agree on, it's that their race for lieutenant governor is a lot tighter than people think. Despite the recent Field Poll that showed Newsom with a nine-point lead over Maldonado,...
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| SFist |
| Man Struck, Killed By 47 Van Ness Bus |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
Credit: kodama (home) /Flickr A man was struck and killed by the 47 Van Ness bus on Saturday evening at South Van Ness and Market. Some witnesses say they saw him lunge in front of the bus, but another witness over at the Examiner said it looked like he tripped and fell. The man, who has not been identified, was said to be about … |
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| SFist |
| Week Around the Ists |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
Photograph by Jeanne Wilson Gothamist is stuck in a vortex of stories involving alleged Islamophobia: A week that started with a heated rally and confrontation outside the not-at-Ground Zero mosque, there were incidents of a man peeing on prayer rugs at a Queens mosque and a taxi driver who was stabbed after being asked … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
FILM: The folks behind Everything Is Terrible! present 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift , "a full length mashup of oddities that include cat massaging, magic crystals, 90's internet prophesies, and the cutest form of evil to ever walk the Earth (oh you'll see)." The creators will also make an … |
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| SFist |
| Marcello's Pizza Is Hiring |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo by Violet Blue Renowned writer, celebrity, and human being Violet Blue brings our attention to this gem she found in the window at Marcello's Pizza in the Castro. The help wanted sign reads: Now hiring a [sic] actor Movie - Eat, Pray, Mop Role - Pretend you like to work;; act like you look forward to being … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Time for Muni drivers to pay to park |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
Muni drivers, who recently refused to forgo their legally mandated pay raises, are about to be hit with an $80-a-month charge to park their cars at work. The new fee to park at Muni yards comes to $960 a year, or about a third of drivers' 5.75 percent raise....
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| Sam Spade's San Francisco |
| Congratulations Master Chief Steven Hearn, USCG -- 10th Silver Mariner of the Coast Guard |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 PM |
| [img class="size-full wp-image-9140 " title="Admiral Papp and Master Chief Hearn" src="http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/files/2010/08/100826-G-9355W-0011-Silver-Ancient-Mariner1.jpg" alt="Admiral Papp and Master Chief Hearn" width="514" height="305" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Lantern Parade Festival and Bon Odori Dance in Japantown Sunday Night: 150th Anniversary |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| Per Hokubei.com : “Inspired by the 1936 Chochin Gyoretsu (Lantern Parade) commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Kanrin Maru ’s arrival, the Japanese Benevolent Society of California, the Japantown Merchants Association, the Japanese American Religious Federation, and other Japantown community organizations have organized a lantern parade celebrating the 150th . “ Yosakoi ,” a traditional folk dance of the Kochi region, which will … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Tougher traffic laws urged for journalists |
| 08/29/2010 12:00 AM |
| The California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) has issued the following legislative bulletin , which should be of interest to anyone who uses a car to gather news: Assembly Speaker Emeritus Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, recently amended her bill to rein in "out of control" Hollywood paparazzi to allow for severe criminal punishment of photojournalists that violate traffic laws. CNPA has filed a new letter in opposition to AB 2479 . … |
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| Sam Spade's San Francisco |
| Thieves are taking copper from underground PG&E vaults in SF and causing outages |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
| In the past 3 weeks, there have been 12 individual thefts of bare copper wire from the interior of electric underground sidewalk manholes in various locations throughout San Francisco. The targeted copper wire is the neutral leg, which connect the underground transformers feeding high voltage electricity to our customers. The thefts have resulted in some outages and have caused considerable damage to residents and businesses. There is no … |
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| SFist |
| SFPD Seek Help in Parental Abduction, Endangered Child Case |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
SFPD are trying to locate Javier Figueroa-Martinez , 26, who took his one-year-old daughter, Melany Martinez Rodriguez, from her daycare center around 11:30 a.m. on Friday and is believed to be on his way to Mexico. The suspect phoned her mother and threatened to kill himself and the child. … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Red Bull King of the Rock One-on-One Basketball Battle Coming to Alcatraz, Starring Rajon Rondo |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
| This was the scene this AM in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle where Red Bull took over the courts to have qualifying for its King of the Rock one-on-one basketball tourney 64 will make it to the finals to vie for $10,000 on Alcatraz the evening of September 18th, 2010. Looks as if Oakland will be the last place you’ll have to qualify: OAKLAND – September 11 Mosswood Park 3612 Webster St. (W MacArthur Boulevard between Webster … |
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| SFist |
| SFist This Weekend |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
| SFist This Weekend 8/28-29 So, we're a day late and a dollar short, but we'll try better next week. We thought we'd try out this newfangled feature fresh from France called Pearltrees. Click on the little pearls above and see what's up. (It's a pretty new site that still has more features to roll out. We'd like some jazzier features to go along with the embed.) It sounds like many folks are venturing East today for the Eat Real Festival in … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| MUNI vs. MUNI in Chinatown: #30 Stockton Collides with #8X Bayshore at Clay and Stockton |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
| Word comes from Muni Diaries about this afternoon’s collision between MUNI #30 Stockton 7118 and MUNI 8X Bayshore Express 6268 is one for the record books. GarySoup has the deets: “ Bizarre Muni bus on bus accident snarled service on Stockton St. Began when 8X driver parked her bus to get coffee from Cafe Honolulu . 8X bus rolled backward , sideswiped SB 30 bus. Rear end of bus knocked over traffic signal controller and … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| One Week Look Ahead: Transbay Demolition Activities |
| 08/28/2010 12:00 PM |
| One Week Look Ahead: Transbay Demolition Activities August 27, 2010 – September 3, 2010 This week at Transbay… Weekday Activities: Completion of the demolition of bridge columns from Beale Street to Fremont Street. Hours of Work: Demolition will continue throughout the week between the hours of 6:00 AM and 3:00 PM. No night or weekend [...] |
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