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| SFist |
| Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Swagger Stagger |
| 02/09/2010 12:00 AM |
| Join Monk's Kettle's Sayre Piotrkowski, one of the city's very few cicerones (i.e., a beer sommelier) and Broke Ass-Stuart as they honor SF Beer Week by going on a walking tour of San Francisco’s best beer places. SF Beer Week, by the way, for those of you into fancy brewskis, is still going on. Check out the schedule of events to get nice and toasty. [img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| A New Look for SFPD Radio Cars? Aerodynamic Light Bars Make All the Difference |
| 02/09/2010 12:00 AM |
| Check out this SFPD prowler parked in the Funset District – groove on that funky, aerodynami c light bar on top. Almost thought it was a fake from NBC’s Trauma , but no, if you count the points on the big blue star it comes up seven (and not eight) every time. [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-14885" title="IMG_8063" src="http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IMG_8063-450x300.jpg" alt="" width="450" … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 02/09/2010 12:00 AM |
Dave Chappelle performs in Oakland this week. [ Eye On Blogs ] Local internet notables to serve you drinks for Rocket Dog Rescue. [ Appeal ] Behold Traci Des Jardins' sneak peak at her new ballpark eatery, ACME Chophouse. [ Eater ] Daisy has a tattoo removal consultation. [ Oopsie Daisy ] Nearly 50,000 … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Former newspaper offices to be subdivided |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| The old Santa Cruz Sentinel building might soon become home of an Internet service provider and environmental group. The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports that the new owners of the 44-year-old, 55,000-square-foot building at 207 Church St. are submitting plans to the city to subdivide the building into spaces for at least four tenants. The Sentinel vacated the downtown building in 2007 for an office park in Scotts Valley. Two … |
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| SFist |
| Denny's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Day Tuesday |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Holy heck, folks. Tomorrow, fine-dining establishment Denny's will be giving away free "Original Grand Slam Breakfast, " their signature plate of twos. What is a "Grand Slam Breakfast," you snort? Well, if you can pull yourself away from the mobile food cart, we'll tell you: It's two eggs, 2 … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Monday's TV Picks |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
I'm beginning to lose interest when it comes to vanity reality shows. By that I mean shows that are centered on one person with limited/no real talents. (See: "Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement...
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| SF Streets Blog |
| EPA and HUD Make Big Investments in Sustainable Development |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are making significant progress
on their joint effort , with the U.S. DOT, to connect cleaner transportation options with affordable housing and denser urban development. [img width="210" height="139" align="right" class="image" alt="fairmount539__1237909144_3098.jpg" … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
MUSIC: The San Francisco and Shanghai Conservatories of Music will celebrate the creation of their sister-school relationship with their Shanghai Celebration Concert , which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the first sister city agreement between the U.S. and China. The concert will feature … |
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| CurbedSF |
| Vertical Gardens: Green walls are the new green... |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Green walls are the new green roof: AIA SF launches an exhibition of "vertical gardens" in about a week, featuring the work of architects local and international. You heard it here first: a leaf-enshrouded high-rise in SoMa can't be too... |
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| SFist |
| Suspect Calls 911 to Report Tenderloin Stabbing Death |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Tuan Nguyen, a 36-year-old San Franciscan, was found dead inside an apartment in the 600 block of Ellis Street . He was stabbed in the chest. The incident occurred a little before 1:30 a.m. The suspect, 42-year-old Phuck Van Lee, whose relationship to Nguyen isn't quite clear yet, was … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Interviews: L.A. Electronic Star Nosaj Thing |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce 
As we discussed last Monday , Mighty lined up one of LA's rising electronic stars over the weekend, Nosaj Thing . We had a chance to catch up with the 24-year-old beat maker before his show last week, where we discussed his hip hop fundamentals, LA's infamous … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Bay Area News Project Meets the Students from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Elements of our Bay Area News Project , that grand alliance of old money and young blood , recently headed across the Bay Bridge to meet up with the kids from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism . This meet-and-greet happened a couple of weeks back but the BANP is crowing about it today , so head over and check it out , why don’t you? Look, it’s brand-new BANP EIC Jonathan Weber and CEO Lisa Frazier at North Gate Hall … |
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| The Snitch |
| Chron Hardly 'Outed' Judge Vaughn Walker |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Same-sex marriage advocates are chagrined by Chronicle columnists Matier and Ross' piece yesterday that "outed" U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker -- the federal decision-maker in the same-sex ma... |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| Got TP? |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Everyday, thousands of partially used toilet paper rolls go to waste as cleaning crews replace them with new rolls for use the next day. Thankfully, there is a program that can help transport the harvested partial rolls for distribution to various non-profit organizations throughout San Francisco. Indeed, three hundred rolls of toilet paper were recently donated to Larkin Street Youth Services . These donations will last and … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Report: White House Budget Office Helped Weaken EPA Pollution Rule |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Pensacola, Florida. Springfield, Missouri. Fort Wayne, Indiana. All
three of those metropolitan areas have populations between 350,000 and
500,000, and all three would have been required to install nitrogen
dioxide monitoring stations near major roadways under a new
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule cracking down on the pollutant. [img width="195" height="219" align="right" class="image" alt="sunstein.PNG" … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Building a Farm Where a Freeway Used to Be |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Moving mulch on the old Central Freeway on-ramp that is becoming Hayes Valley Farm. Photo: Matthew Roth A few weeks ago in San Francisco, a number of urban farmers opened a gate in a chain-link fence at Laguna Street, between Oak and Fell Streets, and entered an overgrown lot that has been … |
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| SFist |
| Food Royalty Reveal Junk Food Favorites |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Yes, it's the time again when Bay Area chefs, critics, and other artisan notables break their silence on what junk food they let pass over their acclaimed, richly-textured palates. Everything from aged (read: stale) Swedish Fish to Tombstone Pizza (mmm) to Rotel cheese dip (double mmm) to … |
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| ValleyWag |
| Google's Chief of Fabulous Opens a Disco — In His Penthouse |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
We couldn't persuade Orkut Büyükkökten to invite us to his opulent birthday-and-housewarmingparty Saturday, but we won't hold it against him. After all, Google's ambassador to the gay party scene had to fit several billionaires between his new dance poles. Orkut, in case you've forgotten , is by far the most … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Sponsors Sold on Health, Economic Benefits of Minneapolis Bike-Share |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Don't
count out Boston just yet, but it looks like Minneapolis may be the
first American city out of the gate with a public bicycle system of
1,000 bikes or more. Last week, the non-profit Nice Ride Minnesota selected the Public Bike System Company (the same firm behind Montreal's Bixi ) to install its system, which is slated to feature 1,000 bicycles at about 75 stations when the first phase wraps up later this year. [img width="222" … |
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| SFist |
| Marina Yoga Studio Donates Yoga Mats to Haiti for Good Cause |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo by James Fallows at The Atlantic . Already sending readers into numbing states of fury at BoingBoing and Mission Mission , The Pad, a yoga studio in the Marina district, put out this sign asking for old yoga mats. Horrifying, right? Not so. SFist called The Pad today see if they, in fact, were asking Haitians to eat … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Reviewing the Policing of Critical Mass |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Now that the new police chief has announced he is going to
"review" department procedures with respect to Critical Mass, I think
it might be a good time to "review" the history of the relationship
between Critical Mass and the police. I have to emphasize that this
relationship has evolved in the context of a police department that has
been consistently biased against bicyclists for as long as anyone can
remember. Recent … |
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| SFist |
| Antioch Super Bowl Party Leads to Murder |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
During yesterday's annual Super Bowl jubilation, an Antioch man was shot and killed over a reneged bet/drunken behavior. An initial investigation, according to the Contra Costa Times , claimed that a Super Bowl party in the 900 block of San Carlos Drive, "one of the partygoers made a bet on the game … |
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| SFist |
| Prop 8 Trial Judge Is Gay; Should This Matter? |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: Mlinksva On Sunday, Matier and Ross carefully stepped into some potentially controversial territory in pointing out the open secret that federal Judge Vaughn Walker is gay . Walker will be delivering a decision concerning the overturning of Prop 8 — a judicial referendum on gay marriage which will next … |
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| Sweet Melissa |
| Click on over to SF Weekly |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Constant Readers, My dear friend Benjamin Wachs writes a column called "SFGov InAction" over at SF Weekly. It's a look at the Supes agenda for the coming week and commentary on the meetings. He's on vacation right now and asked me to fill in for him this week. Obviously, I jumped at the chance. Other InAction fill-ins have been Greg Dewar , Paul Hogarth and Matt Baume , and I'm honored to be in … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Whitman putting her money where her campaign is |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman talks a lot about how politicians need a "new attitude" when it comes to excessive spending - but apparently not when it comes to the former eBay exec's own campaign spending. According to campaign records,...
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Today’s Headlines |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| An Open (Angry) Letter to Muni, Rider Prefers BART as Transit Lover ( Rocket Shoes ) Riders Upset Over Service Cuts, Fare Increases at Muni Townhall Meeting ( Examiner ) Muni Starts Tweeting, Offers FastPass for Quiz Answer That You Can Find Here ( SF Gate ) Muni Bus Hits Fire Hydrant With Wheelchair Lift, Causes Flooding ( SF Appeal ) Video of Sinkhole in Sunset That Caused N-Judah Delays Over Weekend ( ABC ) Critics of High Speed Rail Say … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| The End of the Road for Cul-de-Sacs? |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Today on the Streetsblog Network , Connecticut Smart Growth asks for a reconsideration of the cul-de-sac. As the post notes, a couple of important studies in recent years have highlighted how this iconic type of suburban
development causes unsafe and costly traffic problems. Now governments
in several parts of the country are discouraging such dead-end
developments: [img width="250" height="170" align="right" … |
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| Rescue Muni |
| Wheelchair lift + fire hydrant = trouble |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Were you on the 22-Fillmore last night at Haight Street? Then you may have been doused with water due to one of the odder accidents in recent Muni history. The SF Appeal has all the details - and the news even hit the Associated Press.
Clearly some mistakes were made here. But don’t [...] |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| This Week in Livable Streets Events |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Like a good love triangle, there are two Valentine's Day-related events for local urbanists to choose between this Friday. But first, show your love for Muni on Tuesday. Here are the week's highlights:
Tuesday : SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Our Better Nature: A conversation with author Philip J. Dreyfus. Join environmental historian Philip J. Dreyfus to discuss his new book Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco . Learn how … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Despite Senate Democratic efforts to move quickly on a new jobs bill that includes infrastructure
investment and takes steps towards solving the nation's transportation
financing dilemma , Congress has just two more weeks of work until time runs out on the latest short-term extension of the five-year-old law governing federal transport policy. [img width="210" height="130" align="right" … |
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| SFist |
| The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 2/8 - 2/14 |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 PM |
This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce , providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter . 
The Mantles There are a plethora of show options this week with Brooklyn's The Antlers at The Warfield tonight, Los Angeles's buzzed lo-fi pop act Best … |
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| SFist |
| Muni Bus Nails a Fire Hydrant |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
Friend of SFist Nathan Moomaw witnessed a Muni bus nailing a fire hydrant in the Haight tonight and then getting drenched by the onrush of water from the hydrant. [img border='0' … |
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| SFist |
| One Dead in Fisherman's Wharf Nightclub Shooting |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
Early Sunday morning a 20-year-old Richmond man allegedly shot three people outside Suede nightclub, at 383 Bay Street, near Fisherman's Wharf. One of those shot, 19-year-old Richmond man Lawson Hall, is dead, and the two others suffered life threatening injuries. The suspect was … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Mission Bay Families Monthly Meeting |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| On February 28th at 10am at Axis Cafe on 8th Street (near 16th Street), the next Mission Bay Families monthly meeting will happen. This group welcomes families from Mission Bay and other SoMa waterfront neighborhoods. The tentative agenda for February 28th includes …. We are going to try and meet on the third Sunday of each month at 10:00 am. If you can’t make it but have something to add let us know! We picked Axis because they … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Preview Design of Supportive Housing Project on Folsom at Essex |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| Michael Chao from Community Housing Partnership contacted me last week to ask that I encourage interested Rincon Hill neighbors to attend this Thursday’s Transbay CAC meeting at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor, starting at 5:30pm. CHP and their partners in the Block 11a Supportive Housing project (Folsom Street at Essex Street) will present their design schematic for the building. It includes some open space along Essex … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Teabaggers Push Good Ol? American Hate |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| What does one call 600 anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-universal healthcare bigots gathered in one spot? Tea baggers. Their convention, ?Tea Party Nation,? was held in Nashville last week to plan a conservative takeover of Congress by raising $10 million and running candidates who uphold their brand of American hate and intolerance. The term ?tea bagger? is a reference to the Anglo-Saxon American colonists who dumped tea in Boston Bay to … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Once Again, SF Chronicle Gifts Opponents of Marriage Equality |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| In yesterday?s Sunday Chronicle , the gossip columnists Matier & Ross dropped a ?bombshell? that Vaughn Walker ? the federal judge presiding over the Prop 8 trial ? is gay. Not that it was much of a state secret; marriage equality advocates quickly put the issue in its proper context . But we know the Right will jump all over this issue, using it to discredit the trial by accusing the judge of bias. Unfortunately, it wasn?t the first time the … |
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| BeyondChron |
| The Decline of Organizing in the Obama Era |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| Since the election of our first ex-community organizer as President, organizing for progressive change has declined. The reasons range from sharply reduced funding for organizers, to complacency after Democrats? sweeping 2008 victories, to labor unions being forced to focus on protecting current workers from contract givebacks rather than organizing new members. The net result is that grassroots organizing ? which prioritizes face-to-face … |
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| The Snitch |
| Victims of Marina Shooting Rampage Cling to Life |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
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View Larger MapThe grim tally of yesterday's Marina shooting outside Suede nightclub on Bay Street remains unchanged this morning, according to the Medical Examiner's office: One man is dead and m... |
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| Bluoz |
| Randy Shaws accounting practices |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| posted this morning on ProSF Clearinghouse Subject: Request for follow up regarding findings of Independent Auditing and Fiscal & Compliance Monitoring of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic Attached please find an independent audit report of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic from Daoro Zydel & Holland LLP dated 31 March 2009. This report had been provided to the Mayor’s Office of Housing by THC and was subsequently provided to me by MOH via a … |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| San Francisco Small Business Network Mega-Mixer - February 22, 2010 |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
BOMA San Francisco Members: Please consider attending the San Francisco Small Business Network 's (SBN) Mega-Mixer on Monday, February 22, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at First Bank, 550 Montgomery Street, 10th floor . Members of the SBN's Member Organizations : In advance: Free • At the door: $10 … |
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| SFGTV: Land Use & Economic Development Committee |
| BOS Land Use and Economic Development Committee - Feb 08, 2010 |
| 02/08/2010 12:00 AM |
| The agenda for BOS Land Use and Economic Development Committee dated Monday, 08 February 2010 has been archived. Access it here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=9383 Download File |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Whitman putting her money where her campaign is |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 PM |
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman talks a lot about how politicians need a "new attitude" when it comes to excessive spending - but apparently not when it comes to the former eBay exec's own campaign spending. According to campaign records,...
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Sunday's TV Picks |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 PM |
I might check out some of the Superbowl today (3 P.M. on CBS), but probably only the final ten minutes, as that's usually the only part that matters. Besides, there's something much more entertaining...
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| SFist |
| Week Around the Ists |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo by James Calder . DCist is busy digging out of the great Snowmaggedon of 2010 . Londonist discovered an alpine ski lodge, some abstract art, a treasure-trove of antiques and several tube-carriage offices, all in the unlikely setting of East London's rooftops and alleyways . … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 PM |
FILM: Indiefest documentary Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank! about local artist Harrod Blank , creator of interactive art pieces such as the Camera Van and the Flash Suit, showcases twenty years of footage of the "loveable boy-man in all his oddball glory." 7:15 p.m. // Roxie Theater (3117 16th St) // … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 PM |
The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers...
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| SFist |
| This Week at Heart of the City Farmers Market |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 AM |
Jalapeno/Garlic Pistachios At this Wednesday's Heart of the City Farmers Market, located at the Union Nations Plaza in Civic Center, we bought Jalapeno/Garlic Pistachios, which are wonderfully spicy and flavorful, but half of them have flaws -- either the shells stick together, the nut sticks in the shell once you do get them … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| MediaNews describes pay wall |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 AM |
| MediaNews, which is making post-bankruptcy plans, tells Bloomberg News that it will give users access to as many as 25 "premium" articles monthly, after which they'll have to pay an undetermined fee unless they subscribe to a MediaNews print publication. MediaNews is calling the "metered pay wall" similar to one at the Financial Times. MediaNews plans to test the concept at its papers in Chico and York, Pa., in the next few months. Then the … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| KTVU's mobile pageviews jump 300% in a year |
| 02/07/2010 12:00 AM |
KTVU is out with its report on its ratings in January, and perhaps the biggest headline doesn't deal with TV viewership at all. Channel 2 reports that pageviews for Mobile KTVU.com have increased by more than 300% to 1.6 million in January compared to the same month last year. January's rain storms … |
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| League of Women Voters San Francisco Blog |
| That "Encouraging" Unemployment Rate. |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
| Just a reminder: The unemployment rate that gets all the press isn't a true measure of unemployment. It does not include people who want to work but have stopped looking. These people are referred to as "discouraged." Well. Sure. The employment rate our governmental leaders are describing as "encouraging" is 9.7%, or just under 16 million people. This is an "improvement" of ten percent compared to December's,and is considered surprising since … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Jerry Roberts awarded $915,538 |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
Former Chronicle political reporter and managing editor Jerry Roberts (pictured) has been awarded $915,538 in legal fees and arbitration costs in his dispute with the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, multi-millionaire Wendy McCaw, the LA Times reported today. Arbitrator Deborah Rothman rejected all claims by McCaw's … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Fixing the Great 2010 N Judah Sinkhole Could Disrupt Service Until Mid February |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
| Yesterday’s announcement of a sinkhole affecting N-Judah service in the Sunset District didn’t sound like any big deal at first: “ Feb 5, 2010 to Feb 7, 2010 - SF Muni N-Judah Line Delay : On Saturday, February 6, SF Muni reports delays on the inbound N-Judah Line at Judah and 29th Avenue due to a street closure involving a sinkhole near the inbound tracks. N trains are turning back at Judah and 19th Avenue and bus shuttles … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Saturday's TV Picks |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
I can't be totally sure about this, but I seem to remember that when I was a kid, "American Bandstand" aired right before "Soul Train," although it might have been on different channels. (I'm pretty...
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
MUSIC: Obscure Canadian metal band Anvil , whose comeback warmed the hearts of America (and Japan), in Anvil! The Story of Anvil! , will be turning it up to 11 at the Fillmore tonight. 8 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805 Geary Blvd) // $17.50 COMEDY: "Roastmaster General" and the "Meanest Man in Comedy" Jeffrey Ross will throw … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Bigger Photos of Last Week’s Home Invasion Homicide on Moraga Street in the Sunset |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 PM |
| Personally, I’m thinking the SFPD could have done a better job with the photos they released of the two suspects in last week’s tragedy in the Sunset District . Anyway, find an effort at enhancing the photos below. Here’s how the normally-quiet and ridiculously-wide Moraga Street* looks today. The peach/orange house at 2432 Moraga has been disappeared as much as possible via a hasty paint job and the removal of the house … |
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| SFist |
| Thanks to This Week's Advertisers |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
| We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Regus Office Solutions , where you can win one year of office space in one of their 27 Bay Area locations! SocialBuy , where buying together means saving together. Up to 90% off the best SF has to offer. American Apparel , with 3 stores in San Francisco, you can look your best any time. If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other site in our network, check … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
The steepest streets in San Francisco. [ Weather Sealed ] Muni joins Twitter, but won't offer service alerts. [ Appeal ] 13-year-old Concord girl claiming that three men in a white van had attempted to kidnapped her admits hoax. [ CBS 5 ] Fiorina FCINO ad versus Pink Floyd. [ Uptown Almanac ] Daniel … |
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| SFist |
| Chamber of Commerce Wants to Save You From Democracy |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
What is it with the people in this city and their obsessive need to tinker with things that aren't broken as a way of drawing attention away from things that actually are? It's like, Muni doesn't work, so let's ban salt within … |
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| Daily Kos |
| Anthem jacks up rates on California individual policies |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
| Yes, the Republican Party--and some "Democrats"--want to make sure that these people remain in charge of how you get your health care. From the LA Times today: Anthem Blue Cross is telling many of its approximately 800,000 customers who buy individual coverage -- people not covered by group rates -- that its prices will go up March 1 and may be adjusted "more frequently" than its typical yearly increases. The insurer declined to say how high … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Drinks: The Recoil at Bloodhound |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
We recently had a simple and delicious drink at Bloodhound that's kind of like a cross between a whiskey sour and a bourbon-and-ginger (does that drink have an official name, btw?) with the added magical power of St. Germain. Bar manager Dylan O'Brien sent us the details. Sidenote: Have one … |
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| SFist |
| Tomorrow: Lil Miss Hot Mess' Bat Mitzvah |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
by Rachel Brodsky We, the chosen ones, remember bar & bat mitzvah season clearly. There would be this six-month period where fat, shiny envelopes arrived in your mailbox by the pound, inviting you to share in the newfound adulthood of someone who probably ignored you in Hebrew School. So, you'd … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Mayor, TWU Reach Tentative Labor Agreement to Help Reduce MTA Deficit |
| 02/06/2010 12:00 AM |
TWU Prez Irwin Lum outside an MTA Board meeting last year. Photo by Bryan Goebel. After a week of intense labor negotiations at City Hall, Transport Workers Union President Irwin Lum and Mayor Gavin Newsom's office confirmed late Friday night that both sides have reached agreement on … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Join Oakland for Art Murmur! |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Kim Komenich/ The Chronicle
Save the Date: February 5th, 2010
Oakland Art Murmur
Downtown Oakland
Start: 6:00pm-ish
End: When the cops send us home.
I know the San Francisco art scene...
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| SFist |
| Dolores Park Works, Bevan Dufty Put Renovation Rumors to Rest |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
(Altered image credit: Mission Mission ) Although Dolores Park will undergo a lengthy renovation process, a plan that's been in the works for quite some time, this hasn't stopped people from losing their collective feces over the park's estimated year-long closure. Everywhere from SFist's initial post on the … |
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| The SF K Files |
| March to save public schools |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Join us on March 4 to save our schools! Statewide Day of Action to Defend Public Education San Francisco schools are facing $113 million in budget cuts over the next two years. All schools will see layoffs and class size increases. It's time to say enough is enough! Thursday, March 4, 2010: 3pm - Parents, educators and students from southeast area schools meet at 24th and Mission 3:15 - March together from the Mission to the State Building at … |
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| The SF K Files |
| Hot topic: Language classes |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| This from an SF K Files reader: My children have asked to attend a Spanish language class on the weekends because they have been watching Dora and Diego since they were 3. They now want to expand upon their knowledge. Do any parents know of any great after school and weekend language classes? What are the hours and costs? I would love to hear about great programs for different languages (i.e. Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Russian) as well. … |
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| The Snitch |
| Baylinks: Dolores, Steep Streets, & Tool Wine |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Aaaaaaaaaaaaand breath out: Dolores Park won't be completely shut down during renovations. [Mission Mission]CitiApartments seems to be screwing over another tenant. In other news, the sky is sti... |
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| BOMA San Francisco |
| The News Links - February 5, 2010 |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
New York Observer : New York’s aging buildings . 
Calculated Risk : Employment report: 20K jobs lost, 9.7% unemployment rate. Commercial Real … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Today’s Headlines |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Caltrain Ridership Declines by 9.5 Percent in First Half of Fiscal Year ( San Mateo Daily Journal ) Merc : "Bay Area has Some Catching Up to do on High-Speed Rail Stim Cash" Op-Ed: Washington Heard Calif. and SF "Loud and Clear" on HSR ( SF Exam ) BART to San Jose Qualifies for Federal Funds ( BCN via SF Appeal ) There's Still Time to Tell the FTA to Stop Oakland Airport Connector Funding ( Living in the O ) SF Supes … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| How Urban Areas Get Stiffed on Transportation Spending |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Today on the Streetsblog Network , a post from Aaron Renn on New Geography about the anti-urban bias in transportation spending. Renn points out
that when it comes to the amount of taxes they contribute and the
amount of funds they get back from the government, the nation's cities
all too often get the short end of the stick -- to the ultimate
detriment of regional economies. It's a complicated question, and we suggest that you go and read … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| TIGER Grant Winners to be Announced By February 17 |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| The winners of $1.5 billion in merit-based transportation stimulus grants through the program known as TIGER (Transportation
Investment Generating Economic Recovery) will be announced on or
perhaps even before February 17, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
confirmed this week. [img width="205" height="135" align="right" class="image" alt="0905_AZ_News_PHX_Sky_Train.jpg" … |
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| SFist |
| Heinz Ketchup Packet Makeover |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
by Amy Crocker Sliced bread can move aside, another food innovation is about to take America by storm. For forty years, the Heinz ketchup packet has walked the fine line between convenience and annoyance. On one hand, it lets you eat french fries anywhere, anyway, anyhow. On the other hand, they are messy and only … |
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| SFist |
| Muni Accident Snarls Commute |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
An outbound M Ocean View smashed into a car at 19th and Junipero Serra a little before 6:30 am this morning, resulting in backed up traffic. According to SF MTA spokesman Judson True, according to SF Appeal , "the accident has been cleared and regular service on the M has resumed." 19th Avenue is also … |
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| CurbedSF |
| The Humble Millionaire: In a story about the dramatic... |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| In a story about the dramatic drop in California's million-dollar-home sales — 23.8 percent down between '08 and '09 — the Chron also talks up the new, "frugal aesthetic" of the indigenous millionaire. No longer driving Porsches around, no longer... |
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| SFist |
| Juvenile Suspect's Identity Revealed In Vallejo Attempted Murder |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Teenagers, as we have pointed out to you again and again and again , are evil . They are creatures in need of taming. Take, for example, this 15-year-old boy suspected of shooting of a woman in her ice cream truck during a robbery gone bad in Vallejo on Wednesday. … |
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| SFist |
| Man Arrested In Mission Apartment Fire |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Police arrested Willie Tucker, 56, yesterday for allegedly setting fire to an apartment building at 2949 18th St. at about 8 a.m. on Jan. 28. Tucker, a transient gentleman, it seems, set the fire "outside an apartment door of a female resident, who had reportedly befriended him months ago and given … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Pithy Advice for the Person Who Ends Up Running San Francisco’s Bike Share Program |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Remember back in the day, back when Clear Channel “promised” that they would provide a Velib-style bicycle sharing program for San Francisco? Let’s dig up a press release crowing all about that from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). Ah yes, from the “Transit Shelter Advertising and Maintenance Agreement” with Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc.: “The agreement also requires Clear Channel to … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Friday's TV Picks |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
On last week's episode of "Medium," I am pretty sure Bridgette, the tomboyish middle daughter, basically outed herself as gay. The plot involved her being friends with a boy named Finn, and not...
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| SFist |
| Dave Eggers Reveals Identity of the Real Timothy McSweeney |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Assuming you've given any thought at all to such things, you may have believed, as we did, that the Timothy McSweeney who figures in the name of Dave Eggers' ten-year-old literary journal and website was a fiction. It turns out, the man was real, and died last month , and Dave now explains for the first … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
'The Wave,' credit: Light at 11B MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave , a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that he conducted at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in 1967. The musical runs through this weekend and … |
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| SFist |
| Buddhist Sect Soon to Ply Their Wares at Mid-Market 'Museum'? |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
For some time now we've been following the progress of the amusingly titled Superb Art Museum of America, which remains papered over but with an impressive new, neo-classical facade at 1025 Market (between 6th and 7th). Curbed became intrigued early last year when the building's name got … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Protest Over Parking Lot at Transbay Center Site |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Teamsters Local 665 workers protest a parking lot at the future site of the Transbay Transit Center. Photos: Matthew Roth. Despite a stated Transit First policy, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) are encouraging … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Does the Super Bowl: Sweet and Salty Brownies |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
credit: olya /Flickr We came across these delicious-looking brownies by Jessie Oleson of Cakespy via Serious Eats the other day and thought they'd be a sweet ending to the Super Bowl themed recipes. The recipe was adapted by Betty Crocker's Cooky Book . Roasted peanuts, a chocolate caramel candy bar, and pretzels? We're sold! … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Study Finds Livable Streets Even More Important for Kids than Adults |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Fewer cars means more walking and healthier kids. By most measures, San Francisco is a great place to walk and bike, with its compact street grid, mixed-use neighborhoods and relatively mild weather. But a new study conducted by UC Berkeley professor Michael Jerrett suggests the city may need … |
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| The Snitch |
| San Francisco Loses Drinking Contest to Fresno |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
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?When it came to our attention that Men's Health magazine had named Fresno the drunkest city in the U.S. in their annual ranking of cities by sobriety, we immediately wondered, wither S.F.? Afte... |
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| SFist |
| Call For Submissions: Neighborhood Gems Photo Project |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
(source: eb78 /Flickr) Get out there and shoot some photos of your favorite neighborhood spots this weekend, or dig through your archives. Good Magazine , in partnership with Pictory Magazine , is looking for some great shots of local spots to include in their upcoming Neighborhoods Issue , such as a "bar, coffee shop, library, park, bench, … |
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| SFist |
| Social City By The Numbers |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
Tatiana Sorokko (credit: Catherine Bigelow) Number of people pictured in this week's Miss Bigelow's Social City : 28 Minority count : 20 -- a minority blowout! Who was celebrating what : Arts of Pacific Asia Show at at Fort Mason Center / Gung hay fat choy! It's the year of the " Tiger. " Number of people whom we … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Bill Clinton Wants You to See Inside Buffalo – Free Showing at the Presidio on Feb. 12th |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Buffalo as is Buffalo Soldier - there are still a few around town . Bill Clinton loves this movie and he wants you to see it. “Free Screening of “ Inside Buffalo ” This award winning documentary tells the story of the 92nd infantry division , an African-American combat unit that fought heroically in Italy during World War II. Nicknamed the “ Buffalo Soldiers ”, these men valiantly fought two wars at once: one against fascism in Italy, … |
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| The Snitch |
| A Beachhead for Public Power in Marin |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
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The Marin Independent Journal reports this morning that the board of the Marin Energy Authority has approved a five-year contract with Shell Energy North America to provide government-purchased el... |
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| SFGTV Video On Demand: Mayor's Office |
| Biotech Tax Credit - Feb 02, 2010 |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| The agenda for Biotech Tax Credit dated Tuesday, 02 February 2010 has been archived. Access it here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=18&clip_id=9375 Download File |
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| BeyondChron |
| Lee Hartgrave = The Columnist |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| PAULA WEST is a Master at musical control. Make no mistake on this. This singer is monumentally gifted. She has terrific insight to great standards ? making them sound fresh and new. West starts the evening with Darktown Strutters Ball (Sheldon Brooks) ? Lyric: ?I?ll Dance off my shoes when they play those Jelly role Blues!? With the support of the great band behind her ?George, Mesterhazy, Pianist & Arranger, Barak Mori, Bassist, Jerome … |
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| BeyondChron |
| The History of Black Economic Empowerment |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| Today at noon under the rotunda of City Hall, San Francisco will kick off Black History Month with the "History of Black Economic Empowerment." The San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society put together this program, along with help from the Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services. Following an invocation by Pastor Aurelius Walker, will be performances by ?Bumpity Thump?, African Drummers and Dancers, King Tut, Cultural … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Dispatch from Park City (Part 4) |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| Last in a series of reports from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Can one successfully mix War On Terror paranoia with young New York City hipsters? lives into a coherent and entertaining film? Director / writer Zeina Durra achieves such an effect with her debut feature film ?The Imperialists Are Still Alive!? Asya (a magnetic Elodie Bouchez) is a New York City visual artist. Her insanely busy life of making art and evening … |
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| BeyondChron |
| What?s a ?Fiscal Conservative? Anyway? |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| By now, you?ve probably seen Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina?s spectacularly awful YouTube ad ? attacking her GOP rival, Tom Campbell, for being a ?fiscal conservative in name only.? Why? Because he criticized the Bush tax cuts, supports an increase in the gas tax and won?t sign onto Grover Norquist?s insane pledge to never vote for a single tax increase whatsoever. But what is a fiscal conservative anyway? Putting ideology aside, it … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
Dolores Park playground shipwreck boat coming soon. [ Curbed ] Arrest in Hayward double slaying. [ Chronicle ] Oakland tries to take on guns. [ NYT ] LGBT center seeks $157K loan from city. [ BAR ] Berkeley Daily Planet stung by alleged fraud. [ East Bay Express ] Prospective student files suit … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| SFMOMA Raises $250 Million to Expand |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| Exciting news from SFMOMA …. SFMOMA is pleased to announce today that it has received landmark contributions totaling more than $250 million to expand the museum and double its endowment. Making up more than half of a projected $480 million campaign goal, these pledges from museum leadership will fuel SFMOMA’s plans to triple its gallery and public spaces in order to offer enhanced programs and showcase the Fisher Collection, one … |
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| Rescue Muni |
| Comment on proposed service cuts this weekend |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| Concerned about proposed service cuts? Do you agree with us that extended meter hours (including enforcing meters on Sundays) is far better than cutting mass transit? If so, please attend and comment at one of these SFMTA meetings:
Town Hall Meetings, One South Van Ness Ave. @ Market St., 2nd Floor Atrium
Saturday, Feb. 6 [...] |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| And Now, Even San Franciscos Richmond District Has Its Own T-Shirt |
| 02/05/2010 12:00 AM |
| The Richmond District Blog now has Richmond District T-shirts for you to wear. Hurray! Check it out . But what if this area were to have an icon – what could possibly symbolize District One? Now, the nearby Sunset District has its marijuana grow houses and brothels , of course, but what’s similarly unique to the Richmond? My vote is for the big old NeoPlan AN 460 articulated bus – you know, the one used by the #38 Geary … |
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| The Snitch |
| San Francisco's Finest Doppelgangers |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
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Yeah, we realize that the Facebook doppelganger-week phenomenon is staler than an adult-diaper on a runaway Alzheimer's patient. (Technically the week ended last Friday). But it's a ... |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| New Pedicab Policy in San Francisco Invites New Routes and Businesses |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Golden Gate Pedicab company co-founder Justin Bruce in front of his new office on 4th Street. Photo: Matthew Roth Expect to see twice as many pedicabs on the streets this weekend in San Francisco. If you're counting, that amounts to a modest addition of 15 bicycle taxis. After several … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Blotter: Mission & Fort Mason Shootings |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
WEDNESDAY/FORT MASON : Just before 10:30 pm last night, two people were shot near a youth hostel in Fort Mason. CBS 5/CBN reports : "A 22-year-old woman was injured by a bullet that grazed her head ... and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach." The two victims were rushed to SF General … |
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| SFist |
| Mavericks Surf Hopes to Expand Brand |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Surfers converge at Half Moon Bay for Mavericks, 2008. (credit: jurvetson ) by Amy Crocker In another case of "mo' money, mo' problems," the dudes over at the Mavericks big wave surf competition are deep in the impact zone. Jeff Clark, the booted co-founder of the Mavericks Surf Ventures, which … |
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| SFist |
| A Guide to Urinals, Both Locally and Nationally Renowned |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Though it looks like it's nothing new to the internet (there are some press mentions dating back to the early aughts) we thought we'd call some attention to Urinal.net , a handy guide for guys to urinals across the nation. The San Francisco selection seems especially rich, including the infamous R Bar … |
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| The Snitch |
| Iowa Governor Says He Can 'Take Arnold' |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
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On Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger provided a classic example of trying to boost your own low self-esteem by dragging others down with you. Everyone knows California is the laughingsto... |
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| SFist |
| SF City College Nixes Summer Session |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
SF Chronicle is reporting that SF City College is canceling their summer session. "The cost-cutting move has angered many students who say they were depending on summer school this year in particular because the college cut hundreds of courses during the fall and spring semesters, and they have been unable to get into … |
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| SFist |
| Toyota Prius Recall Coming |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Due to a brake design problem, Toyota plans on recalling their popular Prius, a hybrid car popular with many smug yet eco-friendly Bay Area ilk. According to MarketWatch , around 270,000 vehicles will be recalled. "The Japanese … |
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| SFist |
| Surfers Totally Mad About Ocean Beach Bluff Plan |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: Top Travels Speaking of surfers , SF Weekly talked to some surfers this week who are pissed about Public Works' plan to dump some boulders along the fast eroding bluffs along Ocean Beach. They're in favor of dumping sand instead, which turns out to be a more expensive plan, and they're calling … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Look Out Ladies! Pickup Artist Boot Camp is Coming to San Francisco This Saturday |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| I’ll tell you all that I know. It seems that “the world’s number one daytime dating expert” Jeremy Soul * is coming to San Francisco to teach a one-day pickup artist workshop for $1500(!) per person on February 6, 2010 . That’s all well and good, but here’s the thing – after their morning session, they’re going to go out into the streets to put theory into practice. That means that workshop … |
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| Rescue Muni |
| Sierra Club: Speed up MTA service to save $, prevent cuts |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| In response to SFMTA’s budget deficit and threatened service cuts and fare hikes, the Sierra Club San Francisco Group has some policy recommendations. Below is their letter by our board member, Howard Strassner. (Note: this is not Rescue Muni policy, though we are long-time proponents of expanded rapid bus service.) |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Thursday's TV Picks |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
A new season of "Important Things with Demetri Martin" premieres at 10 P.M. on Comedy Central, and it might be of some interest to our fair community, as several episodes were shot right here in...
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| SFist |
| Newsom Entering Lt. Governor's Race? |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
(Altered image credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Although that governor's race thing didn't work out , Mayor Gavin Newsom is now "entertaining the possibility" of being your next lieutenant governor. According to Monday's Matier and Ross , his state-level career re-imagining came after a recent poll showed he could very well … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
FILM: The SF Independent Film Festival starts tonight with Opening Night film Wah Do Dem , about a solitary Brooklyn hipster on a cruise full of the middle-aged set en route to Jamaica. The film fest runs through the 18th. 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. // Roxie Cinema (3117 16th St) // $20 MUSIC: Yoshi's Oakland presents … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| The U.S. Navy Wants to Give Away the Formerly Super Secret Sea Shadow Stealth Ship |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| Remember back in the day, back when bay areans could espy the straight-outta-Redwood-City Sea Shadow stealth ship bobbing about in San Francisco Bay? Say it aloud: Super-Secret Sea Shadow Stealth Ship, Super-Secret Sea Shadow Stealth Ship, Super-Secret Sea Shadow Stealth Ship! This is what she looked like, after coming out in the daytime when she was no longer supr sekrt: [img title="sea_shadow_1" … |
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| ValleyWag |
| Steve Jobs' New York Media Adventure |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Steve Jobs visited the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in recent days, say sources at the papers. Also, New York reports the Apple CEO showed up for a secret media dinner. We're reliably informed that Jobs showed up for an iPad show and tell at the Times building, with newsroom staff present. The meeting was strictly off … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| SF Supervisor Elsbernd Pulls Muni Operator Ballot Amendment |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: Matthew Roth In a move that delighted the dozens of MTA bus and light-rail drivers and representatives of the Transit Workers Union (TWU) Local 250 at the Board of Supervisor's Rules Committee Meeting today, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd withdrew a proposed charter amendment that … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Does the Super Bowl: Deep-Fried Mac and Cheese |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
(source: greg.turner /Flickr) It's hard to go wrong with Mac and Cheese, so we decided to pick the most gluttonous version we could find, Deep-Fried Mac and Cheese , by Ms. Paula Deen. (Well, actually, there's an even more gluttonous version of this recipe, which includes a strip of bacon wrapped around each serving, but we thought … |
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| SFist |
| iPhone Users Love Democrats |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Newsom models the iPhone (Photo via Echelon ) While it's not that much of a shock that the elite and pricey iPhone is staunchly Democrat, here are the results of a recent poll conducted by CALinnovates.org (via Calitics ) regarding smart phone users and their political identification: iPhone users are 53% … |
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| SFist |
| Another Quake Strikes Off Eureka Coast |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 12:20 p.m., 35 miles west of Eureka, in the waters off the Humboldt coast right in the vicinity of the quake that hit on January 9th . There are no immediate reports of damage or injury, however the 6.5 quake last month did cause a fair amount of shaking and … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Two Troubling Transportation Numbers for the Obama Administration |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
Today brought news of two grim transportation numbers from the Obama administration: 2 and $53 million. 
Atlanta's Metro won a share of the emissions-cutting transit grants that the White House proposes to cut next year. (Photo: Atlanta Metblogs ) The
first figure is the percentage of federal … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Two MTA Board Appointments to Come at Pivotal Time for Muni |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
From left: MTA Board Vice Chairman Rev. Dr. James McCray, Jr., Chairman Tom Nolan and Director Shirley Breyer Black. Photo: Michael Rhodes On March 1, the terms of the MTA Board's two longest-serving directors will end, and a convergence of factors could make … |
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| Rescue Muni |
| Google Gadget with Real-Time Arrival Data |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| In the midst of all the budget troubles, you still need to find the next bus. Of course you can go to NextMuni.com or use Routesy on your iPhone, but if you have an iGoogle homepage, why not add this gadget? You can add up to three favorite stops by 511 stop ID.
Thanks [...] |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Today’s Headlines |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| SF Supes Prez Chiu Will Pull Building Shadow Measure from the Ballot ( SF Gate ) Mayor Newsom Driven Across the Street for Energy Efficiency Event ( City Insider ) MTA Study says Bike Share Program Would Be Heavily Used ( SF Examiner ) LA Times : "L.A. Activists Float Idea of 'Freeway' System for Bikes" Sacto Man Who Yanked Keys from Driver Who Hit Cyclist Honored by CHP ( CBS 13 , News 10 ) Car-Sharing on the Rise in North … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Funding Transit in St. Louis: Another Crack at a Sales Tax |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| Cities and counties across the country are struggling with the
funding of their transit systems in these hard times. In New York City,
the payroll tax solution touted in Albany last year has failed to meet projections. In Lorain
County, Ohio, the rejection of a sales tax by voters resulted in crippling cutbacks to that region's bus service. What's at stake when transit is starved of funding? Today on the Streetsblog Network , Steve Patterson … |
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| SFist |
| Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's Childhood Home for Sale |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| The house featured in the opening credits of "Full House" is for sale for $4 million . Built in 1896, 722 Steiner is on Alamo Square's "Postcard Row." It should be noted though that some believe 1709 Broderick to be the real Full House - that the family was only playing in Alamo square, but in actuality lived a little north. Either way, the open house is on February 10 from 6 to 9. So put on your best suit and your most expensive shoes - … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Transit Riders Put Heat on Mayor Through SFBC, Twitter |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
MuniFail.com Two new websites are helping transit supporters pressure the Mayor to save Muni from the brink of massive service cuts .
In the past two days, a web page created by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has succeeded in getting nearly 350 people to write personalized letters to … |
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| Reader Mail: Not A Dead Body On The Bus |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| No, that's not a dead body on top of that bus! It's a MUNI closet. Reader (and neighbor!) Julie Michelle sent along this photo of what appears to be a dead body on top of a bus, but is... |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Just say 'no' to giving it away for free |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| Alan Mutter, media venture capitalist and blogger, journalists need to stand together and stop giving away their services for free. In a blog posting that seems to be directed at the F. Warren Hellman-funded Bay Area News Project (which will use the free work of UC-Berkeley journalism students), Mutter says journalists should reject those who want to use their work for free: Instead of simply declining, I tell them something like this: Quality … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| KGO-AM's Gil Gross now does show on KSFO 560 |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Gil Gross, who holds down the 2-4 p.m. weekday shift at KGO-AM, can now be heard on Saturdays on conservative "Hot Talk" KSFO-AM from 1-3, talking about real estate. No, Gross isn't pretending to be a Rush Limbaugh wannabe one day a week. KSFO is simply picking up Gross' nationally syndicated "Real Estate Today" program which … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| No local broadcasters going to Super Bowl |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Bay Area media blogger Rich Lieberman checked around and discovered that not one local TV or radio station has sent anyone to Miami to cover Sunday's Super Bowl. Some newspaper people are going like David White of the Chron, but in far fewer numbers than in the past. 
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| BeyondChron |
| School Beat: Moving Closer to a New Student Assignment System |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| Years in the making, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is just a few meetings away from adopting a new system for assigning students to schools. This past Tuesday, Board of Education (BOE) members were presented with refined recommendations from district staff regarding how to better assign students to schools and were also presented with the results from an intensive community engagement process regarding student assignment. … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Diverse Applicant Pool Critical to Success of Redistricting Commission |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| In 2008, voters passed Proposition 11 removing the redistricting authority from the State Legislature and giving a 14-person citizen's committee the charge of drawing California's legislative boundaries. Reshaping and impacting the state's political future while giving meaningful voice to California?s diverse communities will require a commission that reflects the state's population. This is proving to be a tough challenge as the Feb 12th … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Crucial Moment for Affordable Housing in Silicon Valley |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| East Palo Alto stands at a crossroads as one of the last affordable communities in the Silicon Valley. This week, more than half of the city?s rental housing stock was scheduled to hit the foreclosure auction block. Although the auction has been postponed because of ongoing negotiations between the city and the receiver appointed by the courts to run the properties in lieu of the defaulting predatory landlord, the matter of what will become of … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Beyonc? Embodies Soulless Starbucking of Music Industry |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| Beyonc? won six Grammys Sunday night, the most any woman has won in one night. This success eclipsed her surprisingly boring medley early in the show, in which Beyonc? repeatedly threw her hair back in a false display of passion, all the while surrounded by a squadron of militaristic men in black-suited TAC Squad outfits. We?ve come a long way from the rebellious rock stars of the 1960?s, and the soulful and truly passionate voices of Aretha … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Book review: "Deadlines" |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Pete Carey of the Merc says Paul McHugh's "Deadlines" is an entertaining tale that concisely captures life in a big-city newsroom. In fact, this amusing novel is more than a murder mystery. It's a portrait of metropolitan journalism amid its
time of troubles. [ More ] 
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Willie Brown ... the new Herb Caen? |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
OK, some of you purists are ready to barf after reading that headline. There's a comment button below, so go at it. But come on, you've got to admit that you read Brown's column every Sunday. You wonder who will have the biggest scoop, M&R or Brown? What works about his column ( your humble … |
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| Peninsula Press Club |
| Oakland residents invited to become journalists |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| E&P reports that the Oakland Tribune and the Maynard
Institute for Journalism Eduction are launching on a citizen
journalist program in west Oakland that will open a media center in a
branch library, and train residents in reporting, writing and
photographing for the newspaper's community correspondents program. The six-month training program comes with a $1,000 stipend to residents who complete the entire course. [img width='1' height='1' … |
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| Reader Mail: Not A Dead Body On The Bus |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| No, that's not a dead body on top of that bus! It's a MUNI closet. Reader (and neighbor!) Julie Michelle sent along this photo of what appears to be a dead body on top of a bus, but is... |
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| SFist |
| SFist Interviews: Michael Tilson Thomas |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Henry Brant, left, and MTT, right, during rehearsals of Ice Field in 2001. MTT will conduct Brant's orchestration of Ives' Concord Sonata this week with the SF Symphony. San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas looks like a laid back conductor on stage: he makes sweeping gestures which sometimes seem (to us, … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around the Bay |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
Mission Street Food's vegan burger. Photo by Jared Zimmerman / Flickr Dufty calls for a public hearing on street food in order to quell nerves of business owners annoyed that the carts and trucks don't have to cough up the taxes and fees they do. [ Examiner ] Save Dolores Park from improvement! Via … |
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| SFGTV: Rules Committee |
| BOS Rules Committee - Feb 04, 2010 |
| 02/04/2010 12:00 AM |
| The agenda for BOS Rules Committee dated Thursday, 04 February 2010 has been archived. Access it here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=13&clip_id=9367 Download File |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Cruise with Gorby and Condi: Sail the Black Sea with Gorbachev and Condoleezza Rice, $24K |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| How would you like to spend a couple of weeks on the Black Sea with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , former Secretary of Defense William Perry , and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ? Well, you’re in luck, ’cause San Francisco-based World Leaders Travel on 500 Third Street is asking just $23,990 per person (double occupancy) to attend Global Challenges in a Post-Perestroika World: A World Leaders Symposium in … |
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| CurbedSF |
| sponsored post: Gilt Man's Got Mammut on Sale Today |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Baby, it's cold outside. But it is toasty warm at Gilt Man, where they've got 70% of winter sports apparel from Mammut. The Swiss apparel maker has been selling proper duds for outdoor expeditions since 1862. Today, Gilt's got... |
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| More Improvements on Irving Street! |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| 6th/Irving Planter Boxes III The other day I was out and about and took some photos of these new planter boxes at 6th and Irving. Barbara and Paul, who own the House Formerly Known As the Yes We Can... |
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| Rangelife SF |
| i-Hole working at the Apple Store |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| ...or "Why I'm Still a PC Today." I've got an iPod like everyone else, but years of familiarity and general cheapness has kept me wedded to Wintel, and AT&T chimpiness for iPhone drove me to a Droid. But I'm curious about switching my home PC to a Mac, so today I ducked into the flagship Apple store at Union Square. The store was buzzing as always (no, no iPads yet), and so I stepped to a display of desktops … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Today’s Headlines |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| SFGo Signs Will Be Removed on Oak/Fell by This April ( BIKE NOPA ) And a Street Level "Portable Message Board" Would Replace Them ( BIKE NOPA ) Antioch Officials Told Preferred eBart Hillcrest Station is Dead ( The Press ) Biz Times : "SF May Allow Taller Buildings on Cesar Chavez" Muni Cost-Saving Alternatives Include PT Operators and Lowering Premium Benefits ( City Insider ) Muni Operator Helps Catch Suspected … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Getting Our Transportation Priorities Straight |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| This morning on the Streetsblog Network , Cap'n Transit is talking about setting budget priorities in lean times. Maintaining
efficient, low-cost transit, he argues, should take precedence over
keeping bridges toll-free -- especially if there's no political will to
raise taxes: [img width="250" height="167" align="right" class="image" alt="3065141497_41b28b50fc.jpg" … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| White House Pitches $400M for Healthier Neighborhood Food Outlets |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| The connection between walkable development and grocery shopping may not seem immediately apparent -- until you consider studies conducted in cities from Austin to Seattle that showed the share of trips taken
by foot or by transit rises as local food outlets move closer to
residential areas. [img width="205" height="136" align="right" src="http://dc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/31193700_386561bcbd.jpg" … |
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| SFist |
| Newsom's Eviction Law Stands |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
by Amy Crocker Mayor Gavin's Newsom veto of an eviction law will stand after the Board of Supervisor's came up one vote shy of overturning . The law would have kept landlords from evicting tenants in houses built after the 1979 rent control laws except in cases of breach of a lease or failure to pay … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Does the Super Bowl: Seven Layer Bean Dip |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
(credit: k?money /Flickr Leave it to Martha to come up with a clever presentation to a classic dip by putting its contents in single-serving jars. Seven Layer Bean Dip is the sort of thing you can't stop eating, so why not give your guests individual servings, enabling them to double-dip to their hearts content? You could use jars, … |
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| SFist |
| Teens Mob Attack Vallejo City Worker |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
(source: Vallejo Police Department, via CBS 5) Wanted dead or alive, Vallejo teens attacked and robbed a city worker yesterday afternoon. Police said, according to CBS 5 , "the incident happened around 3:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Nebraska Street near Vallejo High School as the employee was returning the backhoe to … |
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| SFist |
| Prop 8 Trial Undramatic Reenactment |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Since cameras were barred from the federal Prop 8 trial , which will decide whether or not banning same-sex marriage in California is disgusting, Marriage Trial has reenacted the entire proceedings. "Working from court transcripts and first-hand accounts from bloggers who are present at the trial, we are … |
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| SFist |
| East Bay Couple Offering $1,000 Reward for Two Lost Toy Bears |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| You might have seen some of their 'Missing' posters around downtown, but an East Bay couple is offering a large reward for a pair of palm-sized stuffed bears purchased in Japan for $10, and which apparently have come to be avatars of sorts in their ongoing and dorky romance. Between online multi-player gaming, jobs in programming, and polyamorous sex play involving fuzzy animal suits*, Chris Ferreira and his girlfriend have found time to … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Federal Money for BRT Good for Local Projects, But Future Uncertain |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Image: SFCTA With the announcement of this year's $1.8 billion in Federal New Starts and Small Starts grants [ PDF ], two of the Bay Area's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects are set to receive much-needed money to maintain their viability in the face of severe budget cuts. The vote of … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
HISTORY: Check out the Authors' Forum at the Old Mint tonight and learn about Jewish immigrant, Isaias Hellman , "creator" of California; the Chinatown police department from the Gold Rush to present day; Juana Briones de Miranda , one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco; and how … |
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| Daily Kos |
| Midday open thread |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Reminder: I will be taking questions from you guys in a live blog at 1 p.m. PT. My plan is to answer questions for an hour, then come back later tonight, after my kids are in bed, and answer some more. Conservatives on the Supreme Court, taking a break from giving Corporate America the keys to our democracy, decided to shut down video of the Proposition 8 trial. Heavens forbid the public got video of the bigots being bigoted! So a bunch of … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Wednesday's TV Picks |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
This probably doesn't count as six degrees of separation, and I don't want to count the actual degrees because I hate math, but a hair stylist who used to work at my hair place of choice was in the...
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| How I met Neil Patrick Harris' replacement... |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
My dear friend and editor of SFist , Brock Keeling and I share a birthday. As it was our birthday weekend, we spent a ton of time together in the past few days, running the gamut from throwing...
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| SFist |
| High as a Kite: SF Man Attacks US Airways Crew |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
by Rachel Brodsky The Associate Press reported today that a San Francisco man named Kinman Chan, 30, had been accused of assaulting the crew of a US Airways flight on its way to Los Angeles. According to the FBI, Chan screamed, dropped trou, and proceeded to "attack" the flight's crew. Chan later … |
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| SFist |
| Adoptable Pets Of The Week: Chica & Ranger Rick |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Making a connection with these two lovable sillyfaces? Then, by all means, head down to the SPCA to adopt them or one of the many fine animals who need a gram of your love. Really, they could sure use a warm and safe place to call home. (And not someone who will treat them as furniture or accessories or... worse. Remember: Pets are family members, period.) More info after the jump. [img alt="Chica (2).jpg" … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Tons of Free Pet Food! Purina ONE Tour at SFSPCA Adoption Event This Afternoon |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| This afternoon, the Purina ONE Tour for Heroes will drop by the San Francisco SPCA in the Northern Mission / Potrero Hill area at 250 Alabama Street betwixt 15th and 16th. Purina is going to set up a temporary food bank to give out more than 1,000 bags of pet food to Bay Area pet owners from 2:00 to 7:00 PM , while supplies last. It’s the debut of their national tour: Temporary Food Banks – Throughout the tour more than 63,000 pounds … |
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| CurbedSF |
| Monster Fail: In a tally of the best... |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| In a tally of the best and worst corporate stadium namers, the Wall Street Journal scores which corporations ended up accruing the most home stadium wins to their brand. Locally, HP Pavilion in San Jose got fifth best, with the... |
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| SFist |
| Carly Fiorina's New Attack Ad: Cinematic Effort of Swine, Sheep, Furries |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| So. Has senate candidate Carly Fiorina been hitting the medicinal marijuana brownies a bit too hard as of late? Because we see no other explanation for this epically entertaining attack ad. It's part of FCINO, which was created to expose Tom Campbell as a 'Fiscal Conservative In Name Only.' Or, it could be about sheep. And pigs. And haunting music. "I didn't know Terry Gilliam made? local attack ads," quips YouTube user CTSadler. "Is Fiorina … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| New UCSF Meta Study Proves Cigarette Smoking is a Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| All right, a new UCSF Medical Center study shows that smoking cigarettes won’t help you avoid Alzheimer’s disease. This might come as news to some people, especially to people who rely on tobacco-industry funding to show that tobacco helps people avoid Alzheimers. Deets below. UCSF, back in the day, along with the ur N Judah: [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-14715" title="UCSF_1908" … |
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| I Team Blog |
| Salon Beating Videographer Killed |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Police say the woman who videotaped the beating of an Oakland Salon owner last year has been killed. Twenty-six-year-old Tasha Bell was hit by a motorcycle in an apparent "Side Show", a street race near the Port of Oakland this past Saturday evening. [img alt="Road" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83452295869e20128775bfd38970c image-full " … |
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| SFist |
| Free Pet Food at SPCA Today |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
We're a little late getting this to you, but the SPCA is offering free pet food today. Check it: "Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Purina ONE Tour for Heroes is making its stop at the San Francisco SPCA. Purina will set up a temporary food bank to give out more than 1,000 bags of pet food to Bay Area … |
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| The N Judah Chronicles |
| More Improvements on Irving Street! |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| 6th/Irving Planter Boxes III The other day I was out and about and took some photos of these new planter boxes at 6th and Irving. Barbara and Paul, who own the House Formerly Known As the Yes We Can... |
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| Mayor Newsom Blog |
| Mayor Newsom Announces $19.2 Million in Funding for New Energy-Efficiency Projects |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
| Today, Mayor Newsom announced $19.2 million in funding for energy
efficiency programs through the San Francisco Energy Watch program and
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Newsom also highlighted the
creation of new local jobs through the programs and outlined the total
energy and financial savings from the City’s energy efficiency work on
city buildings during the last 6 years. Read more... |
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| SFist |
| Notable Kids' Book Author Reading in Laurel Village |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
For those who have kids in SF — and we're guessing a lot of them are the precocious types who read a lot and collect vintage LPs — you may want to take note of a reading happening tonight at Books Inc. in Laurel Village . Rebecca Stead will be reading from her young adult … |
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| SFist |
| SF Views: Blogging the Mission and Beyond |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
Please join SF Appeal editor Eve Batey and your SFist editor as we welcome former Mission Mission editor and Uptown Almanac creator Kevin Montgomery as we chat about blogging. From the Mission and beyond. Kevin Montgomery, who hadn't professionally blogged a word before he was asked to run popular local blog … |
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| The SF K Files |
| Hot topic: Fund-raising ideas |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
A reader has suggested that we start a thread where parents can share creative fund-raising ideas that they tried at their school and that were a success. 
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| Matier & Ross |
| Poll: Newsom leads lieutenant governor's race |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 PM |
He's out of the governor's race, but a new poll puts San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as the instant front-runner in a three-way Democratic match-up for lieutenant governor. The poll of 600 likely Democratic voters statewide, conducted last month by San...
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| LGBT Center’s Annual Party at Rincon Hill’s Terra Gallery |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| The LGBT Community Center’s big annual birthday bash comes back to the Rincon Hill neighborhood’s Terra Gallery at 511 Harrison Street on Saturday, April 10th from 7pm until 11pm. Buy your tickets online today ! Join us for Soireé 8 , celebrating the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s eighth Anniversary! Indulge yourself in an evening of Earthly delights fit for the gods and goddesses. Enjoy mythically-inspired performances by … |
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Wholistic Salon at Sailors’ Union of the Pacific Building |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| One of the folks I met at tonight’s Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting to discuss park plans for 333 Harrison was a really nice guy named Barry London. Barry has leased out the old school barber shop inside of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific and offers pure and organic hair/body treatments and goods by appointment. His business is called Itzal Goode, and he refers to it as a wholistic salon. If you’d like to … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Would California Pacific Medical Center Employees Need a Shuttle If We Had a Decent MUNI? |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Look at all these people patiently lined up by the Civic Center BART Station using their own private bus service – they’re commuting to work up to the Pacific Campus on Buchanan in Pacific Heights. Of course CPMC pays taxes to fund MUNI but, for whatever reason, it’s easier for them to just opt out and buy their own vans and hire their own drivers to start up their own private bus line . You’d think that it’d be … |
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| SFist |
| Meanwhile, In Berkeley... |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
"Me and Nick Jonas at his concert at Berkeley on January 30, 2010," shot by michelleDUHH . The budding solo artist performed Saturday at Zellerbach Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus. 
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| SFPD Prowler Trapped in the Great Muddy Bog of the Golden Gate Park Panhandle |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Our recent rains have turned the middle of the Golden Gate Park Panhandle betwixt Oak and Fell into a Great Muddy Bog. So when you’re prowling about looking for criminales in your nose-heavy, rear-wheel-drive Crown Victoria it’s easy to get stuck in the mud, as the operators of Radio Car 075 discovered last night. Click to expand [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-14699" title="IMG_8010" … |
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| Mayor Newsom Blog |
| Mayor Newsom Announces Federal Support for Central Subway Project |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation
Agency (SFMTA) today announced that the Federal Transit Administration
(FTA) has again provided a strong rating to the Central Subway Project,
Phase 2 SFMTA’s Third Street Light Rail Project. The Project has
received a positive review as part of the FTA’s New Starts program with
a Medium-High project justification rating and Medium-High overall
rating. In addition, the … |
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| SFist |
| Day Around The Bay |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
Photo by: Ed Anderson for 7x7. Annual '99 things to try before you die' list revealed. (-1 since, really, no one needs the carnitas in order to live a full life. Blech .) [ 7x7 ] New bike blog, NOPA Velo, launches with Patty Hearst/Presidio Ride. [ NOPA Velo , via Michael Petrelis ] Judge fines … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Chronicle Falls into Right-Wing Frames on Deficit |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| Once again, a Democrat is in the White House ? and once again, the media suddenly cares about the budget deficit. Even liberal San Francisco?s hometown paper, which had a massive headline in bold type yesterday called ?Obama?s Record Deficit.? Written by Carolyn Lochhead (whose prior gig was writing for the conservative Insight Magazine), the piece reinforced all the right-wing frames about a Democratic President submitting a budget that ?we … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Poll: Large Portion Of GOP Thinks Obama Is Racist, Socialist, Non-U.S. Citizen |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| A new poll of more than 2,000 self-identified Republican voters illustrates the incredible paranoia enveloping the party and the intense pressure drawing lawmakers further and further away from political moderation. The numbers speak for themselves -- a large portion of GOP voters think that President Obama is racist, socialist or a non-US citizen -- though, when considering them, it is important to note that a disproportionate percentage of … |
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| BeyondChron |
| Supervisor Candidates Find Ways to Skirt Around Limit |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| When you run for local office in San Francisco, no one can give you more than $500 ? unless you?re running for the Democratic County Central Committee, where there are no contribution limits. And with many November candidates for Supervisor also running for DCCC in June (which decides who gets the Democratic Party endorsement), people are getting quite creative. District 8 candidate Scott Wiener has raised $51,134 in his run for Supervisor, … |
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| The Snitch |
| Hand Jobs on Castro -- a Viable Business Model |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
|
?The other day, a Market and Castro carwash sign was altered to read somewhat differently. Yet it seems folks in that neighborhood have a healthy appetite for double-entendres. Hence the above na... |
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| SFGTV: Budget & Finance Committee |
| BOS Budget and Finance Committee - Feb 03, 2010 |
| 02/03/2010 12:00 AM |
| The agenda for BOS Budget and Finance Committee dated Wednesday, 03 February 2010 has been archived. Access it here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=9357 Download File |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Today’s Headlines |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Los Gatos Cyclist Killed by Driver Had 7-year-old Daughter; Driver Probed for Drugs, Alcohol ( Merc ) Well-Known Nevada County Bicyclist Killed by Driver on Hwy 174 ( The Union ) Traffic Injustice: Why Can't We Do Anything About the 700 Annual Bicyclist Deaths? ( Bicycling ) Mayor's Office Claims Muni Fail Tweets Aren't Overwhelming His Account: Time to Tweet! ( Autopia ) Newsom: Elsbernd Proposal Making It Tough for Muni to Secure Labor … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| More Conversation About Not-So-Invisible Bicyclists |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| The other day, we wrote a post in hopes of starting a conversation about the way certain groups of
people who ride bicycles -- notably, immigrants who ride to work and
for work -- tend to get overlooked by bicycle advocacy groups and
planners. The post (which grew out of an item by Streetsblog Network member Honking in Traffic )
got a lot of responses, including a few from people who thought we were
stating the obvious or being patronizing. … |
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| SFist |
| Double Homicide In Hayward |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Two bodies were discovered at the Bay Cities Auto Auction at 29901 Industrial Parkway Southwest in Hayward this morning. CBS 5/BCN reports : "One body was found on the pavement outside the front gate, another inside a car on the premises, according to police." No arrests have been made. [img … |
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| SFist |
| Dolores Park Closure Planned for Entire Park During Renovation |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Source: Brolores Park Much to the ire of many Dolo Park fans, the popular public park on the nexus of the Mission and the Castro will close entirely during its renovation , estimated to last at least a full year. Uptown Almanac talked to Supe Bevan Dufty's office, who confirmed the closure . Nicolas King, an aide … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Consumer Reports Disses UCSF Medical Center Over High Central Catheter Infection Rate |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| All right, Consumer Reports has a few notes about San Francisco hospitals in its Missive from Yonkers this AM. Actually, the people at CR sound a little hacked off, and for a couple of reasons. Item One: They’re using a hospital’s ICU Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Rate as a yardstick of performance. Why? Why not. Here’s how CR feels: “The procedures needed to eliminate ICU infections are simple, … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| U.S. DOT Names the Transit Projects Set for Federal Funding |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| The Obama administration last night revealed the names of local
transit projects getting recommendations for federal aid under the U.S.
DOT's New and Small Starts programs, which are set to receive $1.8
billion during fiscal year 2011. The list includes some
familiar urban projects -- New York's Second Avenue Subway, for
instance, already had a full funding grant agreement (FFGA) with
Washington and is poised to get $197 million in the 2011 … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| San Francisco Police Chief to Review Bicycle, Pedestrian Policies |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Photo: Troy Holden San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón vowed last week to implement significant crime reducing strategies through his Compstat system and restructured enforcement based on best practices from inside and outside of his department, including two measures that … |
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| SFist |
| SF Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima Gives Inaugural Address Tonight |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
by Amy Crocker Did you know San Francisco had a Poet Laureate? You should. SFist has mentioned her before . Our Laureate, Diane DiPrima , is in charge of putting the spirit of our fair city into iambic pentameter (or free verse, sonnets, odes...it's up to her). DiPrima was active in the beat generation and has … |
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| SFist |
| Your College Degrees, Plummeting In Value |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
by Amy Crocker According to research complied by The Wall Street Journal , college degrees may not be as valuable as we thought. The College Board had long proclaimed on its website that those with a degree earned $800,000 more over a lifetime than those without. Making an … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| Awesome Video Shows What It’s Like to Surf at Mavericks – It’s POV Cam! |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| The people at the Mavericks Surf Contest are still mulling over when and if they’ll be able to put on a show this season, but no matter, check out this recent video of veteran Bart Willems taking on San Mateo County’s best surf on a 15-foot day. Go ahead, watch it full-screen at 720p HD - why does your CPU have four cores if you’re not going to use them? [img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-14643" title="mavs1" … |
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| SF Gate Culture Blog |
| Hey, Watch It! - Tuesday's TV Picks |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Happy Groundhog Day! Celebrate by watching the classic comedy Groundhog Day at 6 P.M. on Bravo. Happy Groundhog Day! Celebrate by watching the classic comedy Groundhog Day at 6...
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| SF Streets Blog |
| Driver Arrested in Death of Los Gatos Cyclist |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Joshua West and his daughter Briana. Photo: Ashley Cushman The driver of a Chevrolet Blazer who struck and killed a 28-year-old cyclist in Los Gatos has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. Kevin Darr of San Jose, the 50-year-old driver, was arrested and … |
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| SFist |
| Pixar's 'Up' Receives 5 Oscar Nominations |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
The ingenious and famously hardworking folks at Pixar must be celebrating today. The Emeryville studio's animated feature Up received a total of 5 nominations -- almost tying Disney's Beauty and the Beast , who received 6 nominations in 1991 -- including Best Picture. Oh, Pixar. Your movies have trumped Disney's … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Tonight |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
by Amy Crocker CLUB : Without being facetious, it's safe to say Ishi Hideaki is huge in Japan. Under the moniker DJ Krush , he has released a dozen albums as a hip hop producer and electronic DJ. On his latest album, Jaku, he added traditional Japanese instruments to his sparse, atmospheric blends. He … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| CitiApartments Pwned by City Attorney Dennis Herrera – $50K in Penalties for Obfuscation, Delay |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Our three-term City Attorney Dennis J. Herrera has just won a little compensation to pay for all the extra work San Francisco is doing to bring poorly - rated CitiApartments / Skyline Realty * to justice. Read all about it , below. San Francisco’s Happy Warrior: His middle name is Jose, his son speaks Mandarin Chinese and he’s been working on gay legal issues for donkey’s years, at least since the 1990’s - do you … |
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| CurbedSF |
| sponsored post: Let Equinox Change Your Life |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Equinox is a more than a gym. It changes people's lives. Take Anne from New York, who broke her neck in five places in a car accident last summer. It was a miracle she wasn't paralyzed. She spent five... |
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| The SF K Files |
| Tech Scavenger Hunt benefits Alvarado School |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Get Your Geek On! @ Tech Search Party February 6, 2010 - 5:30 to 8:00 pm Noe Valley, San Francisco Here's your chance to show off your mad geek skills while trekking around San Francisco's Noe Valley with your friends and phone. It's a scavenger hunt-meets crossword puzzle-meets street party. It works like this: Arrive on time at the auditorium at Alvarado Elementary School (entrance is on 22nd between Douglass and Eureka). At 6:00 pm sharp … |
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| Rangelife SF |
| Florida, Pride of the Nation, Part 73 |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
I, for one, welcome our new Tampa Municipal Overlords. 
Among the many angina attacks suffered by the Right-Wing-osphere since the election of that guy has been that guy's tendency to bow upon greeting people. First, … |
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| Matier & Ross |
| Poll: Newsom leads lieutenant governor's race |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
He's out of the governor's race, but a new poll puts San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as the instant front-runner in a three-way Democratic match-up for lieutenant governor. The poll of 600 likely Democratic voters statewide, conducted last month by San...
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| Rincon Hill SF |
| Belgian Waffles on Tuesdays at Tehama and 1st Streets |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Thanks to Everyblock.com , I just learned that the delicious Waffle Mania Truck with sugar belgian waffles truck that sells waffles over at Civic Center’s Wednesday Farmers Market plans to park and sell their waffles in the Rincon Hill neighborhood at 1st and Tehama on Tuesdays for lunch hours. I don’t know the source of the info …. so don’t be mad at me if it turns out to be just gossip. |
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| SFist |
| Grab Gavin Newsom's Ball at Saturday's School Scavenger Hunt |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
You, that's who. And you can, by participating in the Tech Search Party , which offers as a prize an autographed baseball by the Mayor. Other prizes include tickets to a Bon Jovi concert courtesy of the suddenly cuddly Sarah and Vinnie , or EA video games . The Tech Search Party is a scavenger hunt in Noe Valley … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Reviews: SF Sketchfest's 'Celebrity Autobiography' |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
Rachel Dratch (source: Pop Dose) After checking out SF Sketchfest's Celebrity Autobiography at Cobb's on Saturday night -- a glorious event where noted comedians read the bizarre autobiographies of equally bizarre celebrities -- it's easy to see why Rachel Dratch was able to hold her own with Tina Fey, Will Farrell and Amy … |
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| The Snitch |
| Gavin For Gov: Who Got Paid? |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
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?Last night, we made our initial perusal of Mayor Gavin Newsom's Dostoevskyian, 529-page campaign filing laying out the finances in his failed bid for governor. And while Newsom spent around $70... |
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| SFist |
| SF Beer Week: 2/5 - 2/12 |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
(source: bittermelon /Flicikr) Just in time for the (anti-abortion/anti-gay dating) Super Bowl, SF Beer Week kicks things off on Friday, ready to fill your belly with hops, brain with a buzz and liver with a bust. The week-long event kicks off at Yerba Buena with a party featuring beers from 30 Northern California craft … |
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| Jim Ross |
| Small Business Survey |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Since 2004, we have worked with Small Business California on their annual survey. If you own a small business we would like to get your thoughts and opinions. Click Here to take survey |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| How Can Transit Backers Sway Conservatives? Oberstar Joins the Debate |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| In the years before partisan warfare became the norm in Washington,
transportation tended to unite both ends of the ideological spectrum.
Can rationality return to infrastructure policy debates that have
become subsumed by culture clashes between cyclists and drivers,
urbanists and suburbanites -- and, of course, Democrats and Republicans? [img width="200" height="150" align="right" class="image" … |
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| SF Streets Blog |
| A Modest Proposal: Ask Developers to Help Pay For Better Transport |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| At today's debate on conservative support for transit, developer Chris
Leinberger had a modest proposal for lawmakers who are desperately
seeking new transportation financing strategies in an era of diminishing gas tax returns: Ask real-estate developers to pay for projects that will increase their profits. [img width="180" height="183" align="right" class="image" alt="leinburger_1.jpg" … |
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| SFist |
| SFist Does the Super Bowl: Mini Sloppy Joes |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
(source: wonderyort /Flickr) The big game is on Sunday, which for us non-sports fans means hovering over the snack table in between space-out sessions in front of the TV. (Except this contributor is a bit more invested this year since it involves our home town team, the Colts.) In order to make that snack table as appealing as … |
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| SFist |
| Jackie Speier Decides Not to Run for Attorney General |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
The Sacto Bee announced today that U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier will not to run for California attorney general . "She's going to remain in Congress where she can focus on issues that she cares about," said (our most favorite, wittiest spokesperson in politics and current Speier campaign spokesman) Nathan Ballard. … |
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| The San Francisco Citizen |
| It’s Official – Jackie Speier to Remain a Congresswoman for Now |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| Per UC Hastings Law School graduate Nathan Ballard comes news from UC Hastings Law School graduate Jackie Speier . It seems California’s most-beloved lawyer will stay in D.C. after all: “Rep. Jackie Speier “Grateful” To Stay In Congress. Speier: Unfinished Work To Do On Consumer Protection, Health Care, Education Washington, D.C. – Today, ending days of speculation, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) announced that she will remain in … |
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| SFist |
| Bloggers Aim to Restore Marriage Equality, 2/13 |
| 02/02/2010 12:00 PM |
| On Saturday, February 13 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., many, many San Francisco and Bay Area bloggers will join together to defeat Prop 8 and restore marriage equality by canvassing. (Which is to say, visiting neighborhoods that voted majority Yes on 8, going door to door and talk to people about marriage equality.) But you don't have to be a socially-inept online writer to help fight for civil rights. Anyone can join! And that anyone could be … |
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