Email Author Chris Roberts

2010 Stories by Chris Roberts

• Medvedev Takes Much Better Twitpics Than Newsom

  published Jun 23, 2010

  The view to your left is the one Dmitry Medvedev, president of Russia, woke up to his morning. It is, according to his freshly minted Twitter feed, the view from his hotel room. Somewhere on Nob Hill,... More >>

• Caustic Scribe Hitchens Cancels West Coast Swing

  published Jun 23, 2010

  We've just received word of a metaphysical disaster: Professional polemicist Christopher Hitchens has canceled a string of West Coast appearances, including one scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the... More >>

• High Times Dissed Outdoor Pot. Intentionallyr

  published Jun 23, 2010

  Among cannabis aficionados, the debate between whether to consume medicine grown indoors or outdoors is akin to the Coke vs. Pepsi quandary for some, Catholic vs. Protestant to others. It's a matter o... More >>

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  SFPD Seeking Suspect in Brazen Midday Bank Robbery

  published Jun 22, 2010

  Police are searching for the man who allegedly robbed a downtown bank in a lunchtime heist Monday. A "middle-aged white man" aged between 40 and 60 strolled into a bank on the 100 block of California ... More >>

• Face-Stabbing Cop Peeves Public Defender

  published Jun 22, 2010

  The current hoopla at the Hall of Justice over nondisclosure of police officers' violent histories continued Monday, when Public Defender Jeff Adachi issued a terse press release asking why his depart... More >>

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  Foreign Navies Visit S.F. During Pride Week. Anyone Else Find This Oddr

  published Jun 22, 2010

  The Snitch is above cheap jokes and cheaper references, but we love conspiracies and coincidences. This is why, as naval vessels from Russia and Japan are docked at our port and sailors from both nati... More >>

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  Chess Still Played on Market Street, Games Just Out of Sight (Of Tourists)

  published Jun 22, 2010

  Last week we told you about the Market Street chess games, and how a police action had purportedly meant checkmate for the beloved S.F. street sight.On Monday, The Snitch did a little "journalism" and... More >>

• High Times Medical Cannabis Cup Rehash: Buy the Green Door's Candy Jack; HopeNet's Hash Is Too Strong

  published Jun 21, 2010

  They shut down the hash bar.High Times shut down HopeNet's hash bar. SF, your hash is too much for High Times (or at least its legal handlers). "They said it was too strong," said Steve Smith, half of... More >>

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  Pelosi's Visit: Speaker Speaks Softly, Plugs Children, Walks Out Fast

  published Jun 21, 2010

  Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi provided we miserable media wretches a small spark of excitement Monday morning when she visited San Francisco City Hall for a rare visit. Her focu... More >>

• Shit to Shore: Treasure Island Hangar New Digs for Displaced Ex-Cons Burned Out of TL

  published Jun 21, 2010

  Last week's fire at a transitional housing complex displaced 160 recently released inmates of the penal system, who had been living in semifreedom close to temptation at Turk and Taylor streets in the... More >>

• BREAKING: Pelosi Speaking at City Hall at 11 a.m.

  published Jun 21, 2010

  We've just been informed that most-powerful San Franciscan Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, will make an appearance at City Hall in about 20 minutes. Pelosi, fresh from last ... More >>

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  Fiona Ma Loves Her Some Johnson, NASCAR

  published Jun 21, 2010

  The first Asian-American woman to be speaker pro tempore of the state Assembly, San Francisco westside rep Fiona Ma is also a NASCAR fan. Ma tweeted both her attendance at Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 35... More >>

• Casual Fan's World Cup: Les Incompetents

  published Jun 21, 2010

  Editor's note: From time to time, The Snitch, being at best a casual fan of World Cup soccer, will provide glimpses into the experience of same.  Your good old nameless Americans suffered quite t... More >>

• Drink up: SF Tap Water "Safer" Than Bottled Water

  published Jun 18, 2010

  Take a long, cool drink of the Hetch Hetchy the next time someone hands you a bottle of Fiji: city officials have long said that the imported mountain water which provides San Franciscans' tap water i... More >>

• Tenderloin Fire Started on Roof of Transitional Housing

  published Jun 18, 2010

  Yesterday's three-alarm blaze at the Taylor Street Center -- transitional housing for just-released prison inmates 111 Taylor Street in the Tenderloin -- started on the roof, where a construction crew... More >>

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  Supe is Serious About Eliminating Gascon's Job

  published Jun 18, 2010

  Supervisor Chris Daly is a doer. And a sayer. He does a lot of things and he says a lot of things, but evidently he was serious when he introduced legislation that would merge the San Francisco Police... More >>

• BS Phone Call Costs Pot Club $6k

  published Jun 18, 2010

  Yesterday we told you about Igzactly Health Center, a pot club wishing to do business at 527 Howard Street in the Financial District. The club's operators, whose original permit hearing was scheduled ... More >>

• Teen Accused of Detonating Bomb at Menlo Park School

  published Jun 17, 2010

  A 17-year old is in police custody after he detonated a "homemade explosive device" behind a Menlo Park middle school on Wednesday night, according to police (via Bay City News).Police responded to... More >>

• Alleged Bicycle Hunter Pleads Not Guilty

  published Jun 17, 2010

  The East Bay man accused of ramming four San Francisco bicyclists with his SUV on the night of June 2 pleaded not guilty to four charges of attempted murder today, according to Bay City News. David M... More >>

• Chron's Pot Ad Section REVEALED

  published Jun 17, 2010

  Earlier this morning, we told you about Herbal Cure Corner, the SF Chronicle's new stab at cornering the medical marijuana market which launched today. Curious to see our competition, we bought a... More >>

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  Guess Which SF 'Hood Loves Sit-Lie the Mostr

  published Jun 17, 2010

  Civil Sidewalks, Sit-Lie ordinance -- call it what you will, the ballot initiative to make sitting down on public sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. illegal isn't some fringe idea from what passes f... More >>

• Judgement Day for Apartments Crumbling into the Sea

  published Jun 17, 2010

  The owners of a Pacifica apartment block built precariously over the ocean -- and currently in the process of falling into the ocean -- must decide today their property's final resting place. Spoiler ... More >>

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  Concord Man Has Nation's Best Stache

  published Jun 17, 2010

  Rich in cultural, technological and pharmaceutical history, the Bay Area is now justly famous for facial hair. A man from Concord -- that's in the East Bay, kids -- won first prize in the country's ... More >>

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  SF Chronicle To Launch Marijuana Advertising Section Today

  published Jun 17, 2010

  Pot is big money, so big that the phrase "marijuana industry" is a legitimate mainstream term. It's no surprise, then, that mainstream media would want a piece of the cannabis cookie. The San Francisc... More >>

• Convention & Visitors Bureau Kicks Out Unruly Union

  published Jun 16, 2010

  Since its labor contract expired in August 2009, hotel workers' union Unite Here Local 2 has spent months waving signs in hotel-visitors' faces and generally causing a ruckus (this is, after all, how ... More >>