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Queried about his client, Terry Helbling, attorney Kenneth Quigley rhapsodizes an artful response: "Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them, and...
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Josh Pulliam, the campaign strategist tasked with guiding Supervisor David Chiu's mayoral campaign, has plenty of good stuff on his résumé. Last year, for...
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Pirate captains weren't known for their enlightened attitude toward questions regarding their authority. And, it appears neither are the captains of pirate radio stations....
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Around a decade ago, BART moved to boot all food vendors off its property. The delicious story behind that decision told by old agency hands is that a former BART director sat...
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Port official Jonathan Stern talks as fast as he walks, and pocket-size Mayor Ed Lee struggled to keep up both verbally and physically. During a media show-and-tell late...
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In August 2010, San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar decided that city intervention was needed to help him raise his daughter.
As Mar later told reporters, he was shocked to...
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Supervisor Chris Daly:
Round about the crockpot go
In the gnarly organics throw
Soup in bowl of sourdough
Hair ripp'd from bear in the Castro
Can you get 'em in Fairfield? I...
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On this year's voter information guide, the effects of Proposition 26 were succinctly summarized as "Requires that certain state and local fees be approved by two-thirds...
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"Infinite" is not a word you expect to find in a report on municipal spending. It's more of a science fiction–type term — Tremble, Earthling, before the infinite...
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Politically involved San Franciscans received an introduction to one Harold Miller last week, when the heretofore unknown mayoral candidate sent out a mass e-mail illuminating...
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San Francisco denizens wandering outside to deposit their mandatory composting and recycling may have been startled by an unexpected companion — Mr. Potato Head.
The...
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What is San Francisco's response when an anonymous family foundation wishes to exchange a hefty sum in return for a monument on city land honoring a man who has been described...
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Baseball players are a superstitious lot. They'll wear the same jockstrap for the duration of a hitting streak. Eat the same meal at the same time before every game. Wear...
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If voters squelch Mayor Gavin Newsom's bid to ascend to the position of lieutenant governor, it seems he knows people who may be able to stage a political coup on his behalf....
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In 1912, San Francisco founded its municipal railway as the realization of a radical notion: In an era of private for-profit rail lines, the residents of this city were given...
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Former Supervisor and state Senator Carole Migden and City Attorney Dennis Herrera met recently for lunch at Firewood Cafe in the Castro. We don't know whether they split...
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Last week, on the very day District Attorney Kamala Harris fired off a press release crowing she had raised $1 million over the past six months for her attorney general...
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The city recently started talking tough regarding the ever-expanding real-estate acquisitions of Academy of Art University, hinting at a lawsuit over its serial violations of...
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Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money...
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• Between 2002 and late 2006, the Committee on Information Technology — responsible for coordinating all city departments' hardware and software purchases —...
