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BY LOIS BECKETT
Police have made a number of arrests and seizures of DJ equipment at underground parties and clubs. Is it enforc... More >>

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6:15 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Baylinks: Schnapps, Hovercat, & Sexual Harrassment
By Andy Wright
The Man is not into your schnapps on Ocean Beach. [SFAppeal]It's Friday. Here's a hovercat catfight. [Laughing Squid]Medjool is "hipster kryptonite." LOL. [SFist]City employee accused of sexual ... More >>

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5:50 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Jury Acquits Road-Raging Motorist Who Stabbed Police Officer
By Peter Jamison
A San Francisco jury today acquitted a San Mateo man who stabbed an off-duty police officer in the city's Haight neighborhood during a "road-rage" incident.Nicholas Batchelor, a 28-year-old groce... More >>

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5:30 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Top-Five Reasons To Love San Francisco's Hall of Justice
By Ashley Harrell
5. Apparently, while the sidewalk was being installed in front, a chicken ran through. ? ... More >>

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5:15 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
S.F. Business Group Spurns Pelosi's Health Care Plea
By Matt Smith
Despite 30 minutes of face time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to convince a delegation of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce business leaders to endorse the most important piece of legislati... More >>

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4:59 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
The Week in Gay -- A Nation of Uppity Fags
By Patrick Connors
? A blogswarm was launched on March 18 to encourage the community to contact Nancy Pelosi's offices about her lack of effort behind the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). ... More >>

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4:15 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Can San Francisco Narcotics Cops Play 'Mr. Wizard?'
By Lauren Smiley
With San Francisco crime lab tech Deborah Madden accused of going Scarface with the lab's coke stash, the police now are going to try their hand at Mr. Wizard. Backing up: Since the crime lab's ... More >>

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1:45 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Will Landmark Health Care Bill Harm Fish?
By Matt Smith
Eating fish is good for your health. Expanded medical coverage is good for public health. Yet expanding medical coverage harms the health of fish.Does this mean heath care harms people's healthP... More >>

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12:45 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
Delaware Judge Blocks Guardian Cash Grab
By Andy Van De Voorde
A Delaware judge has put the brakes on the Bay Guardian's efforts to take half of the SF Weekly's advertising revenues. After ruling that the Guardian's collection efforts pose the threat of ir... More >>

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12:34 pm
Mar. 19, 2010
No ID Yet for Pedestrian Killed in Mission Bay Accident
By Joe Eskenazi
View Larger Map The San Francisco Medical Examiner has not yet received the body of a 53-year-old man killed in the wee hours this morning when a pickup truck and garbage truck collided near Four... More >>

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11:45 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Cleaning Up Entertainment Commission Is Harder Than You'd Think
By Lois Beckett
Earlier this week, Chron columnist C.W. Nevius suggested that the best way to deal with the current standoff between police, nightclubs, and neighbors over nightlife regulation would be to scrap ... More >>

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10:59 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Exposing Brugmann's Cell Phone Tower Scheme
By Will Harper
Today, residents in Potrero Hill were sent a letter from SF Weekly's executive editor, Michael Lacey, alerting them to an issue being ignored in the pages of the Bay Guardian. Guardian publisher B... More >>

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8:59 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Several Nightclubs Quit Potential Suit vs. Cops, Alcohol Regulators
By Lois Beckett
In this week's cover story, SF Weekly reported on complaints surrounding nightlife enforcement in SOMA, and an attorney, Mark Webb, who was gathering a group of nightclub owners to sue the city an... More >>

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8:15 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Muni Whoops: Service Change Sign Installed Upside Down
By Joe Eskenazi
Commuters wandering past the Muni tunnel at Chuch and Duboce this morning may be forced to assess just how well they're recovering from St. Patrick's Day. Muni has, dutifully, installed a large,... More >>

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7:30 am
Mar. 19, 2010
It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!
By Joe Eskenazi
It's easy, friends! Just answer the five questions correctly, send us an e-mail and you win a damn prize. What could be better? 1. Which of the following isn't featured in San Francisco Internat... More >>

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7:28 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Collision at 4th and King Kills Pedestrian, Delays Muni
By Joe Eskenazi
View Larger MapA pickup truck and garbage truck collided at around 5 a.m. near the Caltrain station, reports KTVU. The pickup subsequently spun out, striking and killing a pedestrian -- and the dr... More >>

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6:30 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Flags Come Down at City Hall -- And Are Replaced By Expensive New Ones
By Joe Eskenazi
City Hall officials hoping to run their ideas up the flagpole and see if anyone would salute them ran into a problem yesterday. Bruce Porteous was already atop the flag poles, removing the flag... More >>

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12:01 am
Mar. 19, 2010
Can You Stay off the Cell Phone, Twitter, and Facebook for 24 Hours?
By Joe Eskenazi
?"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax -- you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past!" -- Walter Sobchak. Starting Friday evening, a campaign largely ... More >>

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6:30 pm
Mar. 18, 2010
Baylinks: Pet Cemeteries, Green Missed Connections, & Newsom Vid
By Andy Wright
Veterans to maintain everyone's favorite pet cemetery. [SF Citizen]Should S.F. get rid of supermarket recycling centers? [Akit's Complaint Dept] "Is the following behavior (a) cool, (b) uncool, o... More >>

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5:45 pm
Mar. 18, 2010
Nonprofit Newspaper Behind 'Panorama' Cover Story Now on Government Dole
By Peter Jamison
Today's new-media ethical quandary: Should a nonprofit news outlet dedicated to public-interest investigative journalism extract substantial amounts of funding from the government it's covering?... More >>

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5:30 pm
Mar. 18, 2010
CBS Reporter Hank Plante Spanks Newsom For On-Air Hissy Fit
By Lauren Smiley
Do we all remember when Mayor Gavin Newsom got huffy with the press last fall for covering his media silence after dropping out of the governor's race? The most gruesome example was when he got ... More >>

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Turning the Tables Turning the Tables
By Lois Beckett

It was a good party, Arash Ghanadan thought: the right girl-guy ratio, a DJ spinning house music, attractive people. He had arrived alone at the loft space on Folsom at… More >>

Holy taco! Did a food vendor steal his rival's recipe? Holy taco! Did a food vendor steal his rival's recipe?
By Lauren Smiley

While you can find just about any Latin cuisine in the Mission, until recently you would have had to search hard to find an empanada — a warm pastry pouch… More >>

@sk Jamie Varon: I lied on my LinkedIn profile @sk Jamie Varon: I lied on my LinkedIn profile
By Jamie Varon

Dear Jamie, I've been looking for a new job, and inflated my résumé and qualifications on my LinkedIn profile because I thought it could help me look attractive to other employers. The… More >>

List: Standardized skools
By Benjamin Wachs

The San Francisco school district recently voted to adopt a new system for determining how students are assigned to schools. How will the new system work? • The old incomprehensible formula will… More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Shooting Shot Causes Controversy Where's the evidence?: Peter Jamison writes, "The trickier question is whether [Alex] Welsh made the right decision — choosing to use a photograph of the gunned-down Bennett… More >>

The Eyes of the Hurricane The Eyes of the Hurricane
By Lauren Smiley

On a gray February morning, a crew from ESPN buzzed around WestWind Schools martial arts studio in Berkeley, prepping Ana "The Hurricane" Julaton's story for the mainstream. Production lights cast… More >>

Distressed Properties
By Matt Smith

Donald Casper seems an unlikely leader for a social protest. He's a former chairman of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, a former member of the state Republican Central Committee,… More >>

@sk Jamie Varon: My friend is selling weed on Facebook. Is he high? @sk Jamie Varon: My friend is selling weed on Facebook. Is he high?
By Jamie Varon

Dear Jamie, My friend posted a picture of the weed he was trying to sell on Facebook the other day, and although it looked great, I couldn't help but wonder if… More >>

Stalker threatens D.A. (an opponent of the death penalty) with the electric chair
By Ashley Harrell

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that police had arrested a 42-year-old Oakland man for stalking and harassing Kamala Harris, the S.F. district attorney running for state attorney general. What… More >>

List: The S.F. subway to nowhere
By Benjamin Wachs

The federal government has asked San Francisco to justify the planned creation of a $1.6 billion central subway line.  How will the subway help San Francisco? • It will be the… More >>

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