Anna McCarthyValet?Bike parking was scarce at a City Hall hearing this morning as bike advocates arrived downtown in droves donning helmets and fluorescent pink identification stickers reading, "Double the number of bike lanes." Although helmets, U-locks, and other bicycling accessories abounded, many had traded their spandex for khakis and collars. This was no rowdy critical mass crowd: This crowd meant business. With the hearing room full by 9 a.m., bicyclists filed into the overflow area to s
Anna McCarthyBeardo Weirdo shreds an air solo.The US Air Guitar ChampionshipsSat, June 27, 2009The IndependentBetter Than: The Real Guitar Awards.They came, they air shredded, they conquered. In the world of air guitar, high kicks, spandex, and bodily fluids floweth like water -- and everyone knows Skynrd's Freebird solo by heart. It's a booze saturated, rock-powered, pants-stuffing, crime-inducing, go-big-or-go-home kind of world. And when all of the air-rockers and their fans gather in one pla
Anna McCarthyGetting things done by bike, one load at a time.This rare cargo trike was spotted parked on 18th Street between Mission and Capp today. We thought it looked like a pretty sweet ride -- even compared to the Beamer parked next to it.You don't see a cargo trike every day -- Adam May of Mike's Bikes told SF Weekly he only knows of three in all of San Francisco. Yet when it comes to hauling loads on a bike, the Xtracycle trailer is a mildly ubiquitous attachment seen frequently
Morton Fox/FlickrEw.This may be the year of the sandwich in San Francisco, but if your budget has relegated your lunchtime grazing to the pre-pack options at the convenience store, you might've been ingesting more than just tuna salad recently. In a story on SFoodie's sister news blog The Snitch, Anna McCarthy probes the federal lawsuit against Oakland sandwich maker REL's Food for allegedly chronically nasty sanitation. The DOJ claims the company has repeatedly dissed federal warnings ab
Anna McCarthyDid you hang around the 'Loin in 1984? Does this face ring a bell?On April 10, 1984, San Francisco police found 9-year-old Mei Leung's dead body in the basement area of the residential hotel at 765 O'Farrell Street where she lived with her family. Her 8-year-old brother was the last one to see her alive -- they had walked home from a friend's house together just before the slaying. Police never found her killer. Now, two-and-a-half decades later, the SFPD say they have new DNA ev
Anna McCarthyNo more seaside views for this Mission Bay resident.When SF Weekly reporters saw the Port of San Francisco cracking down on our bay side neighbors, we had to snap some shots of the demolition. This lean-to was so elaborate that tearing it down required more than five workers, multiple large dumpsters, and a backhoe.One of the Port's workers told SF Weekly that the resident had been escorted from the encampment yesterday and taken to a homeless shelter. "We're just cleaning up wha
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