Balboa Park

Day Around The [fucking] Bay!* Cop accused of sex with 14-year-old; Recycled dog shit for all; Sex Worker Artfest; and The Hollywood Minute!

SF Gov InAction: Supes Huddle in Closed Session to Gossip About Catholic Church and Landmark Trees

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Who Do You Call When a Trolley Is Disabled? Another Trolley.

It's not rapid, but it is transitWandering around San Francisco, one occasionally witnesses the big rig-sized behemoths from P&S Towing called into action to rescue a crippled Muni bus. For the large machine-obsessed child in all of us, it's an awesome sight. But it prompts the question: Who do ... More >>

Transit Spotting

A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

The Class of 2000

Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

Score!!!

Former pro soccer players from Latin America help the Farolito team dominate an amateur league.

Steroids Confidential

Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

Oddballers

BLVD: the only live band at the rave

Best $1.25 Tour of the City

BLVD: the only live band at the rave

Secret Rivera

Four decades after it was rescued from a storage shed, Diego Rivera's magnificent City College mural remains a hidden treasure

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

Fissilingual Predictions

Chewing on the past and future is a New Year's cliché that no word-loving breedbate can resist

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 16, 2002

Letters to the Editor for 1-9-2002

Pipe Dream; Abetting Bush; Bot Shots; Harpooned; Correction

Organ Failure

An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

Aparkalypse Now

Bedlam reigns as a great development boom besets the warehouse district south of downtown. Blood boiling, drivers late to work search in vain for parking. Are we doomed?

Letters

Bedlam reigns as a great development boom besets the warehouse district south of downtown. Blood boiling, drivers late to work search in vain for parking. Are we doomed?

Take BART, Please

We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

City's Restroom Taskforce Wants You To -- Ahem -- Sit Down And Offer Your Input

Jim HerdAs noted before, this public restroom in the Panhandle cost as much as a 16,200-square-foot mansion in the midwestDoes this city have a taskforce on taskforces? It doesn't appear to -- but just you wait, now someone will bring it up. In any event, all excretory humor aside, we do have a rest ... More >>

Hitch In Cops vs. Community Softball Game: Community Doesn't Show Up

A long-publicized softball game between members of the San Francisco Police Department's Ingleside Station and members of the Visitacion Valley community struck us as a fun idea -- but one that could have unintended consequences. After all, you have folks start taking on the armed authority figures ... More >>

Ever Wanted To Take a Swing at a Cop? Here's Your Chance.

Did we learn our lesson? Earlier this month we wrote about how a planned cops vs. community softball game didn't come off as planned when the community failed to show up. It turns out that 2 p.m. on a Tuesday may be an ideal time to broadcast As the World Turns -- but not the best for calling o ... More >>

Happy New Ear

Give a listen to this city's wide array of authentic music.

Drive-By Buttocks-Fondler Pinched By Cops

Now try doing this from a moving vehicle...​A man charged  with reaching out of his driver's-side window and grabbing the rear end of a girl standing on a Muni platform was quickly nabbed by police at a playground where he was pushing his son on a swing set. The 34-year-old suspect was easy t ... More >>

Man on Tracks at Glen Park BART

​BART is experiencing delays due to an apparently unstable man running onto the tracks at Glen Park Station. "The situation is, one of our community service officers observed someone getting onto the tracks at Glen Park Station and run into the tunnel toward Balboa Park," said BART spokesman Jim A ... More >>

Two Cops Crash Into Pole, Reasons Unknown

SF ExaminerEep​Two San Francisco police officers are in the hospital after their marked cruiser crashed into a light pole in the "Bernal Cut" on Thursday night, the Examiner reported. Their injuries were not life-threatening, according to the paper. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Th ... More >>

S.F. Police Investigate More Possible Arsons

Flag on fire​Police are investigating two more suspicious fires that started over the weekend in the Balboa Park neighborhood, just a few doors apart. On Saturday at about 5:30 am., firefighters responded to a fire that had started outside a dwelling on the unit block of San Juan Avenue. Fire offi ... More >>

Victims Talk Criminal Out of Robbing Them

Lose the red bow ... it's just not scary​Two men scared off a criminal as he attempted to rob them in broad daylight near Balboa Park this week. According to police, the duo was walking along Ocean Boulevard near Howth Street at about 3 p.m. on Thursday when another man walked up to them and start ... More >>