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Bike Sharing Is Finally Coming to the Bay Area -- Kind Of.

The Bike Share Stations are Coming So bike sharing is coming to the Bay Area, albeit in a modest way. If you don't hate cyclists like the Wall Street Journal, then you're probably glad that San Francisco is catching up to other world-class cities like Paris, New York, and Chattanooga, when it come ... More >>

Eugenio Mallari Identified as Pedestrian Killed by SamTrans Bus

Authorities announced today that the man who was hit earlier this week by a SamTrans bus while walking in the Outer Mission has died. The Medical Examiner identified the man as 39-year-old Eugenio Mallari of San Francisco. Just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Mallari was walking across Mission Street ne ... More >>

Yes, Craigslist Is Sponsoring Bay to Breakers

It's confirmed that Craigslist, the Bay Area -- and now the world's -- most visited online classifieds, will take over the running of Bay to Breakers. Craigslist announced the exciting news last night, saying they're pumped to be pairing up with another one of San Francisco's places to tap your in ... More >>

Palo Alto Mulls Medical Marijuana, With Conservative Backing

It's a fine town, but Palo Alto is a bit one-dimensional. There's nearby Stanford, and nearby Silicon Valley (fine, that's two dimensions), but not much else is happening in that Peninsula city.But what about medical marijuana? The city could become the first San Mateo County municipality to allow m ... More >>

Bouncer Discovers Border Town Delights at Rio Grande

Woman Denied Protection From Former Firefighter

Michelle Fontinos sounds desperate on the phone. She's been fighting for restraining orders and custody for her children for years now. And she feels the San Mateo County court system continues to fail her.Her ex-husband, John Marcus Fontinos, was a former Newark firefighter for 17 years. He's also ... More >>

Guess Which SF Neighborhood Has Been Most Generous to President Obama

President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry. His stops hovered in the south Bay, in San Jose, Redwood City, and Atherton, where he held a rally and hosted the typical Expensive Dinners for Wealthy People. Obviously, Oba ... More >>

Mitt Romney Visits Bay Area to Get as Far Away from Obamacare Debate As He Can

​While the U.S. Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of Obamacare over in D.C., GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made sure to keep his distance from the debate -- literally. The former Massachusetts governor, who has been criticized himself over "Romneycare," traveled some 3,000 mil ... More >>

Concord, Calif., Named One of Country's 10 Best Music Scenes

The website Livability today compiled a list of the top 10 cities with the best music scenes that aren't New York, L.A., or Nashville. The results were in some ways predictable (Minneapolis, Athens, Ga., and Portland all made it), and in some ways spectacularly weird: Omitted from the list for no ap ... More >>

Pearlasia Gamboa Named 'Notable Fraudster' by Nigerian Magazine

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>

Adorable Cat Found Dead in Lagoon with Dumbbell Tied Around its Neck

What kind of monster would kill a cat?​The Peninsula Humane Society gave us a heartbreaking story about a 12-year-old cat that was found floating in the Redwood Shores lagoon yesterday with a weight tied around its neck. A city worker found the cat -- a black and white Tuxedo feline -- yesterday i ... More >>

Fantasy Island: The Strange Tale of Alleged Fraudster Pearlasia Gamboa

John Abdon Johnson Gets 30 Days in Jail for Kicking His Dog

It hurts​A Redwood City man is being jailed after cops saw him beating his sweet little pup, Bucket. The San Jose Mercury News reports that police busted John Abdon Johnson, 56, kicking Bucket in the head and the ribs on May 13. When a cop tried to get him to stop, he told police he had the right ... More >>

'Madden NFL' Creator Sues Electronic Arts, Says He Is Owed 'Tens of Millions'

​If you're a man under the age of 40, chances are you have considered suing Electronic Arts -- for the hours, days, and years of your life lost to the video-game company's addictive football franchise, Madden NFL. Well, game developer Robin Antonick has his own bone to pick. Antonick, who asserts ... More >>

Bay to Breakers Treks on Two More Years: Zazzle Agrees to Sponsor Race

Sponsor this​This year won't be the finish line for the Bay to Breakers footrace after all. The event organizers announced that Zazzle, a Redwood City-based company that serves as a platform for creating new products online, has signed a two-year contract, agreeing to be the title sponsor for the ... More >>

Southern Sandwich Food Truck Debuts in S.F. This Week

brett n./YelpSouthern Sandwich Co.'s Nathan and Brett Niebergall.​It's been a long road back to San Francisco for Southern Sandwich Co.'s Brett and Nathan Niebergall, who ran a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Castro till the economy tanked. In June, the brothers rolled out Southern Sandwic ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Fiona Ma Strikes Again -- on Twitter

Fiona Ma, left, has an interesting way of putting things​It's not for nothing that Assemblywoman Fiona Ma was crowned San Francisco's Best Political Tweeter. It was for shit. No, literally, for shit. The westside pol's series of tweets on bat guano, a manure-shoveling politician, and explosive bov ... More >>

iHelp for Autism

For autistic children, the new iPad is an effective, portable device for teaching communication and social skills. It’s also way cool.

T.G.I. Frisco: San Francisco's Dearth of Chain Restaurants

Kevin Y./YelpOkay, so we do have an Olive Garden out near S.F. State.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Yesterday at LA Weekly's Squid Ink, SFoodie's sister food blog with the WTF name, editor Amy Scattergood passed along a list from Nation's Restaurant News of America's 15 favorite casual- ... More >>

NFL Veterans Sue EA Sports, Claim Their Likenesses Were Ripped Off. Yes, Again.

No, Bret Favre isn't suing. But a sideline's worth of other gridiron players are. ​Electronic Arts Inc. is facing yet another lawsuit faulting the videogame company for ripping off the players depicted in the football game Madden NFL.Tony Davis, former halfback for the Cincinnati Bengals and T ... More >>

Highlights from a tour of S.F.'s newest street food trucks

SF Weekly Letters

Unemployment Statistics: It's That Time of the Month

You're going to need this.​So the California Employment Development Department released its employment statistics for the Month of February today, and, let me tell you, they are thrilling. (It's better when I lie to you, right? Yes.) Let's just dig right in.Unemployment is totally down for the San ... More >>

Paul Johnson's Lament for Local Chinook Salmon

Julia Manzerova/FlickrA local specialty is just about dead.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Dead fish: At the Ethicurean, Monterey Fish founder Paul Johnson ― a guy as responsible as anyone for feeding the Bay Area's loca-stainable restaurant ethos ― blogs an appropriately bitter lame ... More >>

Anti-Spam Crusader Dan Balsam Takes Spammers To Court -- And Wins

Dan Balsam' s favorite Monty Python sketch, bar none...​Note to the world: Dan Balsam is tired of his wife receiving e-mail messages promising her a bigger penis. And he has no interest in getting larger breasts. How much does the San Francisco lawyer hate spam? Enough to initiate the DanHatesSpam ... More >>

Last Night: Sketchfest's Greg Proops Chat Show w/ Robin Williams, Linda Cardellini, Michael Penn

Greg Proops​The Greg Proops Chat Show: With special guests Robin Williams, Linda Cardellini, and musical guest Michael Penn Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010 Yoshi's Better than: Writing an investigative story about the $16 "convenience" fee Yoshi's charges for purchasing tickets online. I was pretty sure ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Is this elf even unionized?​Rock! Roll! Real estate! Are you ready for a news quiz? Well, here it is anyway. 1. What San Francisco rock musician unloaded his Pac Heights mansion for nearly $9 million? A. Mickey Hart, Grateful DeadB. Carlos SantanaC. Les Claypool, PrimusD. Kirk Hammet, MetallicaE. ... More >>

Hut, Hut, Suit: Yet Another Little-Known College Football Player Sues EA Sports for Allegedly Stealing His Image

Computer NERDS appear to have won in the end, Ogre​ Every couple of months, it seems to happen. No, we're not talking about Oakland Raiders victories (though we bet that'll be an accurate assessment). Yet another obscure former college football player has graduated from football to the full court ... More >>

San Francisco Gallery Owner Claims Thieves Made Off with Quartet of Paintings Valued at $50K

Gallery owner Michael Rosenthal says this and other paintings by Terry Hoff were stolen this morningMichael Rosenthal -- owner of the eponymous gallery on Valencia Street -- is perplexed as to why thieves ripped off four of his paintings in the wee hours this morning. Sometime between evening and 3 ... More >>

Last Night: Live 105's Battle of the Opening Bands

(Dizzy Balloon gets crafty with the merch setup)Live 105's Not So Silent Night Local Band Competition Finals with: Picture Atlantic, Please Do Not Fight, Go Kart Mozart, Music For Animals, and Dizzy BalloonMonday, Dec. 7, 2008Cafe du NordWords and images by Jennifer MaerzLast night, Live 105-suppor ... More >>

I'd Like to Thank the Ground Beef

Television awards make us hungry for an S.F. burger and Maine lobster

The Asylum Trap

Unscrupulous attorneys prey on immigrants seeking green cards with an expensive and fruitless legal scheme. Now 29 Mexicans have joined the disbarment case against one such lawyer.

Political Affairs

When authors stand up for a cause, the unexpected happens

America's first true hard-rock god, and Canada's one true electronica nut case

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 25, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Nice Guys Finish First

The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

Letters to the Editor

You Don't Have to Tell Us About the Clowns in This City; Maher Is Less; Responding to Terrorism; Leftovers; Correction

Pop Philosophy

Rock Out S.F.; Bart Davenport; Santa Cruz Lo-Fi Indie Music Festival

Letters to the Editor

Small-Town California Über Alles; Brighter Lights, Bigger City; Cease and Desist This!; Off on a Tangent

Letters to the Editor

Free Taiwan; A Critical Examination of Cracker Morons and the Fall of the Roman Empire; Critical Mess; Death to the Deserving; Playing the Victim; Arrogant My Ass; Car Talk; A Parallel Universe; Released; Big Shoes; Both Sides Now

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