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Rally for Ross Demonstration Kicks Off Hearing for Sheriff-in-Limbo (Update)

(Update 4:22 p.m.): Mirkarimi's attorneys have continued to argue that there is no way he could have been guilty of "official misconduct" since he wasn't technically sworn-in as the sheriff yet. While semantics are being discussed, Supervisor David Chiu's stomach has already started growling. Conger ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi, Eliana Lopez Talk About How That Bruise Really Screwed Things Up for Them

Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco's suspended sheriff, has been on an emotional and political roller coaster this year after being elected sheriff, then losing his post -- at least temporarily -- after bruising his wife's arm in a domestic dispute. Now, Mirkarimi and his wife, Eliana Lopez, are trying t ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi: Alleged Ex-Girlfriend Makes Domestic Violence Claim at Today's Hearing

Mirkarimi lawyer: "She's psycho." The public comment session at today's Ross Mirkarimi Ethics Commission hearing is still ongoing. Speakers are lined up in a queue snaking through the corridors of City Hall; supporters of the Sheriff-in-limbo -- including his mother -- have heavily outweighed those ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Admirers Ask Mayor Ed Lee to Back Off Suspended Sheriff

It might be hard to find anyone vocally supporting Ross Mirkarimi right now, but those who are will certainly let you know it. There's a small legion of Ross supporters who are refusing to leave his side as he prepares to testify tomorrow in hopes of getting his job back as San Francisco sheriff. Ta ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: "Ross Is A Victim as Well," Wife Claims in E-mail

Ross Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, filed a declaration today for the suspended sheriff's official misconduct hearing. The statement, her first under oath since the couple's Jan. 1 domestic dispute spurred a criminal investigation, explains in detail what she has been saying publicly all along: Her ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi: A Godfather Finish

​Cue The Godfather theme. Fade in on former Mayor Art Agnos' place in Diamond Heights. His court-mandated tenant, Ross Mirkarimi, is sitting on the couch he now calls home. Agnos comes down the stairs into the rumpus room. Ross: Art, what do I do now? The light is beginning to turn reddish as the ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Court Papers Detail "Damage" to Son from Judge's Stay-Away Order

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife, whom he has been charged with physically abusing, appeared in San Francisco Family Court today asking a judge to allow her husband supervised visits with the couple's son, asserting that a court order barring Mirkarimi from seeing his family is doing "damage" to the ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi's Attorney: Charges 'Overblown' as Sheriff Trial Date Set

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's trial has been set for February 24, when the progressive politicians will have to defend himself against charges that he physically abused his wife, Eliana Lopez.Mirkarimi -- the verbose politico who never saw a microphone he didn't want -- had nothing to say t ... More >>

Occupy SF: Mission District Residents Don't Want Protesters in Their Backyard

Lauren SmileyYou tell me: Is this guy an Occupy camper or just another Mission District resident?​The feeling is mutual between Mission residents and Occupy SF protesters: Neither group wants to see the encampment relocate to the Mission District, despite what city officials say. The Chron's Matie ... More >>

Gavin Newsom's House Hits the Market

Where's Gavin now?​The big question for Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has been: Where does the ex-mayor live? Until today, we couldn't say for sure what his living situation was. While some news reports say the Newsoms have packed up their home and moved to Ross for the summer, his staff was in ... More >>

List: Why Is Gavin Newsom Leaving San Francisco?

Morcheeba's members are trip-hopping together again

Nickel and Dime-Obsessed Chronicle Hooks Human Tragedies to Taxpayer Costs

Ah, but how much was that chalk?​Mark Shotley, the paraplegic, incontinent, pneumonia-ridden homeless man The San Francisco Chronicle characterized nine years ago as a drag on city health care funds, is dead now. But the macabre, nickel-and-dime-obsessed journalistic tic that led the paper to couc ... More >>

Speier Not Running for AG, Horde of Upwardly Mobile Pols Staying Put

Rep. Jackie Speier, seen here with Stephen Colbert, will continue her ride in Washington, D.C. ​Rep. Jackie Speier's newly minted spokesman Nathan Ballard just informed the world that his boss will not be leaving Congress to run for state Attorney General. Congressional seats rarely open -- especi ... More >>

List: The Chronicle looks on the bright side

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KTVU Channel 2 Won't Replace Ross McGowan -- Longtime News Interviewer's Duties Will Fall Upon Existing Staff

For those who grew up in the Bay Area, Ross McGowan has been like the caretaker at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining: He is the morning interviewer. He has always been the morning interviewer. He will always be the morning interviewer. Until Oct. 2, of course. Then he's retired. And in a sign of the ... More >>

Public Defender Says Tenderloin Drug Sweep Spells Trouble for Court System

​No sooner had newly minted San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon declared a much-publicized sweep of drug dealers in the city's notoriously crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood than doubters began speaking up. After all, as San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier and Ross noted recently, mak ... More >>

49ers Holdout Michael Crabtree's Jerseys Gather Dust on S.F. Shelves

A cold-seller locally. How cold? How about zero Kelvin?​On a recent trip to the T.J. Maxx in SOMA -- which is kind of like going to Ross except random lunatics haven't ripped and stained all the merchandise and randomly strewn it about -- I stumbled into an aisle that could only be called "The Jer ... More >>

Willie's Birthday Plans

Chron's anniversary surprises

SF Gov InAction: San Francisco Holds Its Breath for Budget Magic While Supes Correct Basic Math Errors

Sorry this is late, folks -- all of a sudden I came down with a mean cough that just won't quit. I blame Neo-conservatives. Monday, Jan 26 10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee I have a confession to make. Today's hearing of the Public Safety Committee will be a little sad for me. Oh sure, I ... More >>

How Could Progressive Coalition Shatter? Let Us Count the Ways

Will it be the House of Harmony or the House of Pain? The answer is: Yes. Progressive Supervisors banded together last week to elect a compromise-candidate Board President, which raises a crucial question: "Since when have progressives compromised on anything?" In a town that views compromise ... More >>

Carole Migden Gets Recycled After All ... But Not By Don Perata

Earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle's flies on the wall, Matier & Ross, wrote a little piece about Carole Migden, the Jason Voorhies of California politics (you just can't kill this woman's political career).According to M&R, Migden -- who was trounced in her re-election bid for ... More >>

Last Night: Bryan Adams at The Independent

Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

Newsom's Cosco Busan Oil Spill 'Local Emergency' Declaration Misses Boat

Last Night: Redd Kross at Slim's

Loonies Wander SF Streets as City Workers Discover Brunch, Nooners on Columbus Day

Chronicle Bitches Out and Doesn't Publish 'Howl'

Stalking Alan Bamberger

A Role in the Hay

Albee uses livestock and love to explore the nature of tragedy

Best Close Shave

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 9, 2005

Award Show Performers

Thursday, October 21, 2004 at Ruby Skye

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

Gimme Shelters

After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

Your New Friends?

NBC hopes Coupling is its next hitcom, which bugs the show's biggest fans

And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Sound and Fury

Cal Shakes' Macbeth places the art before the horse

Spinning Into Butter

An exploration of racism at its volcanic core

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Sticks and Stones; or, A Rare Moment of Lucidity

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The Ken Garcia Golden Handshake Countdown!

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