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Green Facade: New SFPUC Building Masks an Eco-Unfriendly Truth

Yep, More Muni Delays This Morning

Yesterday wasn't a good day for Muni -- or anyone depending on it for a ride home. After a weeklong closure, the N-Judah was back on line yesterday morning, just long enough to break down due to a power outage. By late afternoon -- just in time for the evening commute -- another Muni fiasco struck d ... More >>

In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation

Arc Ecology: E-Mails Between City and Lennar Aren't So Scandalous, Though 'Look Bad'

There's no covering THAT up. ​Arc Ecology's director Saul Bloom has reason to be bitter with the city. Since 2006, his environmental non-profit received hundreds of thousands of dollars in city contracts to monitor and educate the public about the environmental clean-up and redevelopment work at t ... More >>

S.F. Man Threatens to 'Sell' Woman. SoCal Man Does Worse.

​We've heard stories before of people reporting their exes to immigration officials, but a couple of psycho tales in the news today one-upped that revenge tactic.In San Francisco, a person reported to police that a 25-year-old female Hispanic friend sent out a desperate text message that she was b ... More >>

End Near for Louis' Restaurant -- Since 1960s

Rosencruz SumeraGetting yanked around by landlords is longstanding tradition at Louis'​Tom Hontalas began washing dishes in his dad's restaurant in 1968  for 50 cents an hour. Now, along with his brother, Bill, he owns Louis' Restaurant and cooks the meals. It's the only job he's ever had. A ... More >>

The Real Story Behind the Threat to Louis' Restaurant

easywriterguy/FlickrThe long-term lease for the diner space near the Cliff House is going out for bid.​Today at our sister news blog, The Snitch, Joe Eskenazi grabs a phone with Tom Hontalas, one of the owners of Louis', the Sutro Heights diner whose landlord is putting the place out for bid f ... More >>

Legal Weapon

Don Cameron trains cops in how to use force, and then defends them in court when they're accused of going too far.

Unleashed

A brutal dog attack in Nob Hill has revived the city's battle over canine control. Here's why it's going to get worse.

Today's Lesson: Drive Too Fast on Bay Bridge S-Curve, and You Can Die

Some day, our bridge will come​There may yet be mitigating factors regarding this morning's fatal plunge by a speeding truck driver off the Bay Bridge's ungainly new S-Curve to Yerba Buena Island 200 feet below. But it seems that the takeaway is a message so simple that state authorities and the m ... More >>

Will the new Hetch Hetchy plan wring San Francisco dry?

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

Small-Town Serenades

El Capitan delivers a rootsy California tapestry

A Wise Approach

Interpretive improvisation that brings life (and dance) to talk-show topics

Feast of the Senses

The films may have been silent, but the food spoke volumes

The Way We Looked

Photographs that invite us to rediscover the city we inhabit

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Resuscitate Your Resolve

Calling All Yahoos

Worried about what John Poindexter's up to as federal information czar? Call his home number and ask.

Burning Mad

Deciding they just wouldn't take it anymore, Bayview citizens stopped a Navy plan to incinerate toxic gas at Hunters Point Shipyard

Sound Bites

For over 10 years, Mandible Chatter has explored the outskirts of experimental music

Chef's Choice

Women think Auberge du Soleil's cook is a pretty tasty morsel

A Vote of Competence

This is no time for softheaded governing. In this election, Prop. F and Dennis Herrera pass the confidence test; MUD fails completely.

Mind Games

Fellow Travelers Performance Group wants to crawl around inside your head

Dead Mud Walking

A ballot measure that would create a Municipal Utility District has so many legal flaws, it's all but DOA. In fact, passing the measure might delay the advent of public power here for years.

Welcome Home

Adobe Bookshop opens a new gallery in an old storeroom

Letters to the Editor

Letters from April 11, 2001

Delusions of Power

Is it smart to jump into the Bay Guardian's version of public power, without even studying whether it will save money?

Hard Labor

County Jail No. 3 is a hellhole. Can an ancient, intense form of meditation improve life for the inmates?

Scene Not Heard

Could there be a silver lining to the mass eviction of musicians from Downtown Rehearsal?

Digging Deep

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Cothran

No Fishin'

The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

Night+Day

Night+Day

The Nature of Trust

The battle intensifies over Ansel Adams' legacy

Looking A little Green

Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Night+Day

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Letters

Off-Base (Part I)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?