Target Meeting Draws Approving Crowd, Geary and Metreon Stores Both Expected In 2012

Target Meeting Draws Approving Crowd, Geary and Metreon Stores Both Expected In 2012

Representatives from both the Target Corporation and the owners of the property the company is leasing made themselves available for what turned out to be…

Appealing Events: Free Gardening And Cooking Workshop From The DPW

The SF Department of Public Works is inviting local residents to come on down for a good ol’ offerin’ o’ good ol’ lessons in how…

Muni Driver Clothing Theft No Longer A Novelty, Now A Pattern

Muni Driver Clothing Theft No Longer A Novelty, Now A Pattern

According to a recent incident report from SFPD’s Richmond Station newsletter (to subscribe, email sfpd.richmond.station@sfgov.org), A Muni driver who witnessed the abduction of his jacket…

Public Feedback On BART Surplus Finds Fare Reduction Not So Popular

Public Feedback On BART Surplus Finds Fare Reduction Not So Popular

SF Appeal readers have been following the story of BART surplus since last month, and in fact have e-voted on the question of just what…

Report: SF Stands To Make $1.4 Billion If We Host America’s Cup Boat Race

Report: SF Stands To Make $1.4 Billion If We Host America’s Cup Boat Race

The 159 year old America’s Cup sailing regatta (meaning “boat race” – you, or at least I, learn something new everyday), an increasingly international, albeit…

All-In-One Clipper Card Gets Closer To Being, Well, All-In-One With Parking Lot Payment Plan

All-In-One Clipper Card Gets Closer To Being, Well, All-In-One With Parking Lot Payment Plan

A pilot program being put into place with the joint blessing of the SFMTA and MTC (the Metropolitan Transportation Commission) will allow Clipper card users…

Cow Palace Death OD Of Ecstasy, Coroner Confirms

Cow Palace Death OD Of Ecstasy, Coroner Confirms

The death of a 23 year old man, Anthony Mata, after a night at the “Pop 2010: The Dream” festival held at the Cow Palace…

Crime Blotter Monday, July 12: Violent Bike Theft On Market, FiDi Camera Bashing

Crime Blotter Monday, July 12: Violent Bike Theft On Market, FiDi Camera Bashing

Saturday, 7/10/10: 12:40 AM: A victim driving mini-van collided with large parked truck at Bayshore and Boutwell. Victim transported to hospital for non-life threatening injuries….

Plans For More Bike Accessibility On Market Proposed At Castro Meeting

Plans For More Bike Accessibility On Market Proposed At Castro Meeting

An SF MTA meeting held last night at the Eureka Valley Community Center drew about twenty or so nearby residents, mostly bikers themselves judging from…

US Supreme Court Rejects Restaurant Group’s Challenge To SF Health Plan

US Supreme Court Rejects Restaurant Group’s Challenge To SF Health Plan

The highest court in the land, as represented by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has rejected an attempt by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association…

Billboard Liberation Front Takes On SoMa Right To Die Billboard

Billboard Liberation Front Takes On SoMa Right To Die Billboard

Professional provocateur group The Billboard Liberation Front has struck again, lending their billboard modification skills to the Final Exit Network’s controversial advertisement – or, rather,…

Crime Blotter Monday, June 28: Missing Firebug Roommate, Mission Strangling

Crime Blotter Monday, June 28: Missing Firebug Roommate, Mission Strangling

Saturday, 6/26/10: 2:10 AM: Two victims were walking E/B on Market near Noe when a suspect allegedly ran up to the victims and stole a…

Tough New Charges, Cuts Being Discussed For City Agencies’ Budgets

Tough New Charges, Cuts Being Discussed For City Agencies’ Budgets

School, transit and a cornucopia of other more miscellaneous services are in a well known financial bind, and the budgetary prospects dim. San Francisco and…

Mission District Club Owner Angry Over Shut Down Orders After Officer Shooting

Mission District Club Owner Angry Over Shut Down Orders After Officer Shooting

The shooting outside Mission District El Rincon club Friday night that resulted in the non-lethal injury of a police officer has prompted the city’s Entertainment…

Confiscated Bunnies Still Ready For Your Love, Affection, Food And Shelter

Confiscated Bunnies Still Ready For Your Love, Affection, Food And Shelter

Last week we told you about the 23 rabbits confiscated from a Mission District pet store apparently unaware that the sale of the precious and…

Date Set For Free (Is Anything Ever *Really* Free?) Wi-Fi At SFO

Date Set For Free (Is Anything Ever *Really* Free?) Wi-Fi At SFO

We’ve been expecting free access to Wi-Fi at SFO for some time now, and finally a date has been set for what we’re told will…

Cops’ Salary Dispute Divides Veterans And Rookies

Cops’ Salary Dispute Divides Veterans And Rookies

Matier and Ross are reporting that the SFPD’s divided over some proposed cuts intended to help San Francisco’s ailing budget. The police, they say, are…

Immigration Policy, From Virginia To Arizona: An Interview With 9500 Liberty’s Eric Byler and Annabelle Park

In the press release I received for the immigration themed documentary film 9500 Liberty, the opening paragraph reads: “9500 Liberty reveals the startling vulnerability of…

Crime Blotter, Monday June 14: Mission Bottle Slashing, Ocean Beach iPhone Theft

Crime Blotter, Monday June 14: Mission Bottle Slashing, Ocean Beach iPhone Theft

Saturday, 6/12/10 1:00 AM: Two men reportedly assault two other men in a bar over a woman at the 2900 block of 16th st. Both…

Crash Your Car, Pay For $500 For The SFFD To Clean Up The Mess?

Crash Your Car, Pay For $500 For The SFFD To Clean Up The Mess?

As an addition to several fee increases proposed in mayor Newsom’s 2010-2011 budget, drivers found to be at fault in an accident could be charged…

A Heavy Dose of Drug Tests Might Be Forthcoming For Muni Drivers

A Heavy Dose of Drug Tests Might Be Forthcoming For Muni Drivers

Drivers employed by the SF MTA might want to prepare for stricter new drug testing methods as well as in increase in their frequency. No,…

Hey San Franciscans, Your Votes are Due Tomorrow, Period

Hey San Franciscans, Your Votes are Due Tomorrow, Period

Do you think Proposition 16 is a trojan horse? Do you think Proposition 17 – the auto insurance one – might actually change life as…

More Three Day Weekends Ahead For SFUSD Students

More Three Day Weekends Ahead For SFUSD Students

In a deal struck between the United Teachers of San Francisco and the SFUSD, the city’s 55,000 K-12 students can now look forward (for slackers)…

Bilboard Liberation Front Takes On Nob Hill McDonald’s Ad

Bilboard Liberation Front Takes On Nob Hill McDonald’s Ad

The Billboard Liberation Front, or BLF, has targeted the McDonalds advertisement adorning the corner of California and Hyde streets, tarnishing the reputation of their vaunted…

BART’s Budgetary Surplus: What To Do With It?

BART’s Budgetary Surplus: What To Do With It?

In a state experiencing an unprecedented case of fiscal distress, a glimmer of hope in the form of minor transportation relief is in the cards…

Reporting On John Mark Karr, Now Alexis Valoran Reich, Restraining Order Causes Media Pronoun Conundrum

Reporting On John Mark Karr, Now Alexis Valoran Reich, Restraining Order Causes Media Pronoun Conundrum

John Mark Karr, who has been using the name Alexis Valoran Reich these days, is the focus of a restraining order issued by San Francisco…

Crime Blotter, Wednesday May 26: Ingleside, Panhandle, Sunset Gunpoint Robberies

Crime Blotter, Wednesday May 26: Ingleside, Panhandle, Sunset Gunpoint Robberies

Tuesday, 5/25/10 5:00 PM: A man reportedly robbed a woman at gunpoint at Cortland and Bradford. The woman complied, no injuries involved. No arrest. 7:05…