Otto Von Schirach + Peasants With Feathers + Nassie in San Fran

On Saturday November 7, 2009 Otto Von Schirach, Nassie Shahoulian, and Peasants With Feathers aka: Otto's Voodoo Witch Doctor will be arriving in San Francisco to perform at The 4th annual Nexus Hay Maze Party in Half Moon Bay. " I have always wanted to visit...

Google Job Interview Puzzles, Questions, and Answers

Google is hiring again and is looking for the smartest employees.  Lewis Lin, a job interview professional consultant made 140 questions and puzzles that a company like Google would use to weed out the normal people from the geniuses.  Since yesterday when the...

San Francisco Bans Cat Declawing

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 in favor of a passing a new law banning cat declawing.  The penalty for violators is a fine of up to $1,000 and a potential jail sentence of up to six months. San...

Bay Bridge Re-Opens Today After Successful Stress Testing

UPDATE -- November 2: The Bay Bridge is now open. "Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday following emergency repairs. Traffic began moving across the span after two rods and a crossbar were replaced and...

Halloween Parades 2009: NYC, Chicago, LA, San Francisco Photos

Here is a round-up of some of the biggest Halloween Parades taking place across the United States on Halloween, October 31st. The biggest parade is probably the New York City Halloween parade, which kicks off at...

Talk radio reports Godaddy registers fraudulent WHOis information

How easy it is for organizations potentially involved in criminal activity to register domain names for unlawful purposes?  Just go ask GoDaddy.  Genesmedia.com is registered with GoDaddy.  But, when we checked, only the email 'info@genesmedia.com' was actually...

Real-Time Search - 5 Reasons Why “We” Will Change the Web

If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that...

Bay Bridge Closure 'Indefinite', Says Caltrans (Photos)

The Bay Bridge is closed again, after three pieces from last month's repair fell onto the upper deck. Three vehicles were crushed in the incident, which occurred yesterday at around 7pm. The Bay Bridge is closed "indefinitely" as Caltrans tries to repair its repairs, which...

Bay Bridge Cable Snapped: Bay Bridge Closed for At Least 24 Hours

Two lanes on the Bay Bridge has been closed after a cable snapped. Bay Bridge is expected to be closed for at least 24 hours as the crew try to repair the snapped cable. A portion of the cable hit 3 cars and injured one person. This took place on the left lane of the upper...

Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker Linked to Unsolved Murders

The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, currently on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison following his conviction for the Night Stalker murders which terrorized the Bay Area in 1989 (especially the 11-year-old me, who had just moved there), is linked by DNA evidence to an...

Millbrae BART Station Suspicious Package Deemed Harmless

The Millbrae BART station is closed after a suspicious package was found on the Caltrain side of the station. The package was spotted on a San Mateo County District Transit District bus. The possible bomb threat prompted the closure at 6:20 pm. "Commuters are advised to use...

Are cases closed for S.F. shelter inspections?

originally published in Street Sheet, Oct. 1-14, 2009 Minutes before the Coalition on Homelessness presented “The Runaround” to the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, the Shelter Monitoring Committee (SMC) presented its quarterly report. Street Sheet reported last...

Shelter residents pass baton, ask Supervisors to end runaround

originally published in Street Sheet, Oct. 1-14, 2009 The baton has been passed to the Board of Supervisors — in alleviating the shelter access problems of San Francisco ’s homeless residents.   Over 30 representatives from the Coalition on Homelessness...

Obama greeted with Tea Party protest in San Francisco

Poor Obama.  He goes to San Fransisco and gets met with a Tea Party protest....and what is worse,  the protest was coming from both the left and the right! ""A Tea Party greets Obama in San...

Fledgling Wine: Twitter Slings Booze For Literacy

Twitter is now selling wine. At least Twitter is selling something. Okay, so Twitter is branding wine produced by San Francisco winery Crushpad for charity. The Twitter wine, by the way, is called Fledgling Wine,...

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