News: December 2008 Archives

Photo of Tuesday's violence in Gaza protest: anthonysanfrancisco Not since these tools have we seen somebody with such an astounding lack of clarity and overwhelming sense of privilege make a statement of protest brimming with so much fail. Way to go, Israeli/swastika flag Magic Marker counterculture warrior . You're going to make it on Zombietime!...

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Since, naturally, Jews control the media (oh, we kid.) and the Gav loves the media, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent out the following statement yesterday, condemning the defacing of the SF Holocaust Memorial. MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S STATEMENT ON VANDALISM AT THE SAN FRANCISCO HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL The Holocaust Memorial is a powerful symbol of the six million victims of the Holocaust. It is a monument that pledges its existence to "the creation of a world in which such evil and such apathy will not be......

Over in fantastically quaint Glen Park, an unidentified man was struck by a Muni train (presumably the F-Market or J-Church) at San Jose Avenue and Randall Street. The accident happened at around 2:10 a.m. this morning. He was taken to SF General Hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries. Ugh....

Last night the streets of San Francisco saw its second night of anger at Israel's assault in the Gaza Strip. The protest over the never-ending war started on Montgomery Street at the Israeli consulate, eventually moving up to the United Nations Plaza along Market Street. The protest remained peaceful. No arrests, as far as we know, were made. (As of today, Israel has rejected a truce call, continuing to bombing Gaza to smithereens.) Flickr photog Dave Schumaker was on the scene and snapped up these shots. ...

View Larger Map Ingleside Police Station has issued a (slightly belated) warning to the Sunnyside neighbors of City College. Two incidences of sexual battery have occurred in the last month or so (November 26 and December 2) on the pedestrian bridge near Geneva and Ocean Avenues. Both attacks happened at around 6 p.m., smack dab in the middle of commute hours. There was also a December 8th attack that may or may not be related. It occurred at Ocean Avenue and Lee Street. The perpetrator groped the victims and......

Oh oh. Once again, just the other day, the San Francisco Holocaust Memorial fell victim to vandalism. Some sort of red paint -- possibly signifying blood? -- was involved. While the graffiti has since been erased, a "footprint remains where red had been painted onto the memorial wall outside the Palace of the Legion of Honor." The suspect, according to KCBS, is a passionate lad "in his 20s who is six feet, wears a white bandana and carries a black bike messenger bag."......

Although the effect they have will--at best--be microscopic, protesters are out in full force at Montgomery and Sansome Pine streets right now, just outside the Israeli consulate. The rally is reportedly about the violence going on in the Gaza Strip. As well as the art of protesting itself. As of 6 p.m. scores of white people with liberal arts degrees are making themselves heard. Loudly. But tonight's protest is a bit different in that there are angry voices from people on......

Jerry Brown sues over Bush's environmentalness. [SFCitizen]This firehouse turned house is gorgeous. It just is. [Curbed]There's snow up in them there hills! [SFGate]Will Durst's top ten "comedy" news stories of 2008. [SFBG]More on congestion pricing. [Calitics]Biggest dining surprises of 2008. [Eater]Defamer for sale. [Defamer]...

Not since Quentin Tarantino obliterated hat-fetishist/movie reviewer Jan Wahl has KRON 4 become THIS irrelevant. (Pam Moore aside. We love Pam Moore. Moore = relevance. Pam Moore = San Francisco.) Take, for example, how the struggling news network recently booked and then unbooked Charles Feldman and Howard Rosenberg, media critics behind No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle, which they planned on promoting on the former NBC affiliate. It seems that KRON 4 news director Aaron Pero......

Crazy-faced actor Mickey Rourke has accused Marin resident and thespian of note Sean Penn of being a big ol' homophobe. According to a text (allegedly) sent by Rouke to a studio executive, plastic man says, "'Look seans an old friend of mine and i didnt buy his performance [in Milk] at all--thought he did an average pretend acting like he was gay besides hes one of the most homophobic people i kno (sic).'" While this is nothing more than tasty gossip, we could totally......

After getting into a heated argument on a MUNI bus, two 19-year-old college students were stabbed after exiting the bus. The two boys, according to reports, were injured at Sixth Avenue and Geary Boulevard in the Richmond. The incident happened a little after 1 p.m., presumably after riding the 38-Geary. Both guys are at SF General Hospital being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests, as you've already guessed, have been made....

What busy times these are for homosexuals and their sympathizers! Protests aplenty loom in the coming weeks and months. An unofficial list of upcoming events can be found at the Against8 blog; and an official list can be found, well, nowhere, since nobody's really in charge. This decentralized, informal, grassrootsy approach has been fun, but it's also increasingly confusing -- and, we worry, irrelevant. Dan Savage observed last week that the movement is still crippled by its lack......

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Good grief, what is going on in the city of Richmond? First, some pigs gang rape a woman because she had a rainbow flag stick affixed to the back of her car. Then, on Saturday at around 6 p.m., a female cyclist was hit twice by two separate vehicles. Laura Casey, 49, was riding her bike when "a white, four-door sedan rear-ended her," knocking her to the ground. As Casey screamed for help, according to reports, she was fatally "struck by a second vehicle, which......

Anti-Zionists, cranky over Israel's brazen smack down in the Gaza Strip, which left 220 people dead, will have a whisper-quiet protest over at DiFi's office later this afternoon at 5 p.m. Co-Sponsored by Direct Action to Stop the War; the Middle East Children's Alliance (aw), Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (oh Jesus, really?), and SF Women in Black (wait, what?). We didn't think much of this protest at first; another protest at Diane Feinstein's office where prog elitists can pretend to looked concerned, we sighed to......

A South Bay man sits in jail today after killing a transient man for tryi