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Putting aside the fact that the ladies, if you will, involved in the infamous Muni bus fight lacked moral character, tact or basic human decency, community leaders hosted a panel discussion and media roundtable today "to reduce tensions between the city's Asian and African American communities." The discussion was sparked over the videotaped Muni fight that captured the internet's attention a few weeks ago.

"Just another day on Muni... fuc**ng Muni," relents the cameraman shooting this video of a fight between two women on a Chinatown Muni bus. (The 30 line, if we have to guess.)

CHINATOWN/SUNDAY: A man was shot in the city's finest neighborhood, Chinatown. The victim, according to reports, was an adult male, who was shot at Grant Avenue and Jackson Street "a little after 12 a.m. [on] Sunday."

According to KRON 4 News, a restaurant is on fire at 919 Kearny, between Drummond and Jackson Streets. Columbus is backed up to the tunnel. "Traffic is a nightmare" in the area. The block is pretty much closed off. No word yet of any injuries.

The Central Subway plan got a boost yesterday care of a $9.9 grant via an unknown donor. (Though, according to Curbed, the Federal Transit Administration might be the culprit.) MTA spokesperson Judson True tells Streetsblog that "the funds would mostly go towards preliminary design work, since preliminary engineering on the project is essentially complete." The total cost for the SOMA-to-Chinatown underground fun will cost a total of $1.57 billion.

Over the last two days, according to the Chronicle, an arson spree set several vehicles ablaze in the early morning hours. Three of the fiery attacks, it seems, "happened this morning, all of them in different neighborhoods." (!?) One torching occurred on the 700 block of Commercial Street in Chinatown ("damaged two trucks and a minivan about 4:40 a.m.), another happened car on the 100 block of Downey Street (around 4:20 a..m.), and the final one was on the 1900 block of Newcomb Avenue (at about 5:25 a.m.) The report goes on to say that "a motorcycle was set ablaze on the 500 block of Belvedere Street in Parnassus Heights" early Sunday morning. Creepy. No one was injured, no arrests have been made. In other news, whatever happened to the Toilet Torcher?

Chinatown up close.

                 

Braving the rain (which cleared just in time) and visions of Miley Cyrus doing the "ching chong" face, The Year of the Ox was announced in glorious fashion on Sunday. The Chinese New Year's Parade saw tens of thousands of revelers hit the streets. This year's parade also played host to the Hong Kong-born dragon, which was the longest in parade history, stretching at 238 feet long.

There's a lot to love about SF's fantastic Chinese New Year parade -- and a lot of love the parade as well. Marching for the fifth time in a row this year is API Equality, and LGBT advocacy group serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. And you can join them!

Timecapsule: January 23, 1897

Sick of Prop. 8 ranting yet? Too bad. Because we're not. And how could we be with gems like this? See, body cavity cleansing device Bill Tam, a Chinese-American leading the effort in the Asian-American community to pass Proposition 8, is spreading lies amongst San Francisco's Chinatown residents. Tam tells the Mercury News:

There’s a woman over there wielding a paring knife, daring the throng to come closer by yelling for their attention every few seconds. There’s a live fish flopping around in an entryway, and not far from that, a bunch of dead chickens in a window. And here comes a couple men, sending fresh loogies flying at low angles. Sidewalk jostling, auto honking, bus exhaust. River traffic is heavy. Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Mayor Gavin Newsom released a few details yesterday regarding the Beijing Olympic Torch jog throughout the city . The route will include areas around the Ferry Building and AT&T Park, but not Chinatown. Why? Well, according to the Gate, "the density of Chinatown and the small streets running through the historic neighborhood make it logistically difficult to include the neighborhood on the route." (But it would look soooo pretty going to Chinatown!) Newsom announced the flame's path after yesterday's attack at the Chinese Consulate, where someone tried but failed to immolate the building, and before the Board of Supervisors had to sit and listen to "4 1/2 hours of public testimony mostly critical of China's human-rights record."

Good grief, this Chinese New Year business sure does go on for a long time. This weekend, it's a New Year Parade and a New Year Community Fair that'll be tying up traffic. A ton of major east-west lines will be affected on Saturday afternoon -- the 5, the 71, the 38, the F, the 1, and so on.

Is there anyplace in San Francisco more charming than SOMA at night? No, there is not. And this President's Day, it'll be even charminger: construction and traffic reroutes on the Bay Bridge may cause a few heavy-flow days over the holiday weekend. If you're clever, you'll probably want to avoid SOMA in the late-night and early-morning hours. But then again, if you're clever, you probably already do.

Muni has three disruptions on their radar this weekend: The Chinese Flower Market Fair on Saturday and Sunday, the San Francisco Half Marathon on Sunday, and the Tet Fesitval Celebration on Sunday. All three sound scrumptious, even though only two of them are explicitly Asian.

Clinton takes it in New Hampshire. [Oakland Tribune]

Man, and we'd already cancelled all our usual plans! The Ed Jew October 26 trial's been delayed. Noooooooo!

Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended Ed Jew today, (temporarily) removing him from office a little before 9 a.m. this morning at Waverly Place in Chinatown, according to the Chronicle. The young-ish Carmen Chu, 29, Newsom's deputy budget director, will fill Ed's seat for now.

Photos of the Autumn Moon Festival

It's just gotten easier to travel -ist to -ist on the West Coast -- British cheapo bus service Megabus is starting up next week between the Bay Area and LA. Megabus is already in Chicago too.

While the Powers that Be continue to dicker around with the idea of a very expensive Central Subway that will go from Market through Chinatown, one man has an idea to save us all the trouble and expense. That man is Howard Strassner of Rescue Muni.

. Plays start at 9:30, have a lunch break, and start again at 3 and go probably until 9 or so? The performance, at the Project Artaud Theater (450 Florida, x 17th and Mariposa) is free and probably oversubscribed, but you should stop by and see if you can get yourself in.

It's been awhile since we had some Ed Jew news! Lying low, huh?

--A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.]

Quick, what was yesterday? Besides a lovely day -- it was also the deadline for Ed Jew to respond to the City Attorney with additional documentation of his residency.

More LOLJEW pictures!!! Ha ha ha ha!!! Keep 'em coming, folks -- keep 'em coming! More of these fine LOLJEWs at The Sweet Melissa. WUR AT ZWEET MELIZA, LAFFING AT JOO!

Remember yesterday, when Supervisor Ed Jew told the city attorney that the reason why his water bills were so low at his purported house in the Sunset because he showered at his flower shop, and we said we wanted to see the water bills for the store?

Yes, we know, we know, we made that exact same joke about the Recall Jake McGoldrick movement underway in District 1 -- we're going to keep making this joke until people stop trying to recall elected officials. We do not need more things on the ballot.

AlertSF just sent out a bulletin about a missing person. Please keep your eyes out for this gentleman (click on the picture to enlarge):