There are so many alarming side effects to the Japanese nuclear leak -- tainted rainwater, polluted air samples, and let's not forget the possibility of radiation in your milk.
But while we are so preoccupied with these immediate hazards, we have yet to think about the long-term problems: trashed beaches.
That's right: Scientists are saying that the wind and ocean currents are already pushing loads of crap from Japan where an 8.9 earthquake hit earlier this month, followed by a devastating tsunami where some 10,000 people were killed.
KTVU reports today that anyone living on the West Coast can expect the floating pollution to make its way here within the next year, or maybe three.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled today that District Attorney George Gascón does not have to recuse himself from prosecuting Randal Dunklin, the man shot by police in January while he was sitting in a wheelchair.
Dunklin, whose case attracted heavy media attention after the shooting was caught on videotape, has been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer, interfering with a police officer in the line of duty, and misdemeanor vandalism.
He allegedly brandished a knife and stabbed an officer in the arm who tried to approach him. He also slashed the tire of a city-owned vehicle.
What better way to celebrate 4/20 than to get high with Ed Rosenthal -- the man who lives for marijuana.
Well, technically, you'd get stoned at your house and he'd get high at his house and then you'd meet up at the Ferry Building.
Rosenthal, America's ganja guru, had this "brilliant" idea to celebrate the global pot-smoking holiday with a signing of his popular Marijuana Grower's Handbook on April 20 at exactly 4:20 p.m. The event will be at Book Passage at the Ferry Building.
"He has a great following and he seems to have a great handbook, not that I can speak from experience," says Alison Blidsoe, event and conference assistant with Book Passage. "I think it will draw a lot of people."
If you need another reason to get outside today, we've got one: bouncy castles.
Taking advantage of some of the best weather we can remember in the city, Facebook group 100 Days of Spring is carting around an inflatable bouncy castle to various S.F. locales today.
| Last call |
Dear David Chiu:
It has come to SF Weekly's attention that you are missing a bunch of "David Chiu for Mayor" signs.
Don't worry. They are safe.
Your campaign manager's boyfriend left them at Martuni's last night, but we were able to secure them before the bar backs disposed of your critical message in an inglorious manner.
We knew being a Giants fan was torture -- metaphorically speaking -- but last night the pain went a little too deep after two Dodger fans let loose on three Giants fans after the San Francisco team lost in the season opener.
You'd think they would have been satisfied with victory -- but apparently, Los Angeles fans wanted more. Two Dodgers enthusiasts attacked some Giants fan outside the stadium last night, leaving one in critical condition.
The Los Angeles Police Department told SF Weekly at noon that they still have no identities or arrests.
Stealing bus transfers will only get you so far.
As one man learned on Tuesday afternoon when he brazenly pocketed a pack of Muni transfers and bolted from the bus.
At about 1:30 p.m. the man got onto the Muni in the Mission District, but refused to pay his fare. The bus said that the man appeared a little angry. So the driver, presumably intimidated by the man, just let the man have a free ride, according to police reports.
Just when you thought you had seen every iteration of Arnold Schwarzenegger -- playboy, bodybuilder, Terminator, governor -- he comes up with one more: cartoon character
In his free-time as the state's former chief executive, Schwarzenegger is putting together a cartoon series with that loosely parallels his life as California governor.
Schwarzenegger will reportedly do the voice-over for an animated character named none else but the Governator.
We've been wondering if Mayor Ed Lee had any thoughts on PETA's farcical request that the city change the name of the seedy Tenderloin district to something a little more animal-friendly, like the Tempeh District.
And indeed he does. Like any pragmatic soul, Lee decided that it would be more productive if the conversation focused on revitalizing the bedraggled TL, not renaming it.
Amen.
