Graffiti on public transit is usually lame, giving riders no aesthetic reward for the mechanics who have to clean it off on the taxpayers' dime. But as I zoomed under the streets of the FiDi this morning on BART, I was caught offguard by the salty wit of this particular statement.
Forgive my lame photo taken with a BlackBerry over the head of a commuter in the disabled seat, but this is all I could get before jumping off the car at my stop.
The sign is a general warning for riders to stay on the watch for suspicious behavior. "If something does not look right, let us know."
Police are looking for a group of men who took a bat and beat a Santa Barbara tourist near San Francisco's Castro District over the weekend.
According to Police Captain Denis O'Leary, the 52-year-old man, whose sexual orientation is unknown, was walking at Market and Sanchez streets when three men approached him and started beating him with a baseball bat.
"The suspects were heard to yell 'Fuck you, faggot,'" O'Leary tells us.
San Francisco is a tech-savvy town with a lot of unhappy single people. In addition to boosting the consumption of online pornography, this confluence of factors has another result: A lot of twenty- and thirtysomethings have tried Internet dating at some point.
Outcomes in the online quest to find romance are mixed. While many new marriages are the result of people meeting over the Internet, dating sites also tend to spawn misrepresentation, unwanted solicitations, and downright creepiness. One woman has created an entire blog devoted to posting messages she receives from skeevy dudes on OK Cupid.
Entrepreneurs Michael Parikh and Andrew Flachner launched a San Francisco-based site today that will take a new approach to the dating game: DuoDater, an Internet matchmaker devoted exclusively to double dates.
Police say they arrested 20-year-old Cherena Martinee-Lugo on suspicion assault with a deadly weapon during an attack on another female in Dolores Park Friday night.
Police responded to a phone call about a group of 40 people drinking in the park. When they arrived, police saw a woman standing by the restrooms, bleeding form her nose and with stab wounds in her leg.
We already told you about how San Francisco is one of the worst-dressed cities in the United States, ranking in the top 20. And that's probably why we have now been ranked one of the geekiest cities in the nation.
According to a U.S. National Science Foundation survey, San Francisco ranks No. 19 on the list of geeky cities, meaning we have a huge population of math-loving nerds. The survey, which we can trust since it was conducted by none other than nerds, defines "geek" as a worker who holds a bachelor's level of knowledge in science or
engineering-related fields. Geeks can also be people working in jobs which require some
degree of technical knowledge or training.
In San Francisco, nearly 10 percent of the population falls into this category. But we think there are plenty of other reasons we are, well, not conventionally normal.
A married man caught in the arms of a mistress has to do more than utter "I changed my mind." So will Ed Lee.
Lee today officially broke the pledge that he would not seek a full term -- the very thing that got him the job of mayor (and, naturally, put him in position to break his pledge). Lee's supposed noninterest in being a full-time mayor also led to the so-called period of harmony at City Hall he now ostensibly hopes to prolong.
Many questions are raised by today's well-orchestrated announcement. Here are two: Why? And, most crucially, how will voters respond?
Even before Mayor Ed Lee could officially sign the paperwork declaring his candidacy for mayor, some pissed-off people cleverly created the "Lie, Ed, Lie" Twitter account, riffing off his about-face decision to run for mayor.
The account was created about five hours ago, stating "I was appointed Mayor based on a lie. Now I plan to run for Mayor because Rose Pak would bitch slap me if I didn't."
The first post came shortly after, casually stating: "I can hardly sleep tonight because this morning Rose Pak & I will announce our campaign for Mayor."
Last week, SF Weekly reported that antigay group Stop SB48 had started collecting signatures for a referendum to overturn the FAIR Education Act, the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum.
We were contacted by the Evangelical Network, an S.F.-based group of LGBT Christian activists who support the FAIR Education act. SF Weekly interviewed president Todd Ferrell, who explained that Christianity is not at odds with gays and why the bill is necessary to prevent bullying.
Former Supervisor Chris Daly wasted no time after hearing the news that Mayor Ed Lee was planning to do an about-face and run for mayor. He's orchestrating a quasiprotest today outside City Hall, where he and others plan to call Lee a "big liar" while the interim mayor finalizes the paperwork to declare his candidacy.
"Ed Lee never 'changed his mind,'" Daly writes. "Rose [Pak] and Willie [Brown] have had him running
since the beginning. Ed Lee is a liar and should be greeted as such. Our
first opportunity will be this morning as Ed Lee pulls papers to run
for Mayor."
Thanks to Kristina Wertz, legal director of San Francisco's Transgender Law Center, Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles
International Airport will undergo mandatory sensitivity training as part of a legal settlement.
Wertz' client, Ashley Yang, was fired last year for using what her employer said was the "wrong" restroom.
But LAX wasn't the last bastion of discrimination against people who choose to change their gender. Wertz tells us that surveys show 70 percent of transgender Californians have been harassed on the job. So we asked Wertz to share some tips for employers to educate them.
