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Celebrity news, people! “Full House” sitcom star Candace Cameron Bure, who played character D.J. Tanner, was in Hayes Valley recently taking photos of herself in on the hill with the Painted Ladies in the background. She tweets, “Spending the day in San Fran for Val’s birthday and YES, I’m taking the kids to the Full House houses. LOL will tweet a pic on the hill.” She then went on to say “it’s the first time I’ve been here since we shot the opening credits.” [SF Gate/Twitter]

First Lady Michelle Obama arrives in the Bay Area today to make several appearances, including a fundraiser dinner with Alice Waters. Some local members of the Republican Party, however, are shaking their fists at passing clouds after getting wind that Mrs. Obama used taxpayer dollars for these fundraising trips. [ more › ]

On the agenda for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this afternoon, an appeal of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed Booker T. Washington Community Services Center at 800 Presidio Avenue which would yield 50 housing units (24…

Newfound New York Knick Carmelo Anthony has unloaded the Littleton, Colo., home that he listed last june for $9.5M. Final sale price? A lowly $6.2M. Guess it doesn’t seem like so huge of a loss when you’re making $65M over three years. Click over for photos. [Curbed National]

The city’s unused fiber optic network, a first person account of a run in with Saturday’s Bay Bridge jumper, a 3.1 earthquake in Santa Clara, a disrobing pedestrian hit by a vehicle, summer fashion tips and more in Tuesday’s morning roundup. [ more › ]

Special education teacher Jerry Johnson, 56, of Vallejo was pinched by the police for allegedly raped an 18-year-old female assistant on campus during school hours. The “heinous” act reportedly took place at Loma Vista Elementary School. The victim, who helps Johnson out with the kids, has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, notes KTVU, who go on to say that Johnson “didn’t seem too surprised by the arrest.” [ more › ]

[trapped in this body and can't get out via Curbed Flickr Pool/Bhautik Joshi]

· Yet another parklet nears competition on Valencia [Mission Mission]
· The people behind “Run Ed Run” stepping out from the shadows [SF Appeal]
· Scenes from Sunday Streets in the Bayview, Dogpatch and Potrero Hill [Streetsblog SF]
· Where can we find this Giants Pez dispenser? [We Built This City]
· Environmentalists petition to reduce whale mortality in CA [Way Out West]

In an effort to save some cash, the Department of Public Works want to transfer responsibility of 24,000 street trees to private property owners. Two-thirds of the street trees are already cared for by private property owners. The proposal is in Mayor Lee’s budget submission and would save the DPW about $600,000 next year.

Richmond District Blog SF reports that the proposal came out just a few months after Mayor Lee helped honor Charlie Starbuck, a community member who has planted over 7,000 trees nearly every weekend over the past 30 years. He then said “a healthy and vibrant urban forest is a gift we can give to the future generations of our City. I am proud to support San Francisco’s Arbor Day, which focuses on not just planting trees, but maintaing them.” The Friends of the Urban Forest are calling Mayor Lee’s proposed cuts “a tragedy,” citing concern for the health of existing trees and the unanticipated costs of tree maintenance that private property owners would have to take on.

At Monday’s Board of Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Service Committee (say that three times fast) hearing on the proposal, Supervisor John Avalos suggested the City come up with another way to find funding. “I have been concerned about it. It makes some sense that we can figure out to prevent that from happening,” Avalos said.
· DPW cost-saving tree plan faces resistance [SF Examiner]
· Proposed budget cuts would force property owners to care for sidewalk trees [Richmond SF Blog]
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A rough day on San Francisco Bay Nothing like seeing men fly through the air and into the water- and in this case, through the mainsail- to convince us that the combination of beautiful scenery, danger, rescue, and expensive damage equipment will make a very telegenic America’s Cup. Capsize! Rescue! Towing! How long before Jersey Shore is looking for a house to rent on Marina Boulevard? [ABC/Good Morning America]

Larry Ellison’s Oracle Racing team has already crashed one of those AC45′s we had our eye on this morning. The catamaran tipped over while skippers Russel Coutts and James Spithill tried to one-up each other in the lead-up to a practice run on the Bay this afternoon. According to the Examiner, winds of 20-28 mph around the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island caused the National Weather Service to issue a small craft advisory warning this afternoon, but judging by how excited America’s Cup Event CEO Craig Thompson has been getting about the crash-and-burn excitement of catamaran racing, we wouldn’t be surprised if Ellison had his team flip the boat just to make things more exciting. Below, a suspiciously soundtracked video of the accident, which we have helpfully juxtaposed with a scene from The Thomas Crown Affair (in which a wealthy playboy capsizes his catamaran, “just to see the splash.”) [ more › ]