San Francisco

Loyola Marymount defeated San Francisco, 72-67, on Monday at Los Angeles, sending Coach Eddie Sutton's team to defeat the game after a huge comeback earned him his 800th victory. Shawn Deadwiler scored 18 points for the Lions, 5-18 overall and 2-5 in the West Coast Conference. The Lions ended a four-game losing streak. Earlier in the day, Sutton became the winningest active coach in major men's college basketball with the resignation of Bob Knight from Texas Tech.

Where would San Francisco be without Miguel Migs? The Bay Area DJ-producer has been instrumental in putting the city on the global house music map, via years of stellar releases on labels like Naked Music and his own label, Salted. His latest, "Those Things," cements his reputation, with smooth-as-silk tracks like "So Far." Sunday at weekly house party Deep, he will be joined by another Bay Area icon, Mark Farina (pictured).

I'm in love. You can love a person. You can love a city. And when you can introduce the city you love to the person you love, what could be better? I once lived in San Francisco, a city that made my youthful heart flutter so persuasively the first time I saw it in 1966 that I moved here from Wisconsin a few years later. It has fluttered ever since. Never mind that I was an unfaithful lover, moving to Hawaii years ago.

In the late 19th century, when the Old West was giving way to the new, a drover bored with herding beeves and hankering for wild and woolly fictional mystery-solving might pick up a copy of "The Fireside Companion" to see what the Old Sleuth was up to, or maybe poke his nose into Street and Smith's adventures from the casebook of Nick Carter.

Diners in this food-obsessed city are used to exotic offerings such as chili squid salad, risotto Milanese with oxtail ragu and marinated noisettes of venison. But this winter a controversial new item has been showing up in the fine print of menus at some of the hottest restaurants: a surcharge to help pay for worker health insurance.

Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sits in this city's ornate board chambers and gazes up a steep set of stairs leading to the president's speaking dais. "Five stairs," she says quietly. "That's the mountain." Alioto-Pier, 39, has been paralyzed from the waist down since a childhood skiing accident.

The pilot of the cargo ship that sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in November and spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel oil was charged Monday with criminal negligence and violating two federal environmental laws. Capt. John J. Cota, 60, was charged in federal court in San Francisco with one count each of violating the Clean Water Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, both misdemeanors. Cota was at the helm Nov.

State Sen. Carole Migden has agreed to pay a record $350,000 in fines for 89 violations of state campaign finance laws that include using political funds for personal benefit and failing to disclose what her political committees purchased with credit cards, according to documents released Tuesday.

This city has long considered itself a compassionate place, promoting gay marriages and expanded homeless welfare programs. Now officials are extending a very public welcome to undocumented workers. This week, the city launched a campaign featuring TV and radio ads, billboards and bus signs reminding residents of its status as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.