This morning, City Hall came alive for the swearing in of Ed Lee, the city's first elected Asian mayor and an apparent fan of Beach Blanket Babylon. While more official accounts will obviously be written later in the day, here's a sense of how attendees experienced it via the magic of Twitter. First of all, the food. Embed:http://www.twitter.com/dolftown/status/156119522745663490 Embed:https://twitter.com/dolftown/status/156124744532492289 Comments on the 'stache: Embed:http://www.twitter.com/jeremys/status/156097665959079936 What did Hammer think? Embed:http://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/156094106161000448 Embed:https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/156098551187902465 ......

Read the full story here. You gotta give the guy this: he has good taste in art. Early Tuesday morning, thanks to a tip from the San Francisco Police Department, another Picasso was found in Mark Lugo's possession. According to The Jersey Journal, officers from the Hoboken police, New York City Police Department and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office searched the Hoboken home of Lugo, who had been working as a sommelier ......

The Bay Area is winding down an amazingly warm weekend but a Sunday night announcement on a national security issue by President Obama has the nation on edge. Scheduled for 10:30 p.m. EST, President Obama is expected to take the podium in minutes. Here is a link to a live webcast: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-delivers-statement. Like every other media outlet on Earth, we'll update when more information is available. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer ......

This morning, The New York Times reported that four of its correspondents in Libya — Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid, reporter Stephen Farrell and photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario — have gone missing. They were last seen on Tuesday. One of those journalists might be familiar to Bay Area audiences. In addition to her extensive photojournalism from the Middle East and Africa for The New York Times and other ......

The legal dispute between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, the man who bought glass-plate negatives at a garage sale in Fresno 10 years ago and attempted to prove that they were the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams, has now been resolved out of court. Details about the settlement are confidential, according to a joint statement received today, but no money appears to have exchanged hands. ......