Photo credit: Steve Rhodes Supervisor Chris Daly speaking in UN Plaza today, drenched in ivory. Hot.......

While we can say for sure where the torch route will go tomorrow--KTVU confusedly announced the "official map route" during today's noon broadcast and KPIX interviewed a fake Bono, so we can't be sure of anything anymore--we can take a stab at it, yes? Yes. Rumor ia that the torch run might--might--go through Berry Street. You know, that little strip of street near the AT&T park? That borders China Basin? Near SF Weekly's office?......

Watch live video from Olympic Torch - Live Feed 1 on Justin.tv Can't make it to today's Tibet rally? Well then, check out the live feed above, or head over to justin.tv to catch to watch/chat about it. Be sure to visit OlympicTorchSF for additional coverage, as well as their Twitter updates, which we highly recommend for culling up-to-the-second torch route specifics. It's so interactive and Web 2.0-y, your head could very well explode. Exciting......

The divisive Olympic flame arrived in SF today all the way from Paris (how chic!) under a shroud of security normally "reserved for head-of-state visits." It touched down at SFO with no protesters in sight (it arrived at 3:40 a.m.) A few notable were there, waiting with anticipation. Ed Lee and Rose Pak--who was "giggling like a teenager" upon its arrival--and a smattering of Olympic athletes greeting the tiny blaze, which was kept in......

In light of today's Golden Gate Bridge scaling/protest incident, Mayor Gavin Newsom--according to Brittney Gilbert at CBS 5's Eye On Blogs--"announced the route of the Olympic torch has been changed from the published course to a new route whose details will not be made public." ...

Currently three protesters are climbing the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge, attempting to hang up a sign on the bridge in protest over the Olympic torch run through San Francisco, which is scheduled to make its only U.S. run in San Francisco on Wednesday. Check out KPIX's live cam for what's going down right now....

Jim Herd, currently at the Golden Gate Bridge, sent us the above shot, taken just before the (pretty damn brave) protesters unfurled their messages. Check back here for updates on the situation going on at the Golden Gate Bridge.......

Yesterday's accident on the Golden Gate Bridge, which resulted in a 10-car collision and the bridge shutting down for a couple of hours, was the result of a simple lane change gone awry. According to the California Highway Patrol, a "pickup truck veered into the path of another car traveling north, causing both vehicles to swerve into southbound traffic." And then all sorts of messy chaos ensued: cars went flying into on coming traffic, metal bent, a baby was hurt, a Honda Shadow flipped over, and more. Fortunately, and strangely, no one was killed. ...

All Southbound lanes are closed, and most northbound lanes are "moving very slowly" due to a motorcycle accident involving multiple cars on the Golden Gate Bridge this afternoon. Traffic is backed up to 19th Avenue according to CBS 5 (where Allen Martin had the unmitigated gall to interrupt The People's Court to tell us!) CHP advises motorists to expect big, long delays. Use alternate routes tonight, folks. Update: Six people are injured, one of......

While Golden Gate Bridge shots tend to veer on the boring side of SFist's Flickr stream, we really admire this image here shot by Jameth. Amazing yet so simple. Brilliant. And that weather you see? That we've had over the last few days? It's gone. Alas.......

Gavin Newsom began his second term as mayor of San Francisco this morning ...

A trial run of new $5000 parking meters. ...

A few things here: 1) It's a free ride when you've already paid, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth. 2) Is this fake? We called the number and the voice on the other end responded, "Golden Gate Bridge" - "Sorry, wrong number. We're totally not trying to kill ourselves, BTW!" we responded in panic mode - but the font on the sign above the phone looks a little off. A bit slanted. Then again, the......

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Jesus Christ, this has sent us into a tailspin. While we can safely say that our biggest accomplishments in life thus far have been finding synonyms for the word "poop" and being able to thoroughly enjoy steak tartare, it seems that a few other driven, Type-A individuals have done more at our age. Much, much more. Behold what we should have done at this point on Earth: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to......

Three square meals a day is finished. Heartiness plunged to its death from the Golden Gate Bridge. The entree, sadly, is dead. At least according Kim Severson of the New York Times it is, and we couldn't be more delighted. The article interviews chef Tom Colicchio who says, "I think the entree has been in trouble for a long time...[e]ating an entree is too many bites of one thing, and it’s boring." Love it.......

By day he's an Alight Electric employee. By night? A Ford F-350 Super Duty hero. It seems that last night on the Golden Gate Bridge, John Beatty of Mill Valley saved the day, so to speak, after noticing a woman unconscious in her Jeep, moving into oncoming traffic. At around 6:50 p.m., Sylvia Durrance, 62, came to a stop while driving southbound in the No. 2 lane. She appeared lifeless, her body slumped over......

The Red Sox has permeated nearly every facet of Bostonist's lives. When they're not live-blogging the games, waxing poetic about the games, thanking Curt Schilling for his splendid work, or telling Dane Cook to watch his hair, they're watching certain presidential candidates hop on the Red Sox bandwagon (sorry, Gothamist). The Sox are so branded on the local brain that people are using the Series to spice up their sex lives. Speaking of spice, Bostonist......

Much to everyone's delight, we're certain, today Golden Gate Bridge corporate officials rejected an offer that would have seen the city rolling around naked in millions of dollars from advertising. A plan that would have finally allowed innocuous ads on a tiny part of the bridge not visible to passersby, plunged to its death today after much contemplation....

According to KQED Radio and CBS5, traffic along the Golden Gate Bridge kinda sucks right now (mid-span, northbound, Waldo Tunnel) due to police action. The bridge was (reportedly) closed, but now open with police activity happening on the sidewalk. Sounds cinematic and cliff-hanging. Any further info? Do let us know. We'd hate not sounding like an alarmist.......

World's largest and newest passenger jet to buzz our skies at 2:30 PM today...

-- Girlfight tonight! Well, not tonight, but some nights ago, one presumably drunk girl stabbed another in the eye her stiletto heel at (ugh) Slide. [The Snitch] -- "Chili finger woman" may get a more mild sentence. Hey, we thought she had a good idea there, but...alas. [CBS5] -- No really, did Gavin think about this? [SFBG] -- Democrat fundraiser cum fugitive Norman Hsu's suicide attempt. [Chron] -- Ed Jew pleads not guilty, won't......

That idea of congestion pricing in San Francisco, meaning charging people to drive in certain places around the city, has moved from crazy pipe dream stage to crazy pipe dream planning stage. Recently, the city was awarded $180 million to study the idea and there are already two potential places being mapped out by the people mapping it out. Instead of charging cars to go downtown, the idea would be to take it to the bridge as it were. The first place would be on Doyle Drive, one of the roads that takes you to the Golden Gate Bridge . In fact, one of the conditions of all this money is that the city would just have to do such a thing. Another spot being considered is right outside of Treasure Island. They're thinking up the idea of maybe charging $1 or $2 a car and it could work by having people use the FastTrak system, or at least we hope so as being from the East Coast, having to stop constantly for tolls gets kind of tedious. Also a bad place to be if you've just started a mob war against the Tattaglia and Sollozzo families. ...

-- Did you call your district supervisor to halt the Blue Angels today? Neither did we. [IndyBay] -- Obama was here, or something. [BeyondChron, Oakland Tribune] -- San Francisco's Next Top Transbay Terminal. [Chron] -- San Jose mom allows boyfriend to murder her six-year-old son, helps him bury son. [SJ Merc] -- Your local alt weeklies weigh in on Britney's depressing performance. Sigh. [ASD, SFBG] -- McGoldrick all cranky about advertising on or near the......

...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over the Golden Gate Bridge, overshot the turn from Doyle Drive onto Lombard Street and flipped over. A open fifth of Hennessey was found in the car, and the passengers are in SF General with non-fatal injuries. Your SF Labor Day weekend homicide count: 3.......

We’re thrilled when our commute ends up boring rather than late or, say, riddled with crushed pedestrians and such. It turns out that this commute, well, it’s the stuff that dreams are made of: kids' fantasies. Apparently, CalTrain is so dreamy and hot that it's now a center spread in the newly released Timmy and Tammie’s Train of Thought. TTTT, for short. Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the......

We've talked about the controversial documentary The Bridge here on SFist before, but for those who couldn't bring themselves to see the film in a theater, you've got your chance for a cozy TV viewing on IFC tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. At least at home you can cover your eyes and scream "OH MY GOD!" without bothering a theater full of people. We watched the movie on DVD recently, and that......

-- Tzssss: Golden Gate Bridge gets branded. (They won't really have billboards on the bridge, but who would want to see tasty Pizza Rolls high above, or why Sally Field stays so ramrod straight?) [Chron] -- Castro is now dead, says Perez. No, not the Castro. Although that neighborhood [insert your own joke here]. [SFBG, via PH] -- Man killed by J-Church on Thursday identified as John O'Neill, 47. RIP, dude. [Chron] -- What will......

Photo of accident scene at Park Presidio and Balboa in the Richmond....

As anyone trying to get onto the Golden Gate Bridge knows, the onramp of Doyle Drive is in terrible shape -- it's too narrow, there's no shoulder, lanes merge and swerve around with no rhyme or reason, and there's those weird white poles in the middle of the street to visually break up the two lanes of traffic but are just begging to be hit. Apparently it's really unsafe in an earthquake too. That's just......