Due to yesterday's Day Around the Bay, SFist received the following, like, totally awesome request today. It touches on an issue that will one day have Northern Californians and Southern Californians battling it out in a blood-soaked, brutal massacre to the end: using the article "the" before freeway numbers. I have been enjoying SFist. Thanks for the neat articles, links, etc. As a native San Franciscan, one of the things that I would like......

Forget that Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper star in The Kingdom. The divine Jason Bateman also appears -- reason enough to check out this action flick. IMDB tells us that it's about "a team of U.S. government agents...sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East." But seeing as how it's an action release, The Kingdom is bound to be riddled with explosions, the word "fuck," and tons......

Muni driver is no longer with us, but that doesn't mean the questions won't keep coming. Reader RK sent us this last week and his completely frustrating experience is something we've all been through. And just why do they sometimes stop trains in the middle of the run anyways? And why can't drivers at least tell everyone why? ...

It's not just that you're a bad driver, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year, it needs $34 million just to keep up, $340 million to take care of the backlog, and that it has never gotten more than $18 million. You may remember in the last election, the city tried to get a bond passed to repair the streets, but it didn't get the 2/3rds majority it needed to pass. So now Supervisor Sean Elsbernd has proposed that the city give $28 million of the budget surplus to fix the roads and sidewalks. DPW has put together a list of streets it would like to pave immediately if it gets the extra cash: Valencia between Market and Cesar Chavez, Mission between 11th and 16th, Page between Franklin and Div, Monterey and San Jose, Quintara and 28th, Lincoln between 3rd and 28th, and Portola between Junipero Serra and Twin Peaks. Man, we were driving down Folsom today and hit a pothole so deep it made our teeth rattle. Just how bad is it on Quintara and 28th? You got any favorite pockmarked streets to complain about? ...

Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note the presence of a half-dozen cop cars parked at the curb as like, a regular thing — we got into the far left lane and were shunted onto a road that led us past Val's Restaurant & Lounge, on Junipero......

This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his gang of buddies who called themselves "Catholics," but we feel obliged to announce that the Gawker Media juggernaut has boldly set foot on the frontier outpost that is San Francisco de Asis. New Gawker site Gridskipper will be covering "urban travel," or, in other words, providing reviews of various attractions in cities across the globe -- including SFist land. While they've only got reviews of hotels, the Columbus Cafe, and the Lusty Lady for now, how long will it be before they start covering topics like caffeine, bars, local music, and our hott mayor? Well, readers! Will our beloved publisher open the can of cityblog whoopass on Gothamist alum and Gridskipper editor Andrew Krucoff? What will What our sibling -ist blogs do? (What, no Chicago or Toronto?) Tune in next week, on As The Blog Turns. ...