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September 10, 2007

Tomorrow BART celebrates 35 years of hauling your asses around. Revenue service began on 9/11 in 1972. Since then, according to BART Board President Lynette Sweet, BART has continued to "carry the Bay Area through good times and bad...[w]e were there to keep the economy moving when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out the Bay Bridge, and most recently when the MacArthur Maze connector collapsed." But most important of all, BART has also......

Continue Reading "Happy Birfday BART"

October 17, 2006

It doesn't appear that there's anything planned to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, so we'll just slurp oysters and go flyfishing. No, really, this evening at the Ferry Building Marketplace Grand Hall, Hog Island Oysters, Cakebread wine and fly fishing. (5:30-7:30pm) Proceeds from the event will benefit CalTrout—an organization that started in the mid-1960s with a dozen avid trout fishermen disgruntled with the State of California's management of lakes and......

Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"

October 8, 2006

"Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love. In 2006? Gavin let his hair down. As Peter Hartlaub wrote in the Chron: "Where Were You the Day Gavin Changed His 'do?" Well, we here at SFist were all over the story, giving you the breaking news that his hair was de-gelled and then giving you the breaking news when he became gelled again. Then, of course, there was the debate: did he look more like Matt Gonzalez or Nick Carter? How come nobody thought of the obvious Clay Aiken 'do? And for those of you who wondered why there wasn't anything else important going on, we covered that too-- the new do of Gav's 20 year-old girlfriend....

Continue Reading "Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair!"

October 14, 2005

We have mixed emotions about Diane B. "Dede" Wilsey's pet cause, the new M. H. de Young Memorial Museum building. For years the antics surrounding that concourse -- museums moving, buildings being torn down, garages built -- have provided pages and pages of entertainment in the local press. More recently, the unfinished structure loomed darkly over John F. Kennedy drive like an aircraft carrier that somehow made it inland from Ocean Beach (and we're......

Continue Reading "The New de Young Building"

October 15, 2004

October 15, 2004

On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. ...

Continue Reading "15 Years Later"

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