According to this sign in the Powell Street station, one of the 16 posted bicycle rules has been stricken from the record. Taking a companion bicycle on BART is now 1/16th less hassle, a savings of 6.25%! After close scrutiny of the redacted rule, we thought we could make out the word "confiscated" - we are certainly not sorry to see that word disappear from BART's bicycle-rule vocabulary. That is, if it has indeed......

Screw the cardboard tube battle, this sounds like something that needs to happen every night. This evening at 5 p.m. sharp, head on down to the tourist epicenter of San Francisco, the Powell Cable Car turnaround, for what will be a massive pie fight. According to Mr. Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid, SF0 player Herbie Hatman is organizing a formal-attire pie fight (think Mabel Normand, Keystone Cops) which will get all up in......

Why? Because a body has been found under one of the BART trains. How the body ended up there or its current condition is unknown at this time. But a medical examiner has been called onto the scene, so...sounds like a not-alive body to us. Sadly....

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's come out swinging at the lackadaisical response from Mayor Gavin Newsom on the state of Golden Gate Park, after public outcry that the city was more concerned about two dogs getting bitten by a coyote than it's been about the public safety and cleanliness issues created by homeless encampments and rampant IV drug use. (While Golden Gate Park isn't in any particular district is is District 1 (see comment), Ross's District 5......

There's been ANOTHER shooting in broad daylight??? Police had to race to Market Street between 5th and 6th after a drive-by shooting this afternoon. You may know this area, as it's right by the cable car turnaround we send all the tourists to, right by the San Francisco Shopping Center, and right by the Powell Street BART and MUNI stop. (And the Forever 21, of course.) Oh, that's not going to make our visitors love......

Rant Chuck Palahniuck will be at sponsored by Booksmith tonight around 7 pm, reading from and signing his latest book, Rant, about a serial killer who's weapon of choice is...rabies. Booksmith, Park Branch Library, 1833 Page St., SF. Garden of Deadly Delights Head over to the Conservatory of Flowers to feast your eyes on a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants! Chomp! opens today and runs through Nov 4. The Red Party A socialist themed......

You know we love love love love love Don Asmussen's Bad Reporter -- last week's "Crazed Republicans believe 72 virginal male pages await them in Heaven" made us spit up a little coffee on the Sudoku puzzle in the morning. So of course we immediately snapped up his very first book when we saw it on the shelf at Stacey's the other day: Dog v. Cat, an expose of the 2004 pet election that tore......

We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out these amazing pictures that they're taking! Because we clearly have nothing to do around here, people have been lining up since 4:30 a.m. this morning to see the new retail space -- and C.W. Nevius took a break from decrying moral decay......

It's so much fun to complain about public transportation that we sometimes forget it's almost just as fun to take it (well, sometimes, anyways.) Here's two events that'll bring a bright ding-ding to your day. Tonight: NewMindSpace, an interactive public art group (one of whose founders writes for our Canadian cousin Torontoist), has put on bubble-blowing parties in New York, an Easter Egg hunt in Toronto, and a pillow fight in New York's Union......

We're inundated with the hottest variety of shows you could ever hope for. ...

What a friend we have in Wednesdays! Today: You've always wanted to be in movies, we can totally tell. Well, stop by the DeYoung and get interviewed by film artist Lise Swenson about the new museum. Swenson's putting together a multimedia installation about citizens' perspectives on art museums as civic institutions. Interviews run from 1 to 5, and her documentary screens at 1:30 and 2:30. You've always wanted to be shown in museums! Thursday: Stop by the SF Zoo at 11 a.m. and watch them feed the turkeys -- before you go home and let your friends and relatives feed the turkeys to you. Bourbon red turkey Ben and his adoring throng of lady turkeys will be dining on mealworms and crickets. While you're there, stop by and check out the new reindeer too. Friday: Throw out that free MUNI transfer to Powell Street and spend the day after Thanksgiving at Artists Television Access celebrating Buy Nothing Day. ATA's showing anti-consumerist films and parody ads, along with art installations, spoken word, and musical performances by The Middleclass Assassins and I will kill you f***er. Show starts at 8. The crowds at H&M are gonna be nuts anyways. ...

We've been looking forward to the opening of a Bay Area H&M like it's the damn Rapture or something, especially since it seems like they're everywhere else in the country already. If we were a lesser person, we might be pissed that the West Coast is so far down their list (below Cleveland?), but our desire for trendy, disposable, and only somewhat ethically horrifying (hey, Gap makes Erling Persson look like Oscar Schindler) fashion......

This is gonna be a busy weekend... Skip the after-work bar and get some activist cred by heading down to the Powell Street cable car turnaround to rally in support of Cindy Sheehan. Or celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the zinesters at the Infoshop in Berkeley after Critical Mass. And the late-night progressive can get funky at HipHop4Change at Studio Z. SFist Jake and friends Izum do their World Beat thang tomorrow afternoon at......

Berkeley mourns a local standout, shot walking home with a group of friends to her summer sublet apartment on the Cal campus after a party last weekend. Meleia Willis-Starbuck, who had gone to high school in Berkeley, was volunteering at the Women's Drop-In Center on her summer break from Dartmouth. She and her friends had gotten in an argument with a group of boys on Saturday night over their use of the word "bitch," and Willis-Starbuck asked if they would call their mother that name. The boys apologized and they all left on good terms, but a few blocks later, at Dwight and College, someone drove up to them and fired shots into their group, killing Willis-Starbuck. The Berkeley Police are requesting that anyone with information give them a call. In other news, a backpack stuffed into an Onion distro box caused a 90 minute bomb squad search at the Powell Street MUNI/BART stop. The backpack turned out to be no big deal, after the bomb squad blew it up. And wow, a lot of accidents on I-80 in the last few days. One at Ashby, one at Powell (the IKEA exit), and one in Fairfield. Don't cut off tractor trailers, folks! ...

Shopping. An exercise in frustration. In Union Square, more than anywhere, it's good to have an emergency java joint in mind. Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? Oh, sure, we'll wait a few weeks before we make all our holiday returns and exchanges. Oh, yeah, Union Square will be like a walk in the park. See, there was this situation in December where . . . well, I'm not supposed to talk about it. It......

Seven people were injured early Monday morning when the California Street cable car hit something lodged on the tracks at Powell Street....