Yesterday afternoon, a 50-year-old man who witnesses say was attempting to run up the down escalator towards Hallidie Plaza at the Powell Street BART Station suffered an unknown medical condition that caused him to fall on the moving stairs. According to the Examiner, emergency crews responding to the scene around 1 p.m. Tuesday found the man at the bottom of the escalator with his hair and jacket caught in the machinery. SFFD crews were able to cut the man free and performed CPR before transporting the man to SF General where he was later pronounced dead. While authorities have yet to announce the exact cause of death and are still piecing together eyewitness accounts, several local bloggers caught the surrounding aftermath. more ›

Earlier today, SFist posted Flickr user bats' image of the 280 onramp, but we cannot resist also sharing with you his Powell Street cable car turnaround photo. Behold. more ›

A man wearing only underwear got out on a ledge yesterday afternoon at 10 Cyril Magnin (the building at the base of Powell that was formerly a big Bank of America and now is a Forever 21 with lofts up above) and took a leap to his death near the cable car turnaround before hostage negotiators could reach him. more ›

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%! more ›

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... more ›

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. more ›

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 borders the park's southeastern half.) more ›

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. more ›

1833 Page St., SF. more ›

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. more ›

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! more ›

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. more ›

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

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. more ›

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. more ›

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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! more ›

Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? more ›

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