Sarah has a new whipping boy over at Curbed. Intern Andy Wang went to last night's Transbay Terminal meeting that included "a dizzying barrage of downtown skyline simulations;" tittering over the term "downtown mound," which was used to describe the tip of the downtown skyline; comparing the future skyscraper to a faux penis; mentioning the b-word; and much more. It goes without saying, many SF Dwellers are torn as to whether or not it......

The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library Tower, located in downtown Los Angeles, stands at an alluring 1,018-feet tall, the Transbay Terminal is primed to win the measuring contest at 1,200-feet. You know, we're just saying. Not to brag or anything. Anyway, our tallest skyscrapers so far are as......

It's going to be a far busier-than-normal meeting of the SF County Transportation Authority tomorrow. There's huge stuff on the agenda: updates on the bike plan; millions of dollars being thrown around for the Transbay Terminal; $160,000 for reducing graffiti on street signs; potential changes for Geneva Ave and McAllister Street, including a possible permanent re-route of the 5-Fulton; safety upgrades at 9th and Irving; and some forward momentum for restoring mass transit on......

From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger allegedly approached the victim on Haight as she sold marijuana and persuaded her to go to their former home...[t]he victim escaped on Nov. 18 when an acquaintance entered the residence and intervened as she fled to a neighbor’s house." After a good......

Yay! Or boo! Depending on how you feel -- though we personally like it, may it get bigger by the day -- Pelli-Hines' creation will be your new Transbay Terminal. But you already knew that. Ta-da.......

-- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a can of paint. He might soon get sprung from the funny farm. [ABC7] -- Streets such as "Van Ness Avenue, Broadway...Harrison Street" and more could turn into toll roads under a proposed city plan to ease traffic congestion. [Chron] -- Viggo......

-- Not enough credit card debt in your life? Top-shelf department store Barneys New York will solve that problem after it opens this week. [Chron] -- Health care for uninsured San Franciscans to "expand" next Monday. Woo hoo! [Examiner] -- Cadillac Hotel celebrates 100 years of survival in the TL. [BeyondChron] -- Shot/killed by cops, 20-year-old Naser Solis' parents sue Hayward police department. [Chron] -- Transbay Terminal neighborhood meeting happened tonight. (Our apologies for not......

-- 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......

The winner for the Transbay Terminal Building will be -- for all intents and purposes and presuming -- New Haven, Connecticut's Pelli Clarke Pelli! If erected (hee), it should stand as the tallest building in the west. And if the above rendering is at all accurate, the Terminal will also emit a gentle, lavender glow.......

-- The jarring, devastating, Lohanesque Midgen-behind-the-wheel 911 tapes will shock you. Only not so much. [Chron] -- Randy Shaw has it that the glowing, science fiction-y Transbay Terminal choices aren't nominees at all, but simply glowing, science fiction-y lies. A tissues of lies. [Beyond Chron] -- Media-hungry Daly decides not to run. For now, anyway. [SFBG, Chris Daly] -- Truck kills cyclist in Oakland. [Indy Bay] -- Motorcycle race turns deadly. No kidding. [Chron]......

Pelli Clarke Pelli's Transbay Terminal vision "Although there's no guarantee that any of the towers will be built," John King and Jonathan Curiel at the Chronicle report that three crazy-tall and skyline-altering designs have been nominated to be our new Transbay Terminal. Or not. And it should be finished sometime by 2014. Again, or not. Pointless, informal poll time! Which is your favorite? Since it'll be hung bigger than the Transamerica Pyramid, commoners should......

-- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay Terminal revealed, each one niftier than the next. Compared to what we have now, anyway. [Chron] -- Neighborhood group in the Inner Richmond might stop Starbucks from setting up shop. Amazing job, you guys. [Examiner] -- Train accidently kills a pedestrian......

For those of you keeping score at home, that's $283,557.08 awarded since February to folks who've been struck down by Muni's cruel wheel of chance. It's like the lotto, only you don't have to be dumb to play! Just fragile. We can't get any details on this month's cases, sadly, because the SF Superior Court website seems to have been completely demolished. (Maybe the SFMTA website ran into it.) We have it on good......

We don't have anything funny to say about this one -- we're simply at a loss. Rumor had it yesterday that Gavin picked Stuart Sunshine to be his new Deputy Chief of Staff, and now the mayor's Director of Communications Peter Ragone (not to be confused with houseguest John Nelson) has confirmed it. Stuart will be leaving the MTA and moving to the mayor's administration, where he'll be "focusing on infrastructure and transportation." That's......

Even though you're probably too chicken to admit it, we know you're curious about the January 24th meeting of the SF County Transit Authority meeting (100 Van Ness Avenue, 26th Floor). They're planning to allocate ten milllllllllion dollars to some Transbay Terminal tomfoolery: that's extending Caltrain to the terminal, redeveloping the terminal's crappy neighborhood, and sprucing up the terminal so that it's the kind of place people actually go to. Most of that 10......

bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city by at least 350 feet. We're talking higher than any building in the U.S. outside of New York and Chicago. And we're not just talking one tower, we're talking two towers. And a plaza. As well as two 900-foot structures and a 600-foot companion. All part of the development plans surrounding the Transbay Terminal. ...

SFist Sam was kind enough to take a picture for WRTW for us -- isn't it gorgeous? Thanks, SFist Sam! Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Tributes to the dearly departed PUNI, including a hilarious letter from the NextBus people that we know SFist MattyMatt will enjoy. New section called "Sucka Free City," with a profile of Killing My Lobster. Where will illegal indoor smokers go now that Sherlock's Haven is closing? Cover: land use......

They fight, and bite, and fight and bite and fight -- the Newsom and Daly show! Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just to complain about Daly's city propositions A (more money for crime prevention) and C (Transbay Terminal reform). Newsom's also unhappy about D (Laguna Honda reform), but......

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers questions about simple math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal....