SF News Fog Delays SFO Flights Because we're always cheated out of a proper summer -- for whatever reason, this year's summer chill seems particularly glacial -- that means low fog. And what does low fog mean? It means
SF News SFO Finally Installs Carbon Offset Kiosks by Chris Jones So, the new carbon offset kiosks at SFO, first reported here last December, have finally been installed at the Airport. The kiosks, operated by local start up, 3Degrees can be
misc The Lights Coming In and Out at SFO This glorious shot comes to you from noted photographer exxonvaldez. He captures "[r]unway 1 departures from San Francisco International Airport between 10:22pm and 11:38pm on June 27, 2009, as seen
SF News Opium found in drums near SFO More than twenty pounds of sweet, pain-alleviating opium were discovered "wrapped in plastic and concealed inside false walls of drums" arriving from Thailand, found at SFO. The incident, which happened in "mid-February," prompted
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Jason Lytle & Aaron Burtch (formerly of Grandaddy) at San Francisco International Airport(?!) (And now for a pro-SFO story...) Airports simply aren't given to happy surprises. That's the way it is. Gotta go, gotta do, gotta git. It's a funnel, a gilded chute, a holding pen.
SF News This just in: San Francisco International Airport Knows Nothing About Travel by Tiffany Maleshefski You'd think that an airport as large as SFO might know a thing or two about flight travel. Turns out, not so much. At least not according to Michael McCarron,
SF News American Airlines Jet Makes Emergency Landing at LAX American Flight 442, bound for Miami, made an emergency landing at LAX today after the pilot "reported smoke and the smell of fuel in the cockpit." Egads. All passengers are safe, according to
SF News Southwest Flights Resume Southwest Airlines, the cattle-car service of affordable air transportation, resumed flights this morning after yesterday's maintenance SNAFU grounded "approximately 4 percent" on Tuesday night. It seems that many of their airplanes failed to
SF News Sydney Romp: Bevan Dufty Explains It All Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And
SF News Man Loses Arms In San Jose Airport Accident Billion-dollar expansion work at Mineta San Jose International Airport came to a halt this morning after a 28-year-old construction worker's arms were severed below his elbows in an accident. Yikes. According to NBC
SF News Robbery Suspect Standoff In "Pill Hill" A standoff is underway right now in Oakland. The fuzz claims that a robbery suspect is holed up inside studio apartment, near 32nd and Telegraph Avenue. Due to the nail-biting action, police have
SF News Fortysomething Dies While Street Racing A grown man died during a street race in Oakland last night at around 9:30 p.m.. The unidentified 42-year-old -- that's right, 42-year-old -- was racing his 2005 Nissan "west on
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, remember angry Sarah Nome, the lady who refused to move out of the Kaiser hospital in Marin for over a year, and ran up a $1.4 million bill? Well, Kaiser's 1)
SF News Marines Crucified at Oakland Airport In fact, it was just a tarmac/security-check issue preventing them from entering the passenger terminal for a cinematic "meet and greet" with their family and friends. Read more about it here and
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] --
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
SF News News From SFO This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
SF News Day Around The Bay --Barack Obama was in town. --Santa Clara would like to have the Niners, but it'll be expensive. --Airport news: there was an emergency landing in Oakland, and a guy with measles came through
SF News Airport Satisfaction Study Reveals SFO At Bottom Of The Big Boys J.D. Power and Associates, the well-regarded surveyor of customer satisfaction rankings and similar, has conducted its 2007 North American Airport Satisfaction Index Study. Guess which U.S. airport ranked the lowest in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
SF News Breaking News from the SFist News Desk An Alaska airlines plane has been evacuated at the Oakland Airport for suspicion of an explosive device on board. It's probably nothing as it's usually nothing but it's still kind of exciting. As
