SF News SFMTA Agrees Bike Lanes Are Terrifying According to a new report from the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency, less than 10 percent of San Francisco's bike lanes are suitable for children or the elderly. Meaning: the city's bike lanes
SF News Naked BART Man Pleads Not Guilty, Thought He Was Acting In A Play After his arrest on Monday, notoriously limber BART station acrobat Yeiner Perez Garizabalo, 24, appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on two felony counts of false imprisonment, four misdemeanor counts of
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Rasselas Bowing Out? 17 deplorable teens wanted for beating up two 14-year-olds as they waited for Muni. [SFEx] Rasselas Jazz Club appears to be closing after 30 years on Fillmore Street. [InsideScoop] A two-alarm fire started
SF News Facebook Is Down, Feel Free To Panic [Update: Nightmare Over] Nope, it's not just you, Facebook is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. Around 6 p.m. PST, the site was merely showing an error page, denying scroll-happy users immediate access to their friend's
SF News S.F. Examiner President Talks Free Michelle Shocked Concert [Update] S.F. Newspaper Company President Todd Vogt spoke with CBS5's Joe Vazquez today, in an attempt to either clarify or obfuscate (we're still not quite sure ourselves) his company's reasons for bringing Michelle
Arts & Entertainment Today's Flashback: 1930s Home Movies From Around San Francisco From the Western Neighborhoods Project comes today's backward-looking diversion: footage from 1930s San Francisco. Mostly shot along the water front near Ocean Beach, the Cliff House and a pre-bridge, pre-freeway Embarcadero. Our friends
SF News Octogenarian Assaulted By Extremely Rude Muni Passenger Monday morning around 11 a.m. an 82-year-old woman was attacked by a young, 20-something female suspect who was stepping off the bus at Mission and 24th Streets. According to a parking control
Arts & Entertainment Watch As Double Rainbow Guy Taunts Yosemite Forest Fire While wind-swept forest fires burned near Yosemite National Park earlier this week, Paul "Bear" Vasquez — also known as the Internet's Double Rainbow guy — happened to be there, attempting to document the fury of
SF News Eight Injured In Fire At S.F. General Construction Site A one-alarm fire broke out this morning inside an elevator shaft at San Francisco General Hospital, leaving seven construction workers and one firefighter with minor injuries and smoke inhalation. Only one of the
Arts & Entertainment Michelle Shocked To Promote Herself With Free Concert During Pride, S.F. Examiner Op-Ed [Update] Professional attention-seeker and onstage ranter Michelle Shocked has announced she will return to San Francisco to play a free concert on Sunday, June 30th — the closing night of S.F. Pride festivities. Adding
SF News Naked BART Man Yeiner Perez Arrested [Updated] Infamous naked BART acrobat Yeiner Perez was arrested Monday, less than a week after video footage of his nude routine momentarily captured the Internet's attention. According to the District Attorney's office, Perez was
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Boulevard For Mission Bay Could a new neighborhood grow in the shadow of I-280? A look at the proposal to tear down the freeway in Mission Bay. [CurbedSF] Facebook will unveil video for Instagram this week, say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Will You Drink At The Massive (But Temporary) America's Cup Sports Bar? Adding to the list of things of impermanent things coming to the city's waterfront during Larry Ellison's yacht race: the cleverly named America's Cup Sports Bar, a huge drinking establishment with an outdoor
SF News Mayor Lee Unveils New Fleet Of Hybrid Muni Buses That Immediately Break Down [Updated] In a press conference this morning Mayor Lee intended to unveil a brand new fleet of 62 biodiesel-electric hybrid Muni coaches. Unfortunately for the Mayor and the Municipal Railway's public relations team, the
SF News Local Group Hopes To Start First Not-For-Profit Bar A local non-profit group wants to solve that age-old dilemma of deciding whether to spend one's disposable income on booze or something a little less myopic: United Libations Foundation hopes to become San
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Muni Upgrades Michael Bauer really loves Coqueta, the new waterfront tapas "triumph" from Michael Chiarello, gives it 3.5 stars. [Chron] Muni adding 62 new hybrid buses to the fleet today. [CBS] Meet Heartbaker, now
SF News SFPD, BART Police Respond Appropriately To Crime In 16th Street Station Around 7 p.m. Friday evening, BART trains were stopped for about 10 to 15 minutes while San Francisco Police and BART PD officers responded to reports that a male suspect fled the
SF News 'S.F. Bay Guardian' Editor Fired Over Editorial Dispute, Opens Blogger Account After 30 years with stalwart progressive paper San Francisco Bay Guardian, editor Tim Redmond has been let go by the paper's new owner Todd Vogt of the San Francisco News Paper Company. Redmond,
SF News Bay Bridge Builder Gets $20 Million Bonus If New Span Opens On Time Scandal! (Possibly.) According to the Contra Costa Times, who has been all over the bridge this week, contractor American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises will cash in on a $20 million bonus if the bridge
SF News BART Service Crippled By Pine Needles Shortly before 11 a.m. Friday morning, a small fire of smoldering pine needles brought BART service to a halt between Daly City and Balboa Park. The piney fire was spotted on track
Arts & Entertainment Vintage San Francisco: Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Steve Jobs Open An Apple Store In early 2004 then-mayor Gavin Newsom, still-sorta-mayor Willie Brown and mayor of your laptop Steve Jobs opened the flagship Apple Store on Stockton Street. The press release reads like something announcing the arrival
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Van Ness Facelift Notoriously bland 100 Van Ness is getting a facelift. [Sex Pigeon] [Curbed] SFPD arrest "prolific" burglar suspect. [SF Examiner] So long, The Grove on Chestnut Street, the rent was just too damn high.
SF News Sacramento Wants To Rename The Bay Bridge After Willie Brown A group of State Assembly members in Sacramento, their palms still greasy from their lunch of Subway no doubt, introduced a resolution Wednesday to name the big, flashy western span of the Bay
SF News Video: Naked BART Acrobat Spotted Performing On Embarcadero? Although he is no longer with his circus troupe, a reader believes he spotted the now-notorious Yeiner Perez (or someone bearing an uncanny resemblance to him) performing clothed, masked and on stilts along
SF News Definitely Open That Sketchy Bridge, Experts Say Two out of three experts from a peer-review panel say the new East span of the Bay Bridge should have no problem opening up right on schedule on Labor Day and that the
