SF News Caltrain Strikes Again, Fatality Reported At Bellevue In San Mateo According to the following Twitter message it did, Just this afternoon. wlynes - "My @caltrain NB 261 just hit somebody. It's going to be a long trip. No sudden stop immediately prior, he
SF News S-Curve Slowing Things Down On Bay Bridge Apparently not all S-curves are a good thing. Ye olde Chronicle reported today that "the drive time from San Francisco to Oakland during the evening commute has taken 57 percent longer, on average,
SF News UC-Wide Walkout Date Set In response to the UC President Mark Yudof's bizarre yet timely budget cut/fee increase plan, the UC-wide walkout date has been set for for this Thursday, 9/24. According to the terse
SF News Ronald McDonald Gets Surprise Pie In The Face By PETA Activist Wow. OK. At an appearance onstage at South San Francisco Day in Orange Memorial Park on Saturday, a PETA member got up on stage and smacked a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Pumpkin Spice Latte Although this week's weather might not agree, summer--at last!--is coming to an end. Soon we'll be busting out our fall line from the back of the closet, putting extra blankets on the
SF News MIT Nerds Come Up With Facebook Gaydar Software Trying to figure out if that guy in your office was born a homosexual? (Hint: he probably wasn't, you stalker.) Well, a few clever AP-wads at MIT have developed software that, using Facebook
misc Photo du Jour 467 "Each Generation Ruins Our Nation" shot at Islais Creek in the Bayview by Plug 1.
SF News Nob Hill Cala Foods To Get Replaced By Condos While some Valencia Street merchants and Geary Boulevard business owners would have you believe that San Francisco is a bastion of overpriced boutique stores and inaccessibility, respectively, most of you are too smart
SF News $6.4 Million Goes to AC Transit for Green Transit Improvements Today, the Obama Administration announced plans to fork over $6-plus million to AC Transit of Hayward, "to help reduce global warming, lessen America’s dependence on oil and create green jobs." The funds
SF News Naked Santa Rosa Man Tries to Hug Bat-Wielding Teen Oh, the zany things that happen north of San Francisco. And by "zany," we mean "methy." Presumably. Take, for example, a naked man who "ran up and down Lemur Street in west Santa
SF News SF Shooting Injures Man San Francisco's Mission district isn't the only neighborhood to see shootings over the weekend. The San Francisco Police Department, according to CBS 5/BCN, are currently "investigating a Sunday night shooting that occurred
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Ice Cream Downtown Today Free ice cream will be handed out later this afternoon in downtown San Francisco. Why? Because it's going to be hot today. Between 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. at Beale between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Week Around the Ists LAist reported that the MagLev train from Anaheim to Las Vegas is more "it will happen" than "wishful thinking"--but Republicans still think it's "wasteful spending." Gothamist had a crazy week: First Kanye
SF News Eddy Street Closed Due to Water Main Break AlertSF informs us that Eddy Street in the TL will be janky for most of the evening due to a busted water main. There is a large water main break at 301 Eddy
SF News Day Around the Bay Another Cloud Reel... from Delrious on Vimeo. See, not all cities are horrifying bastions of ugly and pale. Some of them are San Francisco in the summer. [Delrious, via Laughing Squid] See, not
SF News Newsom, You Are the Father: Baby Montana Links SFist has, for the most part, spared you any vile "baby bump" talk during Jennifer Siebel-Newsom's pregnancy. But now that SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jen Jen are first-time parents -- Jennifer had
SF News Jennifer Siebel-Newsom <s>In Labor</s> Gives Birth OK. Here we go. Jennifer Siebel Newsom is in labor. Gavin Newsom, via Twitter, says: gavinnewsom: "Arrived at hospital -- hours away from becoming a father" about 2 hours ago from txt gavinnewsom:
misc Scenes from a Bike Accident Hopefully, everyone got their anti-cyclist venom out yesterday, and we can turn now to this scene of unfortunate pain and near tragedy. It looks like a poor cyclist was smacked by a Sports
SF News California Jobless Rate Climbs While some have declared the recession over, more or less, California's job rate might disagree. In August, we witnessed the jobless figure "climb to 12.2 percent last month, the highest on records
SF News Dangerous Heatwave Approaches A major heatwave is supposed to be heading our way this weekend, with triple digits inland and 80s/90s near the coast by next week. The "real heat," according to the KRON 4
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
SF News Day Around the Bay Patrick Heig goes to the city's best named watering hole/place to grab grub, Eddie Rickenbacker's. [Eater] Rowdy game day fans on caltrain need to cool it. [Appeal] Obama may be in SF
SF News Why On Earth Would Anyone Do This? Warning. Tomorrow is, ugh, National Run at Work Day. Which is also known as National Come to Work And Stink Up The Place With Your Rank Body Odor And Sweaty Ass Crack You
SF News Emotional Pelosi Evokes Harvey Milk/White Night Riots In an effort, we assume, to curb the (racist?) "you lie!" hysteria stemming from a sect of indignant Republicans over Obama's health care plan, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made the following,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Ian Brennan by Amy Crocker In the city of eliminating plastic grocery bags and library cards made of recycled corn, Ian Brennan’s music career has been, not surprisingly, organically grown. Brennan, born in Oakland
