SF News Delays: Not Just For BART Anymore The other MUNI rail-line to experience trouble was the J which this morning also went down. The trouble there was not wind related, but an issue with the "pantograph." The pantograph is not
SF News The Other Barry First, the dets-- the deal is for 7 years at $126 million (which breaks down to about, and yes we had to break out a calculator for this, 18 million per year). It's
SF News SFist Leanne's 2006 Best Of Best Live Shows This might be one of the best shows I've ever been to. The place was jam-packed with testosterone, walls of speakers and pot smoke. I felt like I was trippin'
Arts & Entertainment Your Funny YouTube Clip of the Day In an effort to post something, anything, in these newsless times, we found this video tribute to the old Doggie Diners. Best part of the video? It's all set to the music of
SF News Who Brought Back the Electric Car The plan is to allow speeds of 25 on roads that up til now have a speed limit of 35. This will make it so people could get out and ride one of
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
SF News The Worm? Oh, He is Turning If proved true, none of this is any good. It could lead to civil and in some cases criminal penalties. In the blogging world, there's something called a "Keith Hernandez" moment. This refers
misc SFist Jon's 2006 Best Of Best TV Show (drama)- "Battlestar Galactica" Why I like this show is because it thinks big-- big themes, big action, big drama, big story, big music, big everything. At times (like the
SF News For Whom the Bridge Tolls The toll increase won't affect some of you out there as people who have a FasTrak will get an amnesty as it were and won't see the toll increase until February. The reason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Treasure Hunt: Balut Welcome back to our new SFist feature, Treasure Hunt, as SFist Natacha scours the city and outlying areas for things one definitely cannot find at your average Walgreens. When visiting your republican parents
SF News Apple: Back to the Future According to the paper, Apple execs forged papers relating to executive stock options. The investigation is going high enough Steve Jobs has hired a layer. Or, as he calls it, an iLawyer. What
SF News Your Commute: BART Gets Off the Good Foot Anyways, the cause was actually a cover board, the metal that covers the third rail, came lose at the West Oakland station around 7:15 so they could only run one train at
SF News Stormy Weather But that's not the only repercussions from the storm. Sadly, a man was killed when a tree was knocked over into their home. For a few minutes, we saw that happening to us
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Becomes BustamanteWatcher for the Day If things felt a little different today here in the Golden State, it was only because due to California rules, Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante took over as Governor for the two hours or
Arts & Entertainment Holy Smokes, Look What We Found In Native American lore, the White Buffalo is a sacred animal. Born only rarely, they hold a place of great spiritual importance in several Native American relgions. This past weekend, leaders from several
Arts & Entertainment It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Oh, Lew Wolff, look what you've gone and done. In protest of you moving the A's, you've made a couple of frat boys dance... Hat tip Marisa Lagos of the NWZCHIK blog on
SF News Stormy Tuesday And with all the bad weather comes the attendant flood warnings and winter storm warnings in Tahoe. In other words, it'll be a great time to be skiing this week (surfing too). Those
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Godfather of Soul To pay tribute to James Brown, we spent a few minutes looking through YouTube this morning to find a video clip that would do him justice. It wasn't easy. Not only are there
SF News Not So Sweet Charity To determine all of this, the people in the NewTithing Group measured everyone's income, including investments and all that stuff, and then measured it with the amount of money they gave to charity.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
Arts & Entertainment We Are So Doing This See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better
Arts & Entertainment Happy Festivus Whlie tomorrow is technically Festivus, we thought we'd get a head start on the holiday that's the holiday for the rest of us. So here's snippets from the "Seinfeld" episode that started it
SF News Did the Lawyer Leak? Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Jesus Christ Superstar</em> at the Orpheum Theater But that's just us. We were pretty excited about seeing the play at the Orpheum Theater primarily because it's the first time we've ever seen it actually produced on a stage by professionals.