SF News PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage PG&E claims that the pop-up cafes will appear periodically around San Francisco all summer thanks to their Let's-Green-This-City ad campaign, an attempt to distract us from how unsustainable and grey the
SF News Supervisor Ed Jew's Office Raided Oh man -- first the Arlene lawsuit, now this! It's been a fascinating news-dump Friday, hasn't it? Details are few, but check out this quote in the Chron: "'The FBI executed sealed search
SF News Running in Circles Remember our earlier post about how Muni's not going to be providing much information at Bay to Breakers? You'll be delighted to hear that Muni will, in fact, provide "special posting" of their
SF News Leaked Muni Memo: "we need to take steps to ensure that unacceptable conduct does not continue" There's probably no shortage of folks who'll claim that this is yet another polite platitude. But check out this leaked Muni memo from Nat Ford: "we need to take steps to ensure that
SF News Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably
Arts & Entertainment Things Get Scrappy at the Cable Car Museum Yesterday we mentioned a book by Dr. Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about transit that isn't sold at the museum. And in fact, the CCM has flat-out refused to sell any of their
SF News Delays Shoulda Been Reduced Hey check out these totally sweet NextBus thingies from Melbourne! Man, those rock. Anyway, how was your subway ride this morning? Awesome? Was it awesome? We bet it was awesome. Awesomely MELTY! "It
SF News Eyewitness Account of Muni Meekness I thought the head of Muni was very forthcoming when stating that things did not go so well with the launch of the T and it's ripple effects on the system. Unfortunately the
Arts & Entertainment Compression Artifacts Become Unbearable at JPG Magazine Some kind of storm's a-brewin' over at JPG Magazine. The friendly photo mag, a sort of side-sibling of Flickr, will be under new management as of its next issue. The founders, Derek and
misc They Can't All Be The Stonewall Riots Many have offered touching words of remembrance, but few words strive to such tenderness and dignity as those of a commenter identified only as "Magda," which sounds like the kind of name you'd
SF News Something to Read During Your Long Long Bus Ride ...the book tells the story of the Key Route’s transbay lines from the handsome 1903 wooden interurbans to the famous 1930s Bridge Units, the ornate Key Route Pier, the ferryboat fleet, and
SF News Get To Work (And Get There Sweaty) Muni's put together an info page, but their halfhearted map is in loathsome PDF. We went ahead and converted it to a format that you can actually use; you're welcome. (Or you can
Arts & Entertainment We're Fans of Fans (Actually, in Viacom's defense, the terms are pretty fair: all fans retain ownership, and some retain license to exhibit. Yes, that's right, we just defended Viacom.)
SF News Cities in Bloom A couple good points came out of a talk by SustainLane's Warren Karlenzig at the Commonwealth club last week. He was talking about Green Economies (sustainable) versus Grey Economies (unsustainable), and pointed out
SF News Another Bicycle Deathmatch We can barely bring ourselves to write about this excruciatingly uncomfortable incident in Berkeley, in which, to our dismay, bicyclists successfully provoke car drivers into behaving very poorly indeed. Who's at fault here?
SF News A Day to Reclaim the Streets from the Tyranny of Pedestrians As Metblogs helpfully reminds us, today's Drive Your Bike to Work Day, a time to air out the pedals and carry our bikes out blinking into the light of day. Roof-racks ahoy! If
SF News Never a Dull Moment in the TL We've all had to deal with loud, bothersome neighbors moving in next door, right? Just imagine having the neighbors at the Seneca Hotel, operated by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. The city supplies the
SF News Where Were You During CCSF Power Outage 2007? The city's disaster-alert network just texted us an alert! It would seem that the City College of SF (Phelan Campus) is having some electrical problems, and may not have their power switched back
misc That Itching ... That Burning ... It's the Hilton on Kearny Ew ew ew bedbugs. For the last year or two, we've been seeing a resurgence in the pests, probably thanks to the rising popularity of bed ownership or something. Even a classy joint
misc Mary Cheney Loses a Turn To be fair, the seven-cent copy is "used," though for what purpose we cannot imagine. You can also obtain a "collectible" copy for $29.99 -- the seller explains that the book is
SF News Sure to be a Very Pleasant Conversation (if you Leave Your Torches and Pitchfoks at Home) Well is going to be awkward: a public town-hall meeting with Muni Director Nat Ford. It's this Wednesday, May 16, at noon; at the Ferry Building in the Port Conference Room on the
SF News Shelter Pix! We've got some awesome pix of the shelterpalooza, courtesy of SFist_Jim. He's color-tweaking the batch right now, but you can check out a preview over on our Flickr account. The latest news
SF News Off You Go We'll have a bunch of photos of the new Muni shelters up later today (in the meantime, you can check out dantc's great collection). Take a look a this video, though -- it's
