SF News Just Shoot Us Sadly, the website is a little confusing -- a lot of , and their plans for implementation are alarmingly sparse. And what's the difference between "Not Aware" and "Don't Know"? Navigating through the poll
SF News Free Market Head-Scratcher: Who'd Have Thought, Bargain-Basement Housing Not Always of Highest Quality But like we said: it's cheap! Jeff's been making the most of rent control for years and years now, and he'd like to keep it that way. Well, of course! Who doesn't like
SF News Yay for Buses and Oxygen! Boooo for Pretending that Hummers are "Low-Emission"! So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has
Arts & Entertainment Local Animation House Claims to be Making a Movie About a "Ro-Bot" Anyway, all of our questions will surely be answered tomorrow at 4pm. According Upcoming Pixar, Wall-E's new teaser trailer goes live tomorrow afternoon. The bad news: it's on this popup-laden website that looks
Arts & Entertainment It's Hard not to be Well-Dressed When Surrounded by Men in Leatherpig Outfits We were alerted to an alternative-alternative picnic happening at the Folsom Street Fair via the Finch Mob, a terrifying local gang of drug addicts. Apparently some folks are going to dress up , and
Arts & Entertainment We're Awash In Almonds Don't just read words -- read good words, accurate and specific, tasty and gratifying and placed in sequences that make you shake your head in disbelief that anyone could possibly have ever used
SF News The Telephone Hour From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank
SF News September Muni Payout: $34,609.05 There's only three claims being paid off this month, none of which are particularly tantalizing. Some Muni person dropped something on someone's foot, and they're getting $15,000 -- that sort of thing.
SF News SFist Pulls Muni's Strings Like Bella Lugosi in Plan 9 Hopefully this will make up for how we apparently RUINED EVERYONE'S DAY last Tuesday by trying to make fun of some fucking buses. Now let's call it even and move on with our
SF News NextMuni's Leaking Data For Classified Diesel Lines A few weeks ago, observant Muniwatchers noticed that some diesel lines had been added to the official NextMuni site: the 38, for example. Yay! But some lines still lingered in offline purgatory: the
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic: A Gang Member was General-Managing our Hotel, Extorting and Assaulting our Clients Defendant is ... the former general manager of the Mission Hotel ... THC discovered defendant had been involved in criminal activity, including extortion, assaults, and threats of violence ... The conduct is ongoing. Yikes. Turns out,
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Update: Things Still Kind of Awkward and Uncomfortable Firings! Lies! Non-lies! It's so fucking exciting! A few hours after our post last week about Jeff's cameras in the THC's Seneca Hotel, we caught word of some firings. OMG did we get
SF News That Sounds About Right If you'd like to reproduce this NextMuni bug (which only occurs late at night, after the last trains leave), Octoferret's lovely Flickr stream contains details. Obviously it's an error -- what it should
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Moving to Evict Documentarian? Update: See Paul's comment below about why they had to do what they did, and what they're doing about it. Are there quiet, law-abiding people on Sixth Street? Sure, but it's hard to
SF News 511.org: Still Incompatible with San Francisco In their August newsletter (sent out after a third of August has already passed), 511 is pushing four bulletins, all of which are useless unless you use a car: - There's new FasTrak
Arts & Entertainment Every Day is Right-Handers' Day Friend of SFist Steve found the attached image in a bookstore window: apparently there's some store called "The Great Overland Book Company" that's offering 20% off on August 17, 18, and 19, but
SF News We Can't Wait for That Study to be Done so we can FINALLY Find Out Why Nobody Rides Muni So, is this a driver shortage or a NextMuni glitch? It's hard to know for sure. It's also hard to care -- after all, from a rider's perspective, does it really matter? When
SF News SFGov Haunted by Ghost of Ma Despite having left the Board of Soups back in January, Ms. Ma's official SFGov webpage lingers on, like your one friend from back home who kept hanging out at the high school after
Arts & Entertainment Jesus Presents: Noise Pollution They're not there to persuade anyone; like Critical Mass or Dore Alley, these aggressive displays of difference just reinforce the gulf of "we're totally unlike you," rather than adopting the shrewd Scientology approach
SF News Now, Submitting to Government Monitoring of Your Transit Choices is Easier Than Ever! Recently-introduced website upgrades allow you to check your balance online, which is nice -- though an SMS-based system would be useful, too, since not all of us have gotten around to buying our
SF News July Muni Payout: $58,437.75 But can we just say -- what is up with the law offices of Aspelin and Brigman? Not only does their initial complaint , but it contains weird run-on sentences and grammatical gems such
SF News Bus Shelter Decision 2007: Muni Does Something Reasonably Well And we do mean . They've just posted every single public comment they received, and boy howdy did they get a lot of comments. (Profanity, you'll be relieved to hear, has been excised, so
misc Were You Saying "Boooo" or "Gavin Boooo-som"? Here's a clip of Gavin on some time-filler radio show a couple days ago, talking about playing baseball and giving us an incredibly humorous taste of what he looks like when he's had
