misc KRON-4 Having Trouble With Pride Parade Broadcast Due to Fucking FCC The reason that the station can be put out of business for a single incident is because the FCC is charged with enforcing community standards. The airwaves belong to the public, and it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Underwear Giveaway! We eagerly asked Analisa, a Sunnyvale native and Berkeley grad, to tell us more. "Analisa," we wrote back, "to the untrained eye, it might appear that O Boxers are no different from the
SF News No Danger-Flags Here, No Sirree Friend-of-SFist Matt V passes along these photos of a verrrrry safe looking taxi, sighted outside a Starbucks in the Abandoned Warehouse district of the Mission. "You choose what you pay," it says on
SF News Mike Gravel's Secret San Francisco Hideout Uncovered! If you haven't been following along: Mike Gravel is an Eskimo or whatever who wants to spend the next couple years hooting and hollering at the country. His presidential campaign hasn't been doing
SF News Stand and Salute Death-defying feats over at Kink.com! Their new home is a bit of a fixer-upper, but they're gradually sprucing things up and prettifying the neighborhood. The latest addition: two flags, one for SF
misc Good Touch The attached image was created in timely response to a two-week-old article on SFGate, in which John King confesses of the proposed Muni shelters, "I've got my favorites, but only two or three
SF News Another Driverless Muni A three-minute wait isn't a big deal, at least not in a geological time-frame. But in transit, it can make or break a schedule. Take, for example, the 33 route this past Saturday,
SF News June Muni Payout Part 2: $157,736.31 Some of the cases are pretty standard -- personal injury, property damage, etc etc etc. (We winced upon reading of one plaintiff who was whacked in the face when they grabbed for a
SF News BART Better This isn't strictly , but you can be forgiven for having missed it if you're not one of those people who trolls the Apple website all day long, slobbering all over the keyboard with
Arts & Entertainment "Conton" Doesn't Have the Same Ring Looking to expand your horizons? Well then look no further than Claycord.com, a blog all about day-to-day life in Clayton and Concord, which are somewhere to the east, we're told. Lately the
SF News Update on Yesterday's Shooting This situation with Thursday's Western Addition shooting is just sad, sad, sad, and not just because a lot of people got hurt (seven, according to the news outlets who actually have time to
SF News Always Bring Your Camera Hi everyone! Here's a quick reminder: never ride Muni without a camera. We got the following report from a reader yesterday: "The driver had a full (standing room only) one-car J train (#1477)
misc Now, Even More Jobwork Than Ever Before Hey, if you haven't looked lately, get a load of "our" new job board! (It's actually maintained for us by JobThread.com -- thanks JobThread!) We've recently merged the board with Valleywag, a
SF News Shooting in Western Addition this Morning San Francisco's most pleasant neighborhood had its cheery, safe veneer shattered this morning with a shooting -- 8:50am, Steiner and McAllister. We are shocked, simply shocked. Surely, city officials, police leaders, and
SF News CBS5's Sugarmonster Apprehended Breathe easy, San Francisco; KPIX's Mike Sugarman is paying his debt to society. According to a tipster who passed along the results of a Sunshine request, the crime baron was spotted onboard a
SF News What a Relief To the rescue: Safe2Pee.org, a clever mashup of maps, reviews, and even text-message-based solutions, brought together for the convenience of discriminating shitter. It's ostensibly designed for individuals of variant genders, since social
SF News Give Them a Low-Down Beat Oh sure, our parents always pushed us to stay in the family business: blogging. But we have dreams -- big dreams -- dreams of And now it's finally time to dust off the
Arts & Entertainment Something to Write Home About, in the Typeface "Incognito" FiFFteen is an exhibit celebrating the 15th anniversary of the FontFont [FF] type library. ... From legible sans serifs to handwriting fonts and mega type families with matching sans and serif variants, FontFont pioneered
Arts & Entertainment Gmzeeo Strikes Again The Haight/Ashbury intersection was once marred by a Gap, but no longer -- the monster closed down a couple months ago, and it's just been a vacant storefront ever since, which isn't
SF News Please let go of the Doors Oh how we hate that high-pitched whine generated by held-open subway doors. It hurts, but of course, that's the -- it's supposed to make you let go of the door so the whole
SF News More Muni Problems? Shocking! OMFG there totally just a street fair in the Haight! Did you know it was coming? Muni apparently did not, as the bus arrangement were decidedly last-minute. (Either that, or Muni simply didn't
misc A Glimpse into the Future of SFist Commenting Come, let us gaze boldly into the amazing future together, where events such as these will affect you ... in the future. As you may or may not know, readers of SFist are permitted
SF News If the Public Paid For it, Does That Make Wal-Mart Public Property? According to WMSW, California ponied up about $50 in taxpayer-funded gifts to the Arkansas company, in exchange for which those towns got giant megabox shopping extravaganzae. And also, lots of uninsured people --
SF News Victory is Very Nearly Ours The winning city gets ten cute hybrid taxis. To Gavin's credit, whether we win or not, he's pledged that the city's entire fleet will be hybrid by 2011. And we bet we'll be
