SF News Airport Satisfaction Study Reveals SFO At Bottom Of The Big Boys J.D. Power and Associates, the well-regarded surveyor of customer satisfaction rankings and similar, has conducted its 2007 North American Airport Satisfaction Index Study. Guess which U.S. airport ranked the lowest in
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Water Connoisseur We're always fascinated by people that really know a lot about a subject, even if it's not one we're usually interested in. Case in point: a few years ago, the wife dragged us
SF News Market-Oriented Fees And Rebates For Vehicles Can Help Planet, Pocketbook The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has just published a study on the effectiveness of a new method to reduce greenhouse gas emission in California. While it may seem strange that an
SF News Just Don't Read SFist While You're Driving The Merc is reporting that as of yesterday, Avis Rent A Car is offering Wi-Fi service with cars rented from its SFO location. It's $10.95 a day, which seems pricey, but we
SF News East Bay AIDS Program For Kids Suffers From Its Own Success The Oakland Trib has an extremely depressing story about a pediatric AIDS study that's had its funding cut. A combined effort of UCSF and the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland had been
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Man Visits The Seattle Space Needle At The Right Time Greg Novoa of San Francisco was the 45 millionth visitor to Seattle's Space Needle. 45 million is the key number because the ol' needle just turned 45 years old. It's great news for
SF News Virgin America Airlines' Virgin Operations Given Approval; Virgin Flights By Mid-Summer On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation dotted the eyes and crossed the tees for Sir Richard Branson's airline, Virgin America, to begin flying out of SFO, which will actually be its
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments Of The Week Hi, folks -- as promised, here's our very first "Top 5 Comments Of The Week Audio Podcast." While there's a clear reason we're not in radio, we hope you'll check out this five
Arts & Entertainment Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, <i>Captain</i> America) On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story written by Brubaker made headlines
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
misc Former Superintendent Ackerman Sues San Francisco Unified School District! According to a press release put out on PR Newswire by her attorney, Dr. Arlene Ackerman has filed suit against the San Francisco Unified School District in San Francisco Superior Court. She is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
Arts & Entertainment We Didn't Get 'Wicked Pissed', But We Still Got A Little Aqua Teen Cash So, Beantown sorta flips out a few months back (not that we blame them!) at little lite-brite signs depicting Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters flipping the general populace off. City grinds to a
SF News Tech Is the New Nature: HP Garage On National Parks Historic Place List In 1938, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started a company from a garage in Palo Alto. Hewlett-Packard is now a household name, a tech giant, and a Silicon Valley fixture. And now the
Arts & Entertainment Time To Rummage Through The Closet: Nike Helps You Recycle Old Shoes Thumbs up to corporations exercising responsibility--particularly when it can promote exercise. Got old athletic shoes? Put them to good use. Help Nike turn old sneaks into playing surfaces within our community. The company's
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
Arts & Entertainment Cal Performances' Lauded Leader Leaving Under Coles' tenure, ticket sales increased ten-fold and the center has increased its events, now hosting more than 80 per year. Performances have been given by prestigious music, opera, theater, and dance groups
Arts & Entertainment A Hike To Pirate’s Cove, Mateys We checked out the completely re-done Pirate’s Cove trail as we neared the end of our loop hike yesterday in the Tennessee Valley area. Wait…Pirate’s Cove? Yep! This particular little
SF News No Cameras Allowed Near The Security Camera--But At Least We've Got One You may recall our presence at a lower Haight neighborhood meeting back in January after a spate of gun violence galvanized the area and turned out hundreds of folks along with news cams
SF News Break Out The Abacus: Election Results May Need Hand Count According to a KCBS report, ballots in next November's election may need to be hand counted. Evidently, under new Federal guidelines, our current machines are no good. The article cites Elections Director John
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego Burrito Enthusiast Talking Smack About S.F. While intra-city burrito debates are a San Francisco tradition, we were a bit shocked to come across this article from a San Diego-based pub in which a "burrito expert" of sorts totally disses
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more
misc Brainiac Receives Award For Braininess About Brains We've got mad science going on in the city by the bay. Sometimes it gets acknowledged. Michael Weiner, MD, a professor of radiology, medicine, psychiatry, and neurology at UCSF, has won the VA's
Arts & Entertainment On The Scene: Car vs. Motorbike On Market St. Frequent commenter Jerry Jarvis sent us this photo of what happens when a car encounters a motorcycle. Market @ Larkin. Yeesh! Thanks, Jerry. (Second pic after the jump)
misc San Francisco Makes Forbes's 'Most Overpriced Real Estate Markets' List Are you as shocked as we are? No, really, we think everyone knows things are pricey out here, and Forbe's is utilizing some interesting methodology to glean "overpricey' from the "pricey," and turn
