SF News Filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Forest Whitaker Talk Oscar Grant, 'Fruitvale' In the wake of a huge buzzwave at Sundance and a $2.5 million distribution deal with the Weinstein Co., Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale has already sparked debate about the what it means to
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Grant Movie 'Fruitvale' Buzzes At Sundance, Sells For $2.5 Million [Updated] Fruitvale, the feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant has been a big hit with the Hollywood bigshots in Park City for this year's Sundance Film Festival. After a successful premiere
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale': Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant For some of us, Michael B. Jordan will forever be known as Lions' quarterback Vince Howard on the greatest TV show of all time. But for many, he will soon be known as
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silent Disco on BART You know which side of the generational divide you fall on if this looks fun to you. It's a DJ. On BART. He handed out wireless headphones and some flash-mob-inclined kids rocked out
SF News BART Ridership Way Up; BART Discussing Turning Riders Away? People commuting to work from the East Bay may have noticed that BART has been ridiculously crowded lately, with some cars so packed as they roll into Oakland stations in the morning that
Arts & Entertainment Warning: More People Than Usual Will Remove Their Pants On BART This Sunday With a new year comes another chance for quirky folks around the world to once again brave cold legs and filthy seats to show off their favorite pair of underoos on public transit.
SF News BART to Run Extra Long Service On New Year's Eve What better way to celebrate the end of 2012 than by riding home on BART during the wee hours of New Year's Day. See, BART will not only run until 3 a.m.
SF News BART Contemplates Raising Parking Rates BART is taking a survey to see how the public feels about demand-based parking pricing at BART parking lots. The majority of parking lots at BART stations charge only a dollar or two
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News BART To Add Express Trains, Further Expand In Coming Decades Big news coming out of BART today as officials at the rail line discuss the preliminaries of BART Metro, a multibillion-dollar expansion to be complete by 2025 that hopes to accommodate 50 percent
SF News Bay Area Transit Mapped In Trippy Time-Lapse Video Using the same publicly available data that feeds into Google's General Transit Feed Specification, transit-obsessed YouTube user STLTransit has created a trippy time-lapse video showing the movement of every Muni bus, BART train
SF News Here's What's Closed Today Though some of us are at work today (hi!), many get today, the Friday after Thanksgiving, off to shop like crazy people on Black Friday (if you're caught in a Black Friday sandstorm,
SF News If Only BART Had Built the Geary Line What if we could say, without laughing, that the Outer Richmond was the new Mission? That would only really have been possible if BART had gotten it together to build the proposed Geary
SF News Man Who Once Torched Burning Man Takes Own Life at Embarcadero BART Paul Addis, a playwright and performer best known for prematurely setting fire to the man at Burning Man in 2007 (and also did two years jail time for the incident), died Saturday night
SF News Man Tries to Walk to Oakland Through the Transbay Tube, Prompts BART Shutdown A man was captured on BART surveillance cameras Sunday evening around 6:45 p.m. hopping down into the tracks at Embarcadero Station and walking into the Transbay Tube. This caused BART service
SF News BART Breaks Ridership Record! Over this past weekend when absolutely everything was happening all at once in San Francisco, it's no surprise that ridership on BART broke an all-time record. 319,484 people rode BART on Saturday,
SF News Regarding Last Week's Strange Explosive Incident at Civic Center BART They say it was really nothing. Really. It happens about once a year. But somehow, some sort of "metallic debris" ended up on the BART tracks at Civic Center on September 16 and
SF News BART Turns 40; Will Hand Out Free Tickets, Ice Cream Once upon a time in September 1972, just as President Nixon was vehemently denying any involvement with the Watergate break-in and Maude was premiering on television, BART was born. The Bay Area Rapid
SF News BART Agents Fighting Losing War On Rats While we always felt that the Bay Area's subterranean public transit systems were never as overrun with rodents as say the New York City subway, it turns out the folks who are down
SF News Map: BART Opened Its Door 40 Years Ago Today, But Failed To Be This Rad Look, we love BART. It's carpeted and quiet, it allows one to escape from Berkeley with the greatest of ease, and (more importantly) it isn't Muni. The first Bay Area Rapid Transit trains
SF News That Muni/BART Entrance at the Apple Store Will Be Closed for Six Years The Stockton and Ellis entrance/exit from BART and Muni, with the escalator that dumped you off right by the door of the Apple Store, is closing today due to the construction of
SF News Man Struck, Killed By BART Train at Glen Park Station A man who was possibly lying in the East Bay-bound tracks at Glen Park Station on Saturday was struck by a train around 2:30 p.m. and later died of his injuries.
