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BART Peers Into a Crystal Ball

-New transbay tube -More stations in SF and extensions in the East Bay and in the Peninsula -More trains with more doors and no drivers. Also with flat screen TVs showing news and

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Lunch of the Future! (Or: What I was handed coming off BART This Morning)

When we were in elementary school, perhaps during the Reagan presidency (and the accompanying jellybean zeitgeist), we imagined that in the future, all food would be in pill form. Here we are in

Free BART Tix

Okay, we're not sure how this is going to play out, but: apparently BART is giving away free tickets at Justin Herman plaza today at 1:30. (Just in time for the lunch

Day Around The Bay

--Your Two Cents: what career advice would you give Chris Daly? [Chron Two Cents]. --Beth Spotswood finds some hilarious pictures of crush object Gavin Newsom! [Chron Culture Blog.] --The SF Weekly starts their

Day Around The Bay

--They're laying people off at the Merc News too? [SFBG Politics Blog]. --A blogger gets sued for defamation in small claims court by a journalist who didn't like, among other things, being called

Arts & Entertainment

Interviews: Colma! The Musical

Colma opens at the Embarcadero Cinema June 22 Introduce yourself in one sentence: H.P: Hi, I'm HP and I'm a Pisces with a Virgo rising which means I don't put any stock

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

Day Around The Bay

--Michael Moore loves Gavin Newsom. --SFMike reports back on yesterday's Newsom rally. So does Beyond Chron and the Examiner. --Grizzly bears get a new home at the zoo. --Meet the new SF school

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

Spelling Bee Champ's Opening Pitch

Hey, "A's" isn't that hard to spell! Spelling bee champ (and proud member of the BART family) Evan O'Dorney from Danville threw out the opening pitch at yesterday's A's/Red Sox game. The

Day Around The Bay

--Everyone knows it's windy! (whistle, whistle-whistle, whistle, whistle-whistle-whistle whistle). --They're not sure what caused the Embarcadero station to fill up with smoke this morning, halting BART and MUNI service. --Chris Daly called Gavin

Day Around The Bay

--As you may have heard in the comments to the latest Oh No, Ed Jew! column, MUNI is thinking about having the N go out to the Caltrain station again. Yay! We may

Son Of BART Employee Wins Spelling Bee!

And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is

BART Testing Wifi?

We had just opened our laptop this evening on our ride back across the Bay when a dialog popped up: "None of your usual wireless networks could be found. Do you want to

Day Around The Bay

--Does architecture critic John King ever like ? --Sad! The San Franciscan speller in the National Bee got the dreaded misspelling bell of death this afternoon in the quarter finals, on the word "ursigram.

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Tonight

Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go

Seriously, Who The Hell Doesn't Know What A Magnetic Strip Is?

Pssst! See that black strip on your BART card? Does that maybe remind you of anything? They are very similar to the black strips on all those hard little plastic cards you carry

Day Around The Bay

--They going to reopen the Macarthur Maze by Memorial Day weekend! That construction company totally deserves their $5 million bonus. --We know why Chris Daly interrupted Newsom's meeting with the Venezuelan ambassador! To

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Today

Other events: --SF Women Against Rape present the documentary "NO!" at the Women's Building. 5-7:30 p.m., $5-$15 sliding scale, Audre Lorde Room, 3542 18th St. (x Valencia). --Bohemian Carnival --

Guvernator's May Budget Revision

The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.

Your Commute: The BART Wye

We also learned a new word, from the notice alerts they flashed on the Now Arriving screens at our BART station of origin as we waited for a train to arrive: did you

Day Around The Bay

--Yikes: two pedestrians were hit by a truck outside that Bank of America on 23rd and Mission this afternoon. --Beyond Chron says to not run anyone for mayor this year -- Tim Redmond

Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux

So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the

Your Commute: Oy Vey

Update on the Update- 511.org has the 411 on what commute will be like for the next few days-- it's pretty much like on Tuesday except not free. Check it out Update:

MacArthur Maze Collapses

Update: 11:45 a.m.: Here's your roads: W-80 to S-880 is closed (from Berkeley to the Oakland airport). E-80 to E-580 is closed (from SF to Lake Merritt and Piedmont). Alternate routes: