SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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 --
SF News 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.
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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:
SF News 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:
SF News Of Course We Were There It is not often that an event we attend simply blows away its billing. Friday night, however, we managed to procure tickets to the single greatest game in the last 13 years of
SF News We Are Family In his speech, Gavin added that he understands why people would feel the need to leave the city as his mother did the same when Gavin was just a wee little lad. Have
Arts & Entertainment Good Dance vs. Bad Dance (Handy tip: text "follow deepasaurus" to 40404 to get Twitter updates from the organizer -- it'll be canceled if the rain gets to be too much.) But! There's more! If you've got a
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
Arts & Entertainment Those New Bart Ads We haven't seen those kind of cool Target ads that were put up in BART between Montgomery and the Embarcadero station, but thanks to the magic of YouTube, somebody filmed it. You know
SF News BART To Join 21st Century We love when public transportation officials have a light bulb go off over their heads. The first thing they want to do is to train the train operators to make their announcements more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
SF News BART Sells Out The ads are for Target and from what we gather, feature semi-naked women. Good thing they were specifically designed so BART operators won't be distracted. If the ads are a success, BART will
SF News Bad Day to Be Commuting While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Bart Davenport of Honeycut Best show you've ever played MacDonald's at 7 in the morning in Rochester NY. I knew I had finally made it. Favorite venue? The Rickshaw Stop Where are the best fans? Spain Dream
Arts & Entertainment Hail Fellow Well Met Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This
SF News I Feel The Earth, Move Under My Feet So we were watching TV and listening to the wind whip around outside and then the wind got really loud and then everything started shaking and we thought, "hmmm, that's one really strong
SF News We Have a Best MUNI Line BART? Yep, BART won as the Best MUNI line with almost 1/3rd of the vote. In terms of actual MUNI lines, the winner is the F Line, with 17%. In third came
