SF News Your Commute: On The Bright Side, No Bomb Threats (Yet) Commuters cannot get a break -- it's enough to make you answer those ads you see tacked up on telephone poles, "earn money while working at home." Today's traffic woes included a fatal
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings: The Movie Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at -gmail - dot - com. Two men ask the waitress to split their check to two ATM cards. She returns a moment later with two receipts stapled
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Colma: The Musical</i> Colma is the BART stop between Daly City and South San Francisco. Not exactly a bustling place, until now. Colma: The Musical takes the sleepiness and between-ness of the town and explores how
misc SFist Rants: Couldn't Stand the Weather It's not that it's rainy. We can handle the rain, or at least be okay with it. It's always rainy this time of year. No. What's getting to us is the whole schizo-ness
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Earthquake Alert Man, not only did we not see Tom Cruise in our work place today, we also missed the earthquake. The USGS is reporting a 3.7 quake centered in Moraga at about 1:
SF News GitMo-ntgomery Man, our office is by the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop and we didn't see this. Well, we did overoptimistically think we wouldn't need an umbrella today, so we were a little distracted by
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from SFist Karen,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Needs to Get Out More Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. A normal-dressed girl, speaking to a man dressed as an Imperial Officer (who was eating a burger and fries): "Yeah, I got here late. I
SF News Fun with BART BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately, and we're hard
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Pier 23 Since this is the Year of the Dog, we decided to try out some Eastern Medicine and try some canine acupuncture. That’s right – acupuncture for dogs and cats, just without the new
misc SFist Rants: 80W and 101 to San Jose: No, the Other Right Lanes What’s the problem with the 5th Street exit? It’s simple: really bad signage. You’re driving west, just getting off the bridge, and you know that you should be in the
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To First Fridays After Five! This month's event, entitled "Chocolate Caliente!", features "hot salsa music, cool drinks, and gourmet chocolates. Warm up on the dance floor with Orquesta Universal, then travel through time on a gallery tour featuring
SF News Undercover Gavin While his going undercover is eminently snark-worthy, it is the typical politician who gets dinged for living too much in the bubble and not with the public. Would His Willieness ever feign riding
misc SFist Raves: Moving Pictures We're kind of on a pro-BART kick today -- which may be due in part to the fact that we've been taking the BART down to Millbrae all week. We understand that not
SF News Your Commute: A New Bart Stop Add 15 cents more to your BART card -- Bernal Heights, Baja Noe Valley (what a name), and Upper Mission neighborhood advocates are trying to get BART to revive its 2002 plan to
SF News Thinking Outside the Boxer, Ha Ha Ha Bet She Never Heard That One Before Whether or not you enjoy Barbara Boxer's senatorial antics, there's no denying she's a master of making grandiose gestures without actually committing to any specific action. Fer instance, she sent out some emails
misc SFist Rants: A Modest Public Transportation Proposal While having to go through all the rigmarole of hopping on Caltrains and being at the least fifteen minutes late kind of sucks, what really chaps our hide is that we have a
Arts & Entertainment Come On And Take A Free (Or Cheap) Ride Driving can be a real pain, as we're expected to retain a level of alcoholic responsibility while everyone else on the road appears to be hammered into oblivion. Taxis can be hard to
