SF News Dude, Free We're never all that psyched to go to work, but it's a tiny bit more palatable when we don't have to pay to get there. That's why we'll be getting out of bed
SF News Everyone's a Bit Jumpy Thomas Hawk sends us pictures of a police action at the Montgomery Street BART station today. The details are still fuzzy, but apparently a 'mysterious package' was found and the station was closed.
SF News London Public Transportation Evacuated For the second time in as many weeks, our pals at Londonist have provided minute-by-minute reporting on what is presently being reported as another terrorist attack on London. Described as "not a major
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Counter-Intuitive Search For Coffee The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
SF News Ride Tiger to BART Another plus of the BART Widget is that it's open source; Victor invites anyone making their own trip-planning widget to use his code to jump-start theirs. And finally, it's free, but if you
SF News Your Commute: We're Waiting.... ....and waiting.... and waiting.... and there's still no word on whether we're having a BART strike or not. Even getting bored of hitting "refresh" on the sfgate.com window, and as you guys
SF News The Lines are Drawn While you're worrying about how you're going to get to work next week if there's a strike on the BART, we're worrying about our friends who toil for Hearst over at 5th and
SF News Your Commute: Steeeeeee-rike! Hang up those K signs -- looks like we might be having a BART strike next week. Hey, at least it's not happening the Friday before July 4. So how you getting to
SF News Potential BART Strike Set for July 6th While of course most folks probably kind of wanted BART workers to strike on Friday (four day weekend!), the union has tentatively set the date of a strike (video here) for midnight on
SF News New BART Head Goes Crazy Before everyone gets all excited that doing all of this might halt the proposed fare increases, Luce writes that it won't prevent the increases from happening this time around, but that it will
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV While in Denial This Week So, yeah...April 18th, 1906? What was that again? Image of a possible disaster bigger than the '06 quake, from The Smoking Gun.
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
misc Resting in Peace with the Essefficist Good news, Everyone! The Essefficist is back! Actually, we've just returned from Denver and our heads are still a little woozy from all that thin air up there. But we're here for you
SF News SFist Rants: Up the Down Escalator Several weeks ago, SFist vented about our number one pub trans pet peeve. This week, we want to vent about our second biggest pub trans pet peeve. Consider this a sequel, kind of
misc The Essefficist Thinks Long-Term Excuse all the noise, but everyone here at the Essefficist is busy celebrating the Giants' win over the Dodgers today (and digesting hot dogs). But we're here for you baby. Especially you, John.
Arts & Entertainment Signs of Spring. Hey, you like bunnies, right? That is, you aren't some kind of bunny-hating monster, are you? We didn't think so. Well, we've got good news for you, Bugs -- tomorrow night's your big
Arts & Entertainment Tools With Tools If last night's show inspired you to pick up a power tool, then head on down to Home Depot this Saturday (there are two in Colma! Just a BART ride away!) to partake
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Sucks News flash! Traffic is really bad around here! The Examiner is starting a six-part series looking at specific traffic jam spots, what's wrong with them from a civil engineering perspective, and what we
SF News Your Commute: Name the Baby Bart! We were going to do a post about Caltrain's totally sane proposal for fixing their budget (putting in more of their totally popular baby bullet trains, increasing the number of express routes, closing
Arts & Entertainment Springfield's Winter of Love Well, add "inspiration for an episode of the Simpsons" to the Gavster's resume. Apparently "Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage." Thanks to Bart pranking a Matt Lauer-esque perky morning show host, who
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
