SF News Day Around The Bay --Apple iPhone madness begins! That's a picture of the line in SF yesterday night by photo genius Steve Rhodes, who reported around 60 people in line by midnight. We're hoping to have more
SF News Your Commute: Fire On Treasure Island One firefighter's been injured, but not seriously, and since it's not posing a threat to anyone, crews are staying outside of the building, waiting for it to collapse, rather than going in and
SF News 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
SF News Your Commute: Worst Bay Area Traffic The envelope, please! Here's your list of the 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area, compiled by the Metropolitan Transit Commission. 1. I-80 W to the Bay Bridge, in the a.m. 2.
SF News SFist Blotter Police chase last night in the Mission: around 7 p.m., the SFPD started chasing one or two guys in a blue Cherokee at around 26th and Harrison. The Cherokee got on 101
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A
SF News Your Commute: Yet Another Truck Overturns The most memorable Bay Area overturns we recall, off the top of our heads: The truck with the ostrich on the Golden Gate, and the truck spilling 500 gallons of a septic tank
misc Whale Watch Update: Mean! Aw, mean! Someone hacked into the telephone hotline that the whale rescuers set up for you to leave messages on how to help directionally-challenged Delta and Dawn get back to the Pacific Ocean,
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:
Arts & Entertainment The Opening of the Bay Bridge Because we love all things historical, here's one of those old newsreels from 1937 about the opening of the Bay Bridge. We love the photos of the cars driving on the bridge.
Arts & Entertainment Tearing Down The Bridge Reader Ted sent along some cool pictures he got of the construction work on the Bay Bridge. Everyone loves watching big trucks tear things down! More of Ted's pictures after the jump. And
misc Won't Somebody Think about the Falcons? Several days ago, two falcons, George & Gracie moved from their tony climes in lower Market and set up shop on the Bay Bridge where they just recently laid some eggs. This, said
SF News Can You Take Me To The Bridge? For those who do drive that particular section, Caltrans is going to reroute you to an entirely new set of lanes and supposedly, you won't notice much in the way of a difference.
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from
SF News Your Commute: Fight! We can't decide if we're sorry we missed this, or if we're extremely grateful that we take BART to work in the mornings. So around 7:30 a.m. this morning, an SUV
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried
SF News For Whom the Bridge Tolls The toll increase won't affect some of you out there as people who have a FasTrak will get an amnesty as it were and won't see the toll increase until February. The reason
Arts & Entertainment The Way We Were What the newsreel footage is about, actually, is public transportation. Mainly how great ours is and how well it services both San Francisco and the East Bay. Which, of course, is laden with
SF News American Football Spectacular: Oh Man, It's The Morning After, "Shut The Door" At Ford Field, the two teams brawled like a couple of clumsy middle school gym wrestlers, with neither able to decisively put the other away amid all the clambering. The game was still
SF News Your Commute: Friday Woes Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he was reporting that a sideswiped moving van flipped over on the westbound lanes of Highway 92
SF News Memo to Self: Avoid Bay Bridge this Weekend Anyways, two westbound lanes will be closed from the toll plaza to the middle of the suspension span between late tonight and tomorrow morning from 11 PM to 8 AM. The Sterling, 5th
SF News Gavin Gets Tough on Crime The measures will cost $3.7 million which means the Board of Supervisors have to weigh in on it. This is where the fun begins because the Board have been pretty cranky about
