Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Fire Drive With Me This news item combines all our favorite things: commuter news, SUVs, cigarette regulation, the mayor's quality of life plans, and a generous espresso shot of schadenfreude to boot! Hooray! Did anyone see a
SF News SFist Rants: Rats in the Maze At SFist, we love a lot of things, and we tell you about them. But we also hate some things, too, and we thought it was high time we told you about those,
SF News Your Commute: Open Your Golden Wallets, San Francisco Okay, this is really getting ridiculous. First, they told us the Bay Bridge is going to be ugly and expensive. Then they said they'd raise bus fares. Then they said they'd raise parking
SF News Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco Liberal? DCist forwarded us an article from Roll Call (paid subscription required) entitled "Q: Where Is Nancy Pelosi Not a San Francisco Liberal? A: San Francisco." We love it when DC politics realizes that,
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Troubled Bridge Over Local Waters It was reported at the end of last week that the Govenator rejected the suspension design for the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, opting instead for a skyway design not unlike the
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
misc Behind the Wheel San Francisco sure does love its bicycles. Every time we get on the Bay Bridge in our *gasp* car, we wish there was a way to ride our bike across the bridge to
SF News Hey -- You Never Know! If that flashing $100 million lottery sign on the other side of the B of A clock on 101 had you dreaming like it did SFist (if SFist won, we were going to
Arts & Entertainment Duck and Cover We warn you because the DMB is around town all the time, and boy do we have lots of bridges. Many of their top albums were recorded accross the Golden Gate at The
SF News Caltrans Must Be Loaded...Part Deux SFist first brought this story to you last week...Bay Area bridge costs are way over budget. We aren't talking a few hundred or thousand dollars here. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge
SF News Caltrans Must Be Loaded Caltrans threw SFist for a loop this weekend. The Chronicle reported that retrofit costs for the bridges are soaring...even though Caltrans hasn't exactly been forthcoming with this information. The San Francisco/Oakland