misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
Arts & Entertainment Good Magazine Will Do You Good (Block Party This Sunday!) We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Fell and Masonic Deathtrap Revisited So what's the deal? Can a few simple changes increase safety? See you after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Octavia Boulevard Betterment - It's On! But things could be getting a little better after the guvmint starts to take some action. Like this Monday for instance. Supervisors Chris Daly, Bevan Dufty, and Ross Mirkarimi have joined together to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Deathtrap Intersection at Fell and Masonic The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk SF held a news conference a few days ago concerning this intersection in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Is this crosswalk part of a Class 1
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up? Oh, let's say the SF Weekly. Everyone loves Eliza Strickland! Matt Smith is enjoying blogging, we think. Ticketing bikes who run stop signs. Cover article: Summer movies (including Frameline and Sicko)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV This time around, she showed up right away, dissing John, the exotic scientist dancer who was cast adrift last episode. Not much happened during the first 20 minutes or so, which just gave
SF News Let's Go! As we all know, cars are the worst things ever invented, and owning one makes you a terrorist. Fortunately, it's easy to go carless in SF -- we tearfully gave our beloved station
SF News SFist Blotter There was a shootout by the ocean over the weekend -- a man stealing a bicycle at around 1 a.m. Saturday morning near 48th and Taraval fired shots at the cops, hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bike to Work Day Bike to Work Day in San Francisco is ongoing. Pictured is the ride of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Program Director Andy "The Boss" Thornley, complete with large flag just for today. (Yes, that's
SF News Off You Go We'll have a bunch of photos of the new Muni shelters up later today (in the meantime, you can check out dantc's great collection). Take a look a this video, though -- it's
SF News Massing for Mass This is all in response to last month's Mass which saw two stories of supposed bike mayhem, that being the poor, scared soccer mom trapped in her mini-van and the angry limo driver
SF News Oh The Drama Of It All The Sunday Styles section of the Chronicle does it again! Not content to rest on its laurels after watching poor Jennifer Bumblebee Siebel decimate herself, Styles next turns its gimlet eye on two
SF News Slanted and Enchanted So far, the bikers are completely on board. Both the SF Bicycle Coalition and the Bicycle Advisory Committee have offered support and are talking up Bike Class to teach bikers that riding on
SF News Mass Mess Day II- The Reckoning. According to bikers who saw the whole thing going down, Susan Ferrando, the driver of the mini-van didn't just slowly glide towards the intersection but hit the pedal to the medal and ran
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
SF News Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a
SF News Cycling: Stage 5 Separates the Field It's one thing to sit in a team's slipstream or ride the momentum of the peloton, but the truest measure of a cyclist is how he (or she) performs in an individual time
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
Arts & Entertainment Up on High, In the Mix Feeling quite adventurous, a few weeks ago we decided to test our legs on Mix Canyon Road a bicycle ride located just on the western side of Vacaville. We've heard amazing things from
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd: A dangerous illegal turn every 3 minutes. Yet another morning commuter makes an illegal right turn onto the new freeway onramp at Octavia this morning. Monday's serious accident at the intersection of Octavia and Market is focusing attention upon drivers
SF News Bikes on Octavia As a result, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is not happy. Not happy at all. They are demanding something to be done about that particular intersection at Octavia and Market Street and to
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
Arts & Entertainment Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mahler's 5th Symphony is one of his most famous works: the 4th movement, Adagietto, became super popular as the soundtrack of Visconti's Death in Venice, and the whole piece has an epic, cinematic
