SF News Day Around the Bay -- Watch out, SF. Last night's armed robbery spree shakes up, shakes down residents. [SF Crime, SFGate] -- Ding, ding: bike rally at City Hall. [Left in SF] -- Your Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Arts & Entertainment Bike Plan Injunction Injunction, What's Your Function? Where's the beef? See you after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Segway Traffic Jam in the Marina The commission that said no to the Panhandle Bandshell a while back, has just said yes to Segways in Golden Gate Park. Enjoy the Channel 7 video but try not to chuckle at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: SFBC's Winterfest 2007 a Huge Success The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition put on another well-attended fundraising party last night. Winterfest 07 is ably described by Tyche Hendricks here. See all the action, read a frank confession from yet another
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Post-Postcard 11: the 11th Annual Small Format Art Sale: At this event, you are the artist and your work is on display. "Artists are encouraged to submit small format multiples--whether that be
SF News Winterfest! <i>Bikes</i> Winterfest! <i>Fun</i> Winterfest! It's On! Get yourself some art, maybe even something from Matthew Hughes Boyko. Why not? Or, what about "A Day with Ross Mirkarimi?" How much would you bid for a "lunch/dinner date" with him?
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to the Holiday Weekend: Charity! Marathons! SHOPPING!!! Blah blah blah soup kitchens blah blah fun-runs blah holiday schedules. All that stuff's fascinating, of course, but here's what we really want to know: Muni, where can we find all the hottest
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Horror... The Horror... Bitter experience tells us that when a cyclist feels the splat of a gnat on the back of the throat, there is little to be done but swallow and hope that it a
misc Caltrain Delay Three weeks ago, a Caltrain conductor told the San Jose Mercury News that "Trains stay on tracks and if you stay off the tracks, it's very easy not to get hit by a
SF News <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Free Bike Lights! <i>Free Bike Lights!</i> Anybody can get a light, even this guy. But there's a catch -- you have to show up . So, see you at the following locations this afternoon: • Upper Market: Market St. at Duboce
SF News Waiting for the Bus is About to get TOTALLY RAD We have incredibly exciting news about bus shelters! The city just reached an agreement with Clear Channel, your favorite company, to provide bus shelters and advertising and revenue. It's a complicated relationship, and
SF News Not Just Prestige... <i>Super</i> Prestige The best sports, we say, combine beauty and ridiculousness, and that’s why cycling is a favorite of ours. But, like many others in the Bay Area--too many, it turns out--we’ve recently
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles,
SF News SFist Blotter 101, the highway of doom! There was a drunk driving death near Willow Road Wednesday morning, along with all those random shootings the day before. The cops, for what it's worth, say none
misc Blocker: 1800 Haight Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
SF News Yay for Buses and Oxygen! Boooo for Pretending that Hummers are "Low-Emission"! So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Commute Clot's 15th Anniversary Tonight A small goup of San Franciscans started an international trend about fifteen years ago when they participated in the first Commute Clot bike ride. Now it's called Critical Mass. What do you call
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
SF News Help! Security! Oh Wait... At 4:30 p.m. today, a rally and march led by a cast of security officers will take place in the financial district. (We'll try to grab some shots of the officers
SF News Presidio: Still Dangerous We were running in the Presidio this morning, and after a few cars nearly creamed us it struck us that one of San Francisco's preeminent outdoor plagrounds is a very dangerous place in
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 Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break it down
