SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings on Like, Whatever A rich college girl is talking loudly to her friends. A sample: "I went through SEVEN laptops in high school!" "You know the microwave and mini-fridge in my room? Those are mine. My
SF News Your Commute: Runaway Train Caltrain 314 hit and killed a woman this morning, stopping train traffic in both directions for more than 90mn. We were on the train, and were allowed to leave at about 9am in
SF News Muni to Presidio Commuters: "F**k You All" You might accuse us of being overly cynical with our doom-and-gloom predictions of Muni's impending Second Meltdown, but nothing can mitigate that aspiring transit agency's daily f**k-ups. Case in point: the temporary
SF News We're #11 The report, which you can read here, calls out San Francisco for anti-pan handling measures, issuing citations, handing out one way bus tickets, and for having "negative reactions" to homeless people. As opposed
SF News Subway Disruption Illuminated At about the same time that Nathaniel Ford takes over as the new head of Muni, using the subway is going to get very confusing. But don't panic: we've got tips here for
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
SF News Thinking Outside the Boxer, Ha Ha Ha Bet She Never Heard That One Before Whether or not you enjoy Barbara Boxer's senatorial antics, there's no denying she's a master of making grandiose gestures without actually committing to any specific action. Fer instance, she sent out some emails
SF News New Year's Eve See that? See how I said "we're" back there? I know we've all mentioned it, but the "we" thing really insinuates itself into your brain. I've sent work email in the "we", notes
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and that , smelly
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Don't Realize What They're Saying Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. 50 year old woman: "There are no bottoms, it's all tops! They just don't have any bottoms here. I swear, where are the men's bottoms?
SF News Care Not Cash Results Well, we suppose he has every right to crow about it -- Gavin Newsom announced to a cheering crowd of social service providers and homeless people that the number of homeless people on
SF News Another Muni Accident As with December 5th's fatal accident, the victim was crossing the street as the bus was turning, but was apparently unseen by the driver. The victim, a middle aged white man, was taken
SF News Wetter Than a [Fill In Tasteless Reference to Aroused Female Genitalia] SFist Rita (always looking out for the staff) was worried about flooding in North Beach earlier this week, and now we can report the corners of Powell and Columbus on Union are now
SF News ChronicleWatch, Where Are You? Residents have been complaining for about a year, with scant help from city officials. SFPUC,which oversees the lights, blames the problems on "aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be
SF News Will We Get What We Paid For? His base pay will be $298,000, but he has eligibility for up to "$337,000 when all compensation is taken into account." We got excited hearing that last bit, thinking "maybe they'll
SF News You Can't Get There From Here ... Yet Also on the agenda for the meeting: the Third Street Light Rail project is behind schedule and over budget. Suprise! Service will be start in fall of 2006 at the earliest -- what
misc SFist Raves: Chinatown Sidewalks The days of being bopped on the shins by little old Chinese ladies carrying pink and white striped plastic bags and suspiciously poking the flesh of fresh fish may be numbered, as DPW
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coit Tower: A Summary You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the rightmost icon
misc School District Employees to Strike This Week Last Thursday, teachers representing the United Educators of San Francisco met to hear from the SEIU as they consider plans to strike in solidarity with the custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries. The teacher's
Arts & Entertainment Combots Finals Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it
SF News We Like NextBus and We Cannot Lie http://www.nextbus.com/googleMap/test.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=31 Most buslines aren't on the system yet; if you enter a line that isn't wired, then the "Initializing Agency" message simply
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Special Edition: Warren Can't Wait With only a few days left before the Very Special Election, the Governor hit the campaign trail hoping for one of those idyllic campaign weekends where all the crowds are friendly, the energy
