Arts & Entertainment Election 2005: Interview with Jose Cisneros How would you work with the assessor to make sure that property owners are paying their fair share of taxes? The Treasurer’s office will continue to work closely with the Assessor to
SF News Good Enough for Government Work Hey, did you know that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority is thinking about speeding up transit on Van Ness by putting in dedicated bus boulevards? BUT WAIT DON'T CLICK ON THAT LINK
SF News Falling Into The Fall For the last couple weeks the deciduous trees have bequeath their surroundings with fall-like leaves, and offer pleasant browns and appealing rustling sounds to passersby. Rain, or what would be better termed as
SF News Patience Is a Virtue, Sure, But So Is Not Sucking Ted W forwarded this NextBus screengrab to us this morning, and can we just say, holy crapdamn, MUNI, a half hour wait for a J? During ? On a MONDAY?! You can imagine us
misc SFist Rants: Step Down. STEP DOWN! If you ride the MUNI buses, you probably already know that to open the back door, you need to step down into the stairwell, and the door will open automatically. That's not really
Arts & Entertainment In Pursuit of <i>Pursuit of Happyness</i> The scuttlebutt discussed over coffee and corned beef hash at the St. Francis this morning was about the film crews amassed on York street between 23rd and 24th. The set designers had already
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Troubled Youth Middle school girl #1: I wish I was skinnier than my boyfriend. Middle school girl #2: We all feel that way. -- Yvesdropped on by Jackson, on the 22 Fillmore at Chestnut Tween
SF News Muni Fare Strike an Overwhelming Success The strike was organized -- magificently, we might add -- by socialstrike.net. But we can't thank only them; according to their whois info, they received support, and this is true, from riseup.
SF News Before the Apres-Ski The hydrants don't hook up to the hoses, there's fighting over Treasure Island, there's corruption in the Housing Authority -- and what are we all still talking about? This afternoon's Cow Hollow ski
SF News Service Cuts: The Only Thing MUNI's Good At Don't get us wrong: we love NextBus, especially the new integration with Google maps. NextBus is the only thing about MUNI that seems to work, and when you consider that it's actually run
SF News Your Commute: BART Makes a Boo-Boo So, to make up for it, they've decided to add service and add the numbers of trains put on each run. It won't be back like it was before and people not going
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Drunkards Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the inaugural edition of Yvesdropping. Hopefully, time will show that the cleverest elements of this new feature extend beyond its deliberately misspelled and mostly meaningless name. Thank you
misc SFist Cares: Special Edition - Katrina We're a week on from when Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the US and still rescue efforts are continuing. . They're not over by a longshot but the progress that's been made
SF News Left Behind So let's get this straight: the Lifeline pass, which Muni says will ease the burden brought on by its own incompetance, is only available for the working poor to purchase ... while they're at
SF News Second Day of School So class, how was your first day of school? Kindergarten class went fine, and the SF school district's wildcat strike wasn't as effective as it might have been -- but as we all
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
SF News SFist Rants: The 12 Inch PowerBook From 2004 You know how your Catholic friends are all "Sure, I f**k around and take the pill, but dude, how cool is St. Thomas Aquinas?" Okay, maybe those are only Catholic friends. But
SF News Life Imitates Dharma & Greg "If I do find her I'd like to take her to dinner, maybe a walk through the park," he told us. "I've never felt this way and that's why I want to find
SF News Your Commute: Steeeeeee-rike! Hang up those K signs -- looks like we might be having a BART strike next week. Hey, at least it's not happening the Friday before July 4. So how you getting to
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Peaches Christ at the Castro and her Tran-ilogy of Terror The exact content of the films isn't really crucial; there's a lot of makeup, and trashy jokes, and screaming and drinking and running around and falling down and a particularly gory scene involving
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole In The Head: Saturday It's a beautiful Saturday, which is why we're spending the entire day at the movies. While the rest of you get melanoma, we're going to watch folks kill and be killed. Join us!
misc SFist Rants: Stupid-Ass Bicyclists We just recently got a new job in Berkeley that's too far from the house to walk. Plus, since we took a substantial pay cut to work at the new place, losing even
SF News SFist Raves: MUNI Moments Yeah, MUNI stinks on multiple levels. Bitch bitch bitch. All the more reason to give props where props are due. A few weeks ago we were taking the bus, the number and destination
SF News Your Commute: A Tale of Two Transits Maybe it's just because snazzy bullet trains are cooler than wheezy buses and screeching light-rails, but Caltrain rides on so much better goodwill than poor beleaguered MUNI. Both agencies are facing massive budget
