SF News Day Around the Bay -- Coit Tower murals. Just loverly. [WhatImSeeing] -- Building workers unwittingly perform air acrobatics. [Curbed SF] -- Concerts at the Cadillac. [BeyondChron] -- Matt Smith on bloggin'. Awesome. [SF Weekly] -- Double-decker Muni
SF News Your Muni Double-Decker Has Arrived With its umbilical sliced, face slapped, and shivering body wrapped in a toasty blanket, the new Muni double-decker bus has finally arrived. San Francisco Sentinel has the story (as well as a few
Arts & Entertainment This Just In: Fall Out Boy's Van Not Invisible It looks like one of San Jose's most trusty traffic cops was also in a giving mood. The Invisible Children van got a parking ticket. They were parked illegally (see the red curb
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Let's get it started... "All MTA employees get to ride for free, provided they have their employee badges with them." Question for the Muni Security Guy, isn't it illegal for the fare inspectors
SF News Calling Into Question Double Decker Bus Aesthetics Let's face it, underneath all of our progressive thinking and alleged altruism, we're a vain city. Thank God. After all, we are Californians nestled in a land of impossible waistlines and beauty. That
SF News Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's Boastful, Alleged Killers Demian Bulwa at the Chronicle reports on some depressing info found in the search warrant affidavits filed in court by police in the Halloween murder of Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan. The teenagers who supposedly
SF News Pass the Gas: Reaching $4 a Gallon? Seeing as how we don't drive an automobile in San Francisco because people in the Bay Area drive like crap because we want to keep the planet minty green, we don't feel the
SF News Three Teen Boys Arrested in Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan's Murder Three boys -- possibly ruining their lives at the wee ages of 15, 16, and 17 -- were arrested yesterday, all of then booked on suspicion of murder. The fuzz believes that the
SF News Arrests Made in the Halloween Slaying of Teen Rachael Ray Admirer Although we're not sure at this point whether or not Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's assailant is in custody, according to CBS 5, "at least three boys were taken into custody Tuesday morning after police
SF News UPDATED: Muni's Guide to this Weekend: Dia de los Muertos, US Half Marathon UPDATE: Oh man! How could we have missed this one? There's also going to be a Falun Gong march! We're sick and tired of trying to figure out whether we want to make
SF News BART Shuttle Service, Where Art Thou? As much as we bitched today about the unexpected free-shuttle service on Halloween night, they're actually a nice thing for the city of San Francisco to have. The problem is: where have they
SF News BART Closure Counterattack: Free Shuttle Service It's a battle of the press releases! Watch yourselves, or you might get cut. Did anyone know about these free shuttles tomorrow night, over at the 16th Street/Mission station? We didn't. Not
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into that dank attic, or
SF News Ceci n'est pas une Halloween So now, in a semiotically treacherous move, they're saying that the disruptions are due to -Halloween. "No Halloween in the Castro. Possible delays and re-routed lines," says the MTA website. "Due to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
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 Your Commute: N-Judah's Hour-long A.M. Wait But, Muni, try limiting our wait. (Ha! Oh stop!) SFist reader, Cior sent us this image she snapped up while waiting for the N-Judah this morning. 60 minutes for a 10 a.m.
SF News Vawanda Vindicated: Shocking Muni Confessional is 100% True! But our John-Stossel-Like hunger for the truth was unsatisfied. So we got in touch with Judy Morgan at the SF Arts Commission; and as it turns out, all of the posters are totally
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend As previously noted, one of the best weekend guides in the city is produced by Muni and sent out exclusively to the press. (The PresidiGo, meanwhile, extends that courtesy to its riders.) So,
SF News Long Wait; Tight Squeeze This photo was taken last Wednesday at Fulton and Masonic around 7pm. You can't possibly imagine how packed this bus was -- people stepping on each other, on each others' laps, holding the
SF News UPDATE: Good Deed = Stabbing While riding the 14-Mission, a 50-year-old man received a few non-fatal but violent stabs to the chest after coming to the rescue of an elderly woman. It seems that she was slapped during
SF News Muni's Weekend Guide (And of course, if you enjoy online scavenger hunts, you can also attempt to get this info on Muni's website.) So what's on Muni's radar this weekend? The Noe Valley Harvest Festival! The
SF News SFist Blotter Bad day on the transportation front yesterday: so someone got stabbed on a MUNI bus yesterday afternoon around 1 p.m. at 16th Street and Mission, and on the morning commute, southbound 880