SF News Chimpanzees For Peace! We don't even know where to start with this news item -- we had to read the article like three times before we figured it out. Who has a pro-war protest in San
SF News The Prizewinner's Daughter Terry Ryan had a pretty incredible life of her own -- after her childhood in Defiance, Ohio, she moved out to San Francisco, joined the Daughters of Bilitis, one of the first lesbian
SF News Day Around The Bay --Yikes: two pedestrians were hit by a truck outside that Bank of America on 23rd and Mission this afternoon. --Beyond Chron says to not run anyone for mayor this year -- Tim Redmond
SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
SF News Your Commute: Cars In The Chron Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns
Arts & Entertainment James Beard Awards Are Good To San Francisco Media Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're
SF News Maze Update: Faster Than The Chron Expected! Is anyone else deeply enjoying the tonal shift from hysteria to sulky that the Chron's bumper-to-bumper traffic coverage of the MacArthur Maze collapse has taken? From the "Monday Morning Commute Will Be Terrible!
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
Arts & Entertainment 'Bad Reporter' Is Best Of The West Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc. So it gives us immense pleasure when we can share a little positive
SF News Mr. Ford Assesses So let's start with the story in the Chron, the main gist of which is "happy days are here again." Or, as they call it "Transit chief upbeat on Muni." The story is
SF News Station to BioStation On Tuesday, Gavin cut the ribbon on the city's very first commercial B20 biodiesel refueling station. B20 fuel is fuel made up of 20% biomass, 75% diesel, and 5% tomato juice and the
SF News What to do About the Angels Blue? But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation
SF News Day Around the Bay -They got at least one of the guys who attacked that Amtrak engineer. -Gavin and the Supervisors fight over money, sun rises. -Gavin wants more money for city golf courses. -Somebody attempted to
Arts & Entertainment Honoring the 1906 Earthquake As usual, there was a bit of a commemeration of the '06 quake, although much smaller than last year's gala Earthquakepalooza. Instead of the thousands who showed up last year, there were only
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
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 Muni Drivers' Union Boss: "I feel the system works now." Fun fact: Muni is required to pay its drivers based on what the two highest-paying transit systems in the country offer. Right now, that works out to about $27 an hour, and amazingly,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
SF News The T-Third S-Staggers to L-Life This is the first official week of service on the T line. And it's not all roses and rainbows -- this weekend saw delays, bunching, and nice long waits. At one point, the
misc Hearings Can Sort of Be Healthy Too Since this hearing sounded like a whole heap of San Francisco fun, we searched around for any sort of description of it. SF Party Party, who have been one of the leading voices
SF News The T-Third Line: Already Sucking In the Ex's story, Muni is already down six trains as those six have been benched due to collisions with cars and other vehicles. Oops. Muni is saying that when everything ramps up,
SF News I Fought the Law and I Won Here comes the numbers: -San Francisco sent 436 people to prison in 2005, the same number as Sonoma County which has 300,000 fewer people. It is also 300 fewer than were sent
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
SF News But Wait! There's More! What will dog owners do now? Currently, the little plastic bags aren't biodegradable but can be recycled-- it's just that it's really hard to get them recycled. Or, at least this is true
