SF News Meet the Oldest Bike Messenger in S.F. Today Mission Mission has a delightful chat with Junior, who's been a bike messenger about town for 35 years. He's sticking with the biz, despite it not being such a growth industry. Here's
SF News Critical Mass Bonfire at Ocean Beach Tonight's Critical Mass kicks off the Memorial Day weekend. How so? Well, according to SF Appeal, they posted this "suggested route map" for tonight's ride. Said map directs riders to start off at
SF News Reminder: Critical Mass Tonight Before you head home for what is supposed to be a gorgeous weekend of sun and leisure, the fine folks of Critical Mass will be in full effect during the evening commute. Just
SF News Critical Mass Ruling in NY May Have Implications Here While Critical Mass isn't quite the city-crippling force in New York as it is in SF, Bicycle Coalition types on the opposite side of the country have been in a court battle that
misc Photos: Critical Mass Halloween Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was
misc NSFW Critical Mass Photos, 7/31 Nudity and cycling clashed at yesterday's monthly Critical Mass. Plug1 of What I'm Seeing snapped these choice images, some of them drastically NSFW. (Warning: nudity) Enjoy!
misc Critical Mass Tonight; We're Taking a Poll We here at SFist HQ always want to know your thoughts on the marquee issues facing our fair city. And today, seeing as it is another last Friday and therefore another occasion for
misc What's Going On Here, Critical Mass Fire? What in God's name is this all about, select participant(s) who engaged in fire play during Friday's end-of-month ride, but by no means represent Critical Mass or the tireless work that they
SF News Charging Critical Mass? CBS 5 reporter Joe Vazquez, who took to the streets with critical massers last month, posed a question: Why isn't critical mass paying its fair share for the cost of their monthly ride?
SF News Reminder: Critical Mass Tonight Just a friendly reminder that our monthly bike orgy, Critical Mass, will take place at around 6 p.m.. Ish. It starts at Justin Herman Plaza, but you can pretty much just start
SF News Reminder: Critical Mass Today Just a reminder that today is Critical Mass, wherein bike riders pedal up Market Street. And other places. Seeing as how it's an unseasonably warm day today, it's bound to be crowded so
SF News Critical Mass Gets Uglier in Seattle In cyberspace, "trolling" is when someone posts a deliberately controversial comment, not because they really wanted to say it but because they wanted to provoke an angry, emotional response from strangers -- kind
misc The Philistine Has An SFist Polyphony We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the
misc Pondering the Semiotics of Hipster Beards Like all things hipster, we wondered just how this beard thing works and the meaning of it all. Like, the guy checking IDs at the bar had a very scruffy, mountain man beard
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Let's Get Some Cars off the Roads Muni will be running extra trains to accommodate the Supercross crowd. The extra trains will stop running at 10pm, which is a shame because the event lets out at 11pm. Ha ha. Supercross
SF News Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Fervent Believers Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. First, there's Critical Mass. Lots of
Arts & Entertainment First They Came for the Fire-Juggling Clowns, and I did not Speak Out ... "It was so hard to see busloads of police marching through an empty Castro," says one Castro resident, and another adds, "I was in tears last night." The buzzword for the evening seems
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
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
SF News New Auto Shop Takes Green Pretty Seriously Wired Magazine has an interesting feature piece on what we believe to be one of those "only in San Francisco" kinda businesses: a mechanic who not only specializes in hybrids, but attempts to
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
SF News Cycling: The Marin Centurians On Saturday, the roads of west Marin and southern Sonoma counties were rife with those two-wheel vermin known as cyclists. Nearly 2500 of them. No, Critical Mass didn't make a drunken wrong turn
Arts & Entertainment Jesus Presents: Noise Pollution They're not there to persuade anyone; like Critical Mass or Dore Alley, these aggressive displays of difference just reinforce the gulf of "we're totally unlike you," rather than adopting the shrewd Scientology approach
misc Zombies + Bikes = Fun It sure was a scene downtown on Friday afternoon. We left our house around six (meaning that we missed the big > pillowfight), but got down to Market and Sansome in time for
