SF News Like Dropping Mentos in Coke, Only With Bikes Tomorrow is registration day for the 2007 North American Courier Championships, or NABCCC. The extra C, we think, is for "combustible," because, hey, isn't tomorrow also Critical Mass? And hey, didn't we hear
SF News Steer for Their Heads Can no force stand up to power of Critical Mass? Willie Brown was no match for the monster .. but Willie didn't have a WALKING HORDE OF UNDEAD. Preliminary reports from local Zomboligists predict
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
SF News Apples Now Slightly Less Sinful Our friends to the south have come under some uncomfortable scrutiny lately for all the toxic junk they dump into landfills. Greenpeace in particular has been pretty critical of Apple's use of mercury
SF News Why Everyone Hates Critical Mass -- And Why They're Wrong Whether you love Critical Mass or hate it, the folks on the other side of the debate must seem totally baffling, if not downright evil. Its detractors wonder, "how can anyone support an
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Critical Mass, April 2007 The rolling Rorschach test that is Critical Mass once again delighted and frustrated those in S.F. tonight. We saw pissed-off bus riders, but also a few delighted hotel guests. We saw some
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>The Unforeseen</i>! Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? , a documentary set in one of our sister -ist cities, Austin, Texas, is about the battle between developers and environmentalists as a sweet-sounding but
SF News Massing for Mass This is all in response to last month's Mass which saw two stories of supposed bike mayhem, that being the poor, scared soccer mom trapped in her mini-van and the angry limo driver
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 Matier & Ross Ride Fixies We still have no idea what exactly a "fixie" bike is (and at this point, we think we're having a better time imagining what one looks like than just walking out to Ritual
SF News Mass Mess Day II- The Reckoning. According to bikers who saw the whole thing going down, Susan Ferrando, the driver of the mini-van didn't just slowly glide towards the intersection but hit the pedal to the medal and ran
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
SF News District 6 Election Pictures Of The Day We're not calling this an "Everybody Hates Chris" post only because we're starting to think there are too many posts on the SFist front page that bear that title. This week's episode: Everybody
SF News Step Lively, SF There's a totally fascinating article about this year's traffic deaths in San Francisco today, by the inimitable Rachel Gordon. At about the 2/3rd mark for the year, we've had 29 traffic collision
SF News Two Wheels Are Better Than Four Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only does this once a year. . . . I
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
SF News FU, SUVs We were wondering why we've never seen the Governator prowling the streets of San Francisco looking for "Special Interests" to eliminate, Commando-style. At first we thought it was because hardly anyone here voted
