SF News This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called? But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day On BART That wasn't all, though -- while the downtown trains were jerking their way eastward, the Millbrae trains were then hit with the dreaded . So basically, no one's going anywhere today. Interestingly, this is
SF News Brinks Truck Heist Goes Bad In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Saddest Game Ever. The Chargers utterly dominated the Raiders on both sides of the ball in an ugly display that carried no positive inertia. The men of the Silver And Black were dominated, cowed, and blown
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
SF News East Bay Crime A Hayward teenager was beaten up and left bloody on a stranger's porch. In the pleasant upscale suburb of Lafayette, on Happy Valley Road, no less, a human body was found burned to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Islands On Islands Go to the Forbidden Island in Alameda. Billing itself as Alameda’s “first and only tiki lounge,” it’s a first-class joint for picking up drinks with props. More importantly, however, these drinks
Arts & Entertainment John Ringhofer of Half-handed Cloud John recently underwent the grueling SFist interview process and has produced the gem below. In it you’ll find instructions on how to be a good fan to your favorite up and coming
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
Arts & Entertainment We're All Headed South Last Friday, your East Bay Correspondent left the confines of her designated area to witness a rare spectacle - a Bay Area performance by Survival Research Labs. which took place in San Jose
SF News This Week's BART Screw Up Today's problem-- train stuck in the Transbay Tube for over an hour. Ouch. That's gotta suck. There you are, stuck in a train, somewhere deep underneath hundreds of feet of water, thinking that
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
SF News Your Commute: Grab That Cash We don't often wish we commuted by car from the East Bay to San Jose, but today's a special day -- bank robbers trying to flee the cops on 680 are throwing their
SF News Are All The Would-Be Buyers Fleeing The State? We were feeling pretty good about the state of the California housing market after reading the PDF of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's most recent report. Housing prices up 18.8%
misc SFist Rants: 80W and 101 to San Jose: No, the Other Right Lanes What’s the problem with the 5th Street exit? It’s simple: really bad signage. You’re driving west, just getting off the bridge, and you know that you should be in the
