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,
SF News American Football Spectacular: Calendaring The Raiders' (Fraught) 2007 Regular Season iously, how can this be so? The Raiders -- owners of the worst record in the NFL last season at 2-14 -- have been saddled with the most difficult schedule in 2007? Huh-whaah?
SF News Muni Discovery: Windshield Wipers not an Adequite Remedy for Flop Sweat UPDATE! Let's just pretend that our embarassingly mispelled hedline is a Lindsay Lohan joke. Yeah, sure, that's the ticket. Thanks for sending in pix and video of your own experiences with Muni's near-meltdown
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 3.... 2.... 1.... blast off! Yuri's Night at NASA's Ames Research Center is a science-sound-music-art shindig that sounds fun and interesting. Hosed by Keynote Speaker (and hottie!) Anoushe Ansari, the first privately funded
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out This being an election year, cleaning the streets is the in thing to do. Which is why the streets get cleaned every four years. Gavin has been all over the "quality of life"
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 A's Anatomy: The Overrated Stat of "W" “...the game is still wins and losses. The Pirates led the league in ERA in 1989 or around there. They finished last. I guarantee you those pitchers would have rather had wins. You
Arts & Entertainment Big Wheel Keep On Turning We were really sad we didn't make it to the Bring Your Own Big Wheel event this Saturday as it sounded like a lot of fun. Things like this are one of the
SF News Not Gonna Happen We always thought the Glover thing was merely wish fulfillment for a lot of people wishing that someone, anyone, would run against Gavin and carry the progressive flag. But Luke Thomas said the
Arts & Entertainment Bikers vs Car Drivers, the Video In light of all the recent dagger throwing between cyclists and drivers, SFist Matty Matt found this video having fun with the issue. Now, we should warn people that it makes fun of
Arts & Entertainment She's Everywhere! We Talk To TWOP's Keckler, aka Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a culinary school graduate that writes about food and television. What's not to love? She's best known for her scathing, funny, and exhaustive coverage of several shows over
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
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Getting Ready for the Easter Bunny We know this is very Martha Stewart of us and we'll admit maybe we were a little brain washed on our recent Jet Blue flight, where we got to watch hours of Martha
Arts & Entertainment Bad Kitty! We've told you about Pet Noir here before, the comic anthology published by Manic D Press featuring an impressive list of local talent. If you still haven't picked up a copy get yourself
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
Arts & Entertainment The SF Women's Film Festival's On Its Way! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group of movie screenings, running from April 11 through Sunday the 15th, and organized into intriguing categories like LGBTQ short film (honoring Guinevere Turner
SF News Bitch Please The key point is to get lots of details. Either write them down, or text them to yourself, or call your voicemail and leave them as a message. Details are crucial: bus number,
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
misc Bring on the Bio Diesel Buses How this will work is that the city will buy two trucks, hire a bunch of drivers, and go around the city collecting grease. Talk about a fun job. According to the SFPUC,
Arts & Entertainment We Get By With a Little Yelp From Our Friends We ourselves haven't yet jumped into writing our own user reviews, but we love to read other people's. In recent times, we have checked out the forums at Steve's Digicams when we were
SF News Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot) In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
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
SF News At Last, a way to Devote Even More of your Free Time to Transit First up: an update on Muni's Transit Effectiveness Project, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 312 Sutter Street (at Grant), Fifth Floor, from 12:30 to 1:30. And then the very next day (Thursday), a
