misc Yield to Life Image: Adobe Tour Tracker Pro cyclist and former San Francisco resident David Zabriskie (shown above leading the chase in today's stage of the Tour of California) has announced Yield to Life, a non-profit
misc DANGER: Muni Cars Return to Claim More Victims Muni issued an alert yesterday afternoon that said simply, "Emergency - Powell line cable cars back in service." Oh no! Emergency! Cable cars unleashed on an unsuspecting public! Save yourselves! Run for the
misc Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BART (but You Aren't Allowed to Know About Muni) Muni declined to comment when we asked them why they weren't participating. So we'll have to assume it's because their engineers are already in way over their heads; and nobody there has any
SF News What We Need Is A Bike Valet Bike valet parking is great -- but what we really need is a bike valet, someone to lay out our freshly laundered cycling duds, to provide discreet, expert service and adjustments to our
misc Family <Strike>Missing</strike> Found! In The Sierras Can you believe it's been a year since James Kim died in the Oregon mountains? We're very sorry to pass along the news that another Northern California family is missing in what we're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Clarify That Butter: Crab Season Begins Update: Gale Force winds and a small craft advisory will keep crabbers fisher(people?) off of the Bay. Clearly, God hates us. Bastard. After the Cosco Busan fuel spill brouhaha, tasty crabmeat and
SF News Where Have All the Good Budget Times Gone? It's kinda like on the "the Wire" when the outgoing Mayor decided to get revenge on the guy who beat him in the Mayoral Race by not telling anyone that the educational system
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
misc Good Morning, Starchild-- the Earth Says Hello Starchild denied he was hooking in this particular case. In fact, he said this about the case: "we were not denying I might have committed prostitution on other occasions, we were just saying
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After So now that the evil Pats vanquished the noble Colts, we guess all we've got left to wonder about is seeing if the Pats could pull off the 19-0 and how long it'll
Arts & Entertainment Short End of the Stick Okay, okay, okay. Here is some good news. We are giving away two copies of The Decemberists' The Crane Wife on vinyl. Also, if you haven't already bought their new EP, then do
SF News How to Help Your Fellow Californians/Fire Victims As of now, six people have died and more than 500,000 people are in "mass migration" over the mind-numbingly destructive wildfires happening all throughout Southern California. It is, for lack of a
SF News Google Still Hating America If you may remember, Google first got in trouble when they didn't do one of those cute logo cartoons to Support the Troops. Now they're in some more trouble with conservatives for celebrating
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
misc SF Gays Are Boring: Meth Use Down, HIV Rates Stable Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Blue Jays 11 A's 7- What up with the A's pitching staff? For months and months, the pitching was an impregnable fortress. Now, it's leaking all over the place. The pitcher who got
SF News SFist Blotter Remember that couple we told you about that was stealing stuff from open houses? They got busted by the OnStar in their rental Hummer. Police won't reveal where they were, except to say
SF News Missing Person -- Help Find Daisy's Mom Dear SFist people, My friend Daisy's mom has been missing since yesterday morning and we cannot find her. She was last seen at her husband's house in Sacramento. She has dementia and diabetes
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are a bunch of great shows to see this week, but frankly the pickins are a little slim compared to the embarrassment of riches that we're used to here in SF. Tonight
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Lez be Friends But the execution ... oh dear. The film is presented as two half-hour sitcom episodes, and the jokes seldom manage to rise above quality. One typical exchange: when a lesbian finds out that her
SF News How Goes the Giants? Before we start, we should mention that this was conducted days ago, before the recent stretch of suckiness that put the Giants way behind the 8-Ball, the 8-ball being the Rockies. SFist: Okay,
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After A's 2 Red Sox 0- Before we begin our recap, we'd like to give our condolences to Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson as it appears Kawen is no more. Or was that Ote?
SF News NextBus TextMarks are at Your Service And: Ariel Poler, the CEO of TextMarks, has caught wind of our DIY transit project. In a comment on our last post, he writes, "I LOVE how you are using our service! If
