SF News Saturday Links: Sliding Glass Doors May Make Newer Muni Buses More Spacious Sliding glass doors could be coming to newer Muni buses, a San Jose police sergeant drove right into a power pole, meet the Bay Area locals fighting for Hong Kong's future, and more Saturday headlines.
SF News Hong Kong Protests Cause Rift Between UC Berkeley Summer Session Students A bulletin board covered in Post-It notes expressing support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong has been vandalized several times on the UC Berkeley campus, and some Chinese students find it offensive.
SF News Son-In-Law Of High-Ranking Hong Kong Politician Won't Face Charges For Allegedly Impersonating TSA Agent At SFO When high-powered finance guy Eric Slighton was arrested at SFO after allegedly impersonating a TSA agent and luring women into "private screenings," officials hoped the women he pulled aside would come forward so
Arts & Entertainment We Want To Giant Rubber Duck To Come To The Bay Area! This inarguably lovable, 54-foot-tall rubber duckie has made its way around the world for years. The brainchild of 30-year-old Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the inflatable duck will be on display in Hong Kong
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade. Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattleās Saturday caucus. Londonist had
SF News Calling All Flamers You have, well, two entire days to fill out and return your application to become a torchbearer for the San Francisco leg of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. The San Francisco relay
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
SF News Cathay Pacific's 7 Hour Delay Passengers reported there was no food or water and no information about the delay, while Cathay Pacific claimed everyone was happy and sleeping like lambs. They did let some folks off at around
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: A Trip To China Aaron Peskin seems to have moved away from his original "let's see what happens and maybe it's all a big mistake" position, since he's now saying Jew has brought "dishonor" to the Board
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
Arts & Entertainment The War Memorial Code Philippines Founding Father Emilio Aguinaldo, while in exile from Spain in Hong Kong, conceived the flag. The flag incorporated various components of other Filipino flags and was designed to represent the Filipino rebellion
misc SFist Gift Guide: Asiastar Entertainment So wandering amidst the Buddhas, jade, slippers and collared dresses we were looking for something for our bros. So we grabbed a bubble tea and dropped by Asiastar Entertainment on Grant between Broadway
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