Arts & Entertainment Why Did You Skip Healthy Saturday? All that work, all that lobbying and compromising, all those broken promises, all those clipboards -- and nobody showed up for the first Healthy Saturday. Yikes. We've got lots of pix up on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The acclaimed French-trained Guinean contemporary circus troupe Circus Baobab makes its US debut as part of the SF Int'l Arts Festival, performing The Jumping Drum, a fable about globalization and family, complete with
SF News Fly, Mighty Cushman! They're more than just ticket-issuing vehicles, or the futuristic transport vehicles in the movie Space Mutiny. They're awesome fun! We featured a casually attired Cushman a few weeks ago, and the owner wrote
SF News Muni Discovers Cartography: THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE This notice of service changes offers up two different map formats (one simple, one confusing). Which is your favorite? We prefer the one that doesn't look like a trail of drunken ants on
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Photo: San Francisco Bay to Breakers results Yes, it's another Bay to Breakers. Pretty good weather and a good time for all. But, first of all kids, they've been lying to you all these years. Is the highest point of
SF News Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably
SF News Get To Work (And Get There Sweaty) Muni's put together an info page, but their halfhearted map is in loathsome PDF. We went ahead and converted it to a format that you can actually use; you're welcome. (Or you can
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more
SF News Belmont: More cars! More pollution! The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
Arts & Entertainment Get Where You're Going Faster Compare these delightfully uniform navigation tools to the unformatted labyrinth that is Muni's new site, which has layers of differently-formatted menus and . Once again, we see that there is nothing Muni can do
SF News Goodbye, Jessie; Hello, Mint Opening the street to pedestrians (aka "humans") has some opponents; some folks claim that it'll make it harder to valet their cars when frequenting the nearby hotels and malls. And to be fair,
Arts & Entertainment Warning: "Contains Trolls." Here's how the story of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" begins: "Once upon a time ... there lived a kind and beautiful girl named Tove whose greedy family gave her
SF News MacArthur Maze Collapses Update: 11:45 a.m.: Here's your roads: W-80 to S-880 is closed (from Berkeley to the Oakland airport). E-80 to E-580 is closed (from SF to Lake Merritt and Piedmont). Alternate routes:
SF News We'll Show Up For 4th Fake Question Time -- Will Gavin? Don't forget, the next Fake Question Time (or, as we call it around here: FQT4) is this Saturday, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club in Excelsior (163 London Street, x Excelsior
SF News It's 4th Fake Question Time! : the mayor's office has announced the fourth installment of his traveling lecture series, or, as he prefers to call it "the town hall open meeting where the public is not actually permitted to
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,
Arts & Entertainment Another Feather in KRON's Cap "Shooting," we are told, "is due to start the third week of June, and rehearsals in April." If that works for your schedule, check out their auditions for puppeteers and VO artists next
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Geek Out! A science fair with open mic? Awesome! Dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists, designers, engineers, students and any interested parties who gather to share ideas and projects relating to any form of
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
misc Puppy Love We want a dog so bad we've taken to following strangers in the street in the hope that they'll stop at the “don’t walk sign” and let us pet Fido. One may
SF News BART Extensions The money comes from the California Transportation Commission and is more than half the $700 million that the Valley Transportation Authority needs to do the engineering on it. In fact, the engineering has
Arts & Entertainment Up on High, In the Mix Feeling quite adventurous, a few weeks ago we decided to test our legs on Mix Canyon Road a bicycle ride located just on the western side of Vacaville. We've heard amazing things from
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF News Your Third (Third!) Berkeley Quake The Chron included a helpful link to a Google map of the area (why didn't think of that?), which shows that the epicenter was between Ashby Ave. and Highway 24, right off Claremont
