misc <i>Milk</i> Finishes Shooting, '70s Fashions Abound Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know,
misc MUNI Underground We don't usually read the Op Ed pages of the Chronicle, because it's always either rehashed columnists from other papers or something like "give birth control pills to deer in Point Reyes" --
SF News Muni Has No (Hybrid) Love for Hunters Point Muni drivers have reported over the last couple of weeks that people have been shutting down the power on their buses by flipping a switch that can be accessed easily through an unlocked
SF News Money is What Muni Wants Due to budget problems, the Muni Powers That Be have decided on a possible solution, that being raising the Muni Fast Pass from $45 to $60 bucks. Suck on it, Muni riders. Muni's
SF News Day Around the Bay Prince Harry goes to war and stuff. Or something like that. We didn't get much farther than the picture at right. [SFBG] Check out a most brilliant car crash in Noe Valley. [Curbed]
SF News J-Church Accident this Afternoon Awhile back, Greg wrote that he didn't want The N Judah Chronicles to become the "let's all talk about people getting hurt and killed blog." Alas, the injury count seems to have gone
misc It's Time to Take Translink out Behind the Barn and Shoot it The impossible Translink dream has been stumbling around like a rabid possum for so long that it's sometimes hard to remember how disastrous it's been. But for years, it's always been ready. Just
SF News Muni to Roll With the Changes After months of studies, surveys, and community meetings, Gavin and Muni honchos finally unveiled new plans to solve everyone's issues with Muni. The proposed changes? Adding service to popular lines, decreasing service in
misc Breaking Muni News is Mostly a Bunch of Blah Blah Blah Gavin: Nat is as frustrated as everybody else. We want change on the margins. Eliminating bus stops. The line I take down polk never has more than 10 people; It takes 10 minutes.
SF News Day Around the Bay You think Muni is bad? [Nature abhors a vacuum] Hawthorne Street in shambles. [Curbed] Our college dormroom soundtrack, Kate Bush's "The Kick Inside," turns 30. [SFBG] Elizabeth Falkner's "edgy California cuisine" project, Orson,
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: The Chinese New Year Isn't Done With You Yet Good grief, this Chinese New Year business sure does go on for a long time. This weekend, it's a New Year Parade and a New Year Community Fair that'll be tying up traffic.
misc Unlike 511.org, We're Never Too Busy for Transit BART will be there to do a presentation, and Caltrain, and NextBus, and the MTC; they'll be joined by a ton of eager software developers and UI designers and social-engineering-types. Will Muni be
SF News Tour Connected Bus: Vehicle of the Future While not all of us are fortunate enough to zip around in swank Aston Martins, or have sleek Tesla waiting for us on the horizon, the "bus of the future" is the next
misc At Least You Can Get Some Email Done While You're Crawling Along Hey, which would you rather have: a bus that comes on time, or a bus that comes late but has a nifty antenna on top? Well who cares what you want! You're getting
misc SFist Reader Photo Challenge! If you already have a photo of drivers with phones: great! And if you don't: could you keep your eyes peeled, and your own cameraphones poised? Tip us off by leaving a comment
misc Muni Alarm: Too Loud? Jameth came across these stickers while riding the L-Taraval. According to him "[t]hese stickers are affixed over all of the speakers of this outbound L-Taraval train. The phone number was scraped off
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend But it's not all blocked onramps and gas stations this weekend! There's also some bus reroutes, courtesy of the delightful YMCA Chinese New Year Run on Sunday at the Chinatown YMCA (855 Sacramento
misc The Elusive Vawanda Discovered! Remember Vawanda? The Muni bus driver whose bravery many of you refused to believe in? Well, as fate would have it, local treasure Jameth, who uses her ad image as an avatar, finally
SF News Day Around the Bay Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune] Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to
misc The Central Subway: It's Gonna Be Terrific! Once category that doesn't appear to get much evaluating is the agency's competence to operate the subway once it's built. But that was never in doubt, was it?
misc Giant Hulking Muni Takes a Terrifying Interest in Small, Innocent Transportation Authority The TA, if you're unfamiliar, was created a couple of years ago by a voter mandate. Muni was in awful shape at that time (unimaginable, we know), and an voters needed an alternative
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: An Elaborate Web of Closures The weekend's coming up, and that means that Muni's got a long list of street closures and cancellations. And this week, the radical homosexual agenda is to blame: for several nights, streets around
misc The Philistine Has An SFist Polyphony We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the
SF News Day Around the Bay There was some sort of election yesterday. [Examiner, Mercury News, Citizen Sugar] With the makeup almost off and the little baggies nearly empty, Trannyshack calls it quits. [SFBG] Want to see candid shots
misc Oh, Look, a Government Agency that Actually Does a Pretty Smart Job of Spending Our Money The SFCTA is like Muni's successful younger sibling: they may be smaller, but they're lean and quick and very efficient. These folks get stuff . In addition to fixing all the broken transit in
