SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Just Bite Me This week, at Gastronomique, we went and educated ourselves about Italy. We actually traveled there last week, and had a wonderful time, until we went to the Mechanics Institute. There, Carol Field told
SF News SFist Raves: The N Judah We complain about MUNI all the time, and we're not about to take it back. But like all great passionate affairs, our hate, anger, frustration, and disappointment is tempered by deep love, like
SF News Wanted: N'Awlinsist Editor We've joked on the site before that the only other editorial job in the nascent 'ist empire that we'd like to take would be the one in Crescent City, AKA The Big Easy,
SF News SFist Rants: Up the Down Escalator Several weeks ago, SFist vented about our number one pub trans pet peeve. This week, we want to vent about our second biggest pub trans pet peeve. Consider this a sequel, kind of
SF News Political Junkie: Fareskipper SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted by Matier and Ross for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Loves a Parade Part Deux Of course, this being San Francisco, you can't have a group of people getting together in silly costumes without their being some sort of socio-political ramification to it all and, fret not, there
SF News SFist Rants: Move to the Back of the Bus, Please SFist has lived in this city a long time and there are some mysteries about this place that we’ll never fathom. Like all the guacamole love. Or what’s up with Dennis
Arts & Entertainment SF VMAs? The Chron's Matier and Ross get back to the gossip we pay twenty-five cents in the MUNI for and report that Gav Daddy Newsom is aggressively wooing MTV to throw the 2005 Video
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
Arts & Entertainment Always Take A Transfer People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts
SF News Ah, The Muniserable SFist was having trouble getting to sleep last night, and we figured that short of the narcotics available down the street, actually reading the MTA's recently approved Fiscal Year 2006 budget would probably
SF News Your Commute: Cable Car Blues Maybe Rice-a-Roni's not the San Francisco treat anymore either -- as part of the Great MUNI Cost Hike of Ought-Five, the city is proposing raising fares on the cable cars from $3 to
Arts & Entertainment More Paris Hilton Sidekick Fallout So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there,
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
Arts & Entertainment Snapping the Parade Hey photobloggers! Since you're bringing the digital camera downtown on Saturday anyways to defend your First Amendment rights on MUNI, don't forget to stop by and get some shots of the Chinese New
SF News Why, Our Morning's Been Just Splendid, Thank You One disadvantage to umbrellas is that they have a tendancy to block sidewalk traffic, particularly the ginormous, beach-sized variations weilded by imperious executives. Truly, a treacherous and double-edged sword. But it is a
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF News Your Commute: Decongestants We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation
SF News Muni, Muni, Muni! We all know how much our readers (and our staff) lurve to complain about the Muniserable. And it's not just when they're sticking it to the First Amendment. In fact, and every progressive
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF News BART! For those of you wondering why BART has been almost MUNI-like, it's because of a little software glitch that's throwing everything off. Due to that little glitch, switching equipment is malfunctioning somewhere between
SF News SFist Listens -- To You SFist would like you to know that we always consider feedback. So to show you that we actually, sometimes, act on that feedback instead of just considering it, we wanted to point out
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
Arts & Entertainment The Examiner Spawns Another Paper In 2000 when the Examiner and Chron merged and the Examiner sold off, everyone was sure that the Examiner was not long for this newspaper world, especially after its disastrous beginning. Now, almost
