SF News Mountain Bike Racing and the Upside of Global Warming The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own
SF News Do You Have Prince Albert In A Can? Har har! We were going to post about this yesterday too, but forgot until today. Some wag managed to do an entire interview with KTVU Tuesday night about that fire near the Altamont
SF News The Tonga Room We can't stop reading these articles about the drag racer who killed the Tongan royals! (and yes, you've seen that picture before; our pictures continue not to load on this server.) Today's news:
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
SF News Thou Dost Protest Too Much The bill actually came up for a vote but Sandoval pushed it aside to a committee, claming that he can't really support the bill because even he's having trouble speaking English, Shakespeare style.
SF News I Don't FEEL Tardy or The Dog Ate My Hearing Notice It's been over a year since high-profile law firm Gonzalez and Leigh filed suit over former SFUSD chief Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" termination package. They lost the case in August, but appealed the
SF News Barry's Judgement Day Could be Weeks Away And according to most people quoted in the story, none of whom give their real names or job titles or anything resembling something that they would want to stake their reputation too, everyone
SF News Terrorize This Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of
SF News Miss Murder Maybe you should have voted for Prop A this election cycle after all -- at the halfway mark for 2006, there've been 45 murders this year, putting us on pace for 90 by
SF News This Week's BART Screw Up Today's problem-- train stuck in the Transbay Tube for over an hour. Ouch. That's gotta suck. There you are, stuck in a train, somewhere deep underneath hundreds of feet of water, thinking that
SF News Le Tour de France: Who's Watching Who? After a day off, the 2006 Tour de France is heading into its second week today, unbeknownst to most Americans. According to the Chronicle, only 280,000 Americans watch the Tour on TV.
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
SF News Pardon Me Boy, Was that the Palo Alto Station? You know those "baby bullet" trains Caltrains implemented that everybody loves and increased ridership? Not everyone is feeling the love. See, the express trains have been so popular that more people are riding
SF News Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! The final this year should be a real humdinger of a game as it involves not only two storied teams who have played some great and stirring soccer, but because it features two
SF News Dear Giants It's over. Finished. Kapoot. As of this moment, we will no longer start to believe in you. Once again, for like the umpteenth and hundredth time, we started to think that you had
SF News What Happened With That? We know you're totally dying to find out what happened with some of the stories we told you about from San Mateo County a week or so ago. Dying! Who won that habanero
SF News Tora, Tora Taxi Commission Nevermind. So, then what is it we keep hearing about the SF Cab Commission? Why has this usually obscure governmental backwater suddenly become the latest source of gossip, intrigue, and petty name-calling? Well,
SF News Your BART Breakdown of the Week As a result, twenty-four out of fifty-five trains ran late. There was no train service from Richmond into San Francisco or down to Daly City and everything but the Dublin-Pleasanton line was turned
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
SF News Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City on Air Rock n' Roll SFist would like to give an official SFist Mazel Tov to Alameda's own Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier who became the Fourth ever US Air Guitar National Champion. Having seen Hot Lixx in
SF News A Frontier We Won't Cross If you never saw Flight Attendant School, it was a six-week reality show following 40 candidates training to attend flights for Frontier. While the intention of the show was to renew the public's
SF News DiFi Sucks And so the question is raised, why DiFi, why? In her speech to her fellow Senators, DiFi put up that famous picture of marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and talked about
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to
misc Rat Trap Animal hoarding's always been a lurid fascination of ours, along with people who have sextuplets, and Chris Daly. So have you been following this story about the guy who had over 1000 rats
