SF News What's Going On Here, Oakland Airport Passenger? A photo posted by TSA (@tsa) on Apr 20, 2015 at 6:27pm PDT I've made no secret of my love for the Transportation Security Administration's Instagram account in the past, as I
SF News Oakland Airport Connector Already Experiencing Breakdowns Due To Windblown Trash The three-week-old, $484 million boondoggle fancy tram to the Oakland Airport ran into some major trouble last Friday, during the tail end of the rainpocalypse, shutting down for seven hours due to windblown
SF News Oakland Airport BART Connector Might Be Open By Thanksgiving Right on schedule, BART's Oakland Airport Connector light rail is set to open to the public either by the end of next month, or by early December. The project has been controversial because
SF News BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers 3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number
SF News Allegiant Airlines Creates Day-Long Absurdist Horror Tale For Oakland Passengers Passengers trying to catch a flight out of Oakland Monday to Provo, Utah were treated to a completely ridiculous series of events that led them to be trapped on three separate planes through
SF News SF Man Arrested Trying To Get 65 Pounds Of Weed Through Oakland Airport A 21-year-old San Francisco man by the name of Tony Nguyen is out on bail after a random baggage search at Oakland Airport revealed he had stuffed 65 pounds of marijuana into a
SF News Weird Odor Prompts Southwest Jet To Turn Around At Oakland Airport A Southwest flight bound for Burbank that took off from Oakland Airport just after 7 a.m. this morning had to turn around and land twenty minutes later after a mysterious odor filled
SF News Marijuana Found In Peanut Butter At Oakland Aiport Oakland Airport TSA security screeners wasted both time and money busting a guy for carrying a stash of marijuana inside a jar of Skippy peanut butter on Sunday. "Nico Melendez, a TSA spokesman,
SF News Man Struck, Killed By Car Near Oakland Airport An unfortunate series of events, including the police impounding a man's car last night for a speeding violation, led to the death of another man by the side of a road near Oakland
SF News Hilarious Laser Pranks Not So Funny At Bay Area Airports According to the Chronicle, "Reports of lasers being shined at aircraft nearly doubled last year across the country, with the Bay Area being among the worst regions when it comes to the dangerous
SF News BART About to Eff Themselves Out of $70M We've been seeing something like this coming, but apparently BART's plan to use $70M in stimulus funds to build that Oakland Airport tram has just hit another snag. The Federal Transit Administration sent
SF News Stimulus Funds Make Oakland Airport BART Connector (Almost) A Reality So, this is sort of a math problem: Take a $130 million project; sit it on it and discuss for many years; watch costs rise to about $500 million; receive a $70 million
SF News Southwest Flights Resume Southwest Airlines, the cattle-car service of affordable air transportation, resumed flights this morning after yesterday's maintenance SNAFU grounded "approximately 4 percent" on Tuesday night. It seems that many of their airplanes failed to
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, remember angry Sarah Nome, the lady who refused to move out of the Kaiser hospital in Marin for over a year, and ran up a $1.4 million bill? Well, Kaiser's 1)
SF News Marines Crucified at Oakland Airport In fact, it was just a tarmac/security-check issue preventing them from entering the passenger terminal for a cinematic "meet and greet" with their family and friends. Read more about it here and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] --
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
SF News Breaking News from the SFist News Desk An Alaska airlines plane has been evacuated at the Oakland Airport for suspicion of an explosive device on board. It's probably nothing as it's usually nothing but it's still kind of exciting. As
SF News Oakland Airport Evacuated This all happened around 11 A.M. when a guy walked up to an Alameda County sheriff's deputy who was watching over the area where arriving passengers exit and enter the baggage claim
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nightmarish Coffee at 30,000 Feet It sure is hard to review a San Francisco-based coffee joint when you're not in San Francisco. Although we did find one fantastic coffee house in D.C. (that we would encourage anyone
Arts & Entertainment Airport Holiday Roundup We're going to let you in on a little holiday travelling secret... Don't Do It. Seriously. Wait for teleportation or, say, February. But if you must go somewhere during the holiday season, the
