SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Phillies 9 Giants 8- We were actually driving home when the ninth inning started with the Giants down by 1. Just as we were about to get to our garage, two Giants batters
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Bjork + Calling All Madwebcarpenters We would've gotten this up sooner, but we've been busy playing nursemaid all week! We parked in the hay last Saturday evening and were told by one of Shoreline Amphitheater's parking attendants, "Watch
Arts & Entertainment Park in the Park Parking won't be free -- but then, it never is. The city hasn't worked out the exact prices yet, but between the rent they'll pay to the state's DMV and the fees paid
SF News Let's Go! As we all know, cars are the worst things ever invented, and owning one makes you a terrorist. Fortunately, it's easy to go carless in SF -- we tearfully gave our beloved station
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
SF News What's Up With Your Board Of Supes? Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's
SF News Day Around The Bay --Yikes: two pedestrians were hit by a truck outside that Bank of America on 23rd and Mission this afternoon. --Beyond Chron says to not run anyone for mayor this year -- Tim Redmond
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: E.T., Phone Chiropractor What did we see parked in Union Square but a Cushamn-type three-wheel motorcycle parked amongst the scooters. It appears that somebody is using an auctioned-off parking patrol vehicle as personal transportation. Groovy customizations
SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
SF News Your Commute: Cars In The Chron Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Update on the Update- 511.org has the 411 on what commute will be like for the next few days-- it's pretty much like on Tuesday except not free. Check it out Update:
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
SF News The "No Duh" Story of the Day The study looked into the idea of creating bus only lines, either the center lane or outside lanes. One scenario envisioned would consist of two lanes towards the center with an island dividing
SF News We Are Family In his speech, Gavin added that he understands why people would feel the need to leave the city as his mother did the same when Gavin was just a wee little lad. Have
SF News I Can't Drive 55 Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number
SF News Everybody's Gone Sidewalk Parking The issue, like most things, is that there's not enough enforcement out there. Must be those lazy Gen Xers again, to concerned with playing video games to want to be a parking officer.
SF News Muni Discovery: Windshield Wipers not an Adequite Remedy for Flop Sweat UPDATE! Let's just pretend that our embarassingly mispelled hedline is a Lindsay Lohan joke. Yeah, sure, that's the ticket. Thanks for sending in pix and video of your own experiences with Muni's near-meltdown
SF News Hacking Muni Part One: How to Try to Catch a Bus We are SO THRILLED thatGavin wants to rescind parking passes and also to have all city vehicles impounded and converted into community gardens. Not only does that mean fewer cars on the road,
SF News Could a Skirt Have Saved Xiao Feng Deng's Life? Would skirts have helped? From some accounts, the victim was hit by the side of the bus as it turned, and pushed under the wheel. That certainly sounds plausible; we personally witnessed, a
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
SF News Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets In Will wonders never cease? It turns out they are fixing the streets from 15th & Valencia to 19th & Valencia. And thatt's not the end of it. The plan will include all sorts