misc Bay Area Wanderer: joy of life * Bay Area Wanderer: Mason near Eddy, San Francisco Between old brick-walled buildings, a muraled wood fence holds a parking lot. The guy keeping the lot seems to be talking to himself. Wait, is
SF News Your Fun MUNI Story of the Day We got this story from Friend of SFist, Ian about his MUNI adventure over the weekend. We were on a 43 bus last night that was hit by a drunk driver on Haight
SF News Recycling Your Christmas Tree Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
SF News Flying Out of Oakland? The easiest way of getting to the Oakland airport is AirBart. AirBart is a bus service that runs from the Oakland Coliseum BART station to the airport. It's only two bucks (plus whatever
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is? According to the complaints, various things have fallen from the top of the stadium onto whole section of stands and the parking lot. Luckily, nobody was there at the time but the fact
SF News CHiPs First up is this story from San Jose about a crazy guy, an ambulance, a carjacking, and a stolen police car. Apparently this one guy was picked up for psychiatric care (it's unknown
SF News And Now For Some Bikes Have you been following the drama with the city's bike plan? It's BANANAS, and there's no end in sight. Basically: the city wants to paint bike lanes and allow bikes on trains and
SF News Your Commute: Cars There was a huge accident on eastbound I-80 today, near Pinole -- a five-car pileup. It originally started when a Civic spun out in the fast lane and was hit by a Camry.
SF News North Beach is Italian for Piazza Right now the problem with the piazza is... drum roll please... money. Or more like not knowing where it'll come from. Estimated price is somewhere around a half million, which doesn't sound like
SF News Can't We All Just Get Along? The problem is that BART isn't bringing in enough money to help the extension and so there's not enough money to run the sucker. Since it was supposed to be a dual operation,
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your College Football Team Is? Stadium issues aren't just affecting Bay Area professional teams, but college teams too. There's a fight going on about renovating Cal's Memorial Stadium that's been going on for the past few months. And
misc SFist Rants: Curb Your Yellow Bus Elsewhere Our block circling antics have happened everywhere from Russian Hill and North Beach to Civic Center and SOMA, at varying days and times. However, we don't usually like to play the blame game
SF News Beat on the Parking Officer If yesterday's theme was transportation, today's theme is looking like parking. Yay! The reason is because we have not just one, but two (two!) stories involving parking. First up is Matier & Ross
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know What Your Football Team is Wearing? Okay, now let's get to the bad stuff. The city is doing more to press the Niners other than saying they can't use the name San Francisco. Basically, they're talking about playing a
SF News Diary Of a Poll Worker I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come
SF News Everything Else Results National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
SF News Your Commute: Down on the Upside First up is MUNI which is now using the 1 California to test out a new system to ensure busses are on time. Why the 1 California? Because Gavin got in a tiff
Arts & Entertainment Let the Wild Halloween Speculation Begin! The big day's nearly upon us, and so many questions remain unanswered: when's the party start? How's it going to end? Is there going to be extra Muni running to the event in
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
SF News Don't Recycle Those Mailers! Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky" from District 8 -- but will accept all your flyers
SF News The SFist Guide To The SF Propositions If you're looking for better-informed information than the cursory one-sentence summaries we're going to provide to you after the jump, check out the SF Dept. of Elections and the San Francisco League of
SF News Amos and Arnie Strangely enough, word is also getting out there that Amos is on the payroll of the Governor as a political consultant. Hmmmm...you wouldn't think...no, not even possible. Brown is saying that
