SF News Your Commute: Wire Woes Well, on the down side, they're now charging so much for cable cars ($5) that no one wants to ride them anymore. On the up side, no one's going to be able to
SF News Ohmeed Popal In Court Ohmeed Popal, the man who ran down 18 pedestrians last week, appeared in court today, dressed in the prison jumpsuit and looking "bewildered" at the proceedings. Popal first pled not guilty to the
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News Step Lively, SF There's a totally fascinating article about this year's traffic deaths in San Francisco today, by the inimitable Rachel Gordon. At about the 2/3rd mark for the year, we've had 29 traffic collision
misc Win Passes To See <i>Mommie Dearest</i> at Midnight Mass With Peaches Christ This final, fabulous* weekend, Peaches will be bringing us the canonical work , as well as the theatrical world premiere of Trannie Dearest!, "A fully original play written by Heklina and Peaches Christ." We're
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News The City Under the City Has Fabulous Shopping! But Not So!!! ... says Rodney Pimintel, Deputy Director for Capital Projects at the SFCTA. The as-yet-unbuilt Central Subway WILL connect to the existing subway lines on Market, come hell or high water; it
SF News Your Commute: Runaway Train Caltrain 314 hit and killed a woman this morning, stopping train traffic in both directions for more than 90mn. We were on the train, and were allowed to leave at about 9am in
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: The Grinch Edition We've heard of evergreen news stories, but this an evergreen story about decorated evergreens: assorted East Bay neighborhoods inevitably have one or two streets where the decorating is absolutely over-the-top. We are dying
SF News Chronicle Watch Watch Update: Day 439. Your Chronicle Watch Watch, where we mock the Chronicle's award-winning efforts to improve our neighborhoods one step at a time, is finally back! Okay, this Sunday? You're on Day of
SF News ChronicleWatch, Where Are You? Residents have been complaining for about a year, with scant help from city officials. SFPUC,which oversees the lights, blames the problems on "aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be
SF News The Golden State Warriors: It's Fun to Have Fun All that baggage and disappointment disappeared for a few hours this past Sunday afternoon when the second-place Warriors squared off against the first-place Clippers. It was a head-to-head matchup of two good teams,
SF News The Wheels of the Assembly Turn Slowly Almost a year ago to the day, we reported on one of the many pedestrian deaths on 19th Avenue, and made mention of Leland Yee's proposal to make 19th Avenue a double-fine zone
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Prettying Up Valencia Ah, Valencia Street. Who hasn't nearly been run over by a car, a bus, a biker, or frantic pedestrians running to make their reservations at Luna Park, on the Mission District's own Fifth
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets It Right the Second Time It's like drinking "green." It's vibrant, a little raw, and really just . . . different. Strong, but not oppressively so. Pungent. Piny through the middle; a nice, fresh finish. Perhaps some elucidation is in order.
SF News Sunset Tragedy Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30 this morning. Read
SF News Walk This Way Those of you who were bipedal in 2002 will probably remember almost every day that year, there was someone getting hit by a car on 19th Avenue or a child getting hit by
SF News FU, SUVs We were wondering why we've never seen the Governator prowling the streets of San Francisco looking for "Special Interests" to eliminate, Commando-style. At first we thought it was because hardly anyone here voted
