SF News In Which We Construct a Confusing "New Coke" Metaphor Muni's outreach for the meeting consisted of placing Chinese-only posters in buses in February (they're still up, BTW) and mailing out "several" flyers. According to the report, "staff expected 60-80 youth ... however, the
SF News Love, San Francisco Style The funny thing about all this, however, is that just a few years ago, San Francisco was listed as not one of the best places for singles. Hmm... Anyways, all you need to
SF News You Down With CCA? The idea is to contract out a company to implement renewable energy so that by 2017, 51% of the city will be powered by renewable energy. The money to get this going would
SF News We're Only Average The survey, conducted by the City Services Auditor found that while the city's grades seem to be improving from the last survey in 2005, they still aren't that great. In fact, in the
SF News Get Thee to the J-Church on Time During May, June, and July, Muni's going to be throwing every tool in their arsenal directly at the J. As one of the worst-performing lines, they're experimenting to see what it takes to
Arts & Entertainment Closing Time, Time For You to Go Out, Go Out Into the World Anyways, die to recent troubles at two clubs, the Entertainment Commission is looking at possible solutions to the problems. One of them is to have better and more educated owners. The other? Later
SF News Bloody, Bloody Weekend The deaths in question involved two shootings, the murder of a Marina nail and beauty salon owner, a person who was chased down by a car, and the fifth was a hit-and-run by
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 "Ask a Muni Driver" Bids You a Farwell If anything, we hoped to show that not every Muni driver is bad and that they're well aware of the problems with our transit system. There are bad drivers out there, but there
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Documentary Shorts We got to a classroom-sized room and settled into a folding chair just as people were starting to trickle in and, more importantly, right as the Trader Joe's snacks were being unpacked. Clearly
SF News Cars And Bikes Work It Out (No Way!) Peace in our times! Bikers and car drivers, with the help of none other than the Honorable Gavin Newsom, have worked out a permanent solution to the Golden Gate Park Healthy Saturdays impasse.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 3.... 2.... 1.... blast off! Yuri's Night at NASA's Ames Research Center is a science-sound-music-art shindig that sounds fun and interesting. Hosed by Keynote Speaker (and hottie!) Anoushe Ansari, the first privately funded
SF News "We recognize that the quality of service Muni has provided is unacceptable." UPDATE! Since this post went up 45 minutes ago, Muni has removed the apology from its site. We expect a new statement to be issued any minute, declaring that Muni regrets nothing, would
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Favorite Football Team Is? The consultant, Bill Rhoda, told the City Council that the stadium would generate $249 million for the county. Monorail! He then added that it'll bring in $12.3 million dollars annually in tax
SF News People try to Put Us D-down, Just Because We Get Around And we quote: "… Quite simply, this appears to be a generation that has little interest in working nights, weekends, or for that matter a 40-hour work week. It cuts into their leisure time
misc Hearings Can Sort of Be Healthy Too Since this hearing sounded like a whole heap of San Francisco fun, we searched around for any sort of description of it. SF Party Party, who have been one of the leading voices
SF News Hacking Muni Part Two: What to do When You Realize That it's Impossible. Gather evidence. Take photos or screengrabs, and post them to Flickr so you can point out how effed-up the situation was. Even better: take video, and post it to Guba. Write down the
misc Connect With a Good Deed If you want to help out, head on over the site and choose a project you'd like to work on. Among other things, you can do street outreach, give legal help, serve food,
Arts & Entertainment Big Wheel Keep On Turning We were really sad we didn't make it to the Bring Your Own Big Wheel event this Saturday as it sounded like a lot of fun. Things like this are one of the
SF News The Three Face of Giants fans Editor -- Peter McGowan should pass an edict that all vendors at AT&T Park must take a knee when Barry Bonds comes up to bat, as nothing gets my ire up
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
