SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
SF News Hot Hot Heat A Stage 2 emergency is called when power reserves dip below five percent (they're normally not supposed to get lower than seven percent). At this point, no rolling blackouts are planned, but businesses
Arts & Entertainment Craftster's Leah Kramer Leah Kramer is the mastermind behind the craftster forum. She’ll be in the Bay Area this week to promote her book, “The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts”, and SFist
SF News HANC Hampers Whole on Haight At a meeting last Wednesday of the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association (the People's Front of Haight Ashbury), the owner of the property, Mark Brennan, announced that Whole Foods wasn't going to move into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
misc Craigslist Encounters: Empty Boards Just like other network effect services, a new Craigslist sites takes time to develop as people in the far-off reaches (say... Centre County, Pennsylvania) don't just wake up and start using Craigslist. But
SF News Operating Thetan Level IV Seventy-five million years ago, Aaron Peskin was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of eleven planets, including his home planet North Beach. The Galactic Confederacy was comparable to our own, with
SF News The Last Team To Arrive When we staggered in their unmarked doors last night, the only thing we were scanning the crowd for was a fresh vodka and soda -- but our eyes alit on a strangely familar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sometimes a Great Notion So far, the idea seems to be going over well, especially among people who own cafes/restaurants. Like us, they've been wondering why they haven't been able to do it. More tables, of
misc SFist Cares ... About Yummy In Our Tummy Luckily, while we've been working on our tan other people have been working on more important things. Our inbox contains an email from one of our readers who's is rightfully proud of something
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Review Board We were getting ready to write yet another post about using Craigslist as a scapegoat for the evil Internet while blatantly ignoring all the good it serves. So we began the arduous task
SF News Nancy, Is That You? Even stranger: the blurb in question is only semi-coherent. It begins, "an illegal drug from mushrooms taken by people have stated that they experience behavior changes for weeks." Chew on that phrase, you
SF News Barry's Judgement Day Could be Weeks Away And according to most people quoted in the story, none of whom give their real names or job titles or anything resembling something that they would want to stake their reputation too, everyone
SF News Terrorize This Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of
SF News SFist Watches the World Cup So naturally, we went to Belden Place. Why not? We were rooting for les Bleus and the idea of being surrounded by people screaming "Sacre Bleu" or "Zizou!" with non-ironic French accents warmed
SF News Pardon Me Boy, Was that the Palo Alto Station? You know those "baby bullet" trains Caltrains implemented that everybody loves and increased ridership? Not everyone is feeling the love. See, the express trains have been so popular that more people are riding
SF News Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! The final this year should be a real humdinger of a game as it involves not only two storied teams who have played some great and stirring soccer, but because it features two
SF News Tora, Tora Taxi Commission Nevermind. So, then what is it we keep hearing about the SF Cab Commission? Why has this usually obscure governmental backwater suddenly become the latest source of gossip, intrigue, and petty name-calling? Well,
SF News Your BART Breakdown of the Week As a result, twenty-four out of fifty-five trains ran late. There was no train service from Richmond into San Francisco or down to Daly City and everything but the Dublin-Pleasanton line was turned
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
SF News Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
Arts & Entertainment How to Get the Guy: Third, Hammer Him With Questions Previously on "How to Get the Guy," four single-girls-in-the-City began their quest to find love, with the help of some very dubious "love coaches." JD's claim to fame is he's a guy. And
SF News A Frontier We Won't Cross If you never saw Flight Attendant School, it was a six-week reality show following 40 candidates training to attend flights for Frontier. While the intention of the show was to renew the public's
