misc Let's Not Get All Nogged Up and Drive, San Francisco We're coming in to the thick of the Holiday season here (or perhaps more accurately: Holiday Party Season) and the authorities in San Francisco will be celebrating accordingly with their traditional 17 day
SF News Beware of Dangerous Pedestrian Countdown Signals Have you come across crosswalk signals that skip countdown numbers? We have. And it's scary. Fortunately, Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian safety advocacy group, can help you take action. "We're hearing reports of
Arts & Entertainment Vigil Tonight for German Cyclist Killed at Masonic & Turk A candlelight walk and community vigil will be held to honor slain (if you will) cyclist Yannick Linke (Nils Linke) who was killed by an allegedly intoxicated motorist on Masonic last week. Tonight's
SF News Emergency Landing at SFO After Drunk Passenger Sets Napkin On Fire A reader, who asked to remain anonymous, writes to SFist about a harrowing (albeit it tiny) blaze aboard a flight, prompting an emergency landing at SFO on Sunday. A good friend was flying
SF News BART and Muni Heighten Security After Moscow Attack Speaking of attacks on public transportation, following the deadly subway bombing that rocked Moscow yesterday, Muni and BART have ramped up security. Dogs made their way through BART trains yesterday, "sniffing for anything
SF News Police Chief Gascón Angers Middle Eastern and Arab Community During a breakfast to celebrate a $412 million June-ballot bond to seismically retrofit a city buildings, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón made a comment, according the SF Chronicle, about how the Hall
SF News Haight Cleansed of Bullies for the Night Yesterday, controversial SF Chron columnist C.W. Nevius talked about street kids bullying locals in the Haight. Last night, according to SFist commenter jline, the police responded. Update: the police responded to this
misc SFMTA's Headphone Smear Campaign Starts Beth W. from Muni Diaries writes about this latest ad campaign, and she's none to thrilled. Beth says, "I’m having trouble totaling up the number of things wrong with it," going on
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A
SF News Just Shoot Us Sadly, the website is a little confusing -- a lot of , and their plans for implementation are alarmingly sparse. And what's the difference between "Not Aware" and "Don't Know"? Navigating through the poll
