SF News Uber's And Sidecar's New Carpooling Services Are Apparently Illegal Ten days after San Francisco Uber users received emails welcoming them to uberPOOL, a recently-launched service from the transportation service intended to allow "Uber riders to share trips with another rider along their
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
SF News You're Out: Coast Guard Commander Replaced After screwing up mandated drug tests and failing to report the severity of the oil spill in a timely fashion, as of this morning Coast Guard Captain William Uberti is out. And an
SF News Oh You Should Totally Vote! It Looks Good on You. Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on
SF News Tsk Tsk: Sex. Drugs, And Good Attendance With Chris Daly It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and
SF News Let's Talk About Parking Some More It's happening Monday, July 2, at SPUR's 312 Sutter Street headquarters from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Valet parking will be provided. Ha ha ha, just kidding! Here's some things that SPUR,
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
SF News Caltrain Wants To Go Green The agency wants to use Electric Multiple Unit (or EMU) trains. The trains work by having each car generate it's own power. Besides the above-mentioned benefits, these trains are easier to maintain and
SF News Crosses Vandalized The crosses have been a source of controversy since they were put up months ago. Despite it being said to be "in memory" of all the troops killed in the war, it's seen
SF News The Travails of Tristan Of note is the resignation of the interim Taxi Commissioner and BFF of Heidi, Tristan Bettencourt. Tristan resigned after stories of past transgressions with the law were made public. In fact, Tristan seems
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
SF News Fast-Food East Bay First up is Oakland which is thinking about taxing certain merchants a few extra bucks to help clean up the messes left by customers, something that is apparently becoming a problem. The legislation
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Just Like You They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should be feeling
SF News All You Need Is Just a Little Patience After a long, raucous day of debate that lasted even longer than last night's ball game, the Board of Supervisors stared straight into the eyes of several controversial, contentious issues and decided to
SF News Ski Exhaustion Man, we're running out of pictures and titles for the ongoing ski jump saga in Pac Heights. So the big day's tomorrow! Skip work and watch Jonny Moseley zip by multi-million dollar homes
misc Bay Blogger Thursday Special Edition Okay, we all know what the internet is best at -- porn, porn, rants and porn. Sure, blogging is nice, but it doesn't really pay all that well. There was certainly a point
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
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
SF News Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent
misc In the Middle of the Road With the Essefficist Tuesday brings the Giants and the Padres the Essefficist. What could possibly be better? Don't answer that. Today we turn to an issue especially dear to many a San Franciscan: parking. Specifically, parking
misc We Only Work When We Need the Money! The roll out of the new Fair Labor Standards Act seems to have everyone confused. All that seems clear now is that no one really knows how many people will be impacted by
