SF News Doubling Fines Along 19th Avenue Might Somehow Solve Everything State Senator Leland Yee introduced a bill in the State Legislature this morning that, if passed, would see traffic fines double for violations occurring along the deadly strip of San Francisco road known
misc The Making of a San Francisco Cable Car Did you ever wonder just where or how cable cars were made? More to the point, did you know that cable cars didn't just fall from the sky? Well, we didn't. WhatImSeeing, allowed
SF News Tour Connected Bus: Vehicle of the Future While not all of us are fortunate enough to zip around in swank Aston Martins, or have sleek Tesla waiting for us on the horizon, the "bus of the future" is the next
SF News Global Monopoly Game Embroiled in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In January we mentioned a global Monopoly board game where you could vote on which cities you want on Hasbro's latest version of the popular board game, Monopoly Here and Now: The World
misc San Francisco Zoo Re-Opens Lion And Tiger Grottoes Join us after the jump for details, lots of interesting details, about the re-opening.
misc San Francisco's Great Lunar Eclipse of 2008 Ideally, you'd have seen something like this. Better luck next year (or maybe December, 2010)! Update: The cold dawn of day reveals reactions from a poetic UCSF med student, a writerly editor and
SF News <strike>Love</strike> Moth-Killing Spray Is In the Air This Summer The little-known proposal to wipe out the light brown apple moth, which if it became established could destroy the region's agricultural industry, has developed increasing opposition among some residents who fear for their
misc Pelosi Says Voters, Not Superdelegates, Should Decide Whether you're a pro-Obama gloater or you live in pro-Hillary Delegate Hub fantasyland, the next few weeks should be interesting. News about City College dedication after the jump.
misc Cash Tomato To Give Away Cash, Tomatoes In Dolores Park This Saturday...Just Because Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! This Saturday afternoon at Dolores Park, Cash Tomato, a San Francisco "video sharing website that gives weekly large cash prizes to its highest rated videos," is giving away free cash.
misc At Least You Can Get Some Email Done While You're Crawling Along Hey, which would you rather have: a bus that comes on time, or a bus that comes late but has a nifty antenna on top? Well who cares what you want! You're getting
SF News Leal Voted Out As SFPUC Chief, Receives $400K Without providing an answer for firing San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal, the SFPUC officially sacked her this morning after a nine-minute closed door City Hall meeting. As part of her
misc Blocker: 300 Channel Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a regular series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist every other Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of
misc Yield to Life Image: Adobe Tour Tracker Pro cyclist and former San Francisco resident David Zabriskie (shown above leading the chase in today's stage of the Tour of California) has announced Yield to Life, a non-profit
SF News Car Impound Hides Yet Another Body From Police In reading the story today about a missing woman found dead in police employees' parking space, we were reminded of a similar tragedy that happened here in San Francisco, where a Leonard Milo
misc Whiskerless Waiters at the Palace Hotel In the middle part of the 19th century, a thick set of whiskers were an essential facial feature of every man of Victorian respectability. These were not simply expressions of pride or masculine
SF News Breaking News: Newsom and Siebel Briefly Go Without Gravitational Pull Oh, for the love of God. Really? Okay, we'll bite. Ahem: while some of us were going through a chemically-induced bender over the last few days, because that's why God invented the three-day
misc San Francisco Zoo's BikeAbout Lets You Cycle at the Zoo Our impressions, plus a closer view of what that big kitteh is eating, after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Feb 18 - 24 Thursday, popscene brings another great act to San Francisco, The Sessions. Hailing from Vancouver, these guys remind us of the Killers, the Bravery, and These Electric Lives. Friday, BAGeL RADIO presents San Francisco's
misc New Clubman from MINI Makes Its Debut in San Francisco Of special interest to urban city-zens is the right-side-only ClubDoor, which aids passenger loading. It looks like this. Having this clamshell door on the sidewalk side is good for us Yanks, but not
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco's favorite crooner, Utah-born singer/songwriter Spencer Day, performs tonight at the one of the city's newest music venues, the Rrazz Room located at Hotel Nikko. COMEDY: Let hilarity wash over
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend But it's not all blocked onramps and gas stations this weekend! There's also some bus reroutes, courtesy of the delightful YMCA Chinese New Year Run on Sunday at the Chinatown YMCA (855 Sacramento
SF News Vespa Rider Seriously Injured After South Van Ness Accident At first, before reading this story, we were ready to shake our finger at the Vespa rider in question. Lord knows we worry about you kids. But it seems she wasn't at fault.
misc Rebuffed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day Marriage Equality USA held an event at City Hall yesterday to get the word out about "the 1,138 federal marriage rights as well as the hundreds of state rights same sex couples
SF News Day Around the Bay Have you seen this couple? [SFGate] Vulgar, yes, but it will all be half-price come tomorrow. [Nature abhors a vacuum] Bonds failed a steroids test in 2001? You don't say. [ABC7] Obama Haight/
SF News Oh Shit: Prisoner Poop Fills the Bay According to Marin County officials, about "1,500 gallons of raw sewage" was dumped into the San Francisco Bay today near Point San Quentin. Grody. According to the Gate: Deartment of Corrections officials
