SF News Your Commute: Time For New Shock Absorbers It's not just that you're bad drivers, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year,
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
Arts & Entertainment The South Bay {Hearts} You But if you're looking for smoochy, cuddly things to do down in the south bay (and really, who isn't?) we have some ideas for you. Of course, they're ideas from our bitter, black
SF News Today In Police Brutality Turns out the SF Chron really meant it when they said they'd be doing a week-long special on the use of excessive force by the SFPD. Here's a summary for today. See that
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken Wings Champion We were just talking about how much we love food competitions! San Jose's own competitive eater Joey Chestnut has kicked off the Super Bowl in style, winning the annual Wing Bowl competition in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
misc SFist Rants: 80W and 101 to San Jose: No, the Other Right Lanes What’s the problem with the 5th Street exit? It’s simple: really bad signage. You’re driving west, just getting off the bridge, and you know that you should be in the
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
SF News Goodbye, 104.9 Was that San Jose radio station Channel 104.9 the "new music alternative" because they played alternative new music, or were they the "new music alternative" because they played something other than new
SF News Slow News Day: Ring Found! Boy, nothing happens right before the holidays, huh? But nonetheless, we're pleased to report that someone is now claiming that she found the heirloom ring that a See's Candies worker lost in a
SF News Houstonist to SFist -- Drop Dead (Soccer) Hey, do you remember way back to two weeks ago when the latest member of the -ist family came on board and SFist Eve said we couldn't think of a reason to hate
SF News Mini Golf Terror Watch out for that 16th hole -- it's a doozy! The sandtrap and rotating windmill take on a sinister tone now at San Jose's mini golf haven Golfland, as authorities discover that the
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day For The VTA Man, today's not the VTA's day. The San Jose light rail was shut down for about an hour and a half to clear out the carcass of a truck making an illegal left
SF News Ode To Skull : Beethoven's skull...... Beethoven's skull..... So it turns out some guy in Danville's had fragments of Beethoven's skull sitting in a safe-deposit box, and he's turned them over to San Jose State, which apparently
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: They, Robots The tech lab crew took a field trip to San Jose last week for the RoboNexus international robotics convention. It's the second year of the convention, and it's the largest robotics convention in
Arts & Entertainment The Role of a Lifetime. ...Deathtime. Whatever. Interested corpses may proceed relentlessly to Pier 48 and ask for "Boz," or call Elaine "Zelda" Krumlauf (whose fantastic name we will be endlessly singing over and over in our head) at 408-829-6545
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Posts So what happened with all those stories we've been telling you about all week? Fret no more! Here's your answers! *Madison Nguyen beat Linda Nguyen, 62% to 37%, for the District 7 San
SF News Vote for Nguyen San Jose voters will be putting the first Vietnamese-American woman into a city council in California today -- who will be named Nguyen. You're either reading a column by the Great Karnak --
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
SF News Mammoth Mania Comes to a Close Well, the archaeologists from Cal have packed up their trowels and carted off the bones of what they believe is an adolescent Columbian Mammoth that were discovered last month in a San Jose
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: These Boots Were Made for Walkin' Edition The Governator is sinking in the polls like a ton of steroid-abusing bricks -- in fact, he may not bother to run for another term. The movie star is actually dodging cameras when
