SF News You Will Soon Be Paying An Extra Quarter To Ride Muni Bad news: Fares on Muni busses and trains will be going up to $2.25 on September 1. Bright side: You don't have to carry extra quarters around if you just get yourself
SF News Market Street Safeway Still Evicting Recycling Center, People Still Protesting There's been an ongoing fight for several years between neighbors in the vicinity of Dolores, Duboce, and Market Streets and homeless advocates over the eviction of the outdoor, nonprofit recycling center at the
SF News Transbay Rooftop Park May Not Be Dead, Might Require Naming Rights The Mayor's Office has quickly responded to reports last week that one of the signature aspects of the new Transbay Transit Center the multi-block, rooftop park and promenade might have to be scrapped
SF News A New Proposal To Un-Suck Muni: Tie Funding To S.F. Population Growth District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener is taking a hard look at ways to funnel more funding to the city's forever-ailing transit system. His latest proposal: a city charter amendment that would increase the
SF News Supervisors Testing Fewer Seats, Wider Aisles On Muni Trains If you took an N-Judah to work and noticed a lot more standing room, you can thank Supervisors London Breed and Scott Wiener, who pushed for more strap-hanging and less seat-hogging on light
SF News San Francisco's Feces-Covered Streets By The Numbers 1: The number of blocks St. George Alley, aka "San Francisco's Filthiest Alley" runs Once: The number of times San Francisco's Department of Public Works manages to clean St. George Alley per week,
SF News Yet Another Proposal To Give Us Late Night Transit Hope At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, D8 supe Scott Wiener introduced the latest plan to try improving the BART's and Muni's after-hours transit options. This isn't the first time we've heard that one
SF News Local Nudism Activist Gypsy Taub Unveils New 20-Year-Old Fiancé, Plans Nude Wedding At City Hall The small but staunch cadre of local nudists held perhaps their final nude-in of the year on Sunday (what with the weather and all) in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, i.e. Ground
SF News Middle Class Screwed In Current S.F. Housing Market As we all know and have talked endlessly about for several years, getting a decent apartment in San Francisco is damn near impossible unless you make a six-figure income, preferably upwards of $150,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Owners Expanding With New Castro Mexican Spot The runaway success of Hi Tops, the one-year-old gay sports bar in the Castro that has become so much more than that to a generation nay, several generations of local homosexuals, has laid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Responds To San Francisco's Proposed Soda Tax As San Francisco braces itself for the possibility of spending a quarter extra just for the privilege of enjoying an ice cold can of bubbly corn syrup, the lobbyists from Big Soda would
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Comes San Francisco's Soda Tax In nanny state news: Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce legislation this week that would add a 24-cent tax on every can of soda sold in the city of San Francisco. Wiener's bill
SF News Castro Sidewalk Widening Approved, Will Happen In 2014 At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, a plan to shrink the vehicle traffic area to two lanes and double the width of the sidewalks on the main drag of Castro Street was approved.
SF News Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing? Double parking tickets: have you actually ever seen one issued? Supervisor Scott Weiner hasn't, and he's clashing with the SFMTA over the issue. Weiner called a board meeting Tuesday to discuss the scourge
SF News Be Heard At This Month's Castro Safety Meeting The city's gay mecca is home to a lot of change as of late. First, those new condos across the street from the Lookout have some worried. About what, we're not sure; growth,
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
SF News Serial Nudists Fined For Showing Off The Goods How much does it cost to put your crown jewels on public display in San Francisco these days? About $200 bucks in fines and court fees. In yesterday's trial, three of San Francisco's
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Serial Nudists Apparently Shocked They Get Arrested So Much Several of San Francisco's most consistently naked protestors have refiled their lawsuit claiming the city's ban on public nudity is a violation of their right to free speech. Although a U.S. District
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
SF News S.F. Nudity Ban Upheld; Federal Judge Says Nudity Isn't Speech You'll recall the protest outside the federal courthouse we showed you on Thursday where a hearing was taking place about S.F.'s nudity ban? Well, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen says
SF News S.F.'s Nudity Ban Could Be Overturned In Federal Court Public nudists of San Francisco have less than 15 days to put their flaccid penises under wraps. Or do they?! The fate of Scott Wiener's public nudity ban will be decided in a
SF News Chiu Re-Elected to Third Term as President of the Board of Supes At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu was once again chosen as President of the Board, for his third consecutive term. Speculation about a possible changing of the guard in the President's
SF News Blogger Ordered To Stay Away From Supervisor Wiener Blogger/gay-rights activist Michael Petrelis has been ordered to stay at least 150 yards away from Supervisor Scott Wiener for snapping a shot of the elected official inside a bathroom at San Francisco
