misc Coming Soon to Subways: An End to FAIL! As an added bonus, the NextBus maps will finally be able to listen to Muni's own (antique) system, so the estimates will be more reliable. Of course, they'll still be located down by
SF News Rally at City Hall Protests SF's Hosting of the Olympic Torch A small protest was held at City Hall yesterday by 400-plus pissed off Tibetan immigrants, honoring the 49th anniversary of Tibet's uprising against China, but also San Francisco's hosting of the Olympic torch.
misc MUNI Underground We don't usually read the Op Ed pages of the Chronicle, because it's always either rehashed columnists from other papers or something like "give birth control pills to deer in Point Reyes" --
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City. Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
misc Photo du Jour 77 Mating season, it's on. This wild turkey was found inside the city limits of San Jose. Who knew?
SF News Layoffs Greet San Francisco School Teachers Today 535 San Francisco Unified School District teachers will receive layoff notices this morning due to state cuts in education funding. Today's pink slip handouts stem from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget '09, which will
Arts & Entertainment Gaylord of the Dance: an AIDS Lifecycle Fundraiser Gaylord of the Dance - Teaser from Scott Saraceno on Vimeo. For better or for worse, spring is in the air. And with that comes the many AIDS Lifecycle Fundraisers that will litter
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Third Murder Of The Year An unidentified person was shot and killed on the 1600 block of Russell in Berkeley last night, brining the city's murder tally to three. (The much larger city of San Francisco, BTW, is
SF News Homeless Memorial Plaques Matier & Ross were all over this nugget of news today: bronze plaques will be placed in locations where the city's homeless have died. The "memorials" will be placed in Chris Daly and
SF News Is Your Little Blessing a Tagger? God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see,
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: High Art Toilet Humor One of the federal buildings in the Tenderloin is thoughtlessly tagged with some thoughtful graffiti. According to livinintheloin: I live right on UN Plaza, so my walk to the BART hole is a
misc Crazy Boyfriend Has Headaches Making that splitting headache even worse, Farber was also formally presented with the paperwork for the second restraining order that Rahaim filed against him after Rahaim discovered the fire. (Farber violated the first
misc Crazy Boyfriend Of New SF Planning Director Sets Fire To Firehouse We're a little late to this story, in part because we spent all day yesterday trying to separate out the hilarious comments from the offensive ones on SFGate.com (it looks like the
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
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 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
misc Week Around the -Ists Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale. Gothamist marveled at the city's new NYC-branded condom campaign - especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun
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 Photo du Jour 54 We shamelessly stole today's photo of the day from SF Metblogs. It was reportedly taken at the Ferry Building's farmers market. And while we can imagine such a gruesome display occurring in more
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade. Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus. Londonist had
misc Photo du Jour 51 Where do we start? How about Mr. Fluffface on a leash. We love it. Why don't we see more of this around the city? Adorable doesn't even begin to describe how we feel
SF News Punitive Funding Cuts for Berkeley's Shocking -- Shocking! -- Leftist Tone? Republican (it goes without saying) Assemblyman Guy Houston of San Ramon wants to slice off more than $3 million in state funding from Berkeley for their stance against Marine recruiting. He will introduce
SF News Downtown Lawyer Sues SF Over That One Guy Who Beats Those Plastic Buckets and Metal Pots at the Ferry Building 60-year-old attorney William McGrane is fit to be tied. Why? Because of noted Ferry Building street percussionist John King's daily performances. It seems that his groovy beats, which stem from the many plastic
misc No losers there. Then somewhere north of 1,700 tickets (including our little single one!) will be metaphorically mixed in a giant non-safeway non-plastic bag, out of which maybe 50 will win (197 units will be
