SF News Two SF Fires The Globe restaurant in downtown will be shut down for a few weeks for repairs, after a one-alarm fire last night. The fire department says the fire was started by grease stuck in
SF News Fortysomething Dies While Street Racing A grown man died during a street race in Oakland last night at around 9:30 p.m.. The unidentified 42-year-old -- that's right, 42-year-old -- was racing his 2005 Nissan "west on
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Here's the question: Do cops ever stop a Muni driver for anything like speeding or running a red light? In theory, yes. In practice, no. Or at least, I've never seen it or
SF News Bay Bridge Crash Exemplifies Song from <em>The Lion King</em> Due to the traffic backup caused by yesterday's fatal car crash on the Bay Bridge, it seems that a woman popped out a kid. According to the Examiner: As a result of the
SF News SOMA Must Be Cursed In the last two days we have witnessed Not to mention the drive-by shooting that took place the other night right outside SFist headquarters on Stillman. What the heck is going on around
SF News Update: Fatal Bay Bridge Accident Inconveniences Westbound Traffic Update: all lanes are now open. It seems that "a box truck, from a business called 'Diet to Go'...drove directly into the back of the big rig," killing the box truck driver.
SF News Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Fervent Believers Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. First, there's Critical Mass. Lots of
Arts & Entertainment This Just In: Fall Out Boy's Van Not Invisible It looks like one of San Jose's most trusty traffic cops was also in a giving mood. The Invisible Children van got a parking ticket. They were parked illegally (see the red curb
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 Your Commute: Recursive Car Accident Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over
SF News Truck Man Saves the Day By day he's an Alight Electric employee. By night? A Ford F-350 Super Duty hero. It seems that last night on the Golden Gate Bridge, John Beatty of Mill Valley saved the day,
SF News SFist Blotter (Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's
SF News Oakland: Early Morning Hit-And-Run Kills Woman So far there is no description of the car or person that killed the woman. Of course, if any of you were up at that hour, kicking it in Oakland and might have
SF News SFist Blotter It's been quiet over the past couple of days. A little too quiet. Hop to it, hoodlums of SF, we need crime-y content! -- In the foreign realm of Fremont, a routine traffic
SF News Caltrain vs. Garbage Truck No, there was no collision involving a train. However, a garbage truck apparently struck a bridge in San Mateo, holding up all southbound traffic for about 20 minutes. At first, our weary-sounding conductor
SF News 19th Ave/Sloat Signal, Continued We were bicycling out in Parkside today, and we stopped to admire the new traffic signals at 19th and Sloat. It's still extraordinarily dangerous, and perhaps worse. The sign telling cars to yield
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
SF News Now, Where Did We Put Our Blacklight? When he's not busy keeping it real or putting in a couple of loads at the laundromat -- he looks like a Biz kind of guy, doesn't he? -- Gavin Newsom is out
SF News Murderous Intersection Tamed with a Turn Signal The traffic on 19th is so fast and so thick that it's like an interstate highway; and in fact, the state considers it exactly that, and claims ownership of the road. Leland Yee's
SF News Your SF Halloween Night Closures Why aren't you hiding under the covers yet? The city doesn't want to so much as hear you breathe come tomorrow. So, start upending those floorboards and crawling into that dank attic, or
SF News F-Market Crash Temporarily Closes 2nd/Market Street Intersection Today, this crash (sent to us by reader Zak Arbore) temporarily closed off the intersection at Market and Second Streets this morning. Looks like no one was injured, and traffic was diverted. The
SF News Two Bombs Found in SJ, Fremont Good Lord, people. It seems that we had not one, but two bomb scares yesterday. First, bomb no. 1: after stopping a car for a routine traffic violation in San Jose, police found
SF News More Yes-On-A Merriment Harvey Milk Club President Brian Basinger addressed the crowd at today's rally in the Castro. Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Senator Carole Migden, and Supervisor Bevan Dufty also spoke out to support Prop A and
SF News Don't Forget to Tip Your Driver, or Brakeman When our relative from out of town just had to ride a cable car before his departure from our superior city, we decided to indulge him and follow some tracks until we caught
SF News Muni's Weekend Guide (And of course, if you enjoy online scavenger hunts, you can also attempt to get this info on Muni's website.) So what's on Muni's radar this weekend? The Noe Valley Harvest Festival! The
