SF News Your Commute: Oh No! MUNI! Looks like there's a stuck train blocking all inbound MUNI traffic from Civic Center on. We're still looking for info (and a sufficiently whimsical picture to illustrate this post) but figured we'd pass
SF News Your Commute: The BART Wye We also learned a new word, from the notice alerts they flashed on the Now Arriving screens at our BART station of origin as we waited for a train to arrive: did you
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
SF News Your Commute: Lumber Spill In Golden Gate Park The driver is reported to be fine; the accident happened around 5:15 a.m. It sounds like the driver took that turn a little too fast. We expect to see SF PartyParty
SF News Rescue Geary As always, the project's being held up by a one or two critics who insist that nobody wants to move any faster on Geary than they already do, and that people who ride
SF News Your Commute: Lower Level Go It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with
SF News Maze Update: Faster Than The Chron Expected! Is anyone else deeply enjoying the tonal shift from hysteria to sulky that the Chron's bumper-to-bumper traffic coverage of the MacArthur Maze collapse has taken? From the "Monday Morning Commute Will Be Terrible!
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Update on the Update- 511.org has the 411 on what commute will be like for the next few days-- it's pretty much like on Tuesday except not free. Check it out Update:
SF News Maze Collapse Update Update: All Bay Area public transportation will be free tomorrow -- but does that means all public transportation, including MUNI and Caltrain and SamTrans? We think so, anyways. People who drove to Oakland
SF News MacArthur Maze Collapses Update: 11:45 a.m.: Here's your roads: W-80 to S-880 is closed (from Berkeley to the Oakland airport). E-80 to E-580 is closed (from SF to Lake Merritt and Piedmont). Alternate routes:
SF News Why Everyone Hates Critical Mass -- And Why They're Wrong Whether you love Critical Mass or hate it, the folks on the other side of the debate must seem totally baffling, if not downright evil. Its detractors wonder, "how can anyone support an
SF News Snitching-- Not Just For Witnesses to Shootings Anymore The bill calls for the DMV to set up a special toll-free number and/or e-mail address for people to report carpool crooks. And hey, that way people who see them will have
SF News Mr. Ford Assesses So let's start with the story in the Chron, the main gist of which is "happy days are here again." Or, as they call it "Transit chief upbeat on Muni." The story is
SF News If I Can Make It There, It'll Make it Anywhere Guess it's not that much of a nutty idea. Now because it's New York, it's instantly taken more seriously because it's New York and everything is taken more seriously there (damn East Coast
SF News Day Around the Bay -They got at least one of the guys who attacked that Amtrak engineer. -Gavin and the Supervisors fight over money, sun rises. -Gavin wants more money for city golf courses. -Somebody attempted to
SF News I Can't Drive 55 Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number
SF News Muni: "I'm melllllting! Melllllllllllting! Oh, what a world, what a world!" So, how's that commute going, subway riders? Any better today? More Muni-Meltdown, or less Muni-Meltdown? Above, we've embedded an animation of Metro activity yesterday afternoon; call us crazy, but is seems as though
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
SF News Could a Skirt Have Saved Xiao Feng Deng's Life? Would skirts have helped? From some accounts, the victim was hit by the side of the bus as it turned, and pushed under the wheel. That certainly sounds plausible; we personally witnessed, a
Arts & Entertainment Sad News For Cody's SF We're getting so upset to have to keep writing the same post over and over again -- yet another San Francisco independent bookstore is shutting its doors. This time, it's the not-so-long-ago opened
SF News Lost Highway This all started around 5:40 on Friday when police were called in on reports of a body found at Indiana and Cesar Chavez. The body has not been identified yet, but police
SF News Mumia's Not Going to Free Himself, You Know The big thing was the "Die-In" which blocked traffic on Market Street when a bunch of protestors feigned death in front of DiFi's office and lied in the streets. They then went into
SF News Here Comes Da Judge For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
