SF News Your Commute: I've Cut the Power It's gettin'... it's gettin'... it's gettin' kinda hectic. BART was held up this morning for about an hour due to-- drum roll please-- a contractors mistake. Yay!!! We totally had snakes on the
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an
SF News Your Commute: (408) 850-6125 Caltrain service is delayed in both directions this morning after a suicidal man jumped in front of a northbound train at Mountain View around 7:15 a.m. today. As of around 9:
misc Dear Mr Ford: Sometimes They Write Back Then again, judging from some of the responses we've seen, we're not sure if they're thorough or just trying to bore us to death. You'll see what we mean when you expand to
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about
SF News The City Under the City Has Fabulous Shopping! But Not So!!! ... says Rodney Pimintel, Deputy Director for Capital Projects at the SFCTA. The as-yet-unbuilt Central Subway WILL connect to the existing subway lines on Market, come hell or high water; it
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Your Commute: Accidents Lots of accident-related news today. First off -- crank up "Livin' On A Prayer" because like Bon Jovi says, it's slippery when wet. A sudden downpour in Santa Clara led to 13 --
Arts & Entertainment The Obedient Adventures of the Superfisters is unpretentious and sweet-hearted -- in one scene, during a calm stroll Noémie hears a click, looks up to a bridge to see a familiar-looking boy taking her picture, then chases him until
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Rough-looking woman to rough-looking guy, both of indeterminate age: "I'm not an exhibitionist, I'm an inhibitionist." -- On the 71 Haight
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Needs to Get Out More Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. A normal-dressed girl, speaking to a man dressed as an Imperial Officer (who was eating a burger and fries): "Yeah, I got here late. I
Arts & Entertainment SF Indiefest: <i>Sidekick</i> Michael Sparaga (the writer/producer) set out to make a realistic indie superhero movie, in which superpowers are complicated afflictions with repercussions and consequences and, you know, smartypants stuff. It's a bumpy ride,
SF News Your Commute: Runaway Train Caltrain 314 hit and killed a woman this morning, stopping train traffic in both directions for more than 90mn. We were on the train, and were allowed to leave at about 9am in
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
misc SFist Raves: Moving Pictures We're kind of on a pro-BART kick today -- which may be due in part to the fact that we've been taking the BART down to Millbrae all week. We understand that not
misc SFist Rants: A Modest Public Transportation Proposal While having to go through all the rigmarole of hopping on Caltrains and being at the least fifteen minutes late kind of sucks, what really chaps our hide is that we have a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Not Quite a Year in Review American Conservatory Theater No one sits through Eugene O'Neill unless they like watching gloriously poetic slow-motion train wrecks. Or unless it's their last chance to see American Conservatory Theater core company member Marco
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
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
