misc SFist Answers Pities The Fool THIS WEEK: Fools, border crossings, weed vs. your heart, bikes on BART, and an easy way for SFist Answers to make millions. We took our title this week from Yueben Duped from Los
SF News Your Commute: Train Meets Truck. Lying brochure: it went through with a big noise and a big thump at the impact which sent a sharp jolt through our herniated back. Then a cloud of sawdust, due to hitting
SF News Your Commute: The Triplets of Berkeley-ville Well, at least it wasn't in the Transbay Tube -- a woman went into labor on the steps of the Berkeley BART stop today. With triplets. Watch where you're walking this afternoon! People
misc SFist Raves: That Dockers Commercial Our guardian angel (not the kind with the beret) Jen sent us a link (free registration required) to our new favorite commercial, "A Street Car Named Dockers". We don't necessarily consider ourselvespart of
Arts & Entertainment Save Kepler's! Kepler's turned 50 this year and it would be an understatement to say that its closing has really hit people hard. Even the New York Times had noted its passing. The rally will
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
SF News Kepler's Bookstore Closes This is really just awful. Kepler's, the Menlo Park independent bookstore and jewel of the South Bay, suddenly announced that it was closing today -- for good. Kepler's has apparently been having problems
SF News Muni Gets the Last Laugh During delays, explain as much details as you can to passengers over the microphone. Use a kooky voice or try out your best German or Indian accent. Profusely apologize for the slightest delay
Arts & Entertainment Newsflash: South Bay Fun not oxymoron First, you could go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Gastronomically, this is probably your best bet, gastrointestinally, it's questionable. Sadly, they aren't running the train down there this year, which really takes the
SF News Bienvenue, petite sœur En France, on est toujours en retard d'une vague. Les nouvelles idées nous arrivent, certes, mais sans se presser. Il n'y a pas le feu au lac. Tenez, par exemple, les internets. Il
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words, our globe-trotting publisher didn't send us the email yet), thanks
SF News New BART Head Goes Crazy Before everyone gets all excited that doing all of this might halt the proposed fare increases, Luce writes that it won't prevent the increases from happening this time around, but that it will
SF News Davey D Makes Passionate Plea In a fantastic speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Bay Area hip-hop historian and KPFA radio personality Davey D gave a keynote address (which he shared with folks
SF News Winos Rejoice Over Supreme Court Ruling Okay, guess that should read "Wine Connoisseurs," or "Oenophiles" as the Supremes did not rule that food stamps could now be used to purchase Thunderbird, Cisco or Night Train. Instead, they ruled that
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
SF News Your Commute: A Tale of Two Transits Maybe it's just because snazzy bullet trains are cooler than wheezy buses and screeching light-rails, but Caltrain rides on so much better goodwill than poor beleaguered MUNI. Both agencies are facing massive budget
SF News Wanted: N'Awlinsist Editor We've joked on the site before that the only other editorial job in the nascent 'ist empire that we'd like to take would be the one in Crescent City, AKA The Big Easy,
SF News Political Junkie: Fareskipper SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted by Matier and Ross for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to
SF News Your Commute: Yikes! So there you are, a Palo Alto mom driving down Charleston Road, with your precious baby carefully strapped into your state-of-the-art car seat. As you reach the Alma Street train tracks, you hear
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
SF News Layoffs At E*Trade Naturally, this didn't go over that well with everyone as they began to wonder what the chances of keeping their job are when they've just trained Sanjay and Apu to do it. Or
Arts & Entertainment Bob Wills Is Still the King "I just hope whoever put the halftime together, they're getting their resume ready. Hey, this is a hip-hop weekend. Y'all think this is a NASCAR race? This ain't no NASCAR race." Now, we
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
SF News Your Commute: Who Ya Gonna Call? Boo! BART riders suffered additional indignities this morning, as the system struggled to exorcise the "ghost train" that somehow got onto the system. For some reason, the computer system became convinced there was
