misc Doing the Math with the Essefficist Once again, here to answer yet more inane questions from our gentle readers, it's the Essefficist. Today's topics: elementary math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal redevelopment project. Here we go... What's one
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
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Loves a Parade Part Deux Of course, this being San Francisco, you can't have a group of people getting together in silly costumes without their being some sort of socio-political ramification to it all and, fret not, there
SF News SFist Rants: Move to the Back of the Bus, Please SFist has lived in this city a long time and there are some mysteries about this place that we’ll never fathom. Like all the guacamole love. Or what’s up with Dennis
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 Your Commute: Sucks News flash! Traffic is really bad around here! The Examiner is starting a six-part series looking at specific traffic jam spots, what's wrong with them from a civil engineering perspective, and what we
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 Your Commute: Name the Baby Bart! We were going to do a post about Caltrain's totally sane proposal for fixing their budget (putting in more of their totally popular baby bullet trains, increasing the number of express routes, closing
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
misc The Essefficist Talks Bridge and Tunnel We here at SFist got this here question, which seems to have been aimed loosely at us here at the Essefficist, so here ya go: Thanks, -jeff What are we, some sort of
Arts & Entertainment Always Take A Transfer People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts
Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
SF News Your Commute: Soon to Be Taxed According to Arnie, that whole taxing gas to make people drive fuel-efficient cars thing is working a little too well. With a huge budget deficit and money quickly running out on all the
SF News Your Commute: Cable Car Blues Maybe Rice-a-Roni's not the San Francisco treat anymore either -- as part of the Great MUNI Cost Hike of Ought-Five, the city is proposing raising fares on the cable cars from $3 to
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Prettying Up Valencia Ah, Valencia Street. Who hasn't nearly been run over by a car, a bus, a biker, or frantic pedestrians running to make their reservations at Luna Park, on the Mission District's own Fifth
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Fire Drive With Me This news item combines all our favorite things: commuter news, SUVs, cigarette regulation, the mayor's quality of life plans, and a generous espresso shot of schadenfreude to boot! Hooray! Did anyone see a
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
misc Cruising Capp Street with the Essefficist Oh Cwap! It's raining like a mofo out there! Maybe you can't stay dry, but at least you've got the Essefficist to keep you warm. We've got two questions today. The first one's
SF News Your Commute: Decongestants We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation
SF News Muni, Muni, Muni! We all know how much our readers (and our staff) lurve to complain about the Muniserable. And it's not just when they're sticking it to the First Amendment. In fact, and every progressive
SF News Your Commute: Open Your Golden Wallets, San Francisco Okay, this is really getting ridiculous. First, they told us the Bay Bridge is going to be ugly and expensive. Then they said they'd raise bus fares. Then they said they'd raise parking
SF News BART! For those of you wondering why BART has been almost MUNI-like, it's because of a little software glitch that's throwing everything off. Due to that little glitch, switching equipment is malfunctioning somewhere between
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
