misc Photo du Jour 299 Swine flu-fearing travelers exit from the international terminal with their faces covered with masks at the SFO on Tuesday.
SF News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Flies With Too Much Style House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fancies herself a star more than an elected official, at least according to a NY Post report that claims team Pelosi has been "berating military officials to get the
SF News This just in: San Francisco International Airport Knows Nothing About Travel by Tiffany Maleshefski You'd think that an airport as large as SFO might know a thing or two about flight travel. Turns out, not so much. At least not according to Michael McCarron,
SF News Sydney Romp: Bevan Dufty Explains It All Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And
misc Yes! That's Right! You Have a BART! myBART sends out a free weekly email full of entertainment news, ticket giveaways and big discounts to events happening close to BART stations. Holy crap. A transit agency ... that actually provides you with
misc AlertSF's Alarming Alarmism Dear AlertSF, Why do you yell at us? You've done this to us five times today already, and we still don't understand you with the greatest clarity. To wit: The National Weather Service
Arts & Entertainment Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home We love Gridskipper's edge as of late. Take, for example, today's revealing top 8 San Francisco bars with the "crappiest crowds." Rankings 8, 7, 6, and 5 are Beauty Bar, Medjool, Swig, and
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipper's Bad Service Board Game Although the T-Mobile store on Third and Market streets failed to make the list -- they're (allegedly) rampant fibbers over there, people! -- be sure to read Gridskipper's spot-on and delightful San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Good Samaritan at 30,000 Feet Not three feet from our chair was a woman lying on the floor, passed out with blood oozing from the back of her head. Janet, who was traveling to Canada, had passed out,
Arts & Entertainment Trannyshack's Final Bump? Update: We just asked Heklina if it's true. "Yes, honey!" she replied. "Sometime in spring or early summer [of '08]." So...there you have it. Similar to the club night in question here,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Why, it's our very own SFist Rita kicking it in the comfy confines (and breaking down the latest season of Project Runway) over at SFGate. Awesome. [Culture Blog] -- Japantown's J-Pop Center,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- And then Nancy was all, "Like, what the hell, you guys?" [SF Examiner] -- The Central Subway Project. [Transbay Blog] -- Now you don't have to leave your bedroom to travel. Ever
Arts & Entertainment New Alternate-Reality Game Forces You To Walk, Interact Last week Numb3ers -- that Tiffany network show starring the reportedly-difficult-to-work-with Rob Morrow -- featured an Alternate-Reality Game (ARG) as a plot device. It turns out that this was an actual launch for
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Awesomeness: GG Park road to close on Saturdays! Yay! Mind the bison! [Examiner] -- Narcs! Mandated by federal law, the Coast Guard failed to drug test the Cosco Busan crew within 32
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Clean up to take weeks. (But probably longer, we're betting.) [SFGate] -- Ship pilot called into questioning. [Examiner] -- Behold: your new Spock. [ONTD] -- Look what's now inside Precita Eyes. Something
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chicken John hosts the Loser's Ball. Which a lot progressives did. Lose, that is. [Politics Blog] -- Although Prop A might pass due to prog efforts. (See where horizontal pastels get you,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The WGA strike suuuuuucks. As does a fall season full of reruns. [The Bastard Machine, The Snitch] -- Vote tomorrow. Or whatever. [SFGate] -- No Googlephone? Then, what's the point of living?
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Barry Bonds: your San Francisco diva. [SFGate] -- Halloween in SF was a "a dead zone" [Examiner, SFGate] -- 19th Avenue -- now less deadly. [SFist] -- SF hotel bars. Which one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Yuppie Passport Hell in San Francisco But once you're past the "creepy", "leer"-ing security staff, it's all downhill from there, right? Well, maybe not. Nationally-famous local violet blue told the story a few months back of the hassles
Arts & Entertainment Emerson String Quartet. We missed some of what he said, coverage was spotty up in the hills north of LA and once Phil starts talking, he's hard to stop. He just won't let a disconnected call
misc Blocker: 1300 La Playa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment <em>Conde Nast Traveller</em> Says <del>We</del> SF Rules Yay. Sure, the only-in-SF tourism industry is an important part of our economy, or whatever. And not that we're complaining -- we have won the top spot for 17 of the past 18
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