SF News Driver Kills Pedestrian On Van Ness, Attempts To Flee Scene This morning San Francisco streets played host to another driver-related pedestrian death. At Van Ness and Pacific around 1 a.m., a man driving a a silver 2009 Toyota allegedly struck and killed
SF News Van Ness To Get Speedy New Bus Line (Eventually) After what seems like years of talking and even more spent waiting for the 47-Van Ness, the San Francisco County Transit Authority and the Board of Supervisors finally cleared the way for Bus
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: What's Up With 100 Van Ness? What's going on with 100 Van Ness, you ask? This: a 399-unit apartment building with ground floor retail and a 12,000 square foot "rooftop resident’s playground" on the top. (Photo by
SF News Ellis Brooks Chevrolet Sign Dismantled Work on dismantling the semi-iconic Ellis Brooks Chevrolet sign at 1395 Van Ness began over the weekend. Erected in 1955, the sign, according to the people SFist spoke to at Ellis-Brooks, "will have
SF News Van Ness Reopens After Water Main Break After a water main broke early Sunday morning near Van Ness, leaving three apartment buildings between Vallejo Street and Pacific Avenue without H2O for the day, three northbound lanes of San Francisco's main
SF News Scene from Today's Pro-Life Protest On Van Ness Why, here's a shot from this afternoon's PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest against McDonald's, over on the 600 block of Van Ness. Not nearly as erotic as we had
misc ALL OF THEM: Market And Van Ness ALL OF THEM: Market & Van Ness -- mattymatt, "Sarah Palin Engages in Perverse Journalistic Orgy of Excess" How could we forget such a violently vapid comment? We can't. We shan't. So let's
misc Let's Go Dancing, Briefly The rules are few: primarily, they are to come and dance. Text FLASHDANCE to 41411 for SMS updates. Don't carry visible alcohol -- and don't act like a stupid drunk, lest you give
SF News Breaking: Bomb Threat Reported On South Van Ness Oh my God, we might all blow to bits. Well, some of you in the Mission might, that is. According to Curbed: The bomb squad's on the scene at Van Ness Avenue, between
SF News Topsy Turvy Car Acccident At Van Ness And Lombard Oh my. According to WWT: Just after 7:30 this morning, apparently something happened, and three cars, those I failed to identify, managed to make a Camry flip over! This is the 2nd
SF News Vespa Rider Seriously Injured After South Van Ness Accident At first, before reading this story, we were ready to shake our finger at the Vespa rider in question. Lord knows we worry about you kids. But it seems she wasn't at fault.
misc The Elusive Vawanda Discovered! Remember Vawanda? The Muni bus driver whose bravery many of you refused to believe in? Well, as fate would have it, local treasure Jameth, who uses her ad image as an avatar, finally
SF News Mission Murder Misses Media Radar While Oakland received tons of press over the weekend for its recent spate of murder, this Mission murder, which happened near 25th and South Van Ness (be careful, Phone Booth patrons!), went all
misc The Philistine Has An SFist Polyphony We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the
misc The SFBC's "Love on Wheels" Dating Game Happens Friday Doors open at 6:00 PM and the dating game fun starts at 7:00 PM. The cost is $10, but admission is $0 for SFBC members. And of course there's free valet
misc Muni Citations: Now Slightly Less Awful Attention criminals: as of this week, your swashbuckling days of villainy and misbegotten Muni rides have become easy and breezy. Muni has "decriminalized" citations, which means that you won't have to go to
SF News SFist Blotter -- On Saturday Friday at around 10:40 p.m., Jan. 26, 24-year-old Ernesto Williams was shot and killed while standing outside his car at the Chevron station at Sixth and Harrison streets.
misc Ask a Muni Security Guy How do you handle food on MUNI? Technically it's not allowed but everyone kind of does it. It's basically ignored. We've had good luck with cooperation for the most part. We tell the
misc SFist Tonight Michael Pollan: Come hear this foodie sensation talk about his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, in which he suggests that you should not "eat anything that your great-great grandmother
misc Muni Playing Catch-Up with West Portal Fix-Up "Underinvestment in the Muni system has brought us to a point where we cannot postpone this work," says Muni boss Nat Ford. Apparently, while they were replacing the decrepit wiring in the West
misc Hey You! Get Your Damn Bike Off the Sidewalk! A note on Hypocrisy after the jump. Have a great St. Stephen's Day!
SF News Ask a Muni Driver And away we go. {Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for anything except my opinion as a MUNI driver, San Franciscan, and daily passenger just like the rest of you sorry sods
SF News 100 Alas. We hit the 100th murder mark over the weekend. And this big 1-0-0, as you know, is not a cause for celebration. Early Saturday morning at around 5 a.m., Jose Alberto
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Being Prepared for Not Being Prepared: Grocery Stores Open Late? Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having
