SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
Arts & Entertainment Ready For The SFIAAFF? Kwon and Hammer will be kicking off a week and a half of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film -- a week in SF (at the Castro, 1000 Van Ness,
SF News Let None Escape Muni's Grasp With your support, the physically disabled will someday ride Muni with the same freedom and comfort that the mentally disabled already enjoy.
SF News Muni's Equipment Troubles Extend Even Further Than We Thought "It has come to our attention that the restroom hygiene of some tenants is less than stellar," begins the memo, with the subject "RESTROOM MANNERS." Apparently, some folks at the MTA offices at
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter
SF News TourkGate: So What Happens Next? Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but
SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
Arts & Entertainment At The Ballet The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
SF News Hub This For those who've taken MUNI all the way down, a lot of buses (the 10, 30, 47 and 49) kind of end up there as it's a bus hub. It's one of those
SF News Shooting on Polk Street This all happened around 10:30 this morning between Polk and Van Ness on Broadway. Witnesses say that a white Acura sedan and a black Honda Civic crashed into each other in the
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
Arts & Entertainment Cool Newsreel Video of SF Earthquake While playing around on YouTube yesterday to look for some H.R. Puffenstuff stuff, we stumbled upon this newsreel footage of San Francisco after the '06 quake. The print might not be of
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
misc SFist Contest: Win Tickets To Litquake’s Opening Night! Lineup includes: Dave Eggers and END OF SUFFERING, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt), Dan Hicks, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Dan "The Automator" Nakamura
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Amandeep Jawa, Flashdance Boss Dust off your dancing shoes, San Francisco! You DO have dancing shoes, don't you? No, your galoshes don't count. Wait, have you been wearing those since Folsom? Eww. Aaaaaaaaanyway, this Saturday, at 8pm
Arts & Entertainment Musicians, Literature and Little Cable Cars When: Friday, October 6, 2006, 8pm Where: The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St (Van Ness at Sutter) Call: (415) 673-5716 Admission: $25.00 Purchase Tickets Here SFist Mary Ladd, contributing, is on the
Arts & Entertainment Your Emperor Needs You Three locations contain gifts for you. All are adhered to the inside top of SF Weekly newspaper stands. Each location contains several packages. Take only one and leave the rest for others. They
SF News Political JunkiEE If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
Arts & Entertainment Thirtysomething not so "Thirtysomething" Fortunately, the essays within soothed the sting of our failures past. From Ashley Warlick's meditation on the significance of a stuffed animal to her daughter, to Flor Morales' tale of her escape from
SF News Kabuki Theatre Sold to Sundance Cinemas Expected to become "a state-of-the-art independent movie house", Sundance plans on beginning renovations to the theatre in early May, following the San Francisco International Film Festival. This fall it'll reopen as the "Sundance
SF News Holy Freaking Mother of Christ: More Fare Increases and Service Cuts Predicted for Muni Who, you may ask, is responsible for bumping the prices up and quality down? There's a bunch of names indicated by SPUR's report: there's the Geary Blvd Merchants' Association, helmed by David Heller;
SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
