Good (and Maybe Bad) Changes for Masonic May 13th is shaping up to be a big day. Not only is it a Friday the 13th…
Train Crash was Driver’s Fault You will no doubt be shocked to hear that the spectacular West Portal crash in 2009 was, in fact, the…
See What Being Nice Gets You? Muni drivers! Oh, sure, there’s some bad eggs, like The Rogue Texter. But they’re not all bad, and plenty…
Two-Way Hayes The city has some changes in store for Hayes Valley, but like everything in San Francisco, the only thing that we can agree…
Set Sail for Treasure Island Wouldn’t it be fun to make an adaptation of RLS’s “Treasure Island,” only set on modern-day Treasure Island in the…
Local comedy writer and hat model Willie Brown has penned a scathing rebuke of San Francisco’s homicidal cabbies, whom he depicts as homicidal maniacs hell-bent…
Hang on to your hats: Muni’s about to change everything. Decades in the making, the Central Subway is about to radically change the way San…
This is the third part of a three part series (parts one and two here) funded with the help of Spot.us. A POLICE FORCE THAT…
This is part two (see part one here) in a three part series funded with the help of Spot.us. INVISIBLE VICTIMS Tracking hook-up violence is…
Part one (read part two here) in a three part series funded with the help of Spot.us. On May 18th at 5:41am, someone robbed a…
As you already know from our prop endorsement guide, in collaboration with Spot.us, we surveyed 135 prominent local politicians and political organizations to find out…
The results are in! In collaboration with Spot.us, we surveyed 135 prominent local politicians and political organizations to find out how they want to you…
I felt a little nervous about returning to the Bay Citizen office Thursday afternoon. Just a few days earlier, I’d written a decidedly un-gentle analysis…
Boy oh boy, the Bay Citizen sure has put online writers in an interesting position. Here’s the abbreviated version: BC is a non-profit news startup,…
You don’t typically think of a World War II documentary as being a date movie, but “Garbo the Spy” isn’t your typical film. Oh, sure,…
Fourteen hundred people packed the Castro Saturday night to cheer on Peaches Christ and her entourage of whatevers at the official premiere of “All About…
“Anything extreme these days,” pronounced Dr. Greg Farrington, the absolutely delightful Executive Director of the California Academy of Sciences, “is totally cool.” Dr. Farrington was…
What’s the one thing above all else that keeps you away from Sixth Street? The drugs, the violence, the dirt, the six lanes of pedestrian-antagonistic…
What strange and interesting plants will you find at the free botanical sale March 26-28 at the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park near…
An invention-competition for college-age innovators reaches its climax at a free exhibition on Saturday, March 27 at the Exploratorium: the amazing inventions will be unveiled…
As Muni’s collisions and accidents continue — the most recent involving a 19-year-old woman knocked beneath an M — cutting-edge research from the Federal Transit…
Nobody likes losing their job — especially Muni drivers, who have it pretty sweet. But times are tough, thanks largely to local and state leaders…
Numerous bus lines face further cutbacks and possible elimination later this year, according to the SF Appeal’s analysis of data recently supplied by Muni as…
We can all recognize familiar traffic signals like a red light or a one-way sign; but what are you supposed to do with a green…
There are plenty of worse ways to spend a Thursday evening than in the company of an open bar, nerds, and a brisket; and that’s…
“Stylish Techies Beware!” warns the invitation to a party next Thursday near the baseball park. They’re calling it “Geek Chic, a monthly lifestyle event,” and…
At the beginning of the film “James Franco Erased,” which had its SF premier this weekend at The Castro, James Franco is handed a glass…
It’s only natural to experience guilt and shame in the restroom. Look at what you’ve contributed to the planet — wasteful and revolting! But a…
Voting! Just like knocking on wood, rubbing a lucky penny, or wearing pants, it’s one of those superstitious acts that somehow makes us feel safer…
Photo of the audience at the film’s Roxie premier by Paul To. “It starts from a love of the cute and furry animals,” explained filmmaker…
Remember the yip-yip aliens from Sesame Street? In spite of their advanced technology, meaningful communication always seemed to elude them; so when they encountered a…
It wasn’t really fair of us to go to last weekend’s Zine Fest looking for comics — they’re not really the same thing, are they?…
All photos by Matt Baume “A catalog of gay male beauty” is how photographer Brandon Norris described his exhibit, A Sobering Affect, to us. And…
Anyone who thinks that we learned from our mistakes with Prop 8 needs to take a look at this TV ad that just started airing…
Feeling chipper? Well, we’ll soon take care of that! Local artist Lev Yilmaz has perfected the craft of gloom in his comics and videos; he…
All Photos By Matt Baume So what was that thing that happened Saturday in the Lower Haight? The Lower Haight Art Walk, which drew hundreds,…
This weekend Bixi, a Canadian bikesharing company, held a friendly meet-n-greet in Golden Gate Park. They’ve been up and running in Montreal for several months,…
Clean is the new filthy! This Sunday, menaced by the Newsom administration’s war on fun, Up Your Alley has had to clean up their act…
Despite the name, there’s not a lot of real pride at SF Pride — it was mostly dominated by listless stalls, thumpy music, and booth-food….
Created with flickr slideshow. Update: We just added the above slideshow from Rincon Hill SF‘s Jamie Whitaker. We think the One Rincon Hill image he…