Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge could soon mean less green for drivers on the reddish span. A decision by the bridge’s board of directors gave the green light to a public-outreach process to investigate a proposed $1 fare increase.Commuters using the iconic span could face the higher toll as soon as July 1. "We know people aren’t going to like a toll increase, but we’ve got to balance the budget," bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie said.
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You could be a part of the next Olympics.San Francisco officials Thursday launched the search for a person to carry the Olympic torch through The City on April 9 as it makes its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games.Anyone interested in becoming a part of the Olympic tradition is now eligible to write a 200-word essay, detailing their qualifications to hoist the flame through the streets of San Francisco.
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A new interpretation of a 120-year-old U.S. maritime law could result in The City losing up to $42 million in annual cruise ship revenue, San Francisco Port officials said.
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The Bay Area author and poet, a fixture in San Francisco literary circles for more than a decade, just released her latest book, an immersion-based account of the self-help industry, titled, "Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone." Lisick, who convenes monthly storytelling meetings at Café Du Nord, will be reading from her new book Thursday at Diesel, A Bookstore, in
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The show may go on for the How Weird Street Faire.After the event was nearly canceled last year, the fate of the How Weird Street Faire — at its new proposed location — will be decided today by The City’s festival planning department. The electronic-music-based festival has been a staple on Howard Street since 2000, but noise complaints by residents resulted in city planning officials deciding that last year’s event would be the last at its longtime location at 12th and Howard streets.
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The number of San Francisco bike riders rose by 15 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to a report by The City’s bicycle program.In the study, which will be presented today at the Bicycle Advisory Committee, observers from the Municipal Transportation Agency’s Bicycle Program counted 6,454 cyclists on the streets during sample days in August 2007, which is 800 more than noted in 2006, the first year of the bicycle counting program.
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As founder of Viz Media, one of the largest Japanese entertainment companies based in the United States, Seiji Horibuchi is obligated to keep close tabs on the two countries’ latest pop-culture movements.The constant immersion in consumer demographics and trends is a far cry from the nomadic routine Horibuchi embraced when he first moved to California.
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The warrant obtained by the San Francisco Police Department to search the car and cell phones of the San Jose brothers mauled by a tiger at the San
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Blood found inside the fenced-in area overlooking the tiger moat is one piece of evidence investigators are examining in the San Francisco Zoo tiger mauling that killed one San Jose teenager and injured two of his friends on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesperson said Thursday. Take our poll: Whose story do you believe?
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The stop where Mark Callaghan was fatally injured while attempting to board an N-Judah train is notoriously unsafe, according to neighbors and frequent passengers. The boarding platform for inbound trains is long enough to cover just one car of the two-car train. If a passenger wants to board the first train, they must stand in, or run into, the street, according to Muni patrons. Kelly McDougall, who works near the stop at the Animal Collection Pet Store, said that when she boards the train she’s "very reluctant to get on any train but the first train."
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Could Alcatraz Island house a wonder that is comparable to the Taj Mahal or Parthenon? The idea may seem unlikely now, but one Bay Area man envisions that future for the defunct prison.
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Authorities are investigating what caused the death of a naked man found buried face-down under a mound of sand at Ocean Beach, clad only in his socks.A small group of young adults discovered the body early Tuesday, approximately 5 a.m., when they tried to use the fire pits across the Great Highway from the Beach Chalet restaurant near Fulton Street, National Park Service spokesman Rich Weideman said. The man appeared to be in his mid-40s, was overweight and looked very pale, Weideman said.
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A San Francisco Muni worker who helped save a blind man from being run over by an underground train will be honored today by the Municipal Transportation Agency for his heroism. Last January, Muni fare inspector Tony Lama was working at Van Ness station when he glimpsed a blind man mistakenly trying to enter a two-car train directly at the location where the vehicle’s cars connected. Unaware of his surroundings, the blind man stepped out and fell down below to the rail tracks.
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Rob Logan, a 25-year-old San Francisco resident, will put his puzzle-solving prowess on display tonight as a contestant on the venerable game show "Wheel of Fortune." Logan, who grew up in Texas, wa
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A two-alarm fire in Potrero Hill on Thursday morning gutted one home and left two neighboring residences with considerable structural damage. The fire began at 911 Minnesota Ave. at approximately 10 a.m., and spread to the two adjacent homes at 909 and 913 Minnesota, said firefighter Jim Bardem, who headed the response. By the time firefighters arrived at the scene, 911 Minnesota Ave. was fully involved with flames, said Bardem. The blaze was totally contained by 11:43 a.m.
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