Drink to True Muni Stories Tomorrow at Muni Diaries Live!


Illustration by Jay Sacher

Just one more day until Muni Diaries Live at the Elbo Room! Come on down and share a drink over stories from some pretty amazing people.

And you can win goodies from Timbuk2,  Tacolicious, and SFLocal.net.

Advanced tickets are on sale, so grab one today. We can’t wait to see you!

Muni Diaries Live! This Saturday!


Illustration by Jay Sacher

Muni Diaries Live is back this Saturday! Invite all your BFFs with the official Facebook RSVP and hear stories from some pretty amazing people. Check ’em out.

And you can win goodies from Timbuk2,  Tacolicious, and SFLocal.net.

Advanced tickets are on sale now, so grab one quick before they’re gone. We can’t wait to see you!

Muni Diaries Live Full Lineup


Illustration by Jay Sacher

You won’t believe who will be spinning Muni tales at the next Muni Diaries Live! On Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Elbo Room, you’ll be hearing stories from these amazing storytellers:

Don’t forget to ready your stories for the audience-participation portion. You might just win a bag from San Francisco’s own Timbuk2, a $50 gift card to Tacolicious, or cool (temporary) tattoos from SFLocal.net.

We’ll have transit goodies for sale by Secession Art and Design, and everyone in our audience gets a special show discount on Muni Diaries shirts and wallets.

This is gonna be good. We can’t wait to see you there.

Muni Diaries Live
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations

Sat., Jan. 21, doors: 6:30, show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12.
Buy advance tickets

Invite your BFFs on Facebook

Event photography by Right Angle Images.

A Sneak Peek at the Next Muni Diaries Live Lineup

The Cock-TS cheerleaders
Photo by Mike D

We have an exciting lineup for Muni Diaries Live on Jan. 21, and here is a sneak peek at some of the performers you’ll see on stage at the Elbo Room, spinning tales of life on public transit.

You’ll see Stephen Elliott — You know him from The Adderall Diaries and The Rumpus. But now you have to hear about what happened to him on the bus.

You’ll also see comedian and spoken-word artist Caitlin Gill, who tells one hell of a dirty haiku at Tourettes Without Regrets.

We’ll reveal the rest of the lineup in a few days, but in meantime, get your tickets now!

Muni Diaries Live
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St stations

Sat., Jan. 21, doors: 6:30, show: 7 p.m. Tickets: $12.
Buy advance tickets

The Accordion Files — Cool Things in Muni’s Squishy Part

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Photo by Frank Deanrdo

Yesterday, I posted about this guy’s Christmas Chuck Taylors. I said that some of the most interesting stuff happens in the accordion: those four seats in the squishy middle of articulated buses. Then, @SF_CableCar offered this suggestion:

Fun! Maybe you should start a section dedicated to unusual happenings in the accordion part of the bus & call it ‘The Accordion Files.’

Cable cars have the best ideas. Ask and ye shall receive.

Forget the back of the bus; sit in the gooey center and tell us what’s happening in it. You, too, might find great shoes or, as Jeff did a few years ago, a guy who rubs his snot on the handrail. Ew!

This idea couldn’t have come at a better time. On the 38 recently, I sat in the accordion and wondered what would happen if I and the three others had to make like Sandra Bullock and save the bus or even the world. Indeed, what if I, the lady praying her rosary, the girl with 80 shopping bags in the aisle, and the impeccably dressed older gentleman were humanity’s only hope? The accordion does wacky things to a lone rider with a dead phone.

Though we may never see that level of excitement, we still want to hear about it. Email us, tweet us @munidiaries, or chat us up on the Muni Diaries Facebook Page.

Photographers Wanted: Step Up to Shoot for ‘I Live Here: SF’


Photo: Julie Michelle/tangobaby

Since 2009, photographer Julie Michelle has documented some of the most interesting parts of San Francisco — its people — in her I Live Here: SF series. Our own Muni Diaries editor and co-founder Eugenia was one of her subjects, as was Lil Miss Hot Mess, pictured above. Julie’s a great friend of our site, capturing laughs at Muni Diaries Live to having us participate in her I Live Here: SF show at SOMArts. (The one with the Muni bus shelter and the resultant fighting over said Muni bus shelter.) As big believers in the shared urban experience, as well as the idea that everyone has a story to tell, we’re all peas in a curious pod.

Now, Julie turns the lens inward as she navigates troubled waters, sharing a little about herself:

I love this city. I love it for all of the things that make it visually and emotionally beautiful. I even love the unpleasant things about the city, in a way. Because no thing shines as brightly without a shadow somewhere in the picture.

I realize now that this project is not just mine, but part of the bigger community here: the one that has encouraged and supported me, and also one that wanted to share and be discovered.

There are people who have written stories and are waiting on me to photograph them, and I simply cannot say when that will happen again. But I want their stories and images to be shared here, and perhaps some of you would like to join in.

Photographers: if this sounds like you, let Julie know you’re interested in stepping up to the plate for an installment of I Live Here: SF. Here’s contact info for Julie Michelle, plus additional details, toward the bottom of her post.

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