New BART cars will have three doors, plastic seats, no carpets, and designated bike areas!

The only catch is that you’ll have to wait until 2015 to try them out.  SFGate reports:

The cars will sport a sleek modern look, cleaner seats, digital information displays, even air conditioning that works on hot days.

Each car will have three doors to speed boarding, but will still have 60 seats, all made of an easier-to-clean material. Seats will be reconfigured with standard seating in rows at each end of the car, and seats situated more informally around standing areas and places for wheelchairs, bikes and luggage in the center.

Looks like those cranial liminal survey scans conducted on BART passengers have finally paid off!  But will they allow bikes on board during rush hour?

[Pics via SFGate]

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Reasons you suck (according to the ladies room at Delirium)

[via Boring Postcard]

Puppies!

Are you lucky enough to have a landlord that allows pets? If so, Allison has some adorable puppy news for you:

Rocket Dog Rescue has these puppies and others up for adoption right now (as of 3:26pm) in front of Atlas.

Aww! Hurry over!

What should you expect?

[via Dennis Kernohan]

The Blue Ivy Carter, new drink at Dear Mom celebrating the birth of Beyoncé and Jay’s kid

The kid’s name is Blue Ivy Carter. We were just gonna drink Chimay Blue (left) in her honor, but instead asked Dear Mom‘s Jay Beaman to invent something wholly new. Behold the Blue Ivy Carter (right). It contains gin, homemade blueberry liqueur (because blue), homemade iced tea (because Beyoncé is from Texas and they drink tea in texas), homemade simple syrup (because the whole family is a bunch of sweetie pies), and has a sugar rim (because HALO HALO HALO). It’s a shot btw. Order one tonight!

Oh and you can also order a Blue Ivy Carter and soda:

Old people and money

Local geriatric anthropologist David Enos just published some interesting new findings:

Older people are invested in the actual physical details of their change in a way that we are not. They like the bill to be exceptionally crisp if possible. No visible creases. Fresh from the US Mint, a bank vault, a villain’s loot. If it is crisp, their eyes light up and they admire its crispness. That bill is probably going into someone’s birthday card. They are also made anxious by any bill smaller than a five.

Read on.

Deconstructed reuben sandwich at Jewish pop-up

Here’s what we’re looking at: corned beef, rye bread pudding, sauerkraut, Russian dressing. Dang.

It’s from Old World Food Truck, and they run a pop-up out of La Victoria Bakery every Wednesday, serving stuff like Jewish banh mi, mushroom stroganoff, pierogi and more.

Dominant Legs’ dreamy new music video looks like a David Lynch film

[via Stereogum]

DJ Thao Nguyen kicks off new happy hour series at Blowfish Sushi TONIGHT

Noise Pop explains:

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been working with our friends at Stoli Vodka and our neighbours at Blowfish Sushi To Die For, to bring you our new “Blow Pop Happy Hours.” Each month we’ll have a new guest DJ for an extended happy hour, with sushi and Stoli drink specials all night. Best part is, it’s FREE. Our kick off is this Wednesday, January 11, with Thao (of Thao+the Get Down Stay Down) on the decks. Starts at 6pm. We’ll see you there! [link]

RSVP and invite your friends!

Mission Beach Cafe is getting a parklet

[via Mid West Coast]