Critical Mass News

Jane Healy is a diehard booster of the blue-collar south suburb of Blue Island, and she's the ultimate biker mama.

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Bicyclists Tex Colburn of Palm Desert, Marley Benshalom of Palm Desert and Jexsenia Leiva of Newbury Park finish up their ride to Lululemon on El Paseo on Saturday in Palm Desert.

It's quarter to midnight, Saturday night in the Tenderloin, and out front a well-known, Geary Street watering hole, a cluster of cyclists is quietly gathering.

For those cyclists who are staying in New York over the Memorial Day weekend, there are some choice rides scheduled by various clubs.

Win one-of-three prizes, including the Grand Prize: four general admission passes to see Fashionality: Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art and lunch for four at Seven Restaurant! >> ENTER Win a double-pass to the advance screening, May 30 at Silvercity Yonge & Eglinton, and qualify for the grand prize, dinner for two at Le Papillon on ... (more)

MARCH : Has it really been just a year since equal rights and feminist activists created SlutWalk , a clever protest to combat "violence, victim-blaming, and sex shaming?" The Toronto event was quickly imitated around the world, but equal rights and sexuality advocates can be proud that it started here in T.O.-we were, enough to call them one of ... (more)

Next week, Los Angeles Streetsblog will launch our official Tumblr. We'll have a lot more on the Tumblr launch when it's ready for prime time, but for now you can check out construction status at http://lastreetsblog.tumblr.com/ . A There's some test material up now, but the actual site will be different by the time we'reA completelyA ready to go.

This September 28th will mark 20 years since the founding of Critical Mass in San Francisco in 1992.

Join SPUR on Tuesday for a forum on upcoming Bus Rapid Transit projects in San Francisco and the South Bay.

The Japanese tourist couldn't seem to reconcile that tiny, road-biking me might be hanging out with some burly, tough-looking guys on tricked-out cruisers late on a Friday night in a Long Beach gas-station parking lot.

Acoustic sculptor and contemporary composer Trimpin's new work on memory and bearing witness, "The Gurs Zyklus," defies all categorization.

The League of American Bicyclists just announced their Spring 2012 honorees for Bicycle Friendly Communities program, and Kansas has just earned its third award! Manhattan, Kansas earned the bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community award, joining Lawrence and Shawnee as bicycle-friendly communities in the state of Kansas, along with Leawood on the ... (more)

The 4th Street/Prater Way Complete Streets Project will be discussed at the next Regional Transportation Commission board meeting on May 18, at the RTC Board Room, 2050 Villanova Drive, at 9 a.m. The next Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting is May 23, also at 2050 Villanova Drive, at 6:30 p.m. Somehow, I ended up biking down Fourth Street ... (more)

I had asked JosA©, who I judged to be about 20 years old, how far he normally rode on his bike.

Ferndale, Mich .-The Downtown Ferndale Bike Shop A is not very big - at all. Situated right in downtown Ferndale, just west of Woodward on 9 Mile Rd., the storefront is narrow.

2.) A second mystery union on the bridge will have a press conference from a ferry picket line and announce a strike for May 2nd.

Occupy Wall Street may have been written off by many Americans, but it's hoping to get a huge stimulus today from the 99 Percent.

Welcome to my community-building diary series, "Houston, Texas news you can use." As always, opinions are my own.