misc "Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle Researching San Francisco history means spending way too much time sitting in the dark. In the library, we mean, staring at microfilm of old newspapers. Hours of scanning those scratched and blurry archives
SF News Get a Job Sadly, no open meat-pie maker positions just yet. But until then, check out the following non-cannibalistic gigs such as: -- Start-Up Looking for Talented Engineers [Discovery Engine] -- Creative Director [DHAP Digital] --
misc Giraffe Dies in Vallejo RIP Makonnen Now this is an RIP we’re real sad to be writing. 2-year old Makonnen, a giraffe at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo died early this morning in a barn
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
SF News Cycling: Cirque de Soler on du Galibier Ahhh, du Galibier. Switchback after switchback of asphalt hell. Hell if you're on a bike, but heaven if you're watching the world's best cyclists do the work. For 18 kilometers, a ribbon of
SF News Cycling: Stage 7 Closes out Strong Despite a few anxious laps during the climactic Stage 7, wire-to-wire overall race leader Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) found just enough energy to fend off a cheeky breakaway from Danny Pate (Slipstream) and
SF News Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a
SF News Cycling: Stage 5 Separates the Field It's one thing to sit in a team's slipstream or ride the momentum of the peloton, but the truest measure of a cyclist is how he (or she) performs in an individual time
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
SF News Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3 It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Tomorrow Dies Forever Today You'd think that for a city on a fault line, situated right next to the world's biggest proving ground for new technology, the Bay Area could come up with a better class of
SF News Stephen Robinson: Rockin' Rocketman Chris Lopez over at the Contra Costa Times pointed out that NASA Astronaut Stephen Robinson is from nearby Moraga, and is currently on the Discovery waiting for the weather to clear so that
SF News Get Well Soon Today Apple employees received an e-mail from their CEO, Steve Jobs, who is laid up with pancreatic cancer. We here at SFist have loved Apple computers since we played King's Quest on our