Summer is heating up (or cooling down, depending on how close you are to the Pacific) so don’t forget to pack your sunscreen and pooch to take your dog with you on your adventures. You can start this Sunday at the W Hotel’s party for dogs cosponsored by Bark Magazine. Come meet the author of “TAILS OF DEVOTION A Look At The Bond Between People And Their Pets” from 4-6 p.m. This is a......

It is customary to start any post about the World Cup by stating that you should care. We won't do that. Y'all know what a big deal it is and how pretty much every part of the world that isn't Canada or the U.S. is effectively shutting itself down for a month to watch. Besides, we have a feeling part of the reason soccer has never really taken off here is because too many people tell you that you have to care. So getting into soccer becomes something like eating broccoli or the metric system or any other things you are told to do because it's good for you. As a result, people here start getting all huffy and get all "nuh-uh, we're 'merican's damnit. We like our sports with non-stop action, lots of beer commercials, and scoreboards telling us when to cheer and when not to cheer, you Euro Weenie One World-ist!" Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you have to be like everyone else, but as, well, kind of a way to travel around the world in a month without ever having to leave the city. ...

After a long, raucous day of debate that lasted even longer than last night's ball game, the Board of Supervisors stared straight into the eyes of several controversial, contentious issues and decided to make a decision later. We start with everyone's favorite topic, or at least SFist's, the medicinal marijuana debate. After holding off on making a decision last week, the Board took it up yesterday and was about to pass the measure before Daly aide Bill Barnes pulled a fast one and derailed it by calling an appeal on environmental concerns. Daly is against the legislation for the fairly understandable reason that due to a lot of the new rules, most of the dispensaries that will be kept open or will be opened will be in his 'hood. He also thinks that all of the new rules and regulations are too restrictive and will lead to many of the dispensaries having to close (which would mean he wouldn't have to worry about too many of them being in his 'hood, but we digress). And by too restrictive, we're guessing he means the fact that dispensaries can only dispense half a pound of marijuana to one person a day (that would be about eight ounces of dope). That's more dope than a van full of Dead Heads on the road to the Bonnaroo Festival could smoke. Or maybe it's because it's so difficult these days to get medical marijuana cards. ...

Put down that guide on how to make wine in prison! Barrespondent Drew has some slightly better ideas on how to get yer buzz on. And none of his involve moldy bread and an old sock. Inspired by last week's comments on Edinburgh Castle's 'tough as nails' trivia night, we tried out one of the city's other Tuesday night geek-fests. Now don't get us wrong, we luvz the trivia and see it as a wonderful......

One of our SFist editors, unfortunately the ill-gendered one, promised to kiss us if we ever wrote a post in French. We have postponed such post thus far, but with the opening of Café du Soleil, we have to put up or shut up: the place is as French as a fry. You will have to excuse our French, which we hid behind some link after the jump, in the hope said editor won't......

San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office- spray painted on the wall is the statement “Smash the State.” The graffiti was sprayed on by noted graffiti artist Barry McGee and can be seen right over Matt’s desk. One final swipe at Gonzalez’s rival, Mayor Wonderboy, who has been conducting......

Andrew covers the local bar scene. This week, Mad Dog in the Fog....