Behold the 12th Annual Alcatraz Invitational Swim that took place this past weekend, and Matt Cohen captured all of the cold, wet, criminally-insane athletic activity. More images in glorious, vivid color after the jump.......

The Pride Parade is one of the best photo-ops of the year, isn't it? The yearly celebration gives us an opportunity to step back, examine ourselves, and then breathe with relief, "yup, still gay." SFist photo friend Matt Cohen has some excellent snapshots on his Flickr stream of the festivities. After the jump: underwear, cheerleaders, balloons, and Carole Migden!......

This weekend, San Francisco's latest team, the California Victory of the United Soccer League had their inaguaral game and our intrepid photographer, Matt Cohen, was there to take some pictures. On Saturday, San Francisco's newest professional team, the California Victory played their home opener against Mexican First Division side Club Necaxa at Kezar Stadium. In pre-game ceremonies, Mayor's Liason to District 9 Alfredo Pedroza presented a Certificate of Honor from Mayor Gavin Newsom to......

Over the weekend, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Roller Derby to see the SF Bay Bombers vs Brooklyn Red Devils last weekend. These are the totally cool photos of the event. There are more of our favorite photos (including of the guys getting down and dirty) after the jump. You can see these photos and many more of the derby at Matt's Flickr page......

Intrepid photographer Matt Cohen went to the Grand National Rodeo over the past week and took these amazing action photo of the event. Posted are some of the best. If you want to see the whole collection, check out his Flickr stream.......

Photographer Matt Cohen went to yesterday's Amigen Tour and took these photos of the race. You can't really pick a better place to hold a bike race than North Beach. At the end of the leg, Ben Jacques-Maynes, Jason Donald (Best Sprinter), Levi Leipheimer (Stage Winner) and Taylor Tolleson (Best Young Rider)......

Yesterday morning, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Tet Festival in Little Saigon. The Tet Festival is a celebration of the Vietnamese New Year and is the biggest Vietnamese holiday. Happy Year of the Boar, everyone....

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia, and while most were peaceful, there were scuffles with authorities. Here in the United States, the marches were to protest changes to immigration laws, and coincided with many businesses shuttering their doors as immigrant workers walked off their jobs. Marches were......

Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron: The prospect of a tossup primary followed by an easy general election victory is no doubt what is motivating the Newsom camp to look closely at the race. The Mayor’s ambitions for higher office have been no secret, and if he......

So how do we balance our fawning coverage of Matt Gonzalez' birthday? Why, unintentionally hilarious pictures of Gavin, of course! Matt over at 1115.org dropped by Blue Bottle Coffee, followed the sound of drums, and found the Gavster enthusiastically participating in a ground breaking ceremony on Octavia. Add a new camera and some black-and-white film into the mix, and you have the recipe for Flickr candy. We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo......

SFist was kind of ambivalent about blogging when we first heard about it a few years ago. Seemed like the kind of self-absorbed nonsense one might expect from high school poets, or discussions of technical issues way over SFist's head. Either way, the voices in the blogosphere at the turn of the century didn't resonate with us. When we finally did get around to reading and participating, it was because we stumbled upon sites......