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Egads. A man fell to his death yesterday at Monster Park after falling 20 feet from the upper concourse area of the stadium to the concrete mezzanine below. Scary. And sad. According to the Chronicle, the 31-year-old sports fan "went to the concession area between sections 5 and 7 to hang out during halftime about 2:20 p.m. and fell over a wall to the floor below." After two other accidents that happened in the... more ›

This weekend's Muni news spans both ends of the Kinsey scale: for straight people, football; for the gays, Cirque du Soleil. Of course, gays are also allowed to like sports. (All those bulging uniforms! And the cheerleaders! Mmmmm.) And if the Republican party has taught us anything, it's that straight married men secretly adore, and aspire to be, limber fags in spandex. The Cirque will be performing in the parking lot of AT&T park, which... more ›

We're starting to run out of ways to introduce these stories about the murder count in SF, so we're going with a clip of "Miss Murder" by AFI, above. more ›

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murders taking place this weekend. Two parents were shot in front of their children on Friday night in Mission Terrace (the five-year-old knocked on doors in the neighborhood until someone came out to help), a man killed his wife and then himself in the Excelsior, and then two men were killed in the Lower Haight Saturday night. We think that count doesn't include the two burned bodies they found this week too -- one woman's body was found Friday afternoon on a pier near Monster Park, and another body was found in a burning building in the Bayview on Wednesday night. (Readers, let us know in the comments if the count includes those two now as well.) more ›

Hey, the new MUNI T Third line is finally open! That's the new light rail route that goes (.gif) from Castro Station down Third Street, through Dogpatch, down the Bayview, past Monster Park, and all the way to Sunnydale Avenue. We decided to spend our day off today checking it out. more ›

From the people who brought you AT&T Park and Monster Park and the Doritos’s Fiesta Bowl comes word that the Golden Gate Bridge-- THE Golden Gate Bridge-- might get corporate sponsorship too. more ›

Tiiiiimber! Commuters blamelessly trying to get to the Golden Gate Bridge got stuck in a whole lotta mess this morning, as a lumber truck misjudged how fast it was going and spilled its load on that sharp turn up the northbound 101 9th Street and Mission/Van Ness exit. No one was hurt, but the entire highway was blocked, and cars parked below were damaged from the falling logs. Traffic on 101 backed up all the way to Monster Park, and the highway was reopened about four hours later. In other traffic news, this time in the East Bay, last night, the connecting ramp between 580 and 80 was closed for about two hours to deal with a fatal crash, where an SUV crashed into the center divider and caught on fire. And finally -- wanna buy a parking place? They're going for around $85,000-$125,000, which could buy you a two-bedroom house in Birmingham, Alabama. Invest now -- if Daly's 2-spaces for 3-units legislation survives a veto threat, they're going to only go up in value. (But make sure they're not located underneath the northbound 101 Mission/Van Ness Street exit -- tiiiiimber!) Picture by Karl Mondon, off sfgate from the Contra Costa Times more ›

Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's in a Monster Park of his own making, after his proposal before the Board of Supes to support the Seahawks was greeted with a cry of "Offsides!" from the red-and-gold faithful. "Sandoval sounds like a traitor," announces the head of the Santa Clara Niners booster club. A Niners spokesman said the resolution "represents an appalling lack of loyalty to San Francisco." That guy's just probably happy no one's asking him questions about videos for a change! Sandoval says, "Come on, give me a break, it's just a way to have fun and help a few bar owners," noting that sports bars have seen a precipitous decline in attendance since the Niners limped to a 4-12 season this last year and that Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren is a San Francisco native. But as of this morning, Niners fans vowed to show up at today's Board of Supes meeting at 2 p.m. to protest against the proposal. Well, given how bad the Niners defense is, we're sure the proposition will pass 41-3. Picture of a Niners-Seahawks game in 2003 from the NFL website more ›

So yes, both the Niners and the Rai-duhs lost yesterday in typically awful fashion. But we don't think this is such a bad thing. Not a bad thing in all. In fact, we think it's a good thing: it’s just a matter of how you look at it. Take the Niners for instance; they’re now 2-10 and owner of the second worst record in the NFL. On the other hand, they're still a game out of the chase for human highlight reel Reggie Bush. And as for the Rai-duhs, well, frankly, they’re always way more entertaining when they lose anyways. There’s nothing in sports quite like the implosion of the Raiders. Plus, we got ourselves a full blown QB controversy and a coach now officially designated as "Dead Man Walking." Who doesn't love QB controversy and coaching death watches? more ›

You don't have to lose at Monster Park to be a Niner -- it's almost time for the Third Annual City Guides' Scavenger Hunt, and it's got a Gold Rush theme this year! City Guides are the volunteers who lead walks through historic sights and sites in San Francisco -- like the Barbary Coast, the murals of the Mission, and the remnants of the 1906 Earthquake -- so you know anything they plan's going to be city-centric and fun to boot. So strap on your mining cap and bring your patty pan as you scour the city for the answers to the Gold Rush themed clues that City Guides will provide -- you don't need to know city history to play, and they promise that all clues are located within three blocks of a MUNI line (City Guides provides the tokens. Watch out, Chris Daly!). Further adding to the wacky -- certain clues will require you to interact with City Guides playing historical characters at designated spots to figure out what you're looking for. Is that you, Clementine? The scavenger hunt takes place on Sunday October 16 -- but register before Friday the 30th to secure your spot! (Prices go up after the 30th, and go up if you register on the day of). Either organize your own team or be assigned to one! The team who gets the most clues right wins the whole shebang. And FYI -- a friend of SFist is in fact the reigning champion from last year's scavenger hunt, and we know she's the one to beat! more ›

Following his doctor’s strict advice, Barrespondent Drew continues to get all lit up a few times a week and sober up long enough to scribble out a review of the only place he remembers going. At least we think it was a doctor. He had a white coat on… more ›

Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR man Kirk Reynolds was similarly inclined! No one's laughing about the mea culpa hat-in-hand tours that the Niners' owners are making around the various offended groups in town. Last week, John York and Reynolds met with members of the gay community in the LGBTQ headquarters in the Castro to apologize for mocking gay marriage in the infamous training video, and yesterday, they went to Chinatown to apologize to Asian-Americans for depicting a buck-toothed accented Asian character in the video too. One 18-year-old Asian-American Niners fan told York, "You guys are like our heroes. So when I saw that video, I don't know how to describe it -- it was heartbreaking." And sitting sternly in attendance too -- the Asian-American who paid for the renaming of Monster Park, Noel Lee. Lee told the Examiner that the video reminded him of "ridicule" he faced growing up in the Richmond and that "I thought that was behind me until I saw this video." Quite a lot of damage to do for a lame joke about l's and r's, huh? Hey, here's an idea: Lee and the gay community should get together and rename Candlestick B.D. Wong and Margaret Cho Field! Lee paid all that money, didn't he? more ›

Ay yi yi! The SF Animal Care and Control is asking for your help -- yes, yours! -- in identifying the man outside the recently-renamed Monster Park who threw two helpless chihuahuas out the window of his speeding car yesterday night. more ›