Remember the Carnival Splendor, that ship that lost all power last fall and got stranded for days 200 miles off the coast of San Diego, leaving its passengers to sweat and stink up the place and eat Spam? Well, the poor ship has been getting some much needed repairs in San Diego, but it's now headed to San Francisco, arriving next week, to get some final fixing before hopefully getting renamed so that no one will be wiser. more ›

Pier 50 dance club Jelly's, who played host to a fatal shooting last week, could become a thing of the past. After the city's Entertainment Commission had yanked the club's permit last week, the Port of San Francisco "sent the club's operators a 30-day notice terminating their lease and ordering them out by Aug. 18," notes SFGate. Jelly's, a nightclub specializing in Latin and DJ grooves, has been a port tenant since 1993. more ›

With the swine flu almost reaching pandemic levels, cruise ships that were scheduled to head down south to Mexico will instead dock at the Port of San Francisco, as well as Victoria, British Columbia, and Seattle. According to SF Chron, "there were nine ship calls scheduled in May before the flu kept the ships out of Mexico. Now 18 are scheduled" to make appearances on the waterfront. San Francisco, it seems, sees "50 to 60 cruise ship calls a year"; this year, however, we'll have 70. What does this mean? An extra $500,000 in city revenue. "It's excellent," squealed Port of San Francisco marketing director Michael Nerney. Also, in related mixed-message news, SF health officials would like you to stop overreacting to the pig sniffles, please. more ›