Richard Hargraves v. Clint Coronel Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing at the Civic Center this weekend. After battling Symphony, Asian Art Museum, and fight fans for parking, we entered Bill Graham Coliseum as the Chronicle's Editor, Phil Bronstein departed (insert joke about the shifting tides of......

Last Friday was an historic night in California combat sports history, as the first ever sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts competition was held in San Jose's packed-to-the roof HP Pavilion. Anticipated since the establishment of the Ultimate Fighting Championships in 1993, the Strikeforce competition marks a landmark moment of legitimacy in a frequently misunderstood sport. The card read like a who's who of local marital arts talent, with students of Ceasar Gracie (more on him......

When we heard that the Golden Gloves were moving back up to San Francisco from the Cow Palace, we were all "sure, that sounds cool", but we didn't really get how awesome it was until we set foot in the Civic Center Friday night. Right away, we want to take our hats off to the entire organization for taking what was, as we said earlier, basically a friends and family event and making it......

We're tempted to change the title of this week's column to Gourmand de l'Ouest, as this week's featured restaurant, PPQ Dungeness Island, is not just great food prepared very simply, but a definite call to gluttony. We'd heard a lot of good things about PPQ, so we skipped lunch in training for the evening's anticipated feast, which meant we were wasting away to almost nothing when we arrived at 25th and Clement. We slumped,......

SFist spends more time than is seemly pondering where our beloved action film genre is headed next. We feel like the Matrix thing, beautiful as it is, is long over, and the wisecracking action dude is tired as heck. What's next? We got a peek at a possible answer to that question at SFIAAFF's jam packed screening of 2004 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner and bad-ass Korean gangster film Oldboy at the Kabuki......