- Landmark SoMa fern bar Eddie Rickenbacker's has closed. It will re-open in a couple weeks under new management and without most of the bar's iconic motorcycles, which are going to auction along with their collection of Tiffany lamps. [LiveSOMA] [InsideScoop]
- Brasserie S&P, which just opened in the Mandarin Hotel, boasts 34 kinds of gin. Because gin is this summer's trendy liquor, apparently. [Food & Wine]
- The America's Cup, which currently has only four squads lined up for it's big race, is still trying to entice more teams to enter. [SFEx]
- This guy is building a $5 million, 130-foot Tall Ship like the ones that used to be built in San Francisco in the late 1800s, but with some added 21st-century flair like a hybrid, carbon neutral backup generator. It will, of course, be built with lumber from sustainable logging practices. [Chron]
- Turf wars: ports spies floating cash cows in South Beach. [CurbedSF]
- The paralympian whose custom hand-cranked bike was stolen from a Hayes Valley apartment last week got a new set of wheels from a Berkeley non-profit. [Chron]
- The Berkeley Library loves yarnbombing, just not when it steals the thunder from their library renovations. [Berkeleyside]
