- Live shots: La Sera at the Chapel. [SFBG]
- Crumbling splendor: exploring the magnificent vacant buildings of the San Francisco Shipyard. [PotreroView]
- Has Green Day become Metallica? They've both gotten sober and gone broadway. By law, once a Bay Area band goes mainstream they have to buy a winery, or at least a tasting room in Healdsburg. [AllShookDown]
- Let's talk about gunfire in the Lower Haight. [Haighteration]
- Meet Rod, a man just trying to make ends meet by bringing a shopping cart full of recycling on Muni. [MuniDiaries]
- Elsewhere: "Is this how you roll in Flavor Town?" The NY Times reviews Guy Fieri's (abysmal sounding) American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square. [NYT]