- Alex Smith prays for sweet release. [Chron]
- Dispatches from New Orleans: Calm amid the media day chaos. [Grantland]
- Artist Wendy McNaughton brings us an illustrated history of Pier 70. [Pier70Community]
- Mexican Fernet exists and it is used to make a drink called the Pink Testicle, which includes orange Fanta. [GrubSF]
- The Mission remembers Crackers — the Sean Penn and Donald Sutherland flick shot in the neighborhood before hipsters ruined it. [MissionMission]