SF News America's Cup To San Francisco: Bye With all the formality deserving of the oldest international sporting trophy, America's Cup point man Russell Coutts confirmed yesterday's rumors when he sent a letter to Mayor Ed Lee letting him know San
SF News S.F. A Glutton for Punishment, Bids For Next America's Cup The ink is barely dry on the $5.5 million lost in taxpayer dollars incurred in the just-concluded America's Cup, but hindsight is 20/40: San Francisco is already entering a new bid
SF News America's Cup Cost S.F. $5.5 Million, Organizers Call It A 'Pay Off' In Tuesday's Chronicle, the paper of record finally got to crunching the numbers on cheating billionaire Larry Ellison's lavish yacht race. And they're not quite the rosy projections the event organizers had promised.
Arts & Entertainment Bon Voyage: Photos From The Finale Of The America's Cup On Wednesday, September 25th Oracle Team USA beat out Emirates Team New Zealand in a winner-take-all race to bring the 34th America's Cup to a close. For more coverage of Wednesday's racing and
Arts & Entertainment We're Live From The America's Cup, The Greatest Contest In The History Of Sports [Updates] After months of largely ignored racing on the bay, the America's Cup comes down to one final race. The stakes are high: on the line are one bajillionaire's inflated ego and the honor
SF News Yachtenfreude No More? America's Cup May Not Be A Wholesale Disaster Just as we learn that Oracle Racing will be docked 2 races as a penalty for that cheating scandal, the Chron is now saying that the whole America's Cup will actually still be
SF News Billionaire Yachtsman's Cheating Team Ordered To Return America's Cup Trophies Oracle Team USA, the prized group of boating enthusiasts funded by bajillionaire Larry Ellison, has been accused of cheating in last year's America's Cup World Series races and ordered to return their prized
SF News Even Louis Vuitton Is Bored With The America's Cup Fancy luggage maker and marquee America's Cup sponsor Louis Vuitton is looking for a $3 million refund now that the event is turning out to be kind of a dud. Despite the massive
SF News America's Cup Director Could Torpedo The Regatta [Update] There have been a lot of contentious moments leading up to the America's Cup, but the latest development could completely sink the main event by revoking the Coast Guard permit allowing the boats
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Will You Drink At The Massive (But Temporary) America's Cup Sports Bar? Adding to the list of things of impermanent things coming to the city's waterfront during Larry Ellison's yacht race: the cleverly named America's Cup Sports Bar, a huge drinking establishment with an outdoor
Arts & Entertainment Kennedys, Vanderbilts, & Liptons: When The America's Cup Was Actually Cool There was a time, before evil supervillians got involved and started throwing Sting concerts, when the America's Cup was just a traditional highfalutin boat race between a Scottish tea magnate and an American
SF News Sailor Dies After America's Cup Yacht Capsizes [Update] One member of Swedish team Artemis Racing was killed earlier this afternoon when his team's 72-foot AC72 catamaran capsized during practice runs near Treasure Island on the San Francisco Bay. The sailor was
Arts & Entertainment Let There Be Jonas Brothers: America's Cup Music Venue Approved By Entertainment Commission The controversial entertainment permit for the America's Cup one-season-only music venue on the Embarcadero was unanimously approved by the Entertainment Commission yesterday, meaning the Jonas Brothers, Sting and SFist house band/wine label
SF News America's Cup Music Venue Now Doing Fewer Concerts, Promises Soundproofing Curtain Thanks to some concerns from neighbors up the hill (and possibly some booking difficulties) concert organizers from the America's Cup and Live Nation have agreed to scale back their summer concert lineup at
SF News Local Jimmy Buffett Fan Defends Expensive Sailboat Races Chronicle columnist and noted parrothead C.W. Nevius used some column inches this weekend to defend this Summer's expensive (but maybe not as expensive) America's Cup. The event won't bring in nearly as
SF News At Least The America's Cup Won't Cost So Much? First there was news that no one cared about the America's Cup except this guy. Then yesterday, we learned the city would be pulling in about half as much revenue as originally projected.
Arts & Entertainment Sting Will Christen S.F.'s First Outdoor Waterfront Concert Venue Multiple Grammy-winning artist Sting is the first act booked to play a lavish, yet temporary, new waterfront concert venue at the America's Cup Pavilion on Pier 27/29. The 9,000 seat venue
SF News Assault Suspect Climbs Scaffolding, Threatens Suicide On Embarcadero [Updated] The northeast part of the Embarcadero around Pier 29 was shut down around 3:15 p.m. this afternoon when a jumper climbed a scaffolding and threatened to commit suicide. According to police,
Arts & Entertainment Team Oracle Plans To Sink Something Else Thing On Purpose This Weekend Yacht-enfreude will meet Flugtag this weekend as the proficient yacht-sinkers from Oracle Racing plan to pitchpole yet another expensive piece of equipment into the Bay as part of the Red Bull-sponsored, hyper-caffeinated crash
SF News Yacht-enfreude: Oracle Capsizes Their Fanciest Sailboat Yet Yesterday afternoon during practice runs on their $8 million AC72 catamaran, Oracle Team USA took another nosedive into the bay. Skipper Jimmy Spithill, who is really making a splash around the St. Francis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woodhouse Fish Co. Wants To Open Marina Green's Most Scenic Clam Shack Noted local seafood purveyors, Woodhouse Fish Co. want to bring something fresh to the Marina Green — and not just their seafood. The family-owned restaurant group, which operates two seafood joints in the Castro
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison Will Proudly Show Off Even More Of His Expensive Things Next Summer In conjunction with the marquee races of the Oracle-sponsored America's Cup (coming to a waterfront near you in Summer 2013) bajillionaire boating enthusiast and suspected evil villain Larry Ellison will put a significant
SF News Seven Photos Of America's Cup Sailors Spraying Each Other With Champagne Last week's America's Cup events were thrilling, right? Sunday's atmosphere out on the Marina Green felt like one of the city's nicer street festivals. A street festival with boats. With two Team USAs
SF News The America's Cup Has At Least One Fan, And He Is Nuts Although attendance has been thin down on the Northern waterfront where the first of the America's Cup practice races have been hitting the water this week. The early runs did, however, bring out
SF News Oracle Racing Footing The Bill For Competitor's Expensive A-Cup Boats After one French team bid adieu to the America's Cup, bajillionaire Larry Ellison and Oracle Racing are scrambling to keep another team from making their own French exit due to the prohibitively high
