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 Also, America's Cup Opened Yesterday According to the Chronicle, yesterday's kickoff to the America's Cup drew "throngs to the waterfront." The controversial race, dating back to the Victorian era, will pit four countries against each other: Oracle Team
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 NYT Slams Larry Ellison And The America's Cup Today the New York Times gets in on the America's Cup hating game, criticizing Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison for making the regatta so expensive to participate in that only four boats are going
Arts & Entertainment Body Armor Now Recommended For America's Cup Sailors Safety concerns in the wake of the death of a sailor trapped underwater after a 72-foot AC72 catamaran capsized two weeks ago have prompted new safety recommendations for the upcoming America's Cup. The
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 Video: Precocious Youths Capsize America's Cup Boat The American Youth Sailing Force, a group of young sailors ages 19 to 24 who will represent the U.S. in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup, capsized their 45-foot boat on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Trucks Banned From America's Cup Larry Ellison's personal and far less dazzling remake of The Music Man, happening right here in San Francisco, is turning into a veritable storm of shit. First, this toy-boat viewing party on the
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
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Rental Market Makes Us Seasick Boats! These sea-faring doodads are popular with some people, no? Sources tell us that sailing enthusiasts will be flocking to town come summer for the culmination of the American's Cup contest that's been
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.
SF News America's Cup Economic Impact Downgraded By Half When city officials and Larry Ellison were originally touting the amazing and marvelous economic impacts that would come to S.F. from hosting the America's Cup, it seems that they, and their consultants,
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
Arts & Entertainment The New Cruise Terminal at Pier 27, Rendered Changes to our waterfront architecture are rapidly taking shape in preparation for the America's Cup races in 2014, beginning with Phase 1 of the demolition and rebuild of Pier 27. Behold, via the
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
Arts & Entertainment Everything's Happening This Weekend: Hardly Strictly Castro Cup God save us all, you guys, for everything is happening in San Francisco this weekend! What will Mayor Ed Lee do about it? Get this: he's allowing it all to happen. He claims
SF News Ed Lee Says Don't Worry About Weekend Traffic Nightmare You know how everything upon everything is happening this weekend in our fair city? The hordes are coming, but Mayor Ed Lee insisted in a quickie press conference today, "I know there will
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
