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 Introducing the E Line, Which Is Just the F for America's Cup Tourists Over the weekend the SFMTA tested out the E line in the first of two pilot runs. What is this E line, you ask? It's just the F, but rerouted so that it
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
Arts & Entertainment Nobody's Watching the America's Cup Preliminary Regatta Have the preliminary, World Series races for the America's Cup been overhyped? Do yachting enthusiasts really give a rat's ascot about them? It appears the answers to those question are yes, and not
SF News Port Of S.F. Sinks Local Man's Dream To Build Dumpy Waterfront Restaurant Vincent Lackey, the owner of a rotting houseboat that has been stuck in the mud in India Basin for months, is about to see his dreams of opening a waterfront restaurant come to
Arts & Entertainment Please Do Not Drive To America's Cup World Series If you plan on going to the America's Cup World Series, which starts today, please do not drive there. You won't find parking. You just won't. Instead, "walk, bus, bike or take a
SF News Watch Team Korea Capsize During America's Cup Training Oops. Team Korea capsized their boat on Saturday, August 18, while training for the America's Cup World Series in the San Francisco Bay. "We were in a little race with Energy Team and
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Goes On the Road, Won't Reopen Until Late Next Year Ever since being evicted after New Year's Eve from their semi-permanent spot on Pier 29 to make way for the America's Cup, dinner circus Teatro ZinZanni has been in limbo. The city offered
SF News A Houseboat Stuck In The Mud Is Our New Favorite NIMBY Problem A local man who has spent the past 20 years building a houseboat that he hopes will become Pier 1's next great restaurant has suddenly found his plans literally stuck in the mud.
Arts & Entertainment Pier 29 May Be Demolished, America's Cup Ready To Give It A Makeover Anyway The newly rainbow-anointed Pier 29 suffered over $2.4 million worth of damages in yesterday's 4-alarm fire on the waterfront. The bad news is that the historic facade (the only part of the
SF News Forget High Speed Rail, Why Are We Not Cruising to LA? While the High Speed Rail Authority figures out how to round up enough money to lay track and get travelers zipping down to SoCal, Chronicle columnist and noted Jimmy Buffett fan C.W.
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
SF News French Say Au Revoir To America's Cup Yet another woe befell San Francisco's gift to billionaire Larry Ellison and his fancy boat race. Specifically, the French sailing team has dropped out of the race. "The team, called Aleph, announced Tuesday
SF News Piers 30 And 32 Won't Get Makeovers In Downsized America's Cup Deal In the latest updates from the America's Cup, a key real estate deal that would help rehabilitate the city's eastern waterfront has been cut back by the city. Under the new deal Mayor
SF News America's Cup Will Not Include Giant Floating Jumbotron Screen The Board of Supervisors rejected two appeals of the America's Cup environmental report yesterday, meaning the event has some smooth sailing in front of it on the way to 2013. The vote was
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Announces Final Show at Pier 29 If you want to catch Teatro ZinZanni's final show at Pier 29, called On the Air, you'll need to get on it quick. The new production itself--about a local radio station in need
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fancy Sailboats Capsize At A-Cup World Series Yes, we already saw at least one America's Cup AC45 capsize right here in the Bay, but for today's bit of schadenfreude we go to Plymouth, England where the America's Cup World Series
SF News Environmental Group Protests the America's Cup at 10 A.M. Today [Summer of Protests] The Environmental Council, a joint effort between 30 bay area organizations who all want a say in the America's Cup environmental impact report, is set to protest in front of City Hall this
SF News Behold, the America's Cup Development Bounty Yesterday, the Planning Department released their 1,600 page environmental impact report. Tucked among heaps of mundane things like how much audible noise a helicopter floating over Crissy Field makes (Appendix NO-2), it
SF News Fancy Sailboat Capsizes During A-Cup Practice Runs [Video] Larry Ellison's Oracle Racing team has already crashed one of those AC45's we had our eye on this morning. The catamaran tipped over while skippers Russel Coutts and James Spithill tried to one-up
SF News America's Cup Team to Take Boat Out for Spin on the Bay Today People will have a chance to check out the fancy catamaran owned by Oracle Racing that they're testing for the America's Cup race in 2013. This won't be the exact boat they'll be
SF News America's Cup Yacht Arrives In S.F. The Oracle Racing USA-14, Larry Ellison's America's Cup-winning yacht, arrived in San Francisco at Pier 80 on Monday. "The device to catch the wind is called a wing, and is so efficient it
SF News How The City Can Get The Most Bang For America's Cup Buck SPUR came out with a report today outlining how S.F. can use the large influx of money that the upcoming America's Cup will undoubtedly generate as an impetus to make major, much
SF News Who's Losing Space For Ellison's Boat Race? We've already celebrated the fact that our fair city was selected to host the 2013 America's Cup. (Lots of love to Lite Gov Newsom for successfully wooing Larry Ellison and his boating buddies.
SF News Gavin Newsom Becomes Ambassador to America's Cup Whatever it is a Lieutenant Governor does in Sacramento must not be as important as the sailboat race in San Francisco because Gavin Newsom has accepted the title of "Ambassador at Large" to
