SF News Sea Lion Entangled in Fishing Net Rescued From Pier 39 [Updated] A crew from the Marine Mammal Center arrived this afternoon at Pier 39 to rescue a sea lion that had become entangled in a fishing net. The sea lion was loaded onto a
SF News Water Main Break At Fisherman's Wharf Leaves Hotel Waterless A water main break near the Radisson in Fisherman's Wharf has caused all sorts of wetness this morning. The incident occurred at Mason and Beach, effectively shutting down streets in the area. No
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Moving To Fisherman's Wharf! In a somewhat shocking twist, noted Union Square bar Gold Dust Lounge set for closure earlier this year, will move to Fisherman's Wharf. Yes, Fisherman's Wharf. So the next time you find yourself
SF News Dead Woman Found Floating In SF Bay The fuzz was called to Pier 45 today after two tourists spotted a dead woman floating in the San Francisco Bay at around 11:20 a.m. The Chronicle reports, "Police, firefighters and
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Daytona 500 Winner Matt Kenseth Visits Fisherman's Wharf The majority of San Francisco doesn't care much for car racing, we can safely assume. It's more geared toward a different type of audience. More or less. But that didn't stop Daytona 500
SF News Man Shot In Wharf According to SF Appeal, a man was shot near Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday night. The man, a guy in his late 40s/early 50s was found near Taylor and North Point Streets a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Even Restaurant Staff Don't Like Being In Fisherman's Wharf The kitchen staff of Castagnola's, the 95-year-old fish and pasta joint perched on a pier in Fisherman's Wharf, staged a complete walkout during a busy tourist rush last Saturday. Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi
SF News Pedicab Companies at War! An upstart pedicab company, operating mostly along the Embarcadero, has ruffled the feathers of some more "established" pedicab companies who claim that not all of the new company's drivers are properly permitted. The
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Scam Artist, Arrested 14 Times Before, Arrested Again So there's this guy named Fofana Mbemba, and he's well known to police and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi for working Fisherman's Wharf over the years to scam tourists out of money through various means.
SF News Attorney Says Fisherman's Wharf Shooter Mentally Unfit for Trial A public defender for Hong Ri Wu, the fisherman's wharf souvenir shop owner who shot and killed two neighboring shop workers back in January, has claimed that her client is not mentally competent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seinfeld 'Soup Nazi' Coming To Fisherman's Wharf Al Yeganeh, the man who inspired the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld, is coming to San Francisco. Well, his chain of soup store will come here, anyway. "The Wharf outpost of The Original SoupMan
SF News Photos: Walk For Life, San Francisco, 2011 Saturday was a glorious day, wasn't it? Very warm and walkable for a January day. It was also an oddly serene day for abortion rights, or lack thereof, along the waterfront. On the
misc Aquarium Gets a Guitarfish The Aquarium of the Bay, that little Aquarium over by Pier 39, just got a new tenant: an almost-five-foot-long shovelnose guitarfish. It looks like an 80s hair-band bass, we suppose, like a Gibson
SF News Man Asks for Directions at Fisherman's Wharf, Gets Hit With Salad Dressing The news of how charmingly our local denizens treat tourists around the Wharf just keeps getting better: Mr. Aldax at the Examiner brings word today of an incident outside a local grocery store
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Juggler Detained, Street Closed, After He Was Juggling Fake Grenade One of the many street performers angling for tourists' quarters at Fisherman's Wharf was detained Saturday evening after trying to get some extra attention for his juggling act. The man was juggling what
SF News Homeless Woman Burns Tourist's Face With Cigarette at Fisherman's Wharf In a new endorsement for S.F. as America's number-one tourist destination (18th year in a row, boyeee), two "transients" attacked a tourist couple near Fisherman's Wharf last week. As Mike Aldax reports
SF News Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39 Clean Up Begins This Week The apparently vile and repugnant (we have no idea; no one who lives in SF goes there) area of San Francisco known as Fisherman's Wharf will start a clean up program this week.
misc Photo du Jour 607 Tourists at Fisherman's Wharf watch as master baker Fernando Padilla makes holiday sourdough bread shaped like a bunny for Easter at Boudin at the Wharf in San Francisco. The historic bakery will be
SF News Suede Nightclub and Lounge Closes After Shooting Death After this weekend's shooting death outside Suede Nightclub and Lounge, which took the life of 20-year-old Lawson Hall, authorities have temporarily suspended the Fisherman's Wharf venue's license. "City officials say an emergency suspension
SF News One Dead in Fisherman's Wharf Nightclub Shooting Early Sunday morning a 20-year-old Richmond man allegedly shot three people outside Suede nightclub, at 383 Bay Street, near Fisherman's Wharf. One of those shot, 19-year-old Richmond man Lawson Hall, is dead, and
SF News The Mystery of the Missing Sea Lions Is Solved! The ever vigilant C.W. Nevius over at the Chron alerted us last week to the disturbing disappearance of the beloved, smelly sea lions over at Pier 39. Had the stubborn little guys
SF News Sea Lions: Maybe We Should Stop Trying to Save Them? We noted last week the recent infestation of sea lions spilling over down at the piers, and this week's SF Weekly has a piece about efforts by Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center to rehabilitate
SF News What's Going On Here, Fisherman's Wharf Fashion Statement? "Surrounded by so many boob and beer joke tee shirts that you could almost miss it," this classic-comedy (albeit hateful) t-shirt is for sale right now at Wharf T Shirts (on Jefferson between
misc Really Bad Wax Figure Likenesses We're not sure there is such a thing as a *good* wax figure, but we're sure the people at the Fisherman's Wharf Wax Museum would like us to think so. In any event,
