Arts & Entertainment Cute: Nicole Vogelsong Helps Pagan Family Find Missing Dog In the cutest bit of drama today, Angel Pagán's dog, Maximo (a Bichon Frisé, perhaps?) went missing today outside of his Potrero Hill home. And who had the hot scoop? Mrs. Nicole Vogelsong,
Arts & Entertainment A Closer Look At The 2012 World Series Rings That is not how you show off a new diamond ring, fellas. You do it like this. Amateurs. The San Francisco Giants received their second World Series rings before Sunday's game. And what
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Giants Win Some, Lose Some (By E. Chang) The week that was: Won 2, lost 1 against the Dodgers. Won 1, lost 2 against the Cardinals. 3-3 for the season. The week that will be: 3 games at
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Opening Day At AT&T Park Earlier this afternoon, your San Francisco Giants took the field at Third and King Streets for their home opener against the St. Louis Cardinals at AT&T Park. The sun was out,
Arts & Entertainment The Giants' Home Opener Is Today, People! Hope you're sporting your finest Giants threads. For today, you see, is the Giants' home opener. The last time we came face to face with St. Louis during the season, MAGIC HAPPENED. Specifically,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Giants-Inspired Cocktails For Home Opener One should really only drink beer, Diet Coke, whiskey, and/or nacho cheese while watching a ballgame. It's just how things are done. But in honor of Home Opening Day this week, the
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Photo Of Jumping Giants The San Francisco Giants won last night's game against the Dodgers, 3-0. Andres Torres, right, and Pablo Sandoval celebrate by jumping in the air. Naturally. The Giants take on the Dodgers again tonight
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Our Brand New Weekly Giants Column! (By E. Chang) For some people, the new year begins with a flute of champagne and a midnight countdown. For others it starts with red firecrackers and lion dancers. But for the rest
Arts & Entertainment Play Ball! It's Opening Day for Giants Baseball It's been a long wait for fans of our triumphant yet ever-underestimated baseball team. Sure, the 49ers went to the Super Bowl, but it's just not the same at all, is it? Today
SF News $167 Million: Buster Posey To Stay With Giants For 9 More Years King of San Francisco Buster Posey will remain with the Giants for at least another 9 years. To which we say: Praise Jesus. According to SFGate: The Giants will announce Buster Posey’s
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Spring Training.... Buster Posey smiles as he stretches during batting practice before an exhibition game against the Colorado Rockies.
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: S.F. Symphony Musicians Go On Strike After a rather tone-deaf protest at San Francisco City Hall yesterday -- where, while donning L.A. Dodgers hats, a quartet performed in front of a Giants cap on the dirty floor --
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Musicians Wear Dodgers Hats During Labor Protest At City Hall [Update] Several members of the San Francisco Symphony possibly lost sympathy while protesting at San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday. A quartet -- featuring two violins, a viola, and a cello -- played in
Arts & Entertainment Buster Posey Goes To Reddit To Talk Broken Legs, Perfect Games, And That Memorable Grand Slam This morning, before running off to a spring training game in Arizona, National League MVP and San Francisco's boyfriend Buster Posey hopped on Reddit to answer questions from Internet fans about that bone
Arts & Entertainment Brian Wilson Will NEVER Be A Yankee, Okay?! Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. When asked if he would ever play for the Yankees, free agent Brian Wilson, sporting an unruly beard and ketchup down the front of his shirt,
Arts & Entertainment 5 Favorite Photos Of Birthday Boy Sergio Romo Sergio Romo, if you will (and you will), is the Jennifer Lawrence of the San Francisco Giants. He's attractive, sharp, prone blunt behavior (remember "The Beaners" shirt during the 2010 victory parade?), comes
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Dugout.... Buster Posey, left, jokes with teammate Brandon Crawford in the dugout before the start of an exhibition spring game against the Mariners.
Arts & Entertainment Oops: Mayor Ed Lee Refers To World Series Trophies As 'Twin Towers' During the annual San Francisco Chamber CityBeat Breakfast at the Marriott, kicky and acclaimed SFGate scribe Beth Spotswood sat in the audience while Mayor Ed Lee made a minor gaffe onstage. Lucky you.
SF News AT&T Park Concession Workers Upset That They Aren't Cashing In on Giants' Success A friend of SFist just alerted us to this flyer, which was passed around at Giants FanFest on February 9th. It's sponsored by Local 2, the hospitality union, and it points out that
SF News Matt Cain: SF Giants Opening Day Starter After four season openers, Tim Lincecum will not open the first Giants game. Bruce Bochy announced this morning that Matt Cain (he of the perfect game) will score his first career Opening Day
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hunter Pence And Tim Lincecum Do Impressions Of Each Other During Giants Fanfest 2013 on Saturday, players held a Q&A with fans. As expected, signature humor and charm poured forth -- specifically from Tim Lincecum and Hunter Pence. When a fan
Arts & Entertainment A Closer Look at Tim Lincecum's Short Hair In other S.F. sports star style news, Tim Lincecum has formally debuted his new short 'do at today's Giants FanFest. We've known for a while that Timmy sheared his luscious locks for
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Sergio Romo Feeds Monkeys At SF Zoo Giants pitcher Sergio Romo laughs as he feeds langur monkeys at the San Francisco Zoo on Thursday. A four-month old female langur monkey, born during the Giants' National League Divisional Series against the
Arts & Entertainment Gays, Jews, Christ, & Metallica: Giants 2013 Appreciation Days Announced It feels like baseball season is YEARS away. In fact, it's only a couple of months ahead of us, and spring training starts in just a couple of weeks. Rejoice, indeed. And with