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
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
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
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 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 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,
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 Yacht-enfreude: Watch Oracle's Fancy Sailboat Take A Nosedive As we've been saying for months now, the best part of the America's Cup (aside from the champagne) is watching expensive things make big splashes. This weekend, Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill did just
Arts & Entertainment Pearl Jam Reluctantly Jams for Oracle World, And Someone Recorded It Pearl Jam, for obvious reasons, didn't publicize the concert they just did on Treasure Island Wednesday night for Oracle World. But they had a private audience of some 50,000 people, and Eddie
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 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 SFPD Bicycle Crackdown Excludes Oracle-Sponsored Pedicabs As part of their recent crackdown on bad bike behavior, SFPD once again butt heads with bike commuters, this time at Fourth and King Street. The savvy cyclists at Streetsblog reported cops around
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 Larry Ellison Denies Plan to Gobble Up the Scenic Patios of Pac Heights As a brief update to Monday's story, Team Ellison (legal team that is, not yacht racing team or Oracle softball team) has released Larry's response to news reports that he would be buying
SF News Frustrated With Obstructed Views, Larry Ellison Buys Neighbor's $40 Million Home Oracle CEO and billionaire boating enthusiast Larry Ellison, seen here eating a hot dog, has overcome some NIMBY issues in the richest way possible. As Curbed reports this morning, Ellison has been battling
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 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 San Francisco Celebrates America's Cup Promising to bring an estimated "$1.4 billion in economic benefits and 8,000 jobs to a city facing a $379 million deficit," San Francisco celebrated the America's Cup pick on Wednesday. The
SF News Local Columnist Taunts Sailing Billionaire to Make This Boat Race Happen In his SFGate column today, Chuck Nevius calls out boating enthusiast Larry Ellison and the BMW Oracle sailing team for making such a stink about which piers on the Eastern waterfront they'll get
