San Francisco Rec & Parks are finally cracking down on the scourge* of slackliners in local parks. [UptownAlmanac] John Madden doesn't want the Warriors to leave Oakland, because of nostalgia and stuff. [CBS5]

Mythbuster Adam Savage attends the Exploratorium's 35th Annual Awards Dinner, fails to send a cannonball sailing through anyone's home. [SFWire] Meanwhile, in Pacifica... Police detonate a vintage hand grenade. [Chron] Yahoo's new CEO

Employees from locally based social network for sales jocks LinkedIn will attempt to break their own human centipede record at Bay to Breakers this weekend. [SFEx] Skeeball has arrived in the Mission. Prepare

The Board of Supervisors approved the controversial 8 Washington Project in a seven-hour hearing at yesterday's meeting. [Chron] Haighteration goes inside the U.S. Mint to watch the pressing of new $1 coins.

Check out the major changes proposed for Muni's Bus Rapid Transit on Van Ness. [Hayeswire] The folks behind Park(ing) Day and the Mission Community Market want your input on how to transform

Undercover Behind the scenes with San Francisco's Entertainment Commission. [SFEx] Fashion industry catches on to mobile vending, boutique truck pops up in Dolores Park. [UptownAlmanac] Too lazy to actually go to Yosemite and

Crate and Barrel co-opts the Dolores Park "brand" for a new line of grillware. [Mission Mission] Speaking of park days, this new iPhone app is dedicated solely to helping you find your friends

Celebrity spotting: Clint Eastwood hanging out with Chris Tucker at the SF Jazz Gala. (Bonus: Vanessa Getty sighting.) [SFWire] Photo: Gosling spotted with mother at Stow Lake. [RichmondSF] Public Service Announcement: Don't park

Tom Gabel, frontman for noted punk rock act Against Me!, comes out as transgender. [RollingStone] Duboce Park gets an innovative new playground littered with boulders. [Haighteration] How to help out the victims of

Obama is still not actually down with gay marriage. [TheAwl] Important (tiny) hamburger news: SliderBar Café slips in to the new Castro meat district. [GrubSF] The San Francisco Mint turns 75 next month,

Wayne Shannon, witty former KRON commentator dies in Idaho. [Chron] San Franciscans bring startup approach to homeless. [KTVU] Dolores Park in cartoon form. [Mission Mission] Car break-ins and home burglaries rattle the Lower

After buying Instagram, Facebook is trying to level the playing field (against themselves?) by introducing new photo filters for their mobile apps. Those filters are creatively called "Normal", "Sepia" and "Black & White"

Ketchup and Ranch battle it out on the Dolores Park Playground in a fight for potato-dipping supremacy. Also: some sort of viral marketing campaign. [Mission Mission] The new Bay Bridge East Span should

Hungry this morning? Occupy SF is serving a Solidarity Breakfast, free to all at their new commune at 888 Turk Street. (Sidenote: chances are high SFPD will show up and raid your coffee.

Hidden Histories: SF Baseball Stadiums. Can we bring back the part where the ballpark had a "booze cage" surrounded in chicken wire, and ticket price included your choice of a sandwich or shot

You should go take a look at the new Lands End Lookout. [Chron] Gavin Newsom sighting: at the California Academy of Sciences' Big Bang Gala. [SFWire] Valencia Street tree swing returns and it's

Fancy people things: Photos from SFMOMA's Modern Ball. [SFWire] War on Earth Day: vandals destroy thousands of plants at Candlestick Point park. [SFEx] A Chinatown restaurant named "Chinatown Restaurant" is opening in the

Today in alternate headlines, Fox Nation calls Obama's (much-loved!) Jimmy Fallon appearance an "embarrassment". [MotherJones] Watch Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien eat his way through Sichuan. [GrubSF] Would you give free, on-demand massages

Farallones wreck survivor: Experience was like being in "a washing machine filed with boulders." [Chron] How to kill that awful Meebo bar that lives at the bottom of SFGate.com forever. [Gizmodo] The

Video of crews recovering yacht wreckage from the Farrallon Islands. [Appeal] Man beats his roommate for making him watch a "disrespectful and tasteless" movie [SFEx] Kelly Malone walks us through the changes happening

John Waters spotted at noted Mission District dive bar Friday night. [UptownAlmanac] Waldo spotted in Dolores Park, naturally. [Mission Mission] District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar spotted in a hot tub at the Richmond

A Costco shipping truck collided with a stalled pickup on the Westbound San Mateo Bridge this morning, setting off more crashes involving a Highway Patrol cruiser and a fire truck. Making things worse,

Even though it's smack in the middle of that big renovation, the Metreon just got sold off to Starwood Capital. [Chron] City Attorney allowed to stay on the Mirkarimi Case, because Mirkarimi's argument

The occasionally controversial and sometimes inconsistent Lafitte on the Embarcadero's Pier 5 shutters. Chef and foie gras aficionado Russel Jackson will be headed to New York. [EaterSF] Mission District neighbors are bummed about