SF News American Football Spectacular: The First Mutinous Rumblings Of 2006. Ahh, signs of Summer in the Bay Area: Blackberries ripening at creekside. Long lines of cars headed to Stinson Beach. Warm evenings as the sun lingers above the Pacific. And fresh dissent rising
SF News Giants Lose Again We pretty much have nothing to say about it other than this picture pretty much sums it up.
SF News Still Going for the Gold If you're waiting with baited breath to see if we become an Olympic city, don't. The USOC will decide first whether to even put together a bid in the fall (they're not sure
SF News Oh the Humanity We raced out of a meeting at work and ran to our desk to listen to the start of tonight's Giants' game on MLB audio. Down 2-1 and at the top of the
SF News Keep Smiling, Keep Shining Well, that wasn't what we were hoping for. Yes, the Giants did indeed lose their first game of the big road trip, 8-6 to the Washington Nationals. We haven't seen a road trip
SF News Le Tour de France: Au Revoir There's a void in our lives right now. An aching chasm of inconsolable emptiness. Le Tour is over for another year. After three weeks of daily exposure, we had just started to accept
SF News Happiness Is a Five Game Winning Streak Well, for us, this past week was the week that did it for us. We are now fully committed, fully into this season and fully about to purchase our tickets for the roller
SF News Austin American Statesman Gets It Right Well, look at this! Our bestest pals Austinist got themselves a big fat profile in Austin's leading local print daily, the Austin American-Statesman. According to Austinist's Co-Editor Matthew Odam (he's the one clutching
SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
SF News Hot Hot Heat A Stage 2 emergency is called when power reserves dip below five percent (they're normally not supposed to get lower than seven percent). At this point, no rolling blackouts are planned, but businesses
SF News Le Tour de France: Certainty, . . . Probably ". . .some things are now certain. One of those certainties is that after completely cracking in Stage 16 yesterday, Floyd Landis will not be the winner of this year's Tour de France." Yes, the
SF News We Got a Runner But not last night. Nope, fireworks seemed fitting as the Giants have now gone where they haven't gone before -- four game winning streak. How mediocre has this team been? They haven't been
Arts & Entertainment Mountain Biking: Freewheeling it Festival-Style in Fairfax It's hot. No, it's freakin' hot. So what goes well with scorching heat? If you answered bands, bikes, beer, and bitchin' trail riding, then you might want to wheel yourself out to Fairfax
SF News Zero Days Since Our Last Accident Anyways, these thoughts occur to us in the wake of the reports that four construction workers working on a 55-story condo at One Rincon Hill (sketch of the building at left) were injured
SF News HANC Hampers Whole on Haight At a meeting last Wednesday of the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association (the People's Front of Haight Ashbury), the owner of the property, Mark Brennan, announced that Whole Foods wasn't going to move into
SF News Who Are These Guys? That's three in a row, putting them 1 1/2 behind the first place Friars for the NL West lead and just a game back in the Wild Card race. This also puts
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Santa Clara 49ers' Stadium Preview Welcome to American Football Spectacular for 2006 season. We hope you enjoyed your offseason, and are poised for the joy of our National Football League preseason previews. This week, after years of dithering,
SF News Operating Thetan Level IV Seventy-five million years ago, Aaron Peskin was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of eleven planets, including his home planet North Beach. The Galactic Confederacy was comparable to our own, with
SF News Barry Unindicted You know how in the newspaper biz whenever a celebrity or person of note becomes old and frail and obituaries are written beforehand so they can rush it onto the newswire the moment
SF News Le Tour de France: Anybody's Ballgame Yeah, yeah, we know. You had Oscar Pereiro in the office Tour de France pool until you watched the OLN Tour Preview show and Bob Roll convinced you to change it to Floyd
SF News Happy Anniversary, Laurie Beijen! If we ever host a World Series of San Francisco Pop Culture contest, we're totally asking the question "Who's Laurie Beijen?" Ms. Beijen is, of course, the well-connected bride who made Gavin Newsom
SF News Wake Me Up, When The All-Star Game Star Game Ends Okay, yeah, we know, the Giants have to promote the hell out of this sucker as there's not much else to brag about on King Street these days and 2007 is looking even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sometimes a Great Notion So far, the idea seems to be going over well, especially among people who own cafes/restaurants. Like us, they've been wondering why they haven't been able to do it. More tables, of
Arts & Entertainment Wanted, Dead or Alive: BNE While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as old as the first
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
