SF News A’s v. Tigers, Game One: Shock & Awe And give the Tigers massive credit for exploiting the A's inadequacies. When a guy can't throw strikes, one needs to pounce with immediacy on 2 and 0 or 3 and 1 pitches. Brandon
SF News American Football Spectacular: The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Preview * Oakland vs. San Francisco Sunday, October 8, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 05 The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Raider versus 49er matchups in the NFL regular season are a thing to
SF News Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire
misc The Worst Is Yet To Come? Trying to figure out what your house is worth in today's real estate market is only slightly less difficult than practicing haruspicy to predict what will happen next week. Articles like the one
SF News But Do You Get to Carry a Whip? Today's story about Oakland having trouble recruiting cops brings to mind a story that ran in last Sunday's Chron about the SFPD having trouble recruiting cops. How desperate are they? They set up
SF News The Athletics Pounce on Twins: One to Go! The Oakland Athletics this afternoon showed why this year’s team is infinitely grittier and more determined than playoff teams of years past. This collection of misfits and guys barely above the legal
SF News Your Commute: Dublin/Pleasanton Delays Expect 30-45 minute delays systemwide, as they try to get a bus bridge in place. And not like this'll help you unless you read SFist on a PDA, but they're offering refunds for
SF News Marijuana Clubs Busted A medicinal marijuana club at 14th & Mission was raided by the D.E.A yesterday as well as eight other places throughout San Francisco and Oakland. In total, fifteen people were arrested
SF News Fire At Fifth And Harrison Tough few days in SoMa -- the mysterious power outage yesterday and today, a four-alarm fire above the Olympic restaurant at Fifth and Clara that's required the CHP to close down the Fifth
SF News The A's Finally Have an Opponent The A's might have wrapped up their playoff spot days ago, but the big question of who they would play was still up in the air. Finally, this afternoon, the A's got their
SF News Brinks Truck Heist Goes Bad In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and
SF News Playoffs, Baby, Playoffs!!!!!! =Oakland finally snapped out of it and beat the Mariners 12-3 just as word filtered down the Angels lost 5-2. Your Magic Number? 0. As in "clinched." As in "playoffs!" Who the A's
SF News Gas Guzzling Government <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo-goos>Goo-Goos</a> Lest you think every politician is running around driving gas guzzlers, 27 out of the state's 120 lawmakers now get to smugly tell everyone just how much gas mileage they get these days
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: The Doña Tomàs Cookbook. We tried three, and we can safely say that Thomas Schnetz and Dona Savitsky's batting average with the clumsy home cook is a respectable .667. We had a decent success with the budín
SF News Support Local Architecture You can pick from 25 sites, which include perennial favorites like the Roxie and the Fox Theater in Oakland, but also some gems you may not have thought of, like the neon signs
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Saddest Game Ever. The Chargers utterly dominated the Raiders on both sides of the ball in an ugly display that carried no positive inertia. The men of the Silver And Black were dominated, cowed, and blown
Arts & Entertainment The Woozy Adventures of the Superfisters The gimmick is as follows: you dream something, then you email Jesse to tell him about it, and then he draws up a spiffy four-panel illustration of your tormented, soul-baring, saucy imaginings. Opening
SF News Your Commute: Tying Up Traffic There's a report that a MUNI bus managed to snarl all the traffic on 580 after getting in an accident with a big rig? Sure, we can believe a MUNI bus tied up
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: The American Football Spectacular Previews the Raiders Thank goodness. It is here. Let the games count once more, o sweet departed St. Tagliabue, let the National Football League's Regular Season mercifully come. Once more for our entertainment, the 32 franchises
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
SF News East Bay Crime A Hayward teenager was beaten up and left bloody on a stranger's porch. In the pleasant upscale suburb of Lafayette, on Happy Valley Road, no less, a human body was found burned to
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
SF News News Items Too Long To Be Summarized For Day Around The Bay We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to
