Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Kiting Roman Vykh tries to fly a kite at Ocean Beach as the sun sets. Photo by AP Photo/Jeff Chiu.
SF News Overflowing Manholes Shut Down Ocean Beach Gross: overnight rains caused several leaky manholes to overflow along the Great Highway at Ocean Beach last night, prompting the SF Public Utilities Commission to temporarily shut down parts of the pedestrian path
Arts & Entertainment Please Enjoy These Photos Of Dolphins Surfing At Ocean Beach This week in wildlife sightings: local nature observer David Cruz spotted this pod of cetaceans over the past week or so, leaping out of the water off of Ocean Beach and generally acting
SF News Video: Badass Navy Hovercraft Does Donuts On Ocean Beach Fleet Week is upon us! That means the parade of large, naval power tools is pulling into the bay as we speak. In addition to this weekend's patriotism-inducing Blue Angels demonstrations, the USS
SF News Baseball Attack Near SF Zoo Leaves Man Clinging To Life Well, this is terrifying. A twentysomething man is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries after being attacked by a group of men. At around 1:45 a.m. over in the 200 block
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Teen Stabbed Repeatedly At Ocean Beach Bonfire A high school party at Ocean Beach went all wrong last Saturday night when a drunken teen who "kept talking crap" was stabbed half a dozen times by three suspects, apparently also attendees
SF News S.F. Becoming Test Case For Erosion Management Photo of cyclists on the Great Highway by Bob Horowitz. Ocean Beach, especially the south end, is disappearing at an alarming clip, and the NYT published a piece over the weekend about how
SF News PG&E Outage Dumps Sewage At Ocean Beach Last night's rain caused a power outage in the Sunset District around 8:30 p.m. that left some 5,800 PG&E customers in the dark and knocked out power to
SF News Woman In Black Lexus Drives Into Ocean Beach Police and lookiloos are wondering why a woman drover her black Lexus into the waters at Ocean Beach. The unidentified female apparently drove through a parking spot, the beach entrance, and down the
Arts & Entertainment Post-Yule Pyre, S.F.'s Firey Christmas Tree Disposal Event, Alights This Sunday Sure, temporary holiday arborists can send their dry and withering Christmas trees to the wood chipper starting this week. But why put DPW and Recology through all that trouble for just a tiny
SF News Impromptu Polar Bear Club Splashes In New Year With Ocean Beach Dip Yesterday at high noon on Ocean Beach a group of about 25 otherwise warm people, brought together by social media and a shared desire for a meaningful beginning to 2012, jumped in to
SF News Squirrel Monkey Stolen From SF Zoo The San Francisco is asking for the public's help to retrieve a reportedly stolen squirrel monkey. "This morning zoo staff discovered a 17-year-old male squirrel monkey, 'Banana-Sam,' was missing from an exhibit
Arts & Entertainment Updates from Ocean Beach: Ideal Conditions and a Shark Sighting at Rip Curl Pro Search Beautiful weather and favorable conditions out at Ocean Beach allowed the Rip Curl Pro Search competition to kick off on schedule, with the first heat of pro surfers paddling out at 8 a.
Arts & Entertainment Ocean Beach Pro Surfing Competition Kicks Off Tomorrow Although weak surf stalled the big wave surf competition at Mavericks this year, professional surfing fans will get another chance to see their heros out on local waters this week. Starting tomorrow, November
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Human "Tax the Rich" Banner at Ocean Beach In concurrence with the Occupy movement, folks will be forming a human banner at Ocean Beach tomorrow morning, which will spell out "TAX THE RICH!" Over 600 people -- and counting -- have
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Ocean Beach Vigilantes? We can't figure out what the "Avenue Coalition" is all about, exactly, but it sure sounds exciting. Actually, it sounds more like a group of Ocean Beach surfers bemoaning territory issues -- something
SF News Kiteboarders Pull Off Extreme Rescue Mission Off Ocean Beach The U.S. Sailing Association announced last week that they'll be honoring a group of three kiteboarders for making an exhilarating rescue that sounds like something out of a Vin Diesel movie. During
SF News Surfer Dies at Ocean Beach A surfer was spotted floating unconscious in the water near Ocean Beach around 1 p.m. yesterday. He was later identified as Jonathan Luhn, age 44, after being pulled from the water by
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "The Wreck of the King Philip: Every Wreck Is an Island" by Bhautik Joshi. (King Philip, a 19th century clipper ship named after an Indian chief, can be found at Ocean Beach. More
SF News Video: Small Funnel Cloud Touches Down at Ocean Beach At around 9:30 a.m. this morning, a developing funnel cloud touched down at Ocean Beach. There's mildly jarring footage of it, too! NBC Bay Area explains: "The tornado on the water
SF News Cliff House Street Vendors Don't Seem to Like Each Other Meanwhile out by the Cliff House, a "turf war" is raging between the (ahem) artisans who are fighting for sidewalk space from which to peddle their handmade jewelry, crafts and other assorted trinkets
SF News Dog Owners to Riot, Cry Over New Leash Rules On Beaches Via a new management plan from the federal government, a number of coastal spots where dog owners are currently allowed to let their pooches roam off-leash will become on-leash areas, or no-dog areas.
SF News Ship Shows Up Beneath Sand at Ocean Beach, Mysterious Tar Balls Showing Up In Marin Winter weather exposes some old stuff at the coasts, and some mysterious tar balls, hundreds of them, appearing on beaches in Marin -- with a large number on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes.
