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.
misc SFFD Rescues Man From Ocean Beach Cliff According to the Examiner last night, one 23-year-old Matthew Leydem of San Francisco mistakenly fell off a cliff above Ocean Beach yesterday. He was OK though, as the Fire Department was able to
SF News Ocean Beach Dead Whale Buried Beached whale buried from k9sound on Vimeo. Either an endangered fin or endangered sei whale washed up dead on Ocean Beach this week. The whale was buried yesterday. SF Appeal reports: George Durgerian
Arts & Entertainment Be Part of the "Slash Oil" Formation at Ocean Beach on Saturday Brad Newsham, writer, cab driver, and organizer of the "Impeach" message at Ocean Beach from a few years back, is organizing a "Slash Oil" event that will take place on Saturday at 10
SF News Critical Mass Bonfire at Ocean Beach Tonight's Critical Mass kicks off the Memorial Day weekend. How so? Well, according to SF Appeal, they posted this "suggested route map" for tonight's ride. Said map directs riders to start off at
SF News Surfers Totally Mad About Ocean Beach Bluff Plan Speaking of surfers, SF Weekly talked to some surfers this week who are pissed about Public Works' plan to dump some boulders along the fast eroding bluffs along Ocean Beach. They're in favor
misc Photos: Sunday Streets Meets Rock the Bike & Tornado Rider Concert Sunday Streets met with a Rock the Bike event at Ocean Beach on Sunday. Some sort of amplifier was attached to bikes, then said listening device was powered by the magic of pedal
SF News Dead Ocean Beach Gal ID'd On Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco police identified the body of a woman found inside a vehicle at Ocean Beach as Mauvreen Zalaya, 38, of San Francisco. According to reports, "Police are calling Zalaya's
SF News No Matter What, Berkeley Tree Sitters Lose After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is new, right?
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put
misc Snowy Plovers vs. Off-Leash Dogs -- the Feds Want Your Opinion Everybody has an opinion, of course. Get your comment over to the government by January 22. Don't be shy!
misc Early Morning Bonfire Revelers at Ocean Beach Find Dead Body A group of people having a bonfire at Ocean Beach early this morning--in this weather?--came across the body of a dead man, which they found above the high tide line across from
misc SFist Photo: Red Skies at Night, Kite Surfer's Delight Oh we warned you. We gave you all the signs. RSAN 'n stuff. And now it's here. OMG, a blustery day! Actual weather in San Francisco, complete with an omninous-looking Storm Warning flag
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
SF News Pulling Out the Ol' Oil-Resistant Doc Martens It turns out our old Doc Martens are oil-resistant -- we just might have to invest in some new soles for those disaster-ready babies. Check out more photos and details after the jump!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A Tale of Two Beaches, San Mateo vs. S.F. But this was the scene less than 10 miles (as the un-oiled crow flies) to the north at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. These people appear to be the trained crewmembers who are getting
SF News Tree-huggers and Van-burners? And by "van-burners," we don't mean the variety that park by Ocean Beach in their VW van toking while watching the sunset. Or maybe we do… Authorities think a UC Berkeley campus security
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A San Francisco Shooting Star The photo at left shows Sutro Tower below a meteor that caused the crowd at Twin peaks to gasp just before midnight. We saw about ten meteors ourselves in the very favourable conditions.