SF News The Other Barry Signing: Day Two First, more details of the deal has been released. The key thing is that Zito will make only $10 million this year as he agreed to backload some of his salary to help
misc Where Will the Children Play? Now, Parks and Rec won't necessarily act immediately. In fact, they've admitted that they do only what they can. But they still act if possible. Last month's crackdown on Golden Gate Park was
SF News Name That Bridge! Okay, before we all start screaming and shouting, it's more for the Golden Gate District than it is for the bridge as the district is about $87 million in debt. And even they
SF News Homeless in the Park, I Think It Was the 4th of July Mayor McDreamy himself went to take a tour of the park and said the park was "looking good" and talked about how this is going to be an ongoing project. He also said
misc (Clean) Up the Beach Anyone who wants to go, just show up at Crissy Field (603 Mason and Halleck Street in the Presidio) by 9 and they will assign your task and place to do such task.
SF News Nothing More Appreciated Than a San Francisco Summer What we want to point out is that even our traditional calendar summer was much more temperate than average. There's something about human societal relationship with the weather that causes people to complain
Arts & Entertainment The Girl-Crazy (and Crazy Girl) Adventures of the Superfisters In issue one of "Jack and Lucky," Jack fails to flirt with an artsy gal at a bookstore (she is later revealed to be involved with an oaf resembing Ron Jeremy); he and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let’s Get This Picnic Started Insider Tips: steer clear of melty items like chocolate, candy, and frosted cakes. Don’t bug out, either; store food in airtight containers to avoid ants taking over. Seeing ants swarm all over
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Journey Is the Destination at Exit on Taylor After a stellar presentation of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Pickling Jar" at its Risk Is This festival last year, Cutting Ball takes on her highly experimental and rarely performed full-length Death
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
misc SFist Whines & Dines: the 500 Club One of the great charms of dog-friendly San Francisco is the numerous places where dogs are allowed off-leash. Legally. The city lists two dozen parks around town. Sadly, there are many places remaining
SF News A Call to Wheels Tonight at 7:00 PM, the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission is holding a special meeting that could affect the future of mountain biking in the Bay Area. The Commission is
SF News Reward Offered In Hit and Run Case Offered by The City and the Presidio Parks Trust, the “no-questions-asked” reward is offered in hopes of solidifying the tenuous leads the Park Police have in the case. Anyone with information is asked
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
misc SFist Cares ... About Public Land It's a total no-duh that the Bay Area is filled with natural beauty. The hills and the bay and the bridges and the ocean - all of it stunning and fabulous. And plenty
SF News Not at the Fore Front For all of the rhetoric surrounding San Francisco as some sort of liberal mecca, one has to remember that we are the first city on the left coast, and not in a political
SF News Meet Dick. He's a Local Congressman Dick, you see, as head of the House Resource Committee, is in charge of the committee overseeing the care of our environment. Things like poor endangered Fairy Shrimp or some of our national
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Cooper, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from the same place last week's dog did,
SF News C Plus! Everyone is about San Francisco! The results of the San Francisco residents' poll about San Francisco are in, and the city scored a C+. Not quite at "SEE ME" levels, but you ain't
SF News Punctuation: The New Currency At the corner of Market and New Montgomery this afternoon, we spied a large sign reading, "#%*&! IF YOU HATE TAXES! UP WITH FREEDOM!" And we're a little confused. What exactly are those
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
