SF News Local Metal Thieves Are Pirates Now, Have Taken To The High Seas [Updated] The reported cases of metal theft around the Bay Area are getting increasingly elaborate, it seems. What started out as opportunistic copper wire theft, ripping off Facebook, BART and even state parks, eventually
Arts & Entertainment Bill O'Reilly: As Dated As He Wants to Be Someone put this man out of his misery. This is just...sad. It seems that NBC 11 caught Bill O'Reilly's film crew taking in the (non)X-rated partying that went on at last
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Braves 5 Giants 4- Just to catch everyone up, the Giants got sand kicked in their faces by the Pirates, Matt Cain’s sack got even sadder, and Rajal Davis continued his quest
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Dublin-Pleasanton BART station closure times, dates. (Our apologies for posting this unforgivably late.) [BART, Chron] -- Pirates beat Giants. Arrr, indeed. [Examiner] -- Fish sandwiches and bean pies: what could have been
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 3 Dodgers 1- We have no explanation for yesterday's trade of Matt Morris to the Pirates. Not that it doesn't make sense for the Giants, but what the hell were the Pirates
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Ocean</i> This week's Big Movie: ! It’s a real surprise how divided the critics are about this one! Sure it’s franchising, sure it’s full of top shelf men in designer clothes and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Like "Pirate Master" for instance! This show screams executive pitch: "It's 'Survivor' meets Pirates of the Caribbean!" But being that we're only (semi) fans of one of those (the one without Johnny Depp)
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go To The Movies: Big Fish The current contribution to the mass spoon-feeding that is the summer blockbuster schedule is . Not as strong as the first film and far stronger than the second (which stunk like dead kraken), World’
Arts & Entertainment What's There To Love About The East Bay? Lots! Next Up: New and Creative Theater If you've ever wondered what the Weather Underground and The Book of Jeremiah could have in common, then check out the innovative new production from Berkeley-based theater company, Just Theater. We don't claim
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
SF News Around the Dial Let's get everyone ready for tonight's big Warriors Game. -Golden State of Mind is PSYCHED for tonight's game. -Deadspin points out that only the Pittsburgh Pirates have had a longer playoff drought than
SF News A's Anatomy: The Overrated Stat of "W" “...the game is still wins and losses. The Pirates led the league in ERA in 1989 or around there. They finished last. I guarantee you those pitchers would have rather had wins. You
Arts & Entertainment The Gothamist Adventures of the Superfisters After two issues, "Pirates" is shaping up to be a really gorgeous book, with a sort of headstrong style that reminds us of Jamie Hewlett (the artist for Gorillas and Tank Girl). Rival
Arts & Entertainment Live Public Radio The show is formatted like a radio program, so Barsamian will talk with Ali, and Kronos will intersperse musical interludes relating to the ideas being discussed throughout the conversation. We'll totally do the
SF News Fire Felipe? So with the passing of the trade deadline, we have the answer to this weekends' big Giants' question-- wave the white flag or go for it. We're going for it. Unfortunately, we're going
Arts & Entertainment The Blissful Adventures of the Superfisters But first, a caveat regarding Linda Medley's : not a whole heck of a lot happens in issue one. It's sorta like at the beginning of a role-playing game, where you have to spend
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Grrr...Aaarrggh... Yesterday's game was a complete study in frustrating suckitude. The Giants went into the eight inning with a 5-3 lead, only to see Tim Worrell-- aka the Guy Who Is Supposed to Hold
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
Arts & Entertainment The Feminine Adventures of the Superfisters Especially after the introduction of the suave Captain Claudio, "PatP" might have been a heady bodice-ripper. But Polly's age -- she's 12 -- keeps things innocent and fun, with Polly relying on her
Arts & Entertainment Review: Pirates of the Great Salt Lake Pirates airs again at Women's Building on 2/05 at 4:30
SF News Your Giants: Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced
SF News More Baseball? It should be noted that the Giants, as indicated yesterday, have indeed locked up Armando Benitez to a three year deal. Also, the A's recieved catcher Jason Kendall in a trade with the
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
SF News Giants Phever Having successfully leaned on ace Jason Schmidt in the face of utter despair once again, this time turning to him to save them from from the ignominy of a season sweep by the
