SF News August Expected To Be Hotter Than Average In Bay Area, California A warm week is set to kick off what may be a warmer-than-usual August for the Bay Area though possibly not that warm for SF, because we all know how that goes. As
SF News Don't Even Think About Lighting An Ocean Beach Bonfire Tonight If you're thinking about celebrating the end of this week's hot temperatures with a fire in one of Ocean Beach's prison-looking fire pits, slow your roll, Sparky: Issues with Bay Area air quality
Arts & Entertainment Eight Great Bay Area County Fairs And Festivals To Venture To This Summer There is nothing more American than a demolition derby at a county fair, or a small town Americana festival named after a fruit or vegetable, or an over-the-hill pop band performing a free
SF News Today Is The Summer Solstice, And It's Going To Be A Warm One Bringing a bit of cheer to our Monday morning is the fact that today is the summer solstice — the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer. What's more,
SF News There Was A Giant Slip-N-Slide On Potrero Hill On Saturday Bear Naked Granola decided to do some guerrilla advertising on Saturday by way of an enormous adult Slip-N-Slide on Potrero Hill and a way nicer one than the slipshod one that occasionally used
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Summer Guide: The 10 Quickest Ways To Escape The Fog So, you're relatively new to San Francisco, and last week (or earlier last month) when that sunny weather hit, you thought, "Ah, here it is! The California summer I've been dreaming of." Then
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Janet Jackson's 'That's the Way Love Goes' Goddamnit it's summer. Also, it's the day before the 4th of July and there's hardly any fog!! With that in mind, we must point you to this marvelous roundup of summer jams from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Bars Along The S.F. Waterfront As (comparatively) warm weather approaches and the Giants head into a long summer stretch, isn't it time you checked out one of the many fine watering holes along the waterfront? We're not talking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Make These Fig, Vanilla and Sour Cream Popsicles Before Summer Ends! Occasional SFist contributor Jerry James Stone (Cooking Stoned/KQED Bay Area Bites) has the perfect treat for your late summer blues: Fig, Vanilla and Sour Cream Popsicles. The ingredients are simple (1 1/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tips For Throwing A Way Better Barbecue Is your barbecue grill making you ill? Could be. Who knows. This handy chart by the FDA, CDC, Mayo Clinic, and International Food Council will tell you at what temperatures one should prepare
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Basil Summer Soup At Perbacco But we're only a week into summer, you bemoan? Nonsense. It's summertime and thus never too early to get summer items on the menu. (See: AQ Restaurant, a noted SoMa joint that changes
Arts & Entertainment Adult Slip-N-Slide Revived for One Day at Dolores Park The ridiculously summery weather yesterday brought out a legion of revelers to Dolores Park yesterday, and among the pastimes being enjoyed was something we just haven't seen enough of since moving here: a
Arts & Entertainment The Bold Italic Mocks Our 'Wet Cold' Summer People don't really move to San Francisco to bask in the sun, at least not in the summer months, but anyway, we all continually like to complain about the weather, especially as August
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joanne Weir's Top 10 Tomato Recipes Revealed Do you get the summertime blues? We sure do. And word is there ain't no cure for them. Which is why tomato season is one of the few things we look forward to
misc What's Going On Here, Dog Days of Summer? Nick Fisher snapped this excellent shot of two pooches in heat.
SF News Warm Weather Arrives Even those of us who enjoy the crisp, electric chill that our glacial summer weather provides (hi!), we've had it with fog, scarfs and sweaters in August. Thankfully, according to Weather Underground, we'll
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Peak of Season Tomato Sauce, Anyone? You know what time it is? It's the height of tomato season. Or, for some, it's approaching the height of tomato season -- depending on your area and climate. Anyway, with that we'd
SF News Annual Bay Area Nude Beach Guide Unsheathed Time to trim that bramble you call public hair (protip: careful grooming makes your shaft look bigger, fellas) and pull out the SPF 50. San Francisco Bay Guardian's 36th annual guide to Bay
SF News Berkeley Residents Outraged By Pool Closure In an effort to save money, the city of Berkeley closed a popular pool on the south side of town, which costs between $80,000 and $150,000 to keep open for the
Arts & Entertainment The Baby-ry Coast Looking for fun things to do with Dad on Father's Day? Frisco Kids has some great ideas. Be sure to check out their list of good hiking spots, too. A reader let us
SF News SF Supes Take Vacations, Media Reports SF Examiner has a very important report on what your San Francisco supervisors did during their three weeks off. A few of them did some pretty gay stuff; and one of them did
SF News This Summer Has Actually Been Chillier Than Usual It's not your imagination, friends. That impenetrable marine layer and frustrating fog have, in fact, been a little worse than average according to Examiner.com today: "San Francisco's average high temperature for June,
misc Photo du Jour 152 The official barbecue grilling season starts tomorrow. Happy summer, folks. Oh, and try not to melt.
misc San Francisco Heat Style (By Babe Scanlon) When the heat hits San Francisco -- as it did yesterday, and how --two of our favorite street styles appear. One, the woman wearing a sun dress. She looks uncomfortable,
