misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
Arts & Entertainment Your Funny Video Clip of the Day Everyone loves the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, right? This poor little girl doesn't. And actually, we don't blame her. This video looks like something right out of The Birds
misc SFist Treasure Hunt Contest Here's the particulars. It starts on Saturday, March 3rd at 4:30 PM and begins at Justin Herman Plaza. The hunt will take you through Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, and North Beach. You get
SF News Cycling: Hometown Boy Makes Good, Again For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
misc Telegraph Hill is Going to the Birds For those who don't know, the Parrots of Telegraph Hill are a bunch of parrots who one day showed up in Telegraph Hill and made themselves home in some of the trees there.
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
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 North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
Arts & Entertainment Cold Climbin' it Cali' Style was the Prologue of the inaugural 2006 Amgen Tour of California, a 1.9-mile individual time trial from Pier 1 to Coit Tower. The morning air was crisp and the streets glistened with
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coit Tower: A Summary You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the rightmost icon
misc Polly Wanna New Home? Fans of fancily feathered fowl were flummoxed a fortnight ago when they awoke to find that the flora that many of the famous parrots of telegraph hill called home was cut down. And
SF News Au Revoir, Twiggy The neighbor, who refuses to be identified but we’re guessing also hates small puppies, complained to Peters' Condo Board that Twiggy was "causing throngs of people to gather outside and strange men
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Birds We know that Menlo Park might be a bit far for some of you to travel, but we thought you might want to know about a special showing of The Wild Parrots of
Arts & Entertainment Happy Parrot Day! February maybe the dreariest month, what with it being the dying days of winter and there being a dearth of sports on TV, but cheer up, San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors has
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night in the City SFist has been told by our coworker that it is our sworn duty to end up passed out in a gutter tonight. We humbly accept this mission, and encourage everyone to do the
SF News Urban Ornithology Pigeons - with their penchant for cooing, darting, eating garbage, and soiling cars and innocent passersby-may comprise the biggest bird population in the City, but they aren't the only avian species around. The
