misc American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing The 2009 NFL Draft's First Round, "A Tale Of Two Receivers" It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the first round in the 2009 NFL Draft. All the intrigue, all the anticipation, all the immeasurables! All hard information
misc American Football Spectacular: Welcome Back, Jeff Gilroy's second-favorite export is returning to the Bay Area. Chronically-underestimated warrior QB Jeff Garcia has signed a one-year deal with the Oakland Raiders. He'll be slotted
SF News BREAKING NEWS: P.S. Alameda Is Burning This just in: A fire larger than a city block is burning on Alameda's Naval Air Station Alameda Point. Flames are burning structures at least three stories tall as firefighters work
misc Happy Birthday, Frank Chu Lawrence Ferlinghetti isn't the only San Francisco luminary celebrating today. It's also Frank Chu's birthday! The Bay Area's favorite protester, for years Frank has been
misc Bay Area Wanderer: It's Been A Tough Weekend * Bay Area Wanderer: 19th Avenue and Winston, San Francisco Flags at half-mast in the cold light thrown by the sunset. It's been a tough couple days for The Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight / SFist Cares: Help Hollis Heal Herself. Holler Horribly Here. Local bicycle dancer and Burning Man veteran Hollis Hawthorne fell off a motorcycle while traveling in India. She hit her head and went into a coma. More coverage: * Hollis' friends' blog
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Comic Book Tiki Bar Crawl with Darick Robertson Since you've heard that the irreplaceable Tonga Room is in danger of being made into condos(!!!), and the WonderCon convention is in town, what happens when the two are combined? Tiki
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Play Classic Arcade Games at Aquarius Records One more quick idea for the SFist Tonight bin... As if we didn't already love our local heartfelt-mixtape-in-the-form-of-a-record-shop Aquarius Records enough, they just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free "Dining" Today at Denny's Sure, Denny's is Denny's -- but the idea that anyone reading this website can get a free meal today is a . Here's where you can get your free
misc American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl XLIII, "What's A Niner Fan To Do?" * Pittsburgh vs. Arizona (in Tampa) Sunday, February 1, 2009. 3:00 PM, PST. Super Bowl XLIII Battle Of The Steelers If Arizona wins, our once hysterically hapless divisional foe (now built into an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Thorns Of Life at 924 Gilman Tonight: The Thorns Of Life will play a show at 924 Gilman in Berkeley. A band at a venue, simple as that. And so much more than that. Blake Schwarzenbach was the front
misc Today In San Francisco History: The Emperor's Reign Ends On the reeking pavement, in the darkness of a moonless night under the dripping rain, and surrounded by a hastily gathered crowd of wondering strangers, Norton I, by the grace of God, Emperor
misc Jason Giambi Returns To The A's. What For? When he came up with the A's, he grew into a genial homespun hero. Then he left for money, and became a steroided diminishing-returns disgrace. Now he's back
misc American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2009, "Warm Weather Winter Wild Card" Playoff football. Thank goodness. O, blessed entertainments... commence! The first couplet of games come to us from the still sun-kissed southwestern parts of the nation: Arizona and San Diego. Non-wintry wintertime
misc "'rabbit, rabbit' on the first / I hold my breath" "I wanna remind you that [today] is the first of the month and it's customary to say 'rabbit, rabbit' before you say anything else. Think about that, write
misc American Football Spectacular: Great 49er Mustaches: Kevin Fagan Defensive end Kevin Fagan and his mighty mustache helped hold the line for George Seifert's boxer's-mentality 3-4 defensive scheme during the zenith of San Francisco's
misc American Football Spectacular: Great 49er Mustaches: Roger Craig Roger Craig was one of the most versatile running backs the NFL has ever seen. A perfect fit for Bill Walsh's short-passing offensive system, in 1985 Craig became the first
misc American Football Spectacular: Great 49er Mustaches: Joe Montana When Joe Montana first came to the 49ers from Notre Dame in 1979, he brought this fanciful Fu Manchu style with him. Of course, everything went up from there. Joe grew into the
misc American Football Spectacular: That Mustache Feeling Holy living crap, we love this so much!! This coming Sunday, the 49ers are having a throwback uniform day in the final game of the season as Washington comes to Candlestick. Word is
misc American Football Spectacular: 49er & Ram Songs for The Holiday Season * San Francisco vs. St. Louis Sunday, December 21, 2008. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 16 The Interim Battle Remember when battles between the 49ers and Rams in the 80s, 90s & 00s would
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Jason Lytle & Aaron Burtch (formerly of Grandaddy) at San Francisco International Airport(?!) (And now for a pro-SFO story...) Airports simply aren't given to happy surprises. That's the way it is. Gotta go, gotta do, gotta git. It's a
misc American Football Spectacular: Beyond Caring Only a few games left of the NFL's 2008 season and as is customary, the Raiders are in full plummet. The last things that stand to be parsed out are which
SF News Morning Mystery Plume Above The Bay?! As the preternaturally calm Brandon Wong rose this morning to take in the sunrise over by Anza in the Richmond, he saw something in the east that didn't make sense. "
misc Steve Young: Still Elusive! People of Charlotte, we say to you: do not be unkind to Steve Young. As you can see, he is elusive after years of retirement (and those semi-adorable truck ads that your
misc American Football Spectacular: Holding Down The Reset Button -- monster doppelgänger Bochephus * San Francisco vs. Arizona Monday, November 10, 2008. 5:30 PM, PST. Week 10 The Battle For Change Can you believe that a week ago it was still in-question
