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Three San Francisco Kids to Swim from Alcatraz

jay galvin via Flickr Pretty .... cold today!​Three girls -- the oldest of which is barely a teenager -- are adding an impressive boost to their resumes this morning: They're jumping into the frigid November waters to swim roughly 1.25 miles from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore -- a feat most ... More >>

Fog Harbor Fish House Cooks Sustainable Fish For the Masses

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Best Obscure Tourist Attractions

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Tri, Tri, Tri Again

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Alcatraz in Black and White

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Paradise Regained

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

In the Good Old Days

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

The Year in Bay Area Theater 2010

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Wake Up and Give Thanks

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

"Hamlet": We Players stages a dramatically impressive version on Alcatraz

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Unmanned Boat Collides with San Francisco Pier

Next stop: Pier 70​"Worse things happen at sea," is a common, if not sensitive, way of telling someone that things could be far worse for him. It's also an applicable utterance when considering a bizarre incident in the Bay yesterday. Boater Rick Saber plunged off his 32-foot vessel, the Eagle, ye ... More >>

Five Places We Wish Bands Could Play in SF

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

Move to Ban Smoking in State Parks Gains Steam. Guns in National Parks? That's Fine.

This may soon be illegal in State Parks. It's still kosher in National Parks, though -- as are firearms. ​ Smoking in the park? Perish the thought. A smoking gun in the park? Well ... that all depends on the park. Yesterday, the state Assembly passed a bill enacting a broad smoking ban in the sta ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: Clumsy Muni Patron Doesn't Stick Around to Cry Over Spilled Wine

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Jobless professionals seek work at Alcatraz

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Rock and Historical Roles

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Get Drunk in Prison (No Toilet Pruno Necessary!)

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

This Day in History: Battle of Alcatraz

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Saturday Night: Exprescion at Alcatraz

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Picket Up

Joe Eskenazi​Perhaps we have to thank the klutz responsible for the above scene at Church Street Station. After all, if he'd pulled his drop-the-merlot act on board an actual train it would have been that much worse -- but not just for the obvious reasons. Suppose a tourist had someone splatter mi ... More >>

Alcatraz Razzmatazz

Touring the Rock on celluloid

Cat Food

Artist roasts hypocrisy

Island Living

Get a plate lunch in the Presidio

San Francisco on $36.82 a Day

Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food

Bouncer

The best place to ponder the Metallica movie Some Kind of Monster: Zeitgeist, of course

Get Crabs

Cruise and chow on the bay

Twilight Zone

The Rock goes dark

Till You Drop

A little night shopping

Four Best Places to Chill Out

A little night shopping

Blue Christmas

Celebrate the season at sea

Aloha, Yay!

Party like the islanders in S.F.

The Rock

Triathletes get out of jail free

Pizza, Pizza

Munchies and Math

Jackie Brown

Aisha Tyler wants to be "an action heroine who is funny and witty and sarcastic and sexy and can kick butt."

Sports/Outdoors/Races

Aisha Tyler wants to be "an action heroine who is funny and witty and sarcastic and sexy and can kick butt."

The Endless Swimmer

When people learn that Pedro Ordenes, 55, has swum to or from Alcatraz 126 times, or that he crossed the Strait of Magellan in 39-degree water, they often joke about his sanity. That's before they hear about his idea to swim the Bering Strait.

On the Waterfront

Crab House

Rockin' Through the Night

The Alcatraz Night Tour is fascinating and beautiful. Then it's cold and eerie. And then it's -- let's get outta here!

Best View, Sans Tourists

San Francisco Art Institute

Best Restaurant Food Despite the View

Julius' Castle

Record Caper

Long-missing Alcatraz files make their way back to the Bay Area

Thanksgiving, No Thanks

Unthanksgiving Day Sun-Rise Gathering

Growing Pains

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

Night Crawler

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

Tales of the Country

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

Night+Day

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

Night Crawler

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

Night+Day

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno