They're S.F.'s new pro football team. They've got second-rate players, an untested product, and a concept with a history of failure. But that's OK -- they have a great marketing plan.
The San Francisco Giants are a hell of a team. Only a few games into the nascent season and they've already got me feeling like a naive jackass for writing that "Hope Springs Eternal on Opening Day." Perhaps, with this team, hope really is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. And yet, the best line to describe the team may emanate from the unlikely source of Dennis Green -- who hysterically bellowed "They are who we thought they were!" after a maddening Monday Night Football loss seve
A recent study regarding mature women's turn-ons is, somewhat ironically, published in a journal whose title is an instant turnoff: The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In any event, a U.C. San Francisco survey published this week plumbed the desires and activities of more than 2,000 women aged 45 to 80 (you try telling a 45-year-old woman she's "geriatric" -- be our guest) and found that 60 percent had been sexually active within three months and nearly half -- 43 percent -- reported
Nostalgia alert!Tonight at 7:15, an Oakland Raiders team that has found ways to embarrass its home city in ways violent crime rates and a reputation for danger and lawlessness could not, host the San Diego Chargers in a Monday Night Football opener. The Chargers are a stacked team that some consider a Super Bowl contender. The Raiders -- well, you know about the coach allegedly beating an assistant silly while threatening to kill him, right? That was something of a pleasant diversion from the
Starting Nov. 17, street vendor Tacolicious is taking over its restaurant sister Laïola (2031 Chestnut at Fillmore) on a weekly basis. Spokeswoman Kelly Walsh told SFoodie Tacolicious Tuesdays will offer a slightly expanded version of the vendor's Thursday Ferry Plaza menu: four tacos (including a new rock cod specimen), chips, salsa, grilled corn, and a few salads, plus Mexican beers and margaritas from the Laïola bar. plucchesi/FlickrTacolicious is movin' on up.Tacolicious tried out t