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Monster Park

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2012

    San Francisco Giants 2012 World Series Drinking Game

    Seeing-eye singles, elimination games, Madison Bumgarner. In Giants baseball, before the joy comes the anguish and anxiety. If San Francisco wins the World Series, you already know it'll be a teeth-grinding, knee-shaking, hair-pulling operation. If the Giants lose, it'll just suck. See also: 10 Way ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2012

    Kristopher Viana, Alexandro F. Arguelles Arrested in Football Jersey Stabbing

    San Francisco police arrested two men who they say are responsible for attacking and stabbing some Dallas Cowboys football fans near Candlestick Park on Sunday. Kristopher Viana, 22, and Alexandro F Arguelles, 30, both of San Francisco, were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2012

    Football Stabbing, Dramatic Shooting Kept Cops Busy Yesterday

    It was an active weekend for San Francisco for cops and criminals. Police made a few significant arrests, starting with a stabbing near Candlestick Park where the 49ers were playing the New York Giants on Sunday. According to police. the incident started at about 1:35 p.m. when two men approached a ... More >>

  • News

    September 19, 2012

    Fashion Police: 49ers Dress Candlestick's Undercover Cops

    It was an active weekend for San Francisco for cops and criminals. Police made a few significant arrests, starting with a stabbing near Candlestick Park where the 49ers were playing the New York Giants on Sunday. According to police. the incident started at about 1:35 p.m. when two men approached a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2012

    Who Was the Hooded Man Standing Behind Alex Smith During NBC's Post-Game Interview?

    It was one of the greatest videobombs in Internet history. There he stood, bundled under a grey hoodie, inches behind Alex Smith and Michael Crabtree, solemnly nodding in agreement as the quarterback explained to NBC's Michele Tafoya that the 49ers need to take the season one game at a time, a natio ... More >>

  • Music

    September 5, 2012

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    It was one of the greatest videobombs in Internet history. There he stood, bundled under a grey hoodie, inches behind Alex Smith and Michael Crabtree, solemnly nodding in agreement as the quarterback explained to NBC's Michele Tafoya that the 49ers need to take the season one game at a time, a natio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2012

    Rare Manzanita Plant Finally Gets Some Love From the Feds

    How much space does a plant need to grow, if its population recently crashed to a single specimen?In the case of the Franciscan Manzanita, a shrub thought to be extinct in the wild until it was discovered in 2009 growing alongside the Doyle Drive reconstruction project, the federal government thinks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    49ers Fan Heckles Charger Fans Who Happen To Be Cops

    Updated 2:35 p.m. to show man's identity.Here's a cautionary tale for all prospective sporting agitators.One allegedly drunken San Francisco 49ers fan must have felt a surge of football-fueled hostility as he saw the group of San Diego Chargers fans stroll by in the Candlestick Park parking lot befo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2012

    The Beatles Played Their Final Concert 46 Years Ago at Candlestick Park -- And You Can Listen to the Whole Thing

    Forty-six years ago today, on Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles played the final live concert of their careers at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Though many of the band's most timeless songs lay ahead of them, this Bay Area live date would mark the end of the Beatles as a touring entity. Freeing themse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2012

    Where to Catch See's Candies' 7,000-Pound Lollipop Redux

    SFoodie was on the scene when See's Candies earned the "World's Largest Lollipop" honors in the Guinness Book of World Records on July 20 in Justin Herman Plaza. Now, the West Coast candy giant is hauling out the impressive 16-foot, 7-inch confection for a few more public views. It's currently on d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2012

    See's Candies Breaks World Record With Freakish 7,000-Pound Lollipop

    Well, it's official. See's Candies broke the world record with its 7,003-pound chocolate-flavored lollipop it showcased a few weeks ago in San Francisco. You should know all the labor (and sugar) that went into this insane sucker. It took 14.5 hours to make. The process started at 4 a.m. and was com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2012

    Tony Harper Identified as Man Killed in Double Shooting; Homicide No. 37

    Medical authorities confirmed that 27-year-old Tony Harper was killed in a double shooting in the city's Bayview neighborhood on Friday night. Police say there was a second man who was shot and remains at San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. According to police, the two men ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    49ers Fans Managed to Not Kill Each Other at Candlestick Park

    ​Despite the fact the 49ers played a killer game yesterday, we still have one ting to celebrate: Niners fans managed to not kill each other.And while there were no deaths reported at Candlestick Park during yesterday's championship match, there were plenty of drunks wallowing in their sorrows over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2012

    49ers Faithfuls, It's Armageddon Sunday at Candlestick Park

    ​Take it from a Bears fan, there ain't no better rivalry in football, maybe in all of professional sports, than the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants. No two teams have had so many epic battles, so many knock-down, drag-out fights, as the 49ers and Giants. Both teams have to be among t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Police Chief Asks 49ers Fans Not to Beat, Kill Each Other at Sunday's Game

    ​Football is a sport notorious for causing life-long injuries  -- and we're not only talking about the players. Fans can be just as brutal, as evidenced by the barbaric behavior we saw during the 49ers and Raiders pregame showdown at Candlestick Park earlier this year. So we think it's fair t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    49ers Season Tickets Will Require $30K Fee

    ​The NFL is a hell of a business. Niners fans, paying an exorbitant amount for season tickets, will now be required to plink down tens of thousands of dollars in order to have the privilege of paying even more for tickets in the 49ers yet-to-be-constructed stadium.Fans sitting in the "club level" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    List: How Will San Francisco Celebrate Christmas?

    ​It's Christmas. How are San Franciscans celebrating? Watching the lights go out at Candlestick Park Spending time with their loved ones at the Apple Store Occupying Santa's workshop

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    49ers Blackout: Life Imitates Art

    All things considered, a few more candlesticks would have helped out at Candlestick​If nothing else, yesterday's lights-out performance by the San Francisco 49ers' defense offered sportswriters the chance to make gratuitous puns. The hometown side folded, spindled, and mutilated the visiting Pitts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Drunk Man Carjacked, Kidnapped, Forced to Strip Naked

    ​If you are wasted when you are carjacked, is it really in your best interest to call the cops? More importantly, does that make you a victim or a criminal -- or both?According to San Francisco police, a highly intoxicated man was cruising through the Bayview neighborhood on Monday night when two ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 7, 2011

    Fall Arts: We Made Nato Green Fill Out a Questionnaire

    ​If you are wasted when you are carjacked, is it really in your best interest to call the cops? More importantly, does that make you a victim or a criminal -- or both?According to San Francisco police, a highly intoxicated man was cruising through the Bayview neighborhood on Monday night when two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Minh Troung Identified as Man Who Died in Hunters Point Boat Crash

    Minh Troung got trapped under the boat​Medical authorities have released the name of the man who tragically died yesterday after his 19-foot Boston Whaler capsized. 30-year-old San Francisco resident Minh Troung was fishing with his dad when their boat collided with a dinghy near Hunters Point, ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Cal Football -- It's Not Free Anymore

    Vance CardellThe best band money can buy ...​Those who used to "attend" U.C. Berkeley football games by decamping on aptly named Tightwad Hill could delude themselves into believing there were bigger reasons for eschewing stadium seating than free entry, your own booze, and your own ... other stuf ... More >>

  • News

    April 20, 2011

    Candlestick Park Will Likely Sack the City for Millions

    Vance CardellThe best band money can buy ...​Those who used to "attend" U.C. Berkeley football games by decamping on aptly named Tightwad Hill could delude themselves into believing there were bigger reasons for eschewing stadium seating than free entry, your own booze, and your own ... other stuf ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2011

    It Takes a Lot of Balls

    Vance CardellThe best band money can buy ...​Those who used to "attend" U.C. Berkeley football games by decamping on aptly named Tightwad Hill could delude themselves into believing there were bigger reasons for eschewing stadium seating than free entry, your own booze, and your own ... other stuf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Trent Baalke Is 49ers' GM. Quelle Surprise!

    Huh. Didn't see that coming. ​Yesterday, the San Francisco 49ers concluded their comprehensive search for a new general manager without leaving the training facility. In-house favorite Trent Baalke was hired to fill the vacant position -- a move only slightly less predictable than the plotline of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Giants to Update Stadium Championship List 'Any Day Now'

    We know what's coming next...​When your humble narrator first began attending baseball games at Candlestick Park, the sign outside the stadium told you everything you needed to know about the San Francisco Giants' place in this city.After you stopped off at Piccolo Pete's, walked under the fetid o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    S.F. Shows No Love to Civic Center Dance Music Party

    Hanna Quevedo Romero'FUN'? Not this year.​Six years of early October revelry in Civic Center will come to an end this year after San Francisco officials denied the organizers of LovEvolution a permit to hold the annual dance party.With no permit to hold the event, organizers decided to cancel it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper Grab Some Pine at Board of Supervisors Meeting

    Kruk and Kuip win the pennant. Actually, it's an honorary resolution. ​Back when Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper played for the Giants at Candlestick Park, fans brave -- or foolhardy -- enough to stick around for an extra-inning night game received a Croix de Candlestick pin. The duo -- the team's br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    City's Plan to Keep 49ers: Wait and Hope Team, Santa Clara Are Broke

    We'll spare you the football jargon, but suffice to say the San Francisco 49ers took a huge step towards saying goodbye to Candlestick Park on Tuesday night. Voters in Santa Clara approved at the ballot a land lease deal for a proposed $937 million stadium by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Of that $937 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Come Together: Paul McCartney's Return to SF

    ​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Sadly, Decision to Drop San Francisco From World Cup Consideration Was On the Mark

    Yes, the soccer bigwigs definitely gave San Francisco the business...​San Francisco chauvinists and city soccer fans aren't a natural team. The chauvinists would like to tell you how the fact you can walk to really great restaurants here counterbalances an utterly dysfunctional municipal governmen ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

    Spend more. Get less. We're the city that knows how.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    SF Weekly Bugs Library To House Giants-Related Exhibit. Good News! It Was Already On Its Way.

    Jon Leonoudakis prior to 'The Earthquake Game' in 1989​Earlier this month, SF Weekly noticed a sports-centric exhibit commemorating the Giants-Dodgers rivalry being shown in enemy territory at the Burbank Public Library. We vowed to hit up the San Francisco Public and wheedle them into hosting thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    SF Gov inAction: All Chris Daly Jokes Must Now Be Translated Into Chinese, Spanish, and Tagalog Upon Request

    There are only three meetings left standing this week: By contrast, four meetings were supposed to happen, but canceled. Is it just me, or are city hall meetings increasingly resembling network programming? "Well, we would LIKE to have a City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee mee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Peace Between Bloggers and Journalists for Our Time!

    Print journalists and bloggers are feuding again. It's a quiet feud so far -- an incendiary article here, a subtle dig in a blog post there -- but it's real, it's between people I know and respect, and it makes me want to hide under the bed the way I did when the monsters attacked mommy and dad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Help Save San Francisco Parks By Walking Your Ass Off

    A. MaleyNothin' beats a walk in the park...Yesterday we wrote about how advocates warn that the state's plan to shut the vast majority of the state's parks could lead to massive encampments, partying, vagrancy, arson, and, perhaps, the world's largest collection of empty beer cans in California's on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Mother of Man Who Fell to His Death at 49ers Game Hoping Team Will Install Barricade To Prevent Future Accidents

    The last picture of Torrey Kretschman ever taken, shortly before his death at halftime of a 49ers game in 2007In December of 2007, what should have been one of the most routine decisions of Torrey Kretschman's life turned out to be the last one he ever made. The 31-year-old from Sacramento hopped ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Fleet Foxes, Movies in the Park, Tilly and the Wall: The Weekend Hitlist

    The last picture of Torrey Kretschman ever taken, shortly before his death at halftime of a 49ers game in 2007In December of 2007, what should have been one of the most routine decisions of Torrey Kretschman's life turned out to be the last one he ever made. The 31-year-old from Sacramento hopped ju ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Cartology: From the Inside Looking Out

    The last picture of Torrey Kretschman ever taken, shortly before his death at halftime of a 49ers game in 2007In December of 2007, what should have been one of the most routine decisions of Torrey Kretschman's life turned out to be the last one he ever made. The 31-year-old from Sacramento hopped ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    SF Weekly Learns Torrey Kretschman of Roseville, CA. Is Man Who Fell to Death at Monster Park

    The last picture of Torrey Kretschman ever taken, shortly before his death at halftime of a 49ers game in 2007In December of 2007, what should have been one of the most routine decisions of Torrey Kretschman's life turned out to be the last one he ever made. The 31-year-old from Sacramento hopped ju ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2007

    Monster Mashed

    The last picture of Torrey Kretschman ever taken, shortly before his death at halftime of a 49ers game in 2007In December of 2007, what should have been one of the most routine decisions of Torrey Kretschman's life turned out to be the last one he ever made. The 31-year-old from Sacramento hopped ju ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2004

    A Winner

    Sweaty, smutty, arty goodness

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Monster Mash

    Deep inside, don't you really think Monster Park is a cooler name than Candlestick? Take the quiz and find out!

  • Summer Guide

    June 23, 2004

    Easy Parking

    The parks to hit when San Francisco weather turns nice.

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2003

    Our Fishy Friends

    Lend a hand to salmon in need

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2003

    Use Your Head

    Agent Skull-y

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2003

    Kick It

    International soccer invades S.F.

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Hooked on Speed

    Driven by ego and anger, kids are turning some city neighborhoods into racetracks -- with deadly results

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Thing About the New Ballpark

    The Willie Mays Statue

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    August 9, 1995

    Chatterbox

    The Willie Mays Statue

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