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

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

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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 >>

Cartology: From the Inside Looking Out

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 >>

Monster Mashed

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 >>

Grabbing for the Ring

City officials are trying to lure the Summer Olympic Games to San Francisco for 2016. Do you think it's a good idea? Find out where you stand!

Offensive Line

Numbers guy and Stanford MBA Paraag Marathe has become a scapegoat for the 49ers' failure, but he's really the future of the NFL

A Winner

Sweaty, smutty, arty goodness

Inside the NFHell

Are you a 49ers apologist? Or a football fan?

Monster Mash

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

Easy Parking

The parks to hit when San Francisco weather turns nice.

Our Fishy Friends

Lend a hand to salmon in need

Use Your Head

Agent Skull-y

Kick It

International soccer invades S.F.

Hooked on Speed

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

Best Thing About the New Ballpark

The Willie Mays Statue

Night+Day

The Willie Mays Statue

Scalp a Ticket, Go to Jail? Basis of San Francisco's Law Odder Than You'd Think.

It's against the law -- or is it?A soft toss away from the high-legged kick of the Juan Marichal monument outside AT&T Park, an attention-grabbing sign blows in the gentle breeze. In large, alarming letters, the sign warns of the dangers of purchasing scalped tickets -- and notes that both the b ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Candlestick Park Trample Victim Lawsuit Isn't First Involving S.F. Police Horse -- But It's the First In a Long Time

​We've written a little bit about Eugene Caldwell, the 78-year-old 49ers fan killed by a runaway police horse last year at Candlestick Park. According to court records, Caldwell's widow and grown children filed suit against a bevy of defendants on April 17; yesterday the Examiner ran a story in wh ... More >>

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

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

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 >>

Grabbin' Some Pine With Mike Krukow

​Back in 1987 your humble narrator's father had a breakthrough realization. If he managed to buy the cheapest and worst tickets for the National League Championship Series between the Giants and Cardinals, he discovered he could waltz right into the jury-rigged Candlestick Park media overflow sect ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Baseball in Candlestick Park? Millions of Reasons to Say No.

​Not long ago, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd had an idea that was either wonderful or terrible or wonderful because it was so terrible. Since 2010 is the 50th anniversary of the first Giants game at Candlestick Park, why not have a game there to commemorate it? At first blush, the notion of giving up a ... More >>

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 >>

Garbage gallery: At Recology, turning trash into treasure

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

World Cup:Qatar, Russia Win What San Francisco Could Not

Not happening in San Francisco. At least not on the field. ​Today's decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, respectively, to Russia and Qatar -- yes, Qatar! -- comes as cold comfort for San Francisco. We learned all the way back in January that, even if the United States succeeded in its C ... More >>

Mickey Pfleger, 'The Luckiest Person In The World,' Dies at 61

Brad ManginMickey Pfleger in his natural environment​If serendipity had a human form, it had to be Mickey Pfleger. You may not remember Pfleger's name, but you may well remember his story. A series of events that led the ace freelance sports photographer to dub himself 'the luckiest person in the ... More >>

The Sounds of 2010

What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.

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 >>

It Takes a Lot of Balls

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 >>

Candlestick Park Will Likely Sack the City for Millions

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Fall Arts: We Made Nato Green Fill Out a Questionnaire

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 >>

Drunk Man Carjacked, Kidnapped, Forced to Strip Naked

Booze cruise ​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 nig ... More >>

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 >>

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

49ers Season Tickets Will Require $30K Fee

Back in those days, $30,000 could probably buy a ticket for you and about 10,000 friends​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 ... More >>

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

Sports fans are as bad as barbarian hordes​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 ... More >>

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, knock-down, drag-out fights, as the 49ers and Giants. Both teams are giants in their own ri ... More >>

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

Sports fans are not nice people​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 ... More >>