NASCAR

With All Due Respect: The Risk of Marketing Yachting as "NASCAR on Water" is That You're Creating NASCAR on Water

"At Any Price": Death of a Corn Salesman

Drink 2013: Cocktails Listings

Extreme Chef: So Extreme We Had to Write an Epic Poem About It

Each week, we take a quick, caution look at food TV. This week, Extreme Chef, a one-hour show about watching the world burn, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. On the premiere Extreme Chef, seven chefs were dropped by helicopter to the "modern day hellhole" of the Salton Sea and asked to "en ... More >>

"Pint-Sized Plays III": Cafe Royale Serves Theater and Beer

Bouncer Reflects on Thomas Kinkade at Comstock Saloon

Jeffrey Ross Talks About Roasting Charlie Sheen -- and Needing Extra Security

Despite having an accomplished resume as an actor, writer, and producer, Jeffrey Ross is fine with the fact that many people recognize him as the dude from those legendary Comedy Central roasts. In fact, he hopes it will soon parlay into a regular series for the channel. He's taking it one step furt ... More >>

Lil B's I'm Gay: More Bashful Than Expected

​ I love the idea of Lil B -- a member of Berkeley one-hit wonders the Pack who wasn't gonna go out like that, and has since thrown anything and everything at the wall via Twitter and Mediafire to keep attention, fans and fame -- yet I've scarcely heard a note of his music. Loved his stint on ... More >>

If I Laugh at That, Am I Going to Hell?

Kings of Pastry Opens Nov. 17 at the Balboa

We've become blasé about the endless string of set-pieces chefs build for shows like Food Network Challenge. Fondant-wrapped Disney-themed fright cakes, cupcake towers inspired by Manolo Blahnik heels, sugar glass-molded landscapes with wonky Venetian masks and chocolate fountains that never gus ... More >>

Fiona Ma Loves Her Some Johnson, NASCAR

Ma on track​The first Asian-American woman to be Speaker Pro Tempore of the state Assembly, SF west-side rep Fiona Ma is also a NASCAR fan.

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- Incentivized Via a Prize!

It's fun! It's educational! All right -- you win free shit! Send us your perfect score here and win a prize! And now...Whose car is this? ​1. Did you know the winner of NASCAR's Daytona 500 was given a hero's welcome in San Francisco this week? Of course you didn't. By the way -- who won the Dayto ... More >>

The decade in ideas: local artists, DJs, studio heads, and tech geeks discuss the past and present in music

List: Checkout time

Local Eco-Conference Swaps Press Passes for Ad Placement

Being forced to trade adspace for media coverage of an event is not the current journalistic norm. Sadly, it may become commonplace in the future.​ In the impending newspaperless world dreaded by journalists, and glowingly touted by futurists, we'll all be glorified ad-salespeople, burnishing our ... More >>

New Cool Thing For Kids to Do: Steal Muni Drivers' Paraphernalia

Muni drivers have been giving customers the shirts off their backs of late -- really The aggressive brown coloring of Muni operators' uniforms always conjured up scenarios of dueling designers battling to see whether UPS or the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority could more authori ... More >>

Junk Mail Solicitation of the Day: Save $10K on My Wedding? Tell Me More!

But see how much money they saved? When the suffix of your e-mail address is "@NameOfaNewspaper.com" you get a lot of amazing solicitations by truly desperate PR mavens. We've lost count of how many deluded souls thought you, the readers, would be clamoring for stories about contact paper one can ap ... More >>

Muni's 'New' Notion of Selling Cable Car Sponsorships Was a Great Idea -- In 1982

Sadly, it's too late to wheedle a cable car sponsorship out of Thelonious MonkWhen Municipal Transportation Agency director Malcolm Heinicke earlier this week proposed selling off "sponsorships" to the city's treasured cable cars as a means of making the city's ends meet, you could almost hear the r ... More >>

Ten Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

Kelly O.Intelligence: Get smart Friday nightWe don't have to give you the news that today's Friday. We can tell by the way you're counting the minutes until lunchtime, after which you'll be counting the minutes until quittin' time, after which you'll be...yeah, who knows? But here's a couple recomme ... More >>

This Outhouse Arsonist Arrest Was Brought to You by Clorox

As if the Case of the Porta-Potty Arsonist couldn't get any stranger, Clorox Co. -- yes, the Oakland-based maker of chemical cleaning supplies -- is now sponsoring a $5,000 reward for tips leading to the potty flamer's arrest, according to the Associated Press. Is this ... More >>

San Francisco ranked 48th in Manliness...By a Snack-Food Company...and This is News

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

Wine Elites?

Change You Can't Believe In

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote.

Men Will Be Boys

With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.

Let's See Some Hustle Out There!

He'll Be Your Mirror

Don't blame Funny Games Michael Haneke if you don't like what you see.

Director Michael Haneke Makes Us Feel Guilty For Watching Funny Games

Longest Day

Borrowing Some Cash

R2D2 -- It IS You!

Farce of a Champion

Anchor Man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy

Road Rage

In FlatOut 2, life is a highway strewn with carnage.

Spinning Our Wheels

The summer has brought a bevy of frustrations, delays, and smoggy afternoons to Bay Area drivers. Do you manage to look the other way?

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Cowboy Up

We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 7

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Catching Air

Supercross delivers the action, and some truly lame acting

White Trash

There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

Car Trouble

Herbie the Love Bug's back, and he bites

Best Way to Tear Up Golden Gate Park

Noise Pop Tarts

Joanna Newsom, Okay, Ted Leo (sort of), Comets on Fire, Still Flyin', Mates of State ... and the list goes on and on ...

Holiday Gift Guide

Burden of Paradise

In 1944 Germany, an immaculate little town was not as it appeared

Under the Gun

Why the Army thinks a 30-year-old college-educated California bull rider will help it recruit soldiers during wartime

OK Then

White Dork Down

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

Sports/Outdoors/Races