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Outdoor Recreation

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Q&A with Greens Chef Annie Somerville, part 2: Keeping a 33-Year-Old Restaurant Fresh

    Annie Somerville, executive chef of Greens Restaurant, came to the world of cooking through unexpected means. Somerville moved to San Francisco in 1973 to study at the San Francisco Zen Center, and became chef of Greens -- which the center then owned -- in 1985. Somerville recently talked with SFood ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Alarmists Behind 'Homeless Haight Brigands' Myth Have a New Enemy: A Three Block Bike Lane

    ​Last year San Franciscans heard a repeated tale about a band of violent gutter punks who caused upstanding citizens to fear going out at night.The story was bogus. Police were unable make a single criminal case out of the supposed crime wave, despite blanketing the area for weeks.The fabulists be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Bike Messengers Are Victims of Civil Court Closures

    The final showdown for bike messengers?​As of October 3, 25 civil courtrooms will be closed indefinitely, and all the clerks will have their office hours cut by an hour a day. Two hundred court employees will be getting pink slips.But the compassionate hipster inside of us wants to know: What does ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    James Hetfield to Marin Hikers: "Don't Tread on Me (Or My Property)!"

    Metallica singer James Hetfield​Exit light, enter night, if you will -- but don't go entering into James Hetfield's sprawling Marin County property. The Metallica singer and rhythm guitarist erected a metal fence on his ranch that blocked off a popular trail connecting two nature preserves. S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Pedestrians Want to Infiltrate World Naked Bike Ride

    Bikers tell naked pedestrians to take a hike ​Pedestrians and cyclists stripping down and getting naked together? Now that sounds like a party to join. Or maybe it's the grossest-sounding idea ever. Regardless of what you think, that's exactly what San Francisco pedestrians want to do this weekend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

    ​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    San Francycle: Did David Chiu Drive on Bike to Work Day?

    ​Wasn't Bike to Work day fabulous this year? We certainly saw a lot more cyclists out than usual, and we hope to see them out again on the remaining 364 days until next year. Let's do a quick roundup of the best of the bikes. According to the Chron, the mayor and "almost every member of the Bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Federal Government Shutdown: Will You Be Kicked Off Ocean Beach?

    Going, going ... gone?​With the specter of a federal shutdown looming tomorrow, San Franciscans have reason to worry. If our government ceases operating and everyone heads to the beach -- will we be able to head to the beach? Ocean Beach, after all, is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Larry Ellison Too Good for His Own Golden Gate Yacht Club

    Not Larry Ellison's style​While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate Yacht Club, despite the fact he and his employees spend hundreds of doll ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2011

    From the Piers to the Pacific

    Not Larry Ellison's style​While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate Yacht Club, despite the fact he and his employees spend hundreds of doll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    San Francycle: The Bike Coalition's Big Plans for 2011

    ​Happy New Year! And quite a year it's been for bicycles. Between all the new stripes and racks and parklets, we've suddenly catapulted into the future of cycling. Well, maybe not the future, since Europe is several decades ahead of us. Maybe just less of the past. But there's still plenty of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Santa Beats Yacht Club Robbery Rap

    We knew you didn't exist ​Readers may recall an eye-catching story we had earlier about jolly old St. Nick himself knocking over the East Providence Yacht Club in Rhode Island. This, we postulated, was reason enough to award the America's Cup to San Francisco and not Newport. Kris Kringle may tell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Santa Claus Robs Yacht Club

    Be good for goodness sake...​With the yachtsmen of Rhode Island poised to steal the America's Cup from San Francisco, someone else is stealing from Rhode Island's yachtsmen -- Santa Claus. A gunman knocked over the bar at the East Providence Yacht Club yesterday. That gunman, incidentally, was des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Turns Out Songbirds Can't Fly: Joan Baez Falls Out of A Treehouse

    Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

  • Music

    October 27, 2010

    Dominant Legs: Show Preview

    Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    New Bill Seeks to Curb Use of Environmental Review to Delay Worthy Projects

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    San Francycle: Tour de Fat and a Sewer Ride

    ​Welcome to San Francycle, a new SF Weekly series that celebrates the craziest and bestest way to get around town. Ride a bike in San Francisco? Are you crazy? The breaking point came sometime early this year. Remember when Muni was talking about cutting service? Again? I was shelling out fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Italian DJ Benny Benassi Plans to Tour California on a Fixie Bike

    ​Awesome alert: In a feat of either badassery or hubris, Italian DJ, Grammy-winner, and all-around-suave-dude Benny Benassi plans to ride a fixie -- yes, a single-speed, fixed-gear bicycle -- down the coast of California on his upcoming tour.The bike tour kicks off after Benassi's set at Ruby Skye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Mayor Newsom Paints a Bike Lane

    ​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Dawn of the Gearhead

    ​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2010

    Great Obstacles

    ​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

  • Music

    August 26, 2009

    The Outside Lands alternative: In the Pines

    ​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Mind the Ripping Current

    ​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Local Mountain Bike Pioneer Gary Fisher Endows 'Chair In Kid Fun'

    Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying p ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Ironically, bike hater Rob Anderson advances cause of cycling in S.F.

    Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying p ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2009

    Play On

    Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Mad Cow: S.F. Judge Rules City Not Liable For Belligerent Bovine

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2009

    Paddling 101

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    Saturday: World Naked Bike Ride

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2008

    Land Ho!

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Lexington Club Violence Stories Show Anti-Hipster Bias

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • Calendar

    September 5, 2007

    Hang in There, Fella

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    Ask a Track Bike!

    'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

  • Calendar

    August 10, 2005

    Killing Bulls in Spain

    Papa would be proud

  • Summer Guide

    June 29, 2005

    Butt Boards Up!

    Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best City Campground

    Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Outdoor Store

    Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2004

    Ain't We Got Fun?

    Where to find the penny-arcade machines from the Musée Mécanique

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2003

    Highland Fling

    Everyone's Scottish at Dunsmuir's Games

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Sports Equipment

    Sports Basement

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of February 19, 2003

  • Summer Guide

    June 19, 2002

    At Play on the Bay (If You Go...)

    Week of February 19, 2003

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Sports & Recreation Readers' Poll

    Week of February 19, 2003

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Florist

    Fioridella

  • Music

    July 12, 2000

    For Love and Money

    Cali Agents' Rasco and Planet Asia are underground rappers who want to go platinum. You got a problem with that?

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    Postscript

    A Cracker Moron Explains How Drivers Feel About Bikes

  • Dining

    July 7, 1999

    Side Dish

    A Cracker Moron Explains How Drivers Feel About Bikes

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Strike While the Iron Is Hot

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • News

    September 23, 1998

    Letters

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Calendar

    September 9, 1998

    Cothran

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

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