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March 23, 2011
Giants Reality TV Show, 'The Franchise,' Coming to Showtime
In its brief existence as a genre, reality television has jumped the shark so many times, and in so many different ways, that they're scarcely worth mentioning. (Okay, okay: Our personal favorite was "The Littlest Groom," which aired only twice before Fox pulled the plug.) But if ever there was a gr ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Winning
In its brief existence as a genre, reality television has jumped the shark so many times, and in so many different ways, that they're scarcely worth mentioning. (Okay, okay: Our personal favorite was "The Littlest Groom," which aired only twice before Fox pulled the plug.) But if ever there was a gr ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Giants World Series Win Worth Millions
Worth every pennyEven carrying Barry Zito's enormous (and useless) contract, the San Francisco Giants still had a massive upswing in valuation this year.Yes, we can't get enough of the Giants -- including every Brian Wilson performance on and off the field. And while we are still basking in the W ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
San Francisco Giants: a Season in the Sun
Year One commences The World Champion San Francisco Giants -- it never gets old -- moments ago executed a ninth-inning comeback to win the last game of the year that doesn't matter at all. Wednesday was the epitome of a gorgeous Northern California day. The ballpark looked the same as before, the ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Train to Ruin S.F. Giants' Opening Day Game with a Live Performance
Soon to ruin a baseball game near you.It is with much agony that we report the following: Train, a pop-rock band that ranks among San Francisco's most regrettable musical products, will perform at this Friday's Opening Day Giants game, thereby extinguishing every drop of pleasure, hope, and civic ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
San Jose: How Deep Does the Inferiority Complex Go?
Do you know the way to San Jose?Greg Dewar/FlickrIn its never-ending quest to be San Francisco, it's so clear that San Jose will go to great lengths to take away anything or anyone that makes the City by the Bay, well, the City by the Bay. Funny as this faux rivalry might seem, there are two poli ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Giants Win -- Kick Ass!
The San Francisco Giants had their home opener on Friday, April 8, taking on the St. Louis Cardinals in front of a sold-out crowd at AT&T park. Find the full slide show of the Giants game here.
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April 11, 2011
Busted: San Francisco's Biggest Marijuana Grow to Date
Moonlighting for techies Aside from a January raid of a licensed growhouse -- and a very angry law professor's threats to sue the SFPD -- it's been a quiet year for marijuana busts in San Francisco. Until now.Police said today they arrested three people and seized 1,400 marijuana plants on April ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
Moonlighting for techies Aside from a January raid of a licensed growhouse -- and a very angry law professor's threats to sue the SFPD -- it's been a quiet year for marijuana busts in San Francisco. Until now.Police said today they arrested three people and seized 1,400 marijuana plants on April ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
The Franchise Recap: The Boys Are Back
AuntJuli/FlickrLast night, Showtime aired the first installment of The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants, a look inside the lives and clubhouse of our defending World Series champions. The 30-minute premiere acted as preview for the series, which doesn't technically start until Ju ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Tim Lincecum Donates $25,000 to Bryan Stow Fund
Sooooo goooodTim Lincecum is as good a person as he is a pitcher. The San Francisco superstar said he will donate $25,000 to help Giants fan Bryan Stow pay his medical bills, according to media reports. Stow, a father of two, was beaten outside the Dodger Stadium as he walked to his car aft ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Bryan Stow, Beaten Giants Fan, Coming Out of Coma
Coming out of a comaDoctors are in the process of taking Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was brutally beaten, out of his medically induced coma, media outlets are reporting. Stow, 42, has been in a coma at a Los Angeles hospital since the March 31 incident where he was beaten outside Dodger stadiu ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
Jose Reyes to Giants? Don't Count on it.
The man everybody wants...It's no wonder rumors are burning that the Giants are conniving to obtain scintillating Mets shortstop Jose Reyes. San Francisco's offense is providing writers with a rare opportunity to use the word "flaccid" in a non-sexual context. Meanwhile, erstwhile Giants shortsto ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Giants Fan Petitions Team to Create "It Gets Better" Video for LGBT Youth
Do the Giants believe it gets better?SF Weekly readers might recall the recent Giants games against the Atlanta Braves. Yes, we got swept, but what was even more upsetting was the fact that the Braves pitching coach, Roger McDowell, accosted Giants fans, asking a group of men if they were homos. ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Giants to Create "It Gets Better" Video for LGBT Youth
The champs are here to tell you that it gets betterThe San Francisco Giants told SF Weekly today that the team will make an iconic "It Gets Better" video to encourage LGBT youth across the nation. The Giants will be the first professional sports team to join the spirited campaign aimed at curbing ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Will the Atlanta Braves Follow the Giants' Lead and Create an "It Gets Better" Video?
Case in point that it does get betterIt isn't enough that the San Francisco Giants will be the first professional sports team to create an "It Gets Better" video for LGBT youth. What we need now is a more macho, unsuspecting, conservative group of athletes to follow the Giants' lead -- like the A ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Here Is Your Best Chance to Sleep with Buster Posey
If there was a chance ... SF Weekly spent a lot of not-so-free time deciding what is truly San Francisco's best ... including best bars, food, and yes, best chance to sleep with Giants heartthrob Buster Posey. Here is our best guess:The reigning Rookie of the Year is a married man, as the ladies ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
If there was a chance ... SF Weekly spent a lot of not-so-free time deciding what is truly San Francisco's best ... including best bars, food, and yes, best chance to sleep with Giants heartthrob Buster Posey. Here is our best guess:The reigning Rookie of the Year is a married man, as the ladies ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Buster Posey's Injury Could End His Season After Smash-Up at Home Plate
dirkhasen/FlickrWill Buster be on DL for rest of 2011?UPDATE: Giants just confirmed that Posey has suffered a lower left leg fracture. He's been placed on the 15-day DL, with an MRI scheduled for today, but he'll be indefinitely out until they know more. "There's no time table for his return," sa ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Buster Posey Update: Send Giants Star a Get Well Card
We've got official news about Giants catcher Buster Posey, and it's not good. The team is reporting that Posey has suffered a lower leg fracture and torn ligaments in his ankle, which could put him on the sidelines for a while. Ouch.Fans aren't happy seeing the Giants star taken out of the game. ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Giants Release "It Gets Better" Video
SF Weekly first reported that the San Francisco Giants would become the first professional sports team to produce an iconic "It Gets Better" video. Today, the World Series champs released a short video aimed to curb LGBT bullying and teen suicides. The roughly 60-second clip begins with Giants pitch ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Madison Bumgarner -- It Gets Better!
Keep smiling, champWith Thursday's loss to the Cincinnati Reds, Giants starter Madison Bumgarner entered into the running for a most undesirable laurel. Is he the greatest 2-8 pitcher in Major League history? Despite the 21-year-old's lopsided record, his earned-run average just keeps getting low ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Why It Matters That San Franciscans Pooped 87,000 Tons Last Year
There are 556,800,000 more where that one came fromYou've heard of shitloads. But that's nothing compared to a "SFload," a term we've coined to identify the unbelievable amount of crap excreted by San Franciscans last year.According to the just released "Resource Conservation Ordinance -- 2010 An ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
SFoodie Has a New Editor: W. Blake Gray
There are 556,800,000 more where that one came fromYou've heard of shitloads. But that's nothing compared to a "SFload," a term we've coined to identify the unbelievable amount of crap excreted by San Franciscans last year.According to the just released "Resource Conservation Ordinance -- 2010 An ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
The Franchise Episode 1: Promising Rookie Looks a Little Raw
UCinternationaWhen Showtime aired a preview for The Franchise in April, the Giants were only two weeks into the MLB season and still riding high in defense of their World Series title. Back then, the show looked like a window into the lives of baseball players, rather than a rough-and-tumble vie ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Five Reasons San Franciscans Have No Style
San Franciscans might be total sluts, but we definitely do not attract our partners based on the way we dress. According to GQ magazine, San Francisco ranked No. 20 on the list of the worst-dressed cities in America. It seems like a head scratcher to us, considering we are No. 1 in so many other way ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
San Francisco Giants to Visit White House, Maybe Resolve Budget Talks
Just what Washington needsIt's probably a good thing for all involved that the San Francisco Giants will be paying a visit to President Barack Obama next Monday. The Giants deserve their hard-earned recognition as World Series champs, and Washington needs a dose of good sense as negotiations grin ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
The Franchise Episode 2 Recap: Hey Now, You're an All-Star
I've written before that "The Franchise" is not really a show for Giants fans. In theory, it's a way for Major League Baseball to introduce some of the game's personalities to a broader audience at a time when they're finding it difficult to market most of their players. In its basic conception, ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Pablo Sandoval Helps the Search for Missing Children
He's good -- on and off the field Like the Kung Fu Panda he is nicknamed after, the Giants' Pablo Sandoval makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. And not just because he recently made the All-Star roster, fulfilling a lifelong dream. He's also a giving guy. Last week, the Giants star financed 40,0 ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
The Franchise Episode 3 Recap: Got Heem!
Over the past few weeks, I've complained that The Franchise has too often focused on establishing and teasing out narratives rather than using their access to its best advantage. The first two episodes spent most of their time introducing the audience to players, sometimes more than once, and ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
The Franchise Recap Episode 4: Carlos Beltran Is a Giant
Tedkerwin via flickrLast week, I said that The Franchise had finally found the right balance between broader storylines and behind-the-scenes intrigue. It turns out that I was in the minority: many non-San Francisco reviewers, including Claire Zulkey of the AV Club, thought it was an episode tha ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
The Bachelorette's Ben Flajnik: Five Reasons He Should Run for San Francisco Mayor
Those who tuned into ABC's The Bachelorette season finale earlier this week witnessed San Francisco's very own Ben Flajnik get dumped in favor of New York's J.P. Rosenbaum. For all the SF Weekly readers who thought to themselves, "I would have picked him instead," here's your chance. If we are to ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
This Week in Food Bloggery
CT Young/SF Weekly Flickr pool Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Caroline Chen discovers that huge numbers of San Francisco restaurant staffers are working illegally. The San Francisco Health Code declares no one with a venereal disease -- or bubonic plague, for that matter -- should be al ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
The Franchise Episode Five Recap: The Agony of Defeat
jkorn//FlickrThe Franchise has been on a nice run lately, alternating Cliff's Notes of the team season with human-interest stories in the right balance. However, for all its successes, the producers have had a relatively easy time drumming up content. The Giants have been an absolutely stellar te ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
The Franchise Episode Six Recap: Searching for Answers
SD Dirk/FlickrIn conception, The Franchise is not a very complicated show -- it tells human interests stories in the context of the Giants season with a healthy dose of insider access. It's built for a large audience, and as such is at its best when it's largely positive. The Giants need to be go ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
San Francisco's Top Five Diners
Even San Francisco natives like me are sometimes alarmed by the pressure applied to denizens of this city to publicly acknowledge that we live in the best place on earth. That being said, we certainly do have access to the best of things here: The best intoxicants, stimulants, and ingredients; th ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Jerome Williams Was Called "Jeremy" By Giants Teammates -- For Two Years
It turns out Jerome Williams pronounces his name like everyone else named Jerome. That's news to the Giants.You haven't arrived until you end up as an answer to a trivia question -- and, hopefully, not one akin to "this was the man who fell into the gorilla enclosure at the zoo and was passed amo ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Sorry, Simba Moneyball is King of the Jungle
JackpotBack in 1994, The Lion King's Simba gave his competitors fair warning via song -- "I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware" -- but that didn't stop Moneyball from dominating San Francisco's box office this weekend. In fact, you could say it was a home run for the Oakland A's baseball ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
A Giant Beer Dinner at Jardiniere
randychiuYou've done a lot to support the Giants. The orange wig, 'Let Timmy Smoke' t-shirt, and beard implant were all grand gestures. Next week, there's another way to celebrate the home team, and all you need to do is indulge in some quality food and beer.As the season winds down, Traci Des Ja ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Giants Barred From Trademarking "San Francisco" Logo
Wait! There's a "likelihood of confusion!"It was that kind of year for the San Francisco Giants. The team scored the fewest runs in the National League -- the fewest runs the team has scored, in fact, since it lost 100 games in 1985. At the plate, the Giants just couldn't deliver. Bizarrely, it h ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
The 1,101 Trademarks of San Francisco
Out at the plate, Giants...Earlier this week, we reported on the San Francisco Giants' summer of discontent carrying over into a fiasco at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The team was barred from trademarking the script "San Francisco" logo featured on Giants jackets and an armada of other ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
Giants Get Sued Over Team's "San Francisco" Logo
Out at the plate, Giants...Earlier this week, we reported on the San Francisco Giants' summer of discontent carrying over into a fiasco at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The team was barred from trademarking the script "San Francisco" logo featured on Giants jackets and an armada of other ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Other Non-San Francisco Voters Shill for Ed Lee
By now you may already be recovering from watching the Ed Lee music video featuring MC Hammer, Brian Wilson, Ashkon, Willie Brown and others. The video was funded in large part by Hammer's good pal and right-wing piñata du jour Ron Conway, as well as Sean Parker (who you may recall having paranoid ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Robin O'Connor, Giants Payroll Manager, Admits to Embezzling $2.2 Million from Team
Robin O'Connor The woman who was accused of diverting millions of dollars from the San Francisco Giants for personal use pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom today. Robin O'Connor, 41, the former payroll manager for the team, admitted to transferring more than $2.2 million from the Giants into h ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Boof Bonser Returns to Giants -- Harmonic Convergence to Follow?
He's back!The news that pitcher Boof Bonser is returning to the San Francisco Giants received little fanfare -- and deserved less. But, for those who love to wallow in sports arcana, the move represents the closest one can come in real life to hitting the "undo" button. Of course you can't hit th ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
The Old Guard
He's back!The news that pitcher Boof Bonser is returning to the San Francisco Giants received little fanfare -- and deserved less. But, for those who love to wallow in sports arcana, the move represents the closest one can come in real life to hitting the "undo" button. Of course you can't hit th ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden Discovers the 49ers in San Francisco Yesterday
A rare moment: Biden puts food, not a foot, in his mouth There's nothing we enjoy more than a good gaffe from high-profile politicians. But the foot-in-the-mouth moment Vice President Joe Biden had yesterday in San Francisco was so unfortunate it made Rick Perry's brain farts a little more forgiv ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
49ers Game to Air On All Six Cumulus Stations
The only thing you won't find on Cumulus. Even you hipsters out there who are completely ambivalent about all things football, who got your ass kicked by the jocks in high school, who would only wear a 49ers sweatshirt to a theme party, and, like our vice president, are apt to confuse the 49ers w ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Super Bowl Bar Viewing Spots Where You Might Actually Eat Well
The only thing you won't find on Cumulus. Even you hipsters out there who are completely ambivalent about all things football, who got your ass kicked by the jocks in high school, who would only wear a 49ers sweatshirt to a theme party, and, like our vice president, are apt to confuse the 49ers w ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
San Francisco Giants Heart Bruce Lee
On Sept. 4, you might notice lots of inappropriate chicken-like kung-fu noises in the vicinity of AT&T Park. In honor of the Year of the Dragon, the San Francisco Giants are hosting Bruce Lee night, which includes, among many other treats, your free Bruce bobblehead. Hosting a Bruce Lee n ... More >>
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