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February 17, 2009
Tour of California Explained: Borat in San Francisco?
Very Nice! Now that Bay Area resident and Lance Armstrong teammate Levi Leiphiemer took Monday's lead in the Tour of California bicycle race, some Snitchophrenics have taken notice of this Big International Sporting Spectacle, and come away confused.Funny clothes, foreign sponsors, misshapen ... More >>
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February 18, 2009
Tour of California Explained: Cycling ValHella
Part III of our explainer of California's new favorite sporting event. Read Part II here, and Part I here. Q. In your installment about Tuesday's stage victor, Norseman Thor Hushovd, you said bike racing's low-impact training meant fewer injuries and greater athleticism. So is cycling a sportsman' ... More >>
Music
January 28, 2009
The Body Electric
Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.
Calendar
July 16, 2008
Saddle Up
Lindstrøm's cosmic aerobics.
News
February 28, 2007
Shake-down Tour
Is this what you get when a rapacious American capitalist takes U.S. bike racing for a spin?
News
December 27, 2006
Year of the Blockhead
We're dumbing down and it's the new media's fault
News
September 13, 2006
Dopey Bid
A close, unflattering look at San Francisco's prospective Olympic Games dance partner
News
July 19, 2006
This Is Your Sport Off Drugs
If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear
News
December 7, 2005
Legal Complications on Steroids
If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever
News
September 7, 2005
Tour de Farce
Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling
Dining
July 27, 2005
Home Is Where the Corn Bread Is
Even in a new Marina location, you can go Home again
Best of San Francisco
May 11, 2005
Best Bike Ride
Even in a new Marina location, you can go Home again
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September 8, 2004
Parks Reborn
Celebrate a shoreline renaissance
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July 14, 2004
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Celebrate a shoreline renaissance
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April 28, 2004
They're Krafty
Lovely Germans perform for you
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November 12, 2003
Pedal Power
VeloSwap rides into town
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September 10, 2003
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
VeloSwap rides into town
Music
August 27, 2003
Kraftwerk
Tour de France Soundtracks
Film
August 13, 2003
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Tour de France Soundtracks
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July 30, 2003
Aloha, Yay!
Party like the islanders in S.F.
Film
July 30, 2003
Reps Etc.
Party like the islanders in S.F.
News
July 16, 2003
It's the Economic Development, Stupid
Our lefty supervisors need to remember: In an economic downturn, it's not smart or progressive to go around killing jobs
News
August 7, 2002
This Is Your Sport, on Dope
State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Bike Trail
American River Trail, Old Town Sacramento
News
March 21, 2001
The Best Ambassador Money Can Buy?
Republican mega-donor Howard Leach is reportedly headed to France. At least we're not sending him to an important country.
News
December 15, 1999
Postscript
Ride of Passage
News
July 30, 1997
Recycling America
As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all. Savior on Wheels
Blogs
May 12, 2009
Tour de Fromage Rides Again
The French are jealousGluttonously creative San Francisco's answer to the Tour de France, the Tour de Fromage is sure to be the highlight of the numerous "chain of events" hosted by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition."The ride will be moderately difficult: Around 10 to 15 miles, but at a leisurely ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
Lance Armstrong's Derriere Exposed, Now That He's Lost His Levi
Levi LeipheimerLevi Leipheimer, the petite, bald-headed San Rafael resident who until Thursday was considered a possible dark horse to win the Tour de France, dropped out Friday with a wrist fracture suffered in a crash during Wednesday's stage, according to press reports.Though Leipheimer's Astana ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
Tour de France Brought to You By ... A Palo Alto Biotech Startup?
Officially speaking, the Tour de France -- which finished Sunday in Paris -- was brought to you by sponsors Carrefour supermarkets, Skoda cars and Vittel bottled water. Behind the scenes however, the physiology-defying, mountaintop-finish action of the race through the Pyrenees and the Alps may h ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
Tonight in SOMA, Street-Food Carts Plan an Epic Convergence for SFBC's Bike-In Movie
rhondawinter/FlickrSexy Soup Lady at the summer's first Bike-In Movie Night.Remember the classic Rockestra of the '70s? A couple dozen gods of rock, standing side by side on a stadium stage, simultaneously laying down hellaciously tasty chords? Well, the cart food equivalent drops tonight, wh ... More >>
Music
October 7, 2009
Kraftwerk's Anthologie makes up for lost time
rhondawinter/FlickrSexy Soup Lady at the summer's first Bike-In Movie Night.Remember the classic Rockestra of the '70s? A couple dozen gods of rock, standing side by side on a stadium stage, simultaneously laying down hellaciously tasty chords? Well, the cart food equivalent drops tonight, wh ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
With S.F. Critical Mass Mojo in Tow, Tesla Motors To Open Store in Biketown USA
Tesla's next endeavor? Fresh off the revelation that the company's top publicist is an avid fan and participant in San Francisco's Critical Mass monthly bicycle parade, Tesla Motors announced it will be opening an electric car store in America's top bicycling city, Boulder, Colorado.Last mo ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Scenes from Amgen Tour of California's San Francisco Start
A morning drizzle and a mid-workaday-morning roll-out-time led to scant crowds at the Ocean Beach start of Tuesday's stage of the Tour of California cycling race. Those who attended got a real taste of bicycle racing, big-time European -style, in which teams of athletes who dress (and weigh) like jo ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper
Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-usersSigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>
News
May 26, 2010
Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection
Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-usersSigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Hometown Papers Claim Local Hero Cyclist Levi Leipheimer Never Doped. Oh Really?
Hometown papers are ardently defending Levi Leiphimer from accusations of drug use. But those accusations may not be so far-fetched.When disgraced 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis last week confessed to doping and fingered other cyclists, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat was quick to jump t ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell
Might this affect Lance's concentration?The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong
No, no, not that way. This way...At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds
What's in the cup, Lance? The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Levi Leipheimer, Bay Area Cyclist, Hit with Doping Allegation By Former Team Manager
Cyclist Levi Leipheimer must pedal out of troubleCycling's reputation as a sport dirtier than dirt got a shot in the arm today with allegations by a former team manager that Bay Area cyclist Levi Leipheimer was doping during the 2005 Tour de France. Hans-Michael Holczer, the former boss of the Ge ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation
What, Lance worry?Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France
Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Terry Helbling's Victims to Get Art Back Today
No one would confuse the glum, imposing hunk of concrete that is the Hall of Justice with an art gallery. But today it is. And if more galleries had sheriff's deputies and metal detectors at their doors -- well, then the Hall of Justice wouldn't be so well-stocked with purloined paintings. Today' ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
International Peloton Skips S.F. for First Time in Decade
No Shaven-legged, 2-percent-body-fat Europeans allowed!For the first time in 10 years, the international professional bicycle-racing circuit will bypass San Francisco, while today's stage three of America's biggest cycling event, the Tour of California, is skipping the city with a jaunt from Aubu ... 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 24, 2011
Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company
It's about the EPO.CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge
It's all about who owned what and when.Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Q&A: Hieroglyphics' Casual on Being a '#RapGod' and Battle-Rapping in Middle School
Casual For his latest project, the Oakland-raised rapper Casual has anointed himself a rap god. It's a lofty and arrogant title, but one that the Hieroglyphics crew's undisputed battle champ has earned the right to coin, having now clocked up a near-20-year recorded career with new album He T ... More >>
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