Infamous SF Eviction Lawyers Use DMCA Claim to Silence Protest Video

Infamous SF Eviction Lawyers Use DMCA Claim to Silence Protest Video

Please scroll down for an update to this story. Not content to help landlords evict tenants from their homes and businesses, Daniel Bornstein at the…

Smokin’ Fast: Gaining Muscle, If That’s Your Goal

Smokin’ Fast: Gaining Muscle, If That’s Your Goal

While Jackson is recovering from a successful surgery to fuse two cervical vertebrae, he left us his notes on training for size and strength –…

Smokin’ Fast: Risk, Reward and the Dipsea Race

Smokin’ Fast: Risk, Reward and the Dipsea Race

It was a delightfully gray Sunday in Mill Valley when I arrived to pick up my bib for the 103rd Dipsea Race. Clouds shrouded Mount…

Smokin’ Fast: Losing Weight, If That’s Your Goal

Smokin’ Fast: Losing Weight, If That’s Your Goal

I am a person who lost a lot of weight in a relative hurry and have kept it off since so far, and so I…

Smokin’ Fast: The Walgreens Workout, As Seen on the Internet

Smokin’ Fast: The Walgreens Workout, As Seen on the Internet

Casting about for a column idea that wasn’t about running for a change, my friend suggested that I go to Walgreens and write a review…

Smokin’ Fast: Not Actually a Review of the Asics Hyper LD 4 Track Shoe

Smokin’ Fast: Not Actually a Review of the Asics Hyper LD 4 Track Shoe

There’s always one way to muster motivation, and that’s to buy it–between coaching, classes, facilities, travel or equipment, with enough capital you can probably generate…

Smokin’ Fast: Staying Committed To Training Even After A Disappointment

Smokin’ Fast: Staying Committed To Training Even After A Disappointment

Sunday marked the 31st annual Wildflower, the “Woodstock of Triathlons.” One of the biggest such events in the world, it’s renowned for its rugged, beautiful…

Smokin’ Fast: Ten Time-Saving Fitness Tips

Smokin’ Fast: Ten Time-Saving Fitness Tips

The two biggest struggles I’ve found in keeping a fitness commitment are time and motivation. As I mentioned in the first part of my marathon…

Smokin’ Fast: Marathon Finishers Keep Calm and Carry On

Smokin’ Fast: Marathon Finishers Keep Calm and Carry On

At least one heckler in the audience at the DNA Lounge last Friday for Hunky Jesus: The Second Coming shouted “too soon” when I showed…

Smokin’ Fast: Train the Ivan Drago Way with Periodization

Smokin’ Fast: Train the Ivan Drago Way with Periodization

Rocky IV is probably second on my short list of Cold War-era right wing propaganda sports films. Red Dawn is the apotheosis of that particular…

Smokin’ Fast: The Hunky Jesus Workout

Smokin’ Fast: The Hunky Jesus Workout

While awaiting word on whether I’ve won a ticket in the Dipsea Race lottery, no money to sign up for any other races to build…

Smokin’ Fast: Ten Things to Love and Haight About Working Out in San Francisco

Smokin’ Fast: Ten Things to Love and Haight About Working Out in San Francisco

It’s been ten years since I first arrived in San Francisco, and while in many ways it will keep you in decent shape simply through…

Smokin’ Fast:  Improve Your Marathon Performance by Taking Regular Rehearsals and Ruthless Reviews in Stride

Smokin’ Fast: Improve Your Marathon Performance by Taking Regular Rehearsals and Ruthless Reviews in Stride

To the nearly 10,000 participants in Sunday’s Oakland Running Festival, congratulations on a great day for a run! If you’re already jonesing for another rush,…

Smokin’ Fast: Coping With Pain And Chasing the Dragon

You will doubtless hear or see a million variations of the hoary “no pain, no gain” mantra. In fact, training to or beyond the point…

Smokin’ Fast: Roller Derby Dreams

Sustaining motivation is one of the most difficult aspects of maintaining a commitment, be it a fitness commitment or anything else. Having goals is great,…

Smokin’ Fast: Fun, Fit and Car Free

Photo by Ian Collins. My Tumblr dashboard is full of fitness porn. That’s what “fitspo” stands for, right? No? Anyway, lots of landscapes and chiseled,…

Smokin’ Fast: How to Stage Your Dramatic Marathon Production

If you’ve decided to take “fitness” somewhat seriously, it is important to have goals. They don’t have to be big goals! “Work out every other…

Smokin’ Fast: Unfit at Any Speed

I lost a bunch of weight last two years and finished a lot of races, and for that reason people now come to me on…

Hell on Two Wheels: A Modest Proposal For C.W. Nevius

Longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. “Chuck” Nevius is back to actually living in the city that he writes about after years of commuting to…

Hell on Two Wheels: The Bike is Back

Today is the annual Bike to Work Day, so roll up that right pant leg and hit the pedals for your commute. Yes, it totally…

Hell on Two Wheels: No Money Down, Low APR on Bike Loan!

I’ve been a bit under the weather lately, so in lieu of a full column, just wanted to pass along a hot tip for readers…

Hell on Two Wheels: Let Me Google That Bike Route For You

Last week at the National Bike Summit, the surprise appearance of Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood was big news. But the possibly bigger news was Google’s…

Hell on Two Wheels: Making It Harder To Get Your Bike Stolen

I’m not one to avoid “bad neighborhoods,” on my bike or otherwise. But on Saturday I rented a ZipCar to help a friend move some…

Hell on Two Wheels: Is Cycling *Really* Getting More Dangerous?

While aimlessly hunting around the local blogosphere shortly after my last column, I noted a post on The Oakbook titled “Oakland Bicycle Accidents on the…

Hell on Two Wheels: Another Critical Mess

Police Chief George Gascon has gotten a new round of controversy rolling around San Francisco by kicking the tires of Critical Mass. “If you did…

The Bugs in Mayor’s Open Source Software Announcement

The Bugs in Mayor’s Open Source Software Announcement

Popular technology Web site Mashable took a break from rewriting press releases and just published one directly from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom touting the…

Hell on Two Wheels: Winterize

It looks like we’re going to have some wet and wild weather for at least the next week, if not two, or even three —…

Hell on Two Wheels: Year End Clearance

So, that’s over. The year, the decade, whatever it was. And it didn’t entirely suck. In fact, if anything, it was pretty good times for…

Hell on Two Wheels: Ladies Night

Last night’s annual Winterfest fundraiser for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition was full of pretty people looking fit and happy making bids on art, travel,…

Hell on Two Wheels: The Gavel Goes Bang

Hell on Two Wheels: The Gavel Goes Bang

Three years ago, the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom approved a plan to improve amenities for cyclists on San Francisco streets, including more…

Hell on Two Wheels: Know Your Rights

Hell on Two Wheels: Know Your Rights

A fellow Appeal contributor asked me about what rights bicycles have to the road, and the Sarah Palin-inspired response I just now thought of would…

Hell on Two Wheels: Out of True

Hell on Two Wheels: Out of True

Riding from NOPA to the Mission this week, a flat note rang out from my rear wheel. Upon inspection, it seems San Francisco’s notoriously porous…

Hell on Two Wheels: Blinded by Science

Last week in Los Angeles, Dr. Christopher Thompson was convicted of six felonies, including two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, after pulling in…

Hell on Two Wheels: Hauling Your Heavy Load of Booty

Hell on Two Wheels: Hauling Your Heavy Load of Booty

The first time I can remember being on a bike is when my father put one of those molded-plastic carrier seats on the back of…

Hell on Two Wheels: Safely Navigating Past the Sea Lions

Hell on Two Wheels: Safely Navigating Past the Sea Lions

On rides recently I’ve been thinking about the issue of safety. No, not the lame “obey posted signs” or “he should have been wearing a…

Hell on Two Wheels: Look, Ma, No Derailleur!

Hell on Two Wheels: Look, Ma, No Derailleur!

The other day I was running errands in SOMA on my bike when a man in a pickup truck stopped next to me at a…

Dick-lit Deconstructed: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

In the, ahem, art and science of tailoring media to reach a desired demographic audience, there is an uncanny valley. You can cut too close…

Your Friday Fratire: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Blog-to-book-to-movie I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell opens tonight at the Metreon. If you know the name Tucker Max, you’ll probably be there —…

Comedy of the Commons: Dolores Park

Comedy of the Commons: Dolores Park

The Dolores Park community meeting Wednesday evening was, maybe appropriately, much like a group therapy session. Organizer Gideon Kramer of SafeCleanGreen was so enthusiastic in…

DataSF: Mayor Officialy Kicks Off the Data Mining Gold Rush of Aught-Nine

DataSF.org will make any number of public databases significantly more useful to the public once private developers have a chance to play with the bits…