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While stomping over to Whole Foods SOMA on Sunday (alas, Greenlee's Cinnamon Bread trumps the boycott), we looked to the sky and saw a plane carrying a banner, reading, "Who Murdered My Son? JusticeForBrandon.com"

Your cleanser du jour comes to us from one of the bands we're most looking forward to seeing this weekend at Outside Lands, Brooklyn's own The National. They'll be playing on Friday at 5 p.m. (right before Tom Jones (!) on the Sutro Stage), and here for your listening and viewing pleasure is a live studio rendition of "Slow Show."

by Chris Jones

For 13 years strong, people have gathered in Golden Gate Park on Sundays to do the Lindy Hop. That is, until two weeks ago when SFPD officers stopped the jazz-swing fun. Why? Well, it seems that these brazen dance kids didn't have a permit for this street-type swing dancing. So, the fuzz gave "people 20 minutes to break down their speakers," forcing some 200 people to beat it. Fortunately, after many, many, many angry people complained by sending letters to City Hall, they were given a permit and the Lindy Hop dances again. (CBS 5 has a full report.) The Lindy happens every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the south sidewalk area of JFK Drive, between 8th and 10th Avenue.

GOLDEN GATE PARK: 20-year-old Brandon Evans was shot and killed while attending a party in Golden Gate Park on Saturday. According to reports, Evans was part of "about 100 young people drinking and listening to a live band perform at the horseshoe pits above the Conservatory of Flowers." It seems these types of gatherings are a common.

We all had a great time piling on Muni last weekend, foaming and ranting about service to and from the park. But what was going on behind the scenes? We asked Muni how they strategized their service around Outside Lands. Here's what they had to say:

SFist sources tell us that the bomb squad has been called to Golden Gate Park at JFK and 30th Avenue Carl Street in Cole Valley at around 6 p.m. Now, which one of you accidentally left your pack back in the park? But seriously, folks, we're not sure what the entire story is yet, or if there even is one, but we'll update when we know more. Stay tuned.

File this -- again -- under "there's ALWAYS a San Francisco connection".

What with all of the media attention this summertime concert has received as of late, you would assume Miley Cyrus (the Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton narrative of our time) was booked to "sing" at Golden Gate Park. Alas, she is not.

The Apple Moth vs. San Francisco...

Photo credit: iceman882

Muni has three disruptions on their radar this weekend: The Chinese Flower Market Fair on Saturday and Sunday, the San Francisco Half Marathon on Sunday, and the Tet Fesitval Celebration on Sunday. All three sound scrumptious, even though only two of them are explicitly Asian.

Things are hopping on Friday nights at the de Young

A group of people having a bonfire at Ocean Beach early this morning--in this weather?--came across the body of a dead man, which they found above the high tide line across from the Beach Chalet and Golden Gate Park. Of average height with no identification or clothes, "U.S. Park Police are investigating the death, but have few leads."

This was the scene the other day on everybody's favorite piece of landfill, San Francisco's Marina District. Larger version here Of course SUPER-visor Chris Daly took action to keep Segways off of our sidewalks about a half decade ago, but our law doesn't appear to stop folks from just driving around in bike lanes. (It doesn't seem to stop people from riding on sidewalks either, but oh well.) Anyway, you'll be seeing these things in...

Photo of a funny sign in Golden Gate park

We love the idea of turning the Presidio into a destination. After all, it's a gorgeous place. Ridiculously beautiful parts of the Presidio make Golden Gate Park look downright crummy. And what with the new landscaping, it's sure to become the tourist destination it so richly deserves.

Pocket Gophers in Golden Gate Park

Lindy in the Park this Thursday

Golden Gate Park saw an Overwhelming Response from Oil Spill Volunteers last night.

Oil Spill Volunteer Training 2nite.

Unidentified Women On Horseback In Golden Gate Park, October 29, 1934 San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection We’re all for citizenship and all—we would even consider ourselves to be citizenship geeks. We love voting (of course) and jury duty (jury opportunity, we like to call it). We love the Post Office and even the DMV (especially those the traces of the Eisenhower era that remain here and there in those temples of citizenship…...

Noe Valley kids who were promised horses by Supervisor McGoldrick.) If only the proposition focused on something a little more practical for our urban youth.

Photo of a bird eating plastic

Photo of feral cat in GGP and thoughts as to why we seem to have fewer of them now

Photo of a large bird doing its best to survive in a somewhat polluted environment.

Oh dear. Just days after Brian Austin was stabbed to death at 47th Avenue and Fulton Street, a (homelss!) man was shot yesterday in Golden Gate Park. According to the fuzz, he took a hit at 25th Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, a little after 11 p.m. No arrests have been made. As for the victim, he is in stable condition. Golden Gate Park? Not so much....

Photo of people smoking in the park

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