We've been harsh on flashmobs in the past, but here's one we can finally get behind: A group calling themselves The Bay Area Drunkards Association sent out invites to local Yelp and Reddit message boards, calling for fellow minded people to come out to Golden Gate Park and get drunk in public while doing a little bit of community service to help clean up the aftermath of yesterday's stonerfest. From the Yelp event invite: more ›

As is tradition on April 20th, scores of marijuana smokers, legal or otherwise, are currently making their pilgrimage to the hallowed ground of Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill. Since we live in these modern times where smoking pot in public is pretty much fair game and nobody makes a move without documenting their exploits on Twitter or Instagram, we present a brief and humorous look at our favorite people at or en route to Golden Gate Park, where they've made "Hippie Hill" a trending twitter topic. Observe: more ›

The Outside Lands Music Festival announced the lineup for the fifth annual three-day music festival in Golden Gate Park. Highlights include music legends like Stevie Wonder (!), Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Metallica, Jack White, and the Foo Fighters appearing on the same festival grounds as more recently popular artists ranging from Skrillex, Die Antwoord, Washed Out and MSTRKRFT to Norah Jones, Dr. Dog, and Sharon Van Etten. Full lineup, after the jump. more ›

Easter, a popular holiday with both religious and secular types, is this Sunday, April 8th — in case you, like the rest of us who don't call their mothers often enough, were wondering when that was. To commemorate the yearly fertility ritual, SF Rec and Parks Department is throwing a psychedelic Alice In Wonderland-themed "Eggstravaganza" in Golden Gate Park. more ›

Terrible news from Golden Gate Park this afternoon: one of the seven new baby bison who arrived at the paddock early last month has died "after sustaining injuries from an incident with a small dog" yesterday afternoon, the Chronicle reports. Wait a second — a small dog killed a bison? more ›

Ta-da! Golden Gate Park's new herd of bison young was caught on video as the gentle creatures staged a tiny, adorable stampede out of their trailer and in to their new home in the Bison Paddock earlier this week. And now here they are, looking just like you always imagined a tiny herd of bison would look: like the regular ones, only cuter. more ›

Out in Golden Gate Park Diane Feinstein's thinning herd of bison got some new additions this week. According to NBC, seven new buffalo calves arrived at the bison paddock in the western part of Golden Gate park on Monday where they are currently spending time getting acquainted with the park's three surviving bison. more ›

An advocate-on-advocate battle brewing in Golden Gate Park threatens to throw another wrench in the spokes of the city's bike plan if it can't be resolved quickly: The recently approved parking-protected bikeway on John F. Kennedy Drive, which places bike traffic in a 6.5-foot wide bike lane between parked cars and the curb, has the potential to be the safest bike lane in the city. But disabled advocates claim it leaves wheelchair users stuck in the middle of traffic. The Examiner explains the rolling dispute: more ›

The red-tailed hawk speared with a framing nail shot from a nail gun has been successfully rescued, reports Bay City News and the Wild Rescue team. The injured bird, which turned out to be a female juvenile, was brought in using a bal-chatri trap near the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park and promptly taken to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley in San Jose. According to vets at the center, the nail fell out while the bird was being transported down the peninsula. more ›

WildRescue put up a $5,000 reward for information leading up to an arrest and conviction for the person(s) responsible for shooting a red-tail hawk with a nail gun. "Animal rescuers are trying to capture a wild, red-tailed hawk loose in Golden Gate Park that may have been shot with a nail gun, reports the Chronicle. "Rescuers will set two traps in the park and hope they can safely secure the bird and take it to veterinarian, said Rebecca Dmytryk, director of WildRescue, a Monterey-based animal ambulance." more ›

Since last week's downpour staved off the opening, today's sunny skies mark the official opening of the Stow Lake Boathouse. While the kitchen redo nears completion, food off-site will be served from "La Cocina vendors (think empanadas and piroshkis), Let’s Be Frank, and of course, American Box (salads, sandwiches)," reports Inside Scoop. more ›

A stellar lineup of musicians, rare shorts weather, food vendors and — of course — the crowds. Here's a quick look at what you're missing in Golden Gate Park this afternoon. more ›

Whether you're heading out to the Polo Fields to catch three days of music, wine and food or maybe you just live in one of the surrounding neighborhoods and don't want to deal with the hippies and the hipsters descending on your streets - there ought to be plenty of room for everybody on the Western side of the city this weekend, so long as we all know how to behave like courteous neighbors and music fans. So, with that in mind, we bring you our brief survival guide for what to do both inside and outside Golden Gate Park this weekend: more ›

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the yearly 3-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadow has announced their lineup for this year's event set to take place Friday, September 30th to Sunday, October 2nd. Some of the usual suspects like Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck and Kris Kristofferson will be returning, banjos in hand. But as with every year, the lineup isn't strictly limited to the twangy genre (hence the name). A couple notable, non-bluegrass acts: Broken Social Scene, Kurt Vile & the Violators, MC Hammer (who does the yearly children's program) and Bright Eyes. The full, lengthy lineup below: more ›

The bison family in Golden Gate Park just got a little bit smaller yesterday. (Sidenote: you know there are bison in Golden Gate Park, right?) Tenny, one of five bison at the paddock, was put to sleep after her handlers determined she was no longer able to stand and graze. Tenny and the other four bison are the offspring of two bison given to Dianne Feinstein by her husband Richard Blum when she was San Francisco's mayor in 1984. SF Zoo officials, who work with the Parks Department to care for the bison in the park, hope to get a few more of the majestic creatures before the year is out. [BCN/Appeal] more ›

Bayview / Stabbing: A 21-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times in broad daylight near the intersection of Third Street and Oakdale Avenue on Saturday afternoon. Her injuries are considered to be non-life-threatening. No arrests have been made. [KTVU] more ›

During the annual ode of marijuana at 4:20 on 4/20/2011 in Golden Gate Park, hordes of stoners gathered at Sharon Meadow to partake in some kind bud. But the party turned sour after one woman was attacked during a seating area dispute. "A 47-year-old woman was bashed over the head with a portable radio and threatened to be killed in a dispute with two other women over space to sit at a National Marijuana Day celebration in Golden Gate Park Wednesday," reports The Examiner. The assailant's friend then threatened to kill her. Charming. Later in the day, a 24-year-old Citrus Heights woman was arrested for making felony threats against the victim. The basher escaped on foot. [Ex] more ›

The Examiner took some time to, er, examine the neighborhood-level data from the 2010 census this weekend. Most of the trends could easily be predicted by anyone who has lived here for more than 12 months in the last five years (Surprise! The Mission, the Haight, various Hill-neighborhoods and the Western Addition are all getting whiter! Neighborhoods on the periphery are more Asian and Hispanic!), but this little factoid stuck out to us: more ›

BikeNOPA has some wound-relieving wounds for cyclists who bumble their way through Golden Gate Park on a daily basis. The long stretch of Golden Gate Park will receive a much-needed repaving in time for Spring. more ›

"At the de Young" by andertho. more ›

On Sunday afternoon, according to the Examiner, "a person in the park flagged down an officer midday Sunday because of an arm found near the Polo Field." The body of an unidentified male body was also found in the park, possibly related to the arm. (Yikes.) The San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office explained to SF Weekly that "this was a 'decomp case' -- as in 'decomposition.'" (Ack.) SFPD have yet to reveal any further (and presumably gruesome) details about the severed arm. (Shudder.) [via SFAppeal] more ›

An transient man in his 50s was found dead in Golden Gate Park on Saturday morning. "It looked like he was assaulted and died from his injuries," SFPD Sgt. Troy Dangerfield explained to BCN (via SF Appeal). more ›

"The Seer's Tower" by Justin Beck. more ›

Early this morning, San Francisco played host to all sorts of mischief. Let's see: more ›

Before Paul McCartney's aurally controversial AT&T Park concert on Saturday, Mission Mission reader Barbara Renaud-Bray posted about Paul's bike ride in Golden Gate Park: more ›