Arts & Entertainment Uncle John’s Tree Gets Lit Tonight In Golden Gate Park, Salesforce Park Firing Up Its Lights Too For the 96th year in a row, SF biggest and roundest Christmas tree gets its switch flipped in a 6:30 pm lighting Thursday night. Meanwhile, Salesforce Park gets its holiday light display lit Friday, plus a sing-along 'Frozen' Saturday.
SF News SF Rec & Parks Bids Fond Farewell to Giant Cypress That Had to Be Taken Down In Golden Gate Park "Farewell to the giant!" says San Francisco's Rec & Parks Department, after announcing the demise of a 100-year-old, 90-foot cypress tree in Hellman Hollow, the enormous trunk of which had recently split, creating a dangerous situation.
SF News SFPD Reportedly Looking at Three Suspects In Golden Gate Park Assault on Child, DNA Being Tested The SFPD says it has identified three suspects in last week's restroom sexual assault on a young girl, and there's a report of a man who'd been lurking in the area and talking to young girls.
SF News Sexual Assault of Child Reported In Golden Gate Park Restroom San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano 2025 Now Underway In Golden Gate Park, and Celebrating Its 10th Anniversary Twelve pianos are now placed in Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden to host more than 100 performers over the next two weekends, and it’s the 10th anniversary of this extraordinarily charming fall event.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Muttville's New HQ, Tactile Maps, Pavement Plants, ‘Fairyland’ Flick, and a Hidden Mansion In this week's Field Notes: from a chic Mission dog shelter and a mansion under the Bay Bridge to pavement plants and dahlias in Oakland. Also, tactile SF maps, Obon in the park, queer family stories, cat zines, and a Sacramento ghost town.
Arts & Entertainment Tickets Still Available for Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon Show In Golden Gate Park Friday The third weekend in a row of concerts on the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park has almost arrived, and a Friday night show by young country artist Zach Bryan still has tickets on sale.
SF News Of Course the SFPD Busted a Guy Outside Dead & Company Show With 100 Nitrous Oxide Tanks Dead & Company fans missed out on some extra party favors this weekend after San Francisco police say they caught a Philadelphia man with about 100 nitrous oxide tanks and balloons near Golden Gate Park Saturday night.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Monday Night’s Lighting of the 100-Foot-Long Sea Serpent Sculpture In Golden Gate Park The largest public art installation in Golden Gate Park history was lit up and started breathing bubbles Monday night, as the 100-foot-long sea dragon sculpture called Naga now rules the roost over Rainbow Falls Pond.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano Announces 2025 Schedule and Lineup for This September’s Ten-Day Piano Jam The endlessly charming and delightful outdoor piano recitals of Flower Piano will return for the event’s ten-year anniversary in September, and the ten-day schedule keys in with highlight performers Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the Glide Ensemble.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminated, 100-Foot-Long Sea Creature Installation Coming to Golden Gate Park What's being billed as the largest piece of public art ever to be installed in the history of Golden Gate Park is going to debut later this month along JFK Promenade.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Tickets for Golden Gate Park Shows Go On Sale Next Week, $635 for All Three Shows The eyes of the world have been set on when those Golden Gate Park Dead & Company tickets would go on sale, and now we know they’re on sale next week for $635 for all three shows, with single-show sales forthcoming, plus three different opening acts.
Arts & Entertainment Dead & Company Lined Up to Play In Golden Gate Park for Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Mayor Lurie made a big ripple with a Monday morning announcement that Dead & Co. will be playing a three-show weekend in Golden Gate Park August 1-3, which will now be the main event of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations.
SF News Wow, It’s Now Been Five Whole Years Since JFK Drive Went Car-Free Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
SF News It Might Soon Cost You $3 an Hour to Park In Golden Gate Park If you thought car-free JFK Drive was controversial, wait til you see the next dispute coming down the promenade, as free parking might soon be eliminated in Golden Gate Park to chip away at the city’s budget deficit.
SF News SFPD Shoots Outer Sunset Man Who Fired Gun And Aimed At Officers, Police Drone An Outer Sunset man wielding a gun and threatening neighbors near Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon was shot by police after he reportedly fired at least one shot and aimed the gun at an SFPD drone and then later police officers.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out: LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Sadly Not Returning to Golden Gate Park for the Holidays This Year An LED letdown for fans of dazzling holiday lights, as the popular LED forest installation “Entwined” will not be returning to Golden Gate Park for the holiday season in 2024, though there’s still a big Holiday Tree Lighting in the park Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment R&B Star Thundercat Will Headline Just-Announced Free Concert In Golden Gate Park This October The latest in a glut of free San Francisco outdoor concerts will feature R&B bass wizard Thundercat and soul artist Lee Fields in an outdoor concert at Robin Williams Meadow on Sunday, October 20.
Arts & Entertainment The Most Unwelcome Guests at This Year's Outside Lands: Wasps Golden Gate Park was, atypically for August, teeming with yellowjackets this past weekend, prompting some Outside Lands festival-goers to wonder if the foot traffic had disturbed their nests, or something.
SF News Person Found Dead In Golden Gate Park During Outside Lands (Again) For the second year in a row, a dead body was discovered in Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands weekend, and again the death does not appear to have any connection to the festival.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano Announces 2024 Dates and Lineup, Now Twice as Many Days Long as Last Year The very charming outdoor piano jam Flower Piano will be back in Golden Gate Park in mid-September, with twice as many dates as last year, and bringing back many key musical figures like Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the SF Symphony.
SF News [Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
Arts & Entertainment Big Outdoor House Music Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Returns to Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Ibiza and Burning Man on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream brings back its outdoor, daytime house music party with DJ Lee Burridge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink JFK Promenade’s Summer Pop-Up Beer and Wine Garden Returns, Now With Cocktails and Called ‘The Whale’s Tail’ This weekend kicks off the third year in a row for the Beer and Wine Garden in Golden Gate Park, but this year they’re serving cocktails too, and renaming it “The Whale’s Tail.”
