Entries from SFist tagged with 'memorial'
November 18, 2008
Today was the 30-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Days before more than 900 member of the Peoples Temple church committed suicide or were murdered in Guyana, former congressman Leo Ryan was killed at Jonestown by sect members. Sen. Jackie Speier, an aide to Ryan in 1978, and was also shot in Jonestown. Speier, Ryan's daughters, and a few surviving members met in San Mateo today at a ceremony renaming a post office after the......
Continue Reading "Remembering Jonestown: Post Office Renamed / Memorial Unveiled"January 2, 2008
The morbidly curious, a smattering of animal enthusiasts, and, of course, the media will line up to get into the SF Zoo when it reopens to the public at 10 a.m. tomorrow. In addition to a Tatiana-free environment, zoo visitors will also notice a few other changes. For instances, new signs reminding visitors that they are "guests in the [animals]" and not to "tap on glass, throw anything into the exhibit, make excessive noise, tease......
Continue Reading "SF Zoo Reopens Tomorrow Boasting Memorial, New Features"December 30, 2007
Where to begin? Well, for starters, the page's score set to The Lion King's eleventh-hour song "Circle of Life." While we tend to loathe music set to any page on the webs, this is fitting. And touching. But Tatiana's official postmortem MySpace page offers more than just Elton John-manufactured teardrops. You can find informative links to such items as the transcript to Nancy Grace's show on the tiger attacks, a makeshift memorial of sorts,......
Continue Reading "Tatiana the Tiger's Official MySpace Memorial Page"