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"Get the fuck off that jelly fish and come here!" by Darwin Bell.

             

Sunday Streets met with a Rock the Bike event at Ocean Beach on Sunday. Some sort of amplifier was attached to bikes, then said listening device was powered by the magic of pedal power. Many revelers from Sunday Streets (an event that's quickly turning into more of a cycling event, rather than a pedestrian-friendly one) stopped by to enjoy the music and dancing

Crab a Ocean Beach by kapshure / BerDerp.

Hand rolling in the wind at Ocean Beach.

On Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco police identified the body of a woman found inside a vehicle at Ocean Beach as Mauvreen Zalaya, 38, of San Francisco. According to reports, "Police are calling Zalaya's death suspicious, but are waiting for the results of a medical examiner's report. Her body was found around 5:30 a.m. near Balboa Street." No signs of trauma or any weapons, according to police, were found inside the car.

Kite flying at Ocean Beach.

After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is new, right? But in the end, the protesters have no one to blame but themselves. The twee aesthetics the sitters used to save said trees turned off any fence sitters, and "Dumpster Muffin"'s dilettante-ish and affected temper tantrum earlier this month made some supporters eyes roll. But what the Save the Memorial Oak Grove did accomplished was having fun. They turned lemons into a festive, extended tree-fort playdate. Kudos, guys! But if any of you still want those oak trees to remain standing, there will be an Oak Grove Supporters Plan March at Berkeley City Hall tomorrow. Go here for more details.

Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put in a shiny new ball-throwing stadium -- are being threatened to come down via 25 police officers and a cherry picker. According to UCB officials, the tree protesters might have to come down as early as today, Tuesday, or be removed by the long arm of the law. Literally.

It's your last chance to give your opinion to the feds regarding off-leash dogs at Ocean Beach

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."

Evidence of a wintry day

Huge waves hit Ocean Beach.

San Francisco is America's most "walkable" city

Oil Spill Volunteer Training 2nite.

After a few days of obsessively keeping up with reports of the oil spill clean-up efforts, we gathered up our oldest, least fashionable, and/or most mishapen clothes, along with a pair of rubber gloves and trash bags, and set out for Ocean Beach today. It turns out our old Doc Martens are oil-resistant -- we just might have to invest in some new soles for those disaster-ready babies. Check out more photos and details after...

A photo of beaches affected and unaffected by the recent oil spill

And by "van-burners," we don't mean the variety that park by Ocean Beach in their VW van toking while watching the sunset. Or maybe we do…

Photo of a new fire pit at Ocean Beach

A photo of a shooting star

San Francisco was once pretty much a giant sand dune. We've even heard it said that the very name derives from the once common epithet "sands-can-drift-so", but we're pretty sure that this tale is apocryphal. Okay, we're positive, but a sunny weekend of wandering through Golden Gate Park prompted us to drift back to those early, sandier days. Golden Gate Park was established in 1868, and a local newspaper described it as a "dreary...

Let's see… big event? Check. Lots of people involved? Check? Lots of drunk people involved? Double check. Muni somehow screwing the pooch? Check, check, checkity check.

clipper ship. A pirate ship? A tragic capsizing? What's the word?

Oh sure, the earlier attempt at getting Bush impeached by lining up a whole bunch of bodies to lie on Ocean Beach didn't work, but that doesn't mean it won't work a second time.

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An update on the rare snowy plover birds in S.F.

After a competition featuring thirty entries, various organizations in support of keeping bonfires on Ocean Beach have selected five winning entries. The contest was held after park authorities were convinced by the Ocean Beach Foundation, Burners Without Borders and the Surfrider Foundation to keep them open and to sweeten the pot, said they'd come up with cool designs in which to build the bonfires. Now, all they need to do is raise $45,000 to pay for the bonfires.

--Left in SF asks progressives to play nice in the Migden-Leno race. Hilariously, Chris Daly refuses, twice.

-California is leaving a lot of children behind. -Hillary doesn't care about ethnic reporters.

It's looking like a plan is afoot (or in this case apaw-- thank you, we'll be here all night) to make Ocean Beach change hands from the Park Service to the City. Because the city does such a good job on everything else that they can totally take over the beach? Nope, it's because a bunch of dog owners are up at arms.

-Officer shoots and kills a man for allegedly trying to rob a pizza place.