SF News Sarah Jane Moore, the Unassuming Radical Who Took a Shot at the President In SF, Dies at 95 Sarah Jane Moore, one of two would-be assassins who took aim at President Gerald Ford in the span of three weeks in the summer of 1975, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 95.
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 Video: All About The Rad Video Art Scene In SF In The 1970s KQED and SFMOMA on the Go have just made this great documentary short about pioneering video artists in San Francisco in the 1970s people like Skip Sweeney, who started making abstract "feedback" videos;
Arts & Entertainment This Photo Of 1970s BART Workers Is Very, Very Groovy Those turtlenecks! That scarf! That 'fro! Those poses! This vintage photo from the 1970s shows four female BART employees standing in front of a set of turnstiles, capturing a decidedly different era in
Arts & Entertainment Look Back At 1970s-Era Northpoint With Apartment Life Magazine Jen Carlson of Gothamist recently came across a slew of old Apartment Life magazines online—the publication later turned into Metropolitan Home, part of Hachette Filipacchi Media, but folded in 2010. In one
SF News SFist Remembers: 1970s Serial Killer 'The Doodler' What with Joseph Naso so close to the Bay Area zeitgeist right now, SFist thought we'd look back at one a serial killer from back in the day, one who police failed to