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Field Notes: Bean Meeting, Magnolias in Bloom, and Christopher Burch’s Cosmic Paintings

This week: peak magnolia season, a library in the woods, fashion-forward utility wear, and the ethereal art of Christopher Burch. Also, local designers partner up with the NFL, the artist behind the Super Bowl 60 art, the return of Falafelland, and commemorating beans.

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Field Notes: Levi’s Vault Exhibit, Coastal Tide Pools, and an Historic Haight-Ashbury Home

This week: attracting monarch butterflies, exploring local tide pools, beautifying an Ocean Beach bathroom, and illuminating the park. Plus, ‘Oakland is Proud 2’ mural, long lost love letters, a Haight-Ashbury storytelling series, and Levi’s fashion through the ages.

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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.

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New ‘Winter Lights’ Installation Proposed for Golden Gate Park, But Some Balk at the $40 Admission Fee

Golden Gate Park’s famed gardens may be getting a new light-up show starting in November 2024, but the $28-$40 entrance fee has already garnered criticism, and there may be some opposition from wildlife advocates.

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SF’s Ultra-Charming Piano Festival, Flower Piano, Returns to Golden Gate Park Starting Friday

The annual parade of 12 pianos is descending back to Golden Gate Park’s SF Botanical Garden, as Flower Piano strikes a major chord with all-day outdoor piano concerts from Friday through Tuesday, and even the robot muppet is performing this year.

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Your Guide to Flower Piano 2022, Happening This Weekend In Golden Gate Park

The pianos descend on the SF Botanical Garden for five days beginning Friday, and here’s what to see, do, and bring so you can do Flower Piano like a maestro.

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12 Outdoor Pianos Return To Botanical Garden This Week

In 2013, Mauro ffortissimo began wheeling a piano, as covertly as one can, onto the bluffs near his Half Moon Bay home to play the same Schumann Arabesque at sunset each night. Those

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Rare Desert Plant Blooms For First Time In 50 Years In East Bay Botanical Garden

A rare giant nolina, a desert plant native to California's eastern Mojave Desert, has just bloomed for the first time since it was planted in Berkeley's Tilden Park, at

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Hummers!

No, not that kind. No, not that kind either. We're talking about the Allen's and Anna's hummingbirds found in the Bay Area. Some are here all year