Arts & Entertainment 'Please Touch Garden' Launch Party TONIGHT! After much awaited suspense and buzz, the Please Touch Garden in Civic Center is finally opening up to the public. And better still, the launch party is tonight at Swig! There will be
SF News At Least 40 Arrested During Monday Night's BART Flash Mob During Monday night's (now regularly occurring) protest/party at the BART Civic Center station, at least 40 people were pinched by the fuzz during the melee. What initially started out as a rally
SF News Police Close BART Stations Due to Protests Police closed Civic Center BART station due to protests. According to SF Appeal, "All the protesters have left the BART platform, which remains closed. Roberts says BART police confirmed that no arrests were
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "I Want to Be a Dancer, Pt. IV' by Erik Wilson, shot at Civic Center Sunday Streets.
SF News Woman Clings to Life After Falling from Civic Center BART Wall A 51-year-old woman sits in the hospital "battling life-threatening injuries" after plummeting from a 15 - 20 feet wall surrounding the Civic Center BART station. The incident happened on Thursday a little before
SF News McAllister Goes Both Ways This Week Citing "quicker bus service" as the main reason, a portion of McAllister Street between Hyde and Market will go into two-way traffic mode "after previously only allowing westbound traffic." The change will go
SF News Good Samaritans Stabbed Coming to Woman's Aid Two good Samaritans were stabbed a little before 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the city's Mid-Market area after coming to the defense of a woman. "The suspect, a man in his 50s,
Arts & Entertainment Women's World Cup Finals Jumbotron Screening Happening at Civic Center Right Now For those in the Civic Center area, stop through the Plaza and take a gander at the Women's World Cup final game -- USA versus Japan -- on the big jumbotron screen, happening
SF News Monday: Rally Planned for BART Civic Center Shooting A group called No Justice, No Bart will hold a rally to protest Sunday's officer-involved shooting of Charles Hill, 45, a man with no fixed address. If you recall, two BART cops responded
SF News S.F. Cabbies Protest Credit Card Fees Yesterday afternoon at City Hall, hundreds of cab drivers staged a protest and threatened to strike if the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency didn't give them face time to discuss critical issues. KTVU
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Civic Center Farmers Market Bans Live Chicken Sales The Farmers Market at Civic Center, the only San Francisco outdoor market to sell live chickens, voluntarily decided to ban the sale of all live poultry come May 27. Why? Due to pressure
SF News That Bomb Scare Yesterday? It Was All About Some Crazy Dude's Backpack We know you can never be too careful in these crazy times we live in, but the enormity of the reaction yesterday to an abandoned backpack near Civic Center -- that apparently no
SF News Civic Center Area Reopens After Bomb Scare After this morning's bomb scare, the Civic Center has reopened. Because it's been blown to oblivion. Ha! No, not really. The suspicious package was detonated by the SFPD bomb squad. But wouldn't that
SF News Britney Watch: Spears Performs While we wait for Britney to take the stage, local drag queens take the stage, with Heklina in the center, so that makes her the alpha-female, to ask the audience trivia questions about
SF News Britney Watch: Queue Outside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium People are already lined up outside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to catch Britney Spears' free mini-concert for Good Morning America. Although she was supposed to perform in the Castro, Spears changed locations due
SF News Kiss "Three Heads, Six Arms" Goodbye, Leaves Tomorrow In the words of Boys II Men (perhaps it was your graduating class song?), "It's so hard to say goodbye," but the time has come. You were warned about this day back in
Arts & Entertainment Three Heads, Six Arms and Headed Back to China Start saying your goodbyes to the awesome (or awesomely ugly, if you prefer) "Three Heads, Six Arms" statue at Civic Center plaza, because the behemoth work by Zhang Huan will be packing up
Arts & Entertainment Head Over to the Weekly Arts Market SF Today Through October Last Thursday, the Independent Arts & Media launched the San Francisco Arts Market, an open-air marketplace for local artists and businesses to sell their hand-crafted wares, including ceramics, clothing, jewelry, literature, music, paintings,
SF News Police Ruckus Raised at S.F. Gay Pride It looks like things got a bit out of hand during an attempted arrest at Sunday's S.F. Gay Pride festivities. Shot by fckjulien1000 near the Orpheum Theater, the title of this video
SF News S.F. Civic Center Pride Party 2010 Photos The party at Civic Center following the 2010 San Francisco Pride Parade was packed. And hot. And breer-soaked loads of fun. Everyone from little babies rolling in the grass to elderly men displaying
SF News USA World Cup Reaction at Civic Center San Francisco was gripped with early morning World Cup fever after team USA won their sporting match. USA was tied with Algeria for most of the game, but then they managed to get
SF News Kid Cutout Installation Raises Child Abuse Awareness On Wednesday, SFist wondered about this installation at Civic Center. Turns out is an exhibit called "Keeping Our Promise," a kid-cutout visual representation of the "433 abused or neglected San Francisco children who
misc What's Going On Here, Civic Center? Some sort of Children of the Corn-ish installation, perhaps?
SF News Massive School Walkouts & Rallies Planned for Thursday Billed as a Day of Statewide Action for Public Education, public education students, workers and supporters from Pre-K through PhD are expected to protest the glaring lack of funding aimed at California public
