Arts & Entertainment Annie Leibovitz Premieres Free New Show In Presidio On Friday Since its initial 1999 publication, "Women," which photographer Annie Leibovitz began as a collaboration with Susan Sontag, has changed a great deal. So has the very subject. In its latest incarnation, “Women: New
SF News Crissy Field Due For $2.5 Million Facelift This Fall Once a literal waste dump, Crissy Field is now anything but. Still, with 15 years since its last renovation, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has deemed that the one-and-a-half mile spot could
SF News Nancy Pelosi Weighs In On Dogs On Beaches Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, it would seem, has a (figurative) dog in this fight. The San Francisco Representative to Congress has weighed in on the public battle currently being waged between dog owners and
SF News Fort Funston, Ocean Beach To Partially Ban Dogs Under Proposed Rule Change Under a set of new rules proposed yesterday, large swaths of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area are set to become entirely dog-free — this includes not insubstantial sections of popular dog-walking spots Fort
SF News High Line Architect Chosen For Presidio Park Design We now have a winner in the contest to design a park connecting Crissy Field to the Main Post of the Presidio over 13 acres and a pair of tunnels replacing Doyle Drive.
Arts & Entertainment Crissy Field NIMBYs Not Fans Of Fabulous, Large Metal Objects Last week, eight massive steel beam sculptures went up in Crissy Field. The 50-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide pieces represent decades of work for local artist Mark di Suvero and a very visible piece of SFMOMA's
Arts & Entertainment President Obama And The Golden Gate Bridge Got Together For A Landmark Photo Shoot Two of America's most treasured landmarks: a black president and an orange bridge, appeared together for their first photo shoot ever* yesterday. After the brief photo shoot on Crissy Field, President Obama left
SF News Update On Charlie, the 18-Month-Old Dog Who Was Sentenced to Die We told you two weeks ago about Charlie, the American Staffordshire terrier who chased and attacked a U.S. Park Police horse in Crissy Field on August 6, and has since been ordered
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons Not Be At Work On This Gorgeous Day Those of you taking today off on this unusually warm springtime Friday, we salute/loathe you for being in a state of unadulterated bliss. Wait, scratch the "unadulterated" part. You're probably sipping wine
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'I Love SF' by D. Hanousek So, this week I'm writing from Portland, Oregon. I'm in the middle of a two-week offsite and I've been away from San Francisco for eight days. I was lucky enough
SF News Oh Good, Loaded Guns Now Allowed at Crissy Field Starting today, loaded guns will be allowed at all national state parks. "The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Winery Nixed, Probably for Something You Will Never Want to Visit In an effort to drive people away from the Presidio, rendering it completely inaccessible to anything that resembles interesting, the Presidio Trust nixed plans last month for Foggy Bridge Winery. Because neighbors complained
SF News Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.
SF News Ew: 58,000 Gallons of Spilled Fuel Close SF Beaches After yesterday's fog-induced Cosco Busan/Bay Bridge crash -- resulting in 58,000 gallons of fuel and 8,000 gallons of "heavy-duty bunker fuel oil" spilling into the Bay -- Baker Beach, Crissy
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Chicken John gets slapped for raising campaign money via Pay Pal. Assumes he's "the first candidate who's raised funds this way...this is a situation that no candidate has ever been in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Philosophical Bathroom Debate This deep philosophical exchange on a bathroom stall door at Crissy Field appears to be between three or four different people. It was captured by SFist reader Cassie, who was nice enough to
SF News Fire And Mold At The Warming Hut More setbacks for those of you wanting souvenirs or a grilled cheese sandwich by the Golden Gate Bridge -- the Warming Hut's reopening after its devastating January 2007 fire has been delayed. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Happy Fourth of July From last night in Crissy Field. Other viewpoints may be found here
Arts & Entertainment I Want 2 B Your Plover - Dogs vs. Birds in S.F. You've read about tomorrow's big City Hall showdown over the issue of unleashed dogs on Golden Gate National Recreation Area land. Part of this issue has to do with the 2 Western Snowy
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SF News We Got an Earthquake Plan The 100 page plus plan includes details on staging areas using big, wide open spaces such as AT&T Park, Candlestick Park, Pier 48 and Crissy Field. Also listed are possible shelter
misc (Clean) Up the Beach Anyone who wants to go, just show up at Crissy Field (603 Mason and Halleck Street in the Presidio) by 9 and they will assign your task and place to do such task.
SF News I'm Your Turbine Lover What was announced was the usual first steps in any sort of big thing-- doing a study and forming a committee. So Leal announced that money is being set aside for a study
