Arts & Entertainment Newly Renamed Street ‘Emperor Norton Place’ Gets Proper Dedication, In Wild Ceremony With Doggie Diner Heads The very street where Emperor Norton lived in the late 1800s was recently renamed Emperor Norton Place, and its official dedication Sunday drew the Doggie Diner heads and a slew of local celebrities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emperor Norton Bar Buys Emperor Norton Bond, Which Is Worth $15,000 The proprietor of Emperor Norton’s Boozeland stumbled upon a Norton-signed promissory note that’s worth a fortune, though its 1878 face value is “fifty cents.”
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 80-Year-Old Emperor Norton Plaque Unveiled at the Salesforce Transit Center The Salesforce Transit Center cracks a beam of historical joy by reinstalling the Emperor Norton plaque that used to be at the Transbay Terminal, now fully restored by the de Young Museum.
Arts & Entertainment Emperor Norton Paid Homage With Interactive Map of His Life We will often engage in Emperor Norton obsession around these parts, honoring the memory of the delightfully delusional Gold Rush-era kook who declared himself ‘Emperor’ of the United States and Mexico, printed his
Arts & Entertainment The Story Of Emperor Norton, SF's First Icon and Greatest Eccentric, On The 137th Anniversary Of His Death You’ve perhaps heard during your Bay Area residency the occasional passing reference to an “Emperor Norton”, some foppish, overdressed, Victorian-era kook whose legacy we are apparently supposed to respect. Why? Why is
SF News The 2016 Presidential Race Has Its Own Emperor Norton Have you heard about His Royal Majesty Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emperor of the United States of Turtle Island? Well he's a Malibu resident who's been officially running for President in every
SF News Effort To Rename Bay Bridge After Emperor Norton Revived By Online Petition Although Sacramento's bright idea to name the western span of the Bay Bridge in honor of noted local hat wearer Willie Brown was met with derision locally, the effort did remind us of
misc Today in San Francisco History - Passing of the notorious Countess Lola Montez Timecapsule: January 17, 1861 As was undoubtedly marked on your calendar, San Francisco's patron saint Emperor Norton died last week, January 7, 1880. But his was not the only January passing worthy of
misc Today In San Francisco History: The Emperor's Reign Ends On the reeking pavement, in the darkness of a moonless night under the dripping rain, and surrounded by a hastily gathered crowd of wondering strangers, Norton I, by the grace of God, Emperor
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote
Arts & Entertainment Your Emperor Needs You Three locations contain gifts for you. All are adhered to the inside top of SF Weekly newspaper stands. Each location contains several packages. Take only one and leave the rest for others. They
Arts & Entertainment <i>San Francisco: The Unknown City</i> Reading a guidebook about your own town is always interesting. What did they forget? What did they get wrong? Not to mention what they found that you still haven't. And we have to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jantine B. Jantine B does. Apparently such inborn knowledge leads to a love of radio, roller skates, Emperor Norton, and weed. Maybe also a lifelong fear of falling off this peninsula into the Pacific when
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
