Arts & Entertainment Those Pride Weekend Laser Cannons Will Be Back for July 4th Weekend, But They’ll Be Red, White, and Blue SF skies will be bedazzled with colorful lasers for the second weekend in a row, as the Pride Weekend’s big rainbow lasers will return as big red, white, and blue lasers, Wednesday night and through the rest of Independence Day weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride Weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Yep, It'll Be Another Foggy Fourth The forecast is for fog and marine layer to obscure lots of fireworks displays again; there's a major backup in processing passport applications at the State Department; and the former Harvey's in the Castro will become a new nightclub.
Arts & Entertainment The Man Behind SF’s Official Fireworks Show Explains How the Pyro Magic Happens More than two dozen fireworks technicians from a company called Pyro Spectaculars are setting up SF’s July 4 display as you read this, and their boss opens up about how his Rialto-based company will execute nearly 400 fireworks shows nationwide.
SF News Here's Hoping That Illegal Fireworks Don't Light the State On Fire This Weekend Cal Fire has put out its annual warning, but in this particularly drought-parched year, conditions are ripe for wildfires caused by illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend.
SF News This Is What Thursday's Fireworks Looked Like In SF People keep operating under the collective delusion that the Fourth of July is worth celebrating in the normal way in San Francisco, year after year, even though it is *always* too foggy to see fireworks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two San Jose Men Win First And Second Place In Hot Dog Eating Competition, Again San Jose is home to two of the nation's most decorated competitive eaters, and the two went stomach to stomach once again at Coney Island's annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest, with
SF News Hide Your Fireworks, Pyros: $50K Worth Seized From Oakland Home, 1,000 Pounds From Chinatown Store Be careful out there, pyrotechnical enthusiasts. As is a July 4th leadup tradition, the police are on the lookout for illegal fireworks. Of course, you probably haven't hoarded as many explosive materials as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Competitors Take First And Second At Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest [Updated] Updated: San Jose's Joey Chestnut ate 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes, winning Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island for the eighth time. San Jose's Matt Stonie came in second, just
SF News SFPD's Ready To Nab Impaired Drivers This Holiday Weekend What's a Fourth of July without a booze-fueled barbecue? Beer and burgers for the gentlemen, wine coolers and salad for the ladies, right? OK , I'm kidding. But it's true, drinking is part of
SF News BART Strike: Day 4, Limited 4th of July Charter Bus Service [Updated] UPDATE: BART service to resume Friday afternoon. After a ten hours of talks on Wednesday, neither BART nor the unions came to an agreement. And thus the Bart strike enters its fourth day.
SF News Just in Time For 4th Of July, Bottles & Kegs Banned At Fort Mason This is why we can't have nice things kegs. A year after Fourth of July festivities left Fort Mason's Great Meadow littered with empty 12-packs, glass bottles, and all manner of summer holiday
Arts & Entertainment POV: Wide-Angle Camera Mounted on Firework Instead of a barrage of sunburst-firework videos for your viewing pleasure, this year we bring you Jeremiah Warren's clever ode to Independence Day. Strapping a wide-angle camera to bottle rockets (or something explosive
misc Why Are You at Work Today? Wait, you're at work today? On this Independence Day work-week holiday? We feel your pain all too well. If you're not like 85% of the Bay Area -- who have been given the
SF News Fourth of July Gets Even More Dull: Fireworks Sales Defused While only nine cities in the Bay Area allowed to sell "safe and sane" fireworks (i.e., sparklers, fountains, snakes, and flowers [psst, you can totally turn the latter into a mini bottle
