Bay Area Sports Charles Barkley Donates $250K to Glide After Years of Dissing SF Whether he's just a good Samaritan after all or his PR team decided he needed to make amends, NBA commentator Charles Barkley ponied up $250,000 to help the poor and homeless in San Francisco while he was here for All-Star Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Joan Baez Makes Surprise, Unscheduled Appearance at Glide Holiday Jam, Belts Out John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Wednesday night’s Glide Annual Holiday Jam featured a surprise appearance by folk legend Joan Baez at the fundraiser for Glide’s holiday meals and service programs, and she stunned with a three-song set that featured John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Visits Glide Nancy Pelosi made an appearance at Glide Memorial Church's Sunday service; Oakland Unified announced the mergers of 10 schools; and there was a Dev Patel lookalike contest in Dolores Park.
SF News Rev. Cecil Williams, Evangelist of Equality and Dignity for All and Founder of GLIDE, Dies at Age 94 Reverend Cecil Williams, who until today had been a living testament to the modern era of San Francisco and its reputation for accepting all varieties of the human condition, has died at age 94.
SF News Glide Primes Up to Serve House of Prime Rib Christmas Eve Feast, and Give Out More Than 2,000 Toys You still have a little time to donate to Glide’s Toy Wonderland toy drive that will provide 2,000 toys to SF kids in need, and of course the gigantic House of Prime Rib Christmas Eve brunch is slated to serve 3,000 pounds of prime rib on Sunday.
Business & Tech Exclusive: Warren Buffett’s $53 Million Glide ‘Power of One’ Lunch Auction Taken On By Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff The annual Glide auction for lunch with Warren Buffett will now be an auction for lunch with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, as Benioff is taking over the annual charity auction that has fed San Francisco’s neediest residents to the tune of $53 million.
SF News GLIDE’s ‘Lunch With Warren Buffett’ Auction Fetches Record $19 Million The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs.
SF News Warren Buffett Auctioning Off Lunch With Him in Benefit for Glide, One Last Time 2022 will offer your final opportunity to pay millions of dollars for a steakhouse luncheon with Warren Buffett, as the billionaire investor says he’s doing this Glide fundraiser for the final time.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Glide Severs Ties With Methodists Glide Memorial Church is no longer part of the Methodist Church after 100 years, SF is likely giving a tax break to the cannabis industry, and some Bayview chefs were featured in a Bud Light ad during the 49ers game.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man Reportedly Barricaded In Glide Memorial Church After Police Shoot At Him An SFPD officer reportedly shot at a suspect wielding a knife on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Tuesday morning, and the suspect remained barricaded in a building — apparently Glide Memorial Church — as of Tuesday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Virtual Easter Sunday Service at Glide Memorial Church This Weekend For those who have attended an Easter service at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco and were feeling sad they couldn't go this year, and for those who have always been curious but never really wanted to sit in a real church, you can take in this Sunday's service from the comfort of your home.
SF News SFPD to Host LGBTQ 'Listening Session' Tonight at GLIDE on the 53rd Anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot The SFPD will join Glide in hosting a "Reflection and Reconciliation Session" tonight. The first in a series of communal forums, these two-plus-hour conversations will offer the city’s police force the chance to hear from the LGBTQ+ folk they serve.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stanley Roberts Again Calls Out Asian Ladies Who Take Food From Glide Giveaways And Sell It Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco is a uniquely generous and inclusive institution that has hosted food giveaways for the needy for many years now. In addition to their daily free meal program
SF News Police Investigating Stabbings On Maiden Lane, On Haight Street, And At Glide Memorial Church A wave of knife crimes has hit San Francisco, including one stabbing on a tony block known for its luxury retailers, another at a tourist hot-spot, and a third at a church known
SF News Video: Maya Angelou Memorialized In Public Service In San Francisco In her will, Dr. Maya Angelou had requested that her public memorial service be held at a church, and in a city, that she loved: Glide Memorial in San Francisco. The service happened
SF News Groceries From Glide Memorial Church Holiday Give-Away End Up In The Trash Every year Glide Memorial Church gives away over 5,000 bags of groceries to the needy in San Francisco, feeding literally thousands of people who would otherwise go hungry during the holidays. Unfortunately,
Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
Arts & Entertainment Bono Makes Appearance At Glide Bono also spoke on the Pope, but graciously called Reverend Williams "The Pope of San Francisco." "Whenever this rock star is in the Bay Area, I have to visit Glide." About John Paul,
