SF News SFPD Shoots Outer Sunset Man Who Fired Gun And Aimed At Officers, Police Drone An Outer Sunset man wielding a gun and threatening neighbors near Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon was shot by police after he reportedly fired at least one shot and aimed the gun at an SFPD drone and then later police officers.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out: LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Sadly Not Returning to Golden Gate Park for the Holidays This Year An LED letdown for fans of dazzling holiday lights, as the popular LED forest installation “Entwined” will not be returning to Golden Gate Park for the holiday season in 2024, though there’s still a big Holiday Tree Lighting in the park Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment R&B Star Thundercat Will Headline Just-Announced Free Concert In Golden Gate Park This October The latest in a glut of free San Francisco outdoor concerts will feature R&B bass wizard Thundercat and soul artist Lee Fields in an outdoor concert at Robin Williams Meadow on Sunday, October 20.
Arts & Entertainment The Most Unwelcome Guests at This Year's Outside Lands: Wasps Golden Gate Park was, atypically for August, teeming with yellowjackets this past weekend, prompting some Outside Lands festival-goers to wonder if the foot traffic had disturbed their nests, or something.
SF News Person Found Dead In Golden Gate Park During Outside Lands (Again) For the second year in a row, a dead body was discovered in Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands weekend, and again the death does not appear to have any connection to the festival.
Arts & Entertainment Flower Piano Announces 2024 Dates and Lineup, Now Twice as Many Days Long as Last Year The very charming outdoor piano jam Flower Piano will be back in Golden Gate Park in mid-September, with twice as many dates as last year, and bringing back many key musical figures like Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the SF Symphony.
SF News [Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
Arts & Entertainment Big Outdoor House Music Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Returns to Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Ibiza and Burning Man on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream brings back its outdoor, daytime house music party with DJ Lee Burridge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink JFK Promenade’s Summer Pop-Up Beer and Wine Garden Returns, Now With Cocktails and Called ‘The Whale’s Tail’ This weekend kicks off the third year in a row for the Beer and Wine Garden in Golden Gate Park, but this year they’re serving cocktails too, and renaming it “The Whale’s Tail.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Popular LED Forest ‘Entwined: Elder Mother’ Has Closing Party Saturday The wife of the doctor who drove his family off a San Mateo cliff is asking the court for leniency; a big new UC Berkeley student housing complex will be given an Ohlone name; and Golden Gate Park’s beloved annual LED forest Entwined has its closing party Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Roller Skating Area Will Start Renting Out Skates This Weekend You no longer need to own roller skates to go roller skating at Golden Gate Park’s Skatin’ Place, because starting Saturday, roller skates and inline skates will be available for rental at the celebrated outdoor rink.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Hippie Hill 4/20 Draws Thousands of Pot Smokers, Despite Being Officially ‘Canceled’ Several thousand marijuana enthusiasts still showed up for a supposedly “canceled” 4/20 at Hippie Hill, and we’ve got pictures and video of Saturday’s weed-smoking shenanigans at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Heavy Metal Concert Set for Weekend After Outside Lands Sells Out In 90 Minutes It looks like Another Planet Entertainment knew what they were doing with the alt-metal programming for the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Concert In Golden Gate Park After Outside Lands Will Feature Alt-Metal Bands System of a Down and Deftones There will just be one extra day of music this year on the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, and the metal-heavy lineup was just announced.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 on Hippie Hill Gets Canceled By Organizers, For 2024 At Least The organizers of the official Hippie Hill 4/20 event have canceled this year’s smoke-filled festivities over budget cuts and lack of sponsorship. But considering 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, mobs of stoners are probably going to show up anyway.
SF News Pedestrian Injured After Being Struck by Car While Waiting for Bus in San Francisco's Richmond District A week after a family of four was tragically killed in a car crash at an SF bus station, another vehicle hit a pedestrian at a stop near Golden Gate Park, prompting calls for better speeding laws.
SF News It’s Official: Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake Will Be Renamed Blue Heron Lake After a seven-month debate over what to rename Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, the SF Rec and Parks Commission on Thursday bestowed the new name Blue Heron Lake.
SF News Big Eucalyptus Tree Comes Crashing Down On Cars In Golden Gate Park You've heard about the Bay Area's problem with big eucalyptus trees that smell nice but are nearing the end of their lives and have a habit of falling over? Well, one did just that on Crossover Drive in Golden Gate Park, causing a major traffic backup on 19th Avenue.
SF News New Names Being Floated for the Renaming of Stow Lake A years-long campaign to change the name of Stow Lake, named for a man with an ugly legacy of antisemitism, has resulted in a short list of ten suggested new names for the 130-year-old man-made lake.
SF News Two Arrests Made In Case of Body Found In Duffel Bag Near Outside Lands Two people have been arrested in connection with the bizarre discovery of a human body inside a duffel bag outside the perimeter of this year’s Outside Lands festival, but the pair are so far only charged with unlawful disposal of the body, and the cause of the victim’s death is still undetermined.
Arts & Entertainment LED Forest Installation 'Entwined' Returns to Golden Gate Park December 7th — With a Big New Twist The four-year-old instant-classic LED art installation 'Entwined' will return next month for its longest run yet in Golden Gate Park, but at a different location and with a massive new addition. We've got behind-the-scenes photos of the colorful magic that’s in the works.
SF Politics Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Ultra-Charming Piano Festival, Flower Piano, Returns to Golden Gate Park Starting Friday The annual parade of 12 pianos is descending back to Golden Gate Park’s SF Botanical Garden, as Flower Piano strikes a major chord with all-day outdoor piano concerts from Friday through Tuesday, and even the robot muppet is performing this year.
SF News Woman Found Dead In Golden Gate Park Suffered Mental Illness, Lived On SF Streets, Mother Says The woman whose body was found in a duffel bag Sunday in Golden Gate Park has been identified, and signs point to her likely not having been at Outside Lands.
