Arts & Entertainment The Dreamer Deferred Pedaling through Golden Gate Park the other day, we noticed the conspicuous absence of the giant purple half-head that has graced a lawn near the de Young for a few months. We had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Who Killed the Panhandle Bandshell? Well, as expected, the beautiful and beloved bandshell in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Panhandle has been scheduled for destruction this weekend. Anybody hoping for a dramatic Vegas-style implosion ala the Geneva Towers
Arts & Entertainment Chris Black's Dance Project: <em>Pastime</em> Local, Izzie Award-winning choreographer Chris Black takes nine dancers and breaks down the game of baseball into nine different parts, with strong footwork representing varied aspects of the game: sliding into home, making
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Brazilian Independence Day Celebration: Help celebrate Brazil's independence from Portugal by getting drunk, listening to master drummer Jorge Alabe, maybe doing a forbidden dance or two, and much more. The festivities start
Arts & Entertainment A Civil War Bridges the Two Americas. Inequality might be rising, but who’s to complain? There’s opera for everybody. Actually, aside from tonight’s opening gala, there are affordable tickets for all performances (and if history is our
SF News Today's Afternoon SF Murder Post We're starting to run out of ways to introduce these stories about the murder count in SF, so we're going with a clip of "Miss Murder" by AFI, above. So here's the latest:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Something Hippy This Way Comes Please cheer up and see how groovy things looked today, after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A Dahlia says, "Good Morning, Sunshine" This post is just for decoration - that's it and that's all. After the jump, a riot of color, fire trucks, Ferraris and busy bees. Click on over!
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
SF News Homeless Kerfuffle, One Month In We were on the 7 a few days ago and four gutterpunk types were complaining about how the city had taken their stuff from camps in Golden Gate Park. One of them, a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The al fresco SF Mayoral race debate, featuring full frontal. Gosh. What madcap wackiness will they unload on us next? [SFBG] -- "Not guilty," says Ed Jew. [Examiner] -- CW Nevius on
SF News Homeless Kerfuffle, Day Ten: Syringes, Syringes, Everywhere The Chron article explores two possible remedies: syringes with retractable needles (which cost much more than normal syringes), and 24 hour biohazard drop boxes. It turns out that the San Francisco AIDS foundation,
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Jackson West interviews Matt Stroud, SF Weekly's former web editor, just before he leaves SF. [Future Fresser] -- Oakland Post's editor, Chauncey Bailey, shot and killed in downtown Oakland. [Chron, Examiner, Oakland
SF News Homeless People Swept Up At Golden Gate Park The city provided a continental breakfast of "coffee, bagels, orange wedges, and blueberries" (delicious!) as well as temporary encampment tents for those that they evicted from Golden Gate Park at 4:30 a.
SF News Home, Home on the Range \C.W. Nevius continues his Homeless Encampment 2007 Tour with a visit to Corona Heights. His verdict? Not so good. He found twenty possible separate campsites as well as broken bottles and needles.
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Berkeley Kite Festival flies up to the highest height. [Oakland Tribune] -- Another deadly weekend in the Bay Area. [Chron, Oakland Tribune] -- Giants lose; Bonds' bat breaks. [Chron] -- Eviction notices
SF News Day Around the Bay \ -- Poll: Should MUNI's 15-Third line rise from the dead? (Hint: Yes) [Examiner] -- San Francisco sheriff deputies accuse Sheriff Michael Hennessey of gender discrimination. [BAR] -- Father won't be charged with the
SF News Dirty Golden Gate Park Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's come out swinging at the lackadaisical response from Mayor Gavin Newsom on the state of Golden Gate Park, after public outcry that the city was more concerned about two dogs
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: Recent coyote "execution" still reverberates [Update: Coyotes run with their tails down, as shown. This is a fox, while this is a coyote. (Links fixed.) One is small, the other is big. In GGP, one has a white-tipped
