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.
SF News Woman's Body Found In Duffel Bag In Golden Gate Park On Sunday evening, as Outside Lands festival-goers were still enjoying themselves a few blocks west, a body was found in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Deal Reached For Extra Weekend of Concerts After Outside Lands 2024, as West Side Supervisors Drop Opposition The extra weekend of shows from the promoter of Outside Lands, starting next year, had faced opposition from the Supervisors Connie Chan and Joel Engardio, but Another Planet Entertainment has hammered out a deal that’s changed both of their minds.
Arts & Entertainment Big Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Descends On Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Burning Man and Ibiza on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream is firing up a daytime house music party all afternoon and into the early evening.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Promoters Hope to Bring Second Weekend of 'Headliner-Driven Events' to Polo Field After Next Year's Fest While Another Planet Entertainment (APE) continues to run up against preservationist headwinds in their effort to take over and transform the Castro Theatre primarily into a music venue, they may separately score a coup with the city for more, likely very lucrative big shows in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment That Rogue Butterfly Statue Has Been Placed In Storage, Arts Commission ‘Evaluating Options’ For Its Future That unauthorized but very well-designed butterfly statue that went up in Golden Gate Park last month could still have a future, though the SF Arts Commission says the statue would not “last long in an outdoor environment.”
Arts & Entertainment Rogue Butterfly Statue Goes Up in Golden Gate Park, But City Hall Swats It Down Someone modified Golden Gate Park’s former Junipero Serra statue into a statue of the extinct Xerces blue butterfly for Earth Day, but the SF Arts Commission got all aflutter and took the statue down.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park’s 'Entwined' Still Up Three Weeks After It Was Supposed To Come Down, But Will Come Down Sunday The dazzling LED forest titled Entwined at Peacock Meadow is still up well past its original March 12 removal date, but it’s coming down after a Sunday night closing party with the Extra Action Marching Band.
SF News Homeless Man Who Died In Golden Gate Park, a Notorious Hater and Attacker of Dogs, Gets ID'd Via DNA A homeless man in his 40s who was found dead in his sleeping bag near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park in 2021 has been positively ID'd through DNA and forensic genealogy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park’s Entwined Sculpture Installation Completely Flooded, Yet Somehow More Dazzling Than Ever The popular LED forest installation 'Entwined' is now engulfed in floodwaters of up to a foot deep, but the resulting lake has created a spectacular mirror-image effect that doubles the amount of visual joy the piece creates.
