SF News Several Artificial Turf Foes Stage Sit-In As Construction Continues On Beach Chalet Soccer Fields Yesterday we told you about the construction that began on the new turf soccer fields adjacent to the Beach Chalet in Golden Gate Park, not 12 hours after preliminary election results came in
SF News San Francisco Mourns Passing Of The Last Member Of Golden Gate Park's 'Old' Bison Herd Last Cow, the grande dame of Golden Gate Park's internationally-famous herd of bison, passed on Monday. She was 22. American bison were first brought to Golden Gate Park in February, 1891 by the
Arts & Entertainment Elderly NIMBY And Her Cats Enraged By Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Angry old people can be so funny sometimes. Please enjoy this letter from an enraged older woman, writing on behalf of herself, her husband, her three cats, and her "85-year old neighbor JF
SF News Wacky Coincidences: Muni Has Two Wrecks At The Same Time, Just Like It Did Two Months Ago Do wrecks involving Muni vehicles come in twos? Of course, not, don't be silly. But that doesn't mean that we can't marvel at the coincidence of two big Muni collisions that took place
Arts & Entertainment The 1967 'Human Be-In' Vs. What Golden Gate Park Hippiedom Looks Like Now “Peace in San Francisco” arguably started with a conch shell blast and Hare Krishna chanting at the "Human Be-In" on the Polo Grounds of Golden Gate Park. In this rare footage of the
SF News Dead Body Discovered In Golden Gate Park Lake Details are still scarce after reports that the body of a deceased person was discovered in a lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park today. Recreation and Park Department spokesperson Sarah Ballard confirmed
SF News De Young Museum's 'Neptune's Daughter' Statue Loses, Regains An Arm "Neptune's Daughter," a bronze sculpture that stood prominently in the Garden of Enchantment to the right of the de Young Museum until 2011, was vandalized that year and quietly removed from the garden
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
Arts & Entertainment Don't Freeze Your A** Off At Outside Lands: Here's What To Wear Look, I'm not Anna Wintour, and your style decisions for Outside Lands (this Friday-Sunday in Golden Gate Park, if you live under a non-Golden Gate Park rock) are your own. Lord knows, I
SF News How Much Of A Threat Are San Francisco's Coyotes? Is San Francisco's coyote population growing? While no city agency officially tracks their numbers, this spring the Chron's nature writer Tom Stienstra said that he estimates that as many as 100 coyotes are
SF News Man Shot Near Golden Gate Park Wednesday Night Last night around 6:45 p.m., police responding to calls around Stanyan and Haight Streets arrived on the scene to find an male victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was
SF News New Video Shows Arrest Of Balls-Out, Bison-Taunting Bay To Breakers Runner After yesterday's incident in the Golden Gate Park Bison Paddock during Bay to Breakers, reader Jake M. sends in a brief, but amusing, video of the suspect who hopped the fence and tried
SF News Bay To Breakers 2014: Naked Man Reportedly Hops Fence, Taunts Bison In Golden Gate Park [Updated] Sunday afternoon, during the denouement of the annual Bay to Breakers festivities, a naked man reportedly jumped the fence at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park and proceeded to taunt the bison
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Report: Patrolling Hippie Hill With Stanley Roberts "There are no bad people," Stanley Roberts says casually as we navigate between blankets in Golden Gate Park, "just people behaving badly." It's Sunday, April 20th: marijuana's unofficial high holy day and I'm
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Hunky Jesus Pageant Moved To Golden Gate Park As a public service announcement, SFist would like to remind you, the semi-blasphemous drag fan, that recent construction in Dolores Park has moved this year's Hunky Jesus pageant to a temporary home in
SF News San Francisco To Crack Down On 4/20 Tomfoolery [Update] Recreational pot smokers, they're the worst. When they're not rambling on about absolutely nothing, they're rambling on about absolutely nothing. (Land the plane, stoners!) Further, they've taken an aggressive turn as of late
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West, Macklemore To Headline Outside Lands 2014 San Francisco's marquee summer music festival returns this summer for the weekend of August 8-10th. Topping the bill for this year's edition are: Kanye West, Tom Petty, The Killers, Macklemore, Atmosphere, Chromeo, and
SF News Children Find Loaded Handgun Near Golden Gate Park Birthday Party A group of kids playing in the bushes during a birthday party in Golden Gate Park stumbled upon a a loaded handgun yesterday afternoon near the Conservatory of Flowers. According to a witness,
Arts & Entertainment MC Hammer, Natalie Maines To Play Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2013 Although, contrary to our bubbliest dreams, @taylorswift13 won't grace the stage, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival announced a choice lineup for 2013. And what a roster it is, riddled with such aural entertainment
SF News Grass Fires Breaks Out In Golden Gate Park, Bernal Hill Tuesday Evening Just after 7 p.m. last night a small grass fire broke out in Golden Gate Park behind the Conservatory of Flowers and quickly spread to some surrounding vegetation near the street at
SF News Male Suspects Sought In Golden Gate Park Stabbing Police are looking for two men connected to a stabbing in Golden Gate Park early this morning. At around 2:30 a.m., a couple was stabbed at Alvord Lake near the entrance
SF News Supervisor Wants City Parks To Have Regular Closing Hours During today's Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Scott Wiener will propose setting regular hours for the city's 220 parks from 5 a.m. to midnight. According to the SFGate, "He says that every
SF News Arboreal Assault Suspect Apprehended In Golden Gate Park A 65-year-old vandal/senior citizen was arrested Wednesday morning in Golden Gate Park in connection with a string of attacks on defenseless local park trees. Suspect Ken Frisch was cited for malicious destruction
SF News Reminder: It's Coyote Breeding Season And They Will Not Hesitate To Eat Your Dog In the summer months, the wild coyotes that roam the woodsy areas in Golden Gate Park can get particularly ornery while keeping watch over their recently born pups. Those little guys, while adorable,
