SF News Facebook Group Calls For Removal Of San Francisco Statue Depicting Prone Native American Prompted by the recent protests and demonstrations in the southern part of the United States calling for the removal of statues honoring Confederate leaders, a Facebook group is now demanding the removal of
Arts & Entertainment Hear Bob Dylan Live In San Francisco In Previously Unreleased Allen Ginsberg Recording From 1965 A bit of previously unreleased tape has just surfaced, seemingly from an archive of Allen Ginsberg recordings, that features Ginsberg and Bob Dylan talking backstage on December 11, 1965 in San Francisco, and
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Trove Of Found Photos Shows Us San Francisco In The 1950s This week Mission Mission turned us on to this Tumblr called Found Photos which includes a bunch of vintage scenes of San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s. The photographers are unknown, and
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Remembering the Rope Swing At Mountain Lake If you were a daring kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s or 80s, you may remember going out to Mountain Lake Park at the edge of the Presidio where there
Arts & Entertainment Nazi-Looted Painting May Return to California Family, Per Court Ruling In 1962, just four years after Lilly Cassirer received a settlement of $13,000 from the German government for a painting looted by the Nazis, she died. Cassirer, who was Jewish, fled Germany
Arts & Entertainment Japanese Blogger Handily Debunks Purported Photo Of Amelia Earhart A military history blogger in Japan has, with very little effort, debunked a widely publicized theory that was at the center of a documentary that aired Sunday on the History channel, claiming that
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
SF News Newly Discovered Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Plane Crash In Marshall Islands A recently discovered photograph, found in the National Archives among previously top-secret documents, may be a major new piece in the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to pioneering airwoman Amelia Earhart. The story
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Do You Miss The Most? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: If You Could Go Back In Time... Dear Rain, If you could go back in time to a San Francisco era you didn't live through, when would that be? Signed, Marty McFly Dear Marty, This one is easy. Whenever I
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Long Strange Trip,' The Four-Hour Grateful Dead Documentary Produced By Martin Scorsese Not many musical acts in human history attracted the cult following and counter-cultural status of The Grateful Dead, a band that, as the AV Club puts it, "at its height, was simultaneously a
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History Of How 4:20 Became 4/20, Right Here In The Bay Area On this, our unofficial national holiday for weed, a St. Patrick's Day for stoners, if you will, I once again bring you the correct history of the term "420" and how April 20th
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Turkey Day, Playland, And Winterland Dear Rain, Do you still go to Turkey Day? Or remember going to Playland at the Beach and the Winterland? Signed, DK Dear DK, Turkey Day! Playland! Winterland! Two things that are probably
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Summer Of Love?: An Explainer As 50th Anniversary Celebrations Ramp Up When people talk about "the 60s" in San Francisco, they're talking about a period from January 1967 to December 1969 just three short years that would nonetheless forever reshape the population of the
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Most Infamous San Francisco Murders Of The 20th Century Though San Francisco has a long way to go before becoming a crime-free utopia, the city's 21st-century murder rate is pretty low compared to the homicide numbers we saw in the years beginning
Arts & Entertainment Longtime SF DJ Builds Online Archive Of '80s And '90s Club Mixes From Long-Gone Nightclubs "Somebody just came and dropped off this whole bag of cassettes," Jim Hopkins says, showing me a plastic grocery bag full of hand-labeled tapes sitting in the corner of the DJ booth at
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Auction Next Week To Feature Rare Images Of San Francisco After 1906 Earthquake A collection of rare photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire in addition to several from before the earthquake are going up for auction on February 14 at Swann
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe du Nord And Elixir Were Both Speakeasies, And More Fun Facts From Prohibition-Era San Francisco History nerds and party people alike dream about being able to time-travel to the 1920s, when a national crackdown on booze became a boon for nightlife people always have a lot more fun
SF News 70 Years Ago This Week The Mayor Tried To Kill Off San Francisco's Cable Cars The will of San Franciscans to hold on to things we love, and fight change when it doesn't feel right, is a source of terrific frustration to real estate developers and others in
SF News Video: Archeologist Excavates Keel, Artifacts From Gold Rush-Era Ship At SF Development Site The Arkansas Re-discovery from Grosvenor Americas on Vimeo. As local history buffs know and will never tire of telling you, much of San Francisco's Financial District is built on landfill — the Bay waters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief History Of The California Hofbrau, A Bay Area Dining Tradition News over the past week about the potential relocation, or refurbishing (or total demise) of historic Union Square hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's has perhaps had some of you wondering what is up with this
Arts & Entertainment Step Inside The Curran, The Newly Renovated 95-Year-Old Theater Reopening This Month After two years of renovation and restoration, The Curran theater on Geary Street comes back to life this month with an inaugural production of the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. This will be
SF News Remembering California's Great Flood Of 1862 Though Northern California saw some intense rain over the last couple of weeks, bringing rainfall totals for the month of January well above average for many cities and towns, these numbers are still
Arts & Entertainment Video: Vintage Footage Shows Alcatraz When It Was Still A Prison YouTuber Meghann Cuniff has done a digital transfer of some amateur Super 8 film footage from 1950 showing a trip to San Francisco, including a ride over the Bay Bridge, views of Nob
