Arts & Entertainment Hollywood To Reenact The White Night Riot (Again) Outside City Hall Tonight Just like they did eight years ago during the Milk shoot, Hollywood has returned to San Francisco to reenact the famous White Night Riot, when an army of very pissed off gay men
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
SF News Today In History, San Francisco Shook And Caught Fire "We are in the ring of fire. The Big One is coming." #1906quake remembrance in #SF #LottasFountain pic.twitter.com/fKeUOm8lgl— Ron Lin, LA Times (@ronlin) April 18, 2016 On April 18, 1906
SF News California Historical Society Selected To Restore Old Mint As New Cultural Center San Francisco has selected the California Historical Society to restore the Old Mint, which dates to 1854 and was rebuilt in a classical revival style in 1874 at the intersection of Fifth and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink When Did We Start Calling It 'Brunch,' And When Did It Become A Thing? Brunch. It's the meal that many of you love to get tanked at after a long weekend of getting tanked, before settling in for a long Sunday's nap. And it's the meal that
SF News 95-Year-Old Lost Tugboat Found Near Farallones A nearly century-old mystery has been solved after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed this week that a shipwreck discovered on the ocean floor seven years ago is in fact the long
Arts & Entertainment A Look At San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade And Its Gold Rush History San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1946. (LIFE) San Francisco has long been host to big St. Patrick's Day celebrations though the parade's gotten a bit smaller in recent years the first of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: SF's Black Cat Bar Comes Back To Life In Shoot For LGBT History Series A photo posted by Dustin Lance Black (@dlanceblack) on Mar 9, 2016 at 8:12pm PST "After three long years of research, interviews and writing, it’s now time to leave home and
SF News How Cow Hollow And Dogpatch Got Their Names, And More Fun Neighborhood Facts Yes, there were once cows in Cow Hollow, and back in 1880 the name for the area between Pacific Heights, the Marina, the Presidio, and Russian Hill would have made a lot more
SF News Shifting Sands At Ocean Beach Reveal Buried Tunnel, Tombstones A photo posted by Beck Diefenbach (@thedief) on Feb 11, 2016 at 10:54am PST Rarely are the sands of time quite so literal as they are at Ocean Beach. There, recent erosion
SF News With New Shine, Old Mint Hosts Pop-Up History Museum San Francisco's Old Mint, est. 1854 for all that filthy Gold Rush lucre, hasn't been shiny and new in quite some time. Not since it closed in 1937 with the advent of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1993 News Report About The Internet Features Lower Haight Cyber Cafe "It's all pretty amazing and confusing, if you're one of those who can't tell a disk drive from a motherboard!" That's the brilliant copy in this segment from ABC's Prime Time Live circa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ruin Your Super Bowl Party With The Chronicle's Perverse 1948 Guacamole Recipe We're at the one-yard line of completely eff-ing up the Super Bowl, becoming the worst and least grateful host city in 50 years, and frankly everybody seems pretty excited about it. With the
SF News One Of The Last Remaining People Born In The 19th Century Just Died In Oakland (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Amazing Trove Of Color Photos Show A Brand New Golden Gate Bridge & Scenes From The 1939 World's Fair These days, we are all photographers. The people of the future, assuming enough of our digital record remains, will have a staggering fecundity of documents of the lives we led, the clothes we
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
Arts & Entertainment Trove Of Historical SF Photos Now Available For Your Browsing Pleasure San Francisco history buffs delighted at the news last year that a local nonprofit had been entrusted with the digitization of a vast trove of historical photos of the city, and that the
Arts & Entertainment 'Seep City' Maps SF's Forgotten Springs And Streams "San Francisco is still a place where you can see water seeping up from the sidewalk or coming out of a hillside, but people don’t even know it’s there,” natural history
Arts & Entertainment Take This Very Old-Timey Video Tour Of The 'Golden Gate City' When Youtube was invented, it wasn't clear that a main use of the tool would be time travel. But that's become an important function, as The Travel Film Archive knows well. Digging through
Arts & Entertainment The Ghost Signs Of San Francisco, Mapped When Kasey Smith would walk to the advertising agency where she used to work, she would pass "no fewer than ten" old painted signs on the sides of buildings. Known as ghost signs,
Arts & Entertainment Reimagining The Golden Gate Bridge: A Brief Visual History The Golden Gate Bridge, completed in 1937 and designed by Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and Charles Elli, was actually reimagined several times. To preserve Fort Point, which was to otherwise be demolished, Ellis
Arts & Entertainment New Exhibit Shows SoMa In The Days Before It Became All Lofts And Startups Last year we heard about photographer Janet Delaney's coffee-table book of 1970s and early 80s photos of SoMa, in the days before the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena and the rest of it
SF News Dutch Scientists' Escape From Alcatraz Simulator Shows How Escapees May Have Survived As dramatized in Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood, three prisoners famously fled the "inescapable" island prison by raft in 1962, never to be seen again. The film draws on evidence of debris
SF News First Ever Sonar Renderings Of 113-Year-Old Shipwreck Under GG Bridge Amid a two-year study of shipwrecks in Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their partners have released three-dimensional sonar maps
Arts & Entertainment Beat Scholars And Historians Rejoice As Lost 18-Page Neal Cassady Letter Is Discovered Intact In Oakland A long-lost letter written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in December 1950, thought to be the inspiration for what would become Kerouac's confessional, stream-of-consciousness writing style, was just discovered stuffed
