Arts & Entertainment Those Pride Weekend Laser Cannons Will Be Back for July 4th Weekend, But They’ll Be Red, White, and Blue SF skies will be bedazzled with colorful lasers for the second weekend in a row, as the Pride Weekend’s big rainbow lasers will return as big red, white, and blue lasers, Wednesday night and through the rest of Independence Day weekend.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
SF News Self-Driving Car Was The Grand Marshal Of Concord's July 4 Parade The robots are indeed already taking our jobs, at least the job of Independence Day Parade grand marshal in the East Bay community of Concord. ABC 7 reports that an autonomous car was
SF News East Bay Bust Nabs Nearly 400 Pounds of Illegal Fireworks Mission District residents (and terrified dogs) are well aware that the nightly boom of illegal fireworks is already underway as we sit within a week of July 4th. SFist reminds you that all
Arts & Entertainment Cool Photo Of Last Night's Fireworks Above S.F. Photog zoxcleb snapped this shot of fireworks blooming over various parts of San Francisco on Independence Day (altered slightly here, but be sure to view it in its entirety). Check out more images
Arts & Entertainment Videos: Bay Area's (Legal & Illegal) 4th of July Fireworks The Bay Area celebrated Independence Day with a bevy of spectacular firework shows -- some of them legal, some of them on the sly. Here are a few of our favorites from 2013.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area's Independence Day Fireworks Finale While nowhere near close to matching the accidentally brilliance that went down in San Diego, here is the finale from last night's Independence Day fireworks spectacular. Enjoy. Via SandD2012/YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pre-Independence Day Edition It's Fourth of July Eve-Eve, and like everyone else we're sure you're blue that this year's celebration of the red, white, and blue is on a Wednesday. Wah wah. Anyway, let's begin the
Arts & Entertainment Happy, Happy, Happy Independence Day! "Happy Birthday, America. Here's a prescription for what ails you," another gem by Julie Michelle.
misc Why Are You at Work Today? Wait, you're at work today? On this Independence Day work-week holiday? We feel your pain all too well. If you're not like 85% of the Bay Area -- who have been given the
SF News Gunshots or Fireworks? What with Fourth of July just around the corner, police departments all around the Bay Area tend to get flooded with calls mistaking gunfire for fireworks. How can you tell the difference? Well,
SF News Fourth of July Gets Even More Dull: Fireworks Sales Defused While only nine cities in the Bay Area allowed to sell "safe and sane" fireworks (i.e., sparklers, fountains, snakes, and flowers [psst, you can totally turn the latter into a mini bottle
SF News Mt. Davidson Plaque Stolen Whether this is a hate crime or simply a theft, we are flabbergasted that this story has barely made the news. The valuable bronze plaque commemorating the Armenian Genocide that occurred in the
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 SFist Tonight The Asian Art Museum's monthly throwdown, Matcha, kicks off around 6pm with DJs, tours, workshops and cocktails. The Live Action Cartoonists, a performance troupe that combines comics and theatre, will perform highlights from
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Movietime with Debra Saunders This might get us in a bit of trouble, but we actually like the Chron's token conservative columnist Debra Saunders. Yes, we don't usually agree with her, but we like the fact that
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Bring-a-Blanket Edition San Francisco Mime Troupe's at Dolores Park What better way to show your patriotism than with an afternoon with the SF Mime Troupe, which has been skewering the US government for over 40
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Cinco de Mayo Before we moved to the Bay Area, all our knowledge on Cinco de Mayo came from our time spent at our local Chi-Chi's, (which played host to a perennially broken sign reading "17
