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.
Arts & Entertainment Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride 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 Monday Morning Headlines: Yep, It'll Be Another Foggy Fourth The forecast is for fog and marine layer to obscure lots of fireworks displays again; there's a major backup in processing passport applications at the State Department; and the former Harvey's in the Castro will become a new nightclub.
SF News Three Shootings In SF on July 4th, None Fatal At least three people were injured by gunfire in San Francisco on the July 4th holiday, and one of those was a 14-year-old girl who was watching a fireworks display.
SF News SFPD Says 12 Officers Injured Amid Hostile July 4th Crowd In Mission In an echo of an incident reported after the Warriors' NBA Championship celebrations in the Mission District three weeks ago, the SFPD says that a dozen officers sustained injuries from a hostile crowd shooting off fireworks and continuing to party after midnight Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment The Man Behind SF’s Official Fireworks Show Explains How the Pyro Magic Happens More than two dozen fireworks technicians from a company called Pyro Spectaculars are setting up SF’s July 4 display as you read this, and their boss opens up about how his Rialto-based company will execute nearly 400 fireworks shows nationwide.
SF News Oakland Sees Night of Chaos With Massive Sideshow, 'Celebratory' Gunfire and Other Violence Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave a special press briefing Monday to lament the "12 hours of non-stop chaos" that he says officers were dealing with on Sunday night.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Illegal Fireworks Spark Blazes Across the Bay A 30-year-old man living in a Santa Cruz RV just confessed to murdering a woman, illegal firework activity sparked blazes in multiple Bay Area towns and cities, and police in Pittsburg seized an "ice cream truck" that was selling M-1000s.
Arts & Entertainment All Fireworks Shows Canceled (Even Though The 4th Is Forecast To Be Fog-Free For The First Time In Many Years) There will be no official Bay Area fireworks spectacles this year — though you can rest assured the illegal fireworks will be popping off all over.
SF News July 4th Links: Trump Reverses On Citizenship Census Question, Again The city doesn't want people going to Treasure Island to view fireworks (and it'll be foggy), Alameda County has seized 2,300 pounds of illegal fireworks, and SFO is adding a third staging lot for rideshare drivers.
SF News 10 Arrested For Starting Fights At Alameda County Fair The Alameda County Fair, usually a pretty peaceful holiday weekend event, was almost ruined by a troupe of ne'er-do-wells on the Fourth. 10 people ranging in age from 15 to 20 entered the
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, SF Fireworks Were Half Obscured By Fog, But Not In The Mission And Lower Haight! Tourists, East Bay families, and assorted San Franciscans flocked to the Embarcadero Tuesday night to see if this year might be the exception in which the fireworks aren't shot into a fog bank
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 Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the Mission and dangerous though it might be it was, as usual, the only fireworks
SF News Dolores Park Predictably Littered With Trash On July 4th Though the message may have made it out to some like most of the people who partied in Dolores Park during the day on Saturday, July 4th the people who lingered on in
Arts & Entertainment 5000 Explosions: Behind The Scenes At San Francisco's 4th Of July Fireworks Display Technically, it is not true to say that the city of San Francisco will be lighting off fireworks at Pier 39 for the 4th of July at Pier Fireworks celebration on Saturday night.
SF News July 4th Fog Watch: Will It Or Won't It? You know it probably will. Every year, weather forecasters around the Bay Area try to be really optimistic about what the fog is going to look like after sundown on the 4th of
misc Video: Geniuses Throw Fireworks at Cars Mission Mission posted this video from July 4th around last call at 16th and Albion in the Mission, which shows fireworks being aimed at cars. Rumor has it that cyclists were also targets.
misc Happy 4th of July! Inexhaustible photog, Plug 1 of What I'm Seeing, snagged this shot, entitled "Talking in Circles" at Albany Bulb. Certainly a head-scratcher. Here's hoping the fog stays away tonight so we all can enjoy
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend The 3- or 4-day weekend is upon us. FuncheapSF has a full list of 92 Bay Area July 4th celebrations that keeps growing. Here are a few hand-picked weekend events, in addition to
SF News A Ton of Fireworks Seized; KTVU Against All Things Sparkly and Fun Seeing as they are our local FOX affiliate, KTVU already has a TV segment in the works about how fireworks aren't good for anything except misery and conjuring up early childhood trauma. ALSO,
