Business & Tech San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.
SF News Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Oracle OpenWorld Is Here We're just making sure you're aware that the annual SoMa traffic clusterf**k known as Oracle OpenWorld in which Oracle gets to shut down a whole block of Howard Street for the city's
SF News Oracle's Annual Closure Of SF Has Begun It happens every year (and somehow we get through it): Oracle's OpenWorld conference begins Sunday, which means street closures and traffic snarls in the Moscone Center area and beyond. According to the SF
SF News Oracle OpenWorld Set To Make Moscone Center Area A Mess, Again With over 60,000 expected attendees, Oracle OpenWorld is one of San Francisco's biggest conferences. Though the event doesn't start until Sunday, preparations are already underway in the area of Moscone Center, which
SF News Folsom Street Fair Date Changed For First Time In 20 Years Typically held on the last weekend in September, milquetoast sex and fetish fete Folsom Street Fair will move its date for the first time in 20 years. Next year's butt blowout will take
SF News Larry Ellison = Jerry Garcia? So who would have imagined the scene we stumbled across at the Oracle festival at Moscone Center today. We know the 60s are long past, and since Jerry's departure the search for a
SF News Oracle OpenWorld 2009 Shuts Down Howard Street While this year's Oracle OpenWorld '09 bash -- which is expected to draw an estimated 40,000 Larry Ellison customers, employees, and assorted fans -- will close down Howard Street between Third and
SF News Open Air Oracle A reader attending the Oracle OpenWorld convention, who wants to be credited as "someone who's there," passed along these pictures of the scene under the tents on Howard Street. Yes, people, they closed
SF News Your Commute: Oracle Open World, Oracle Closed Streets Also, all the crosswalk lights have been extended an extra 10 seconds in all directions. Who knew you could pay the city to do that? We're going to take up a collection and
