Arts & Entertainment New Indoor Pickleball Courts Set to Open at the Palace of Fine Arts In Two Weeks Some new pickleball courts have been fashioned out of a space at the Palace of Fine Arts that appears to be the former Exploratorium museum, and they'll be available for reservations soon to quench the city's high demand among pickleball enthusiasts.
SF News Two Photographers Attacked at SF's Palace of Fine Arts — on Same Day In separate incidents, two photographers — one of them visiting San Francisco from Dallas — were subjected to violent robberies on November 9 near the Palace of Fine Arts; no arrests have been made in either robbery.
Arts & Entertainment Unauthorized Banksy Show Announces Its Secret Location, Which Unsuitably, Is the Palace of Fine Arts The unauthorized Banksy show that has been blitzing ads on your Facebook feed has been touting a secret location, but new details indicate you’ll exit through the Instagram trap.
Arts & Entertainment Blanche the Swan Returns to Palace of Fine Arts; Swallowing Pennies Blamed For Zinc Poisoning The surviving swan from the Palace of Fine Arts lagoon, Blanche, was returned to her home on Tuesday after being treated at the San Francisco Zoo for several weeks for lead and zinc poisoning.
SF News Blue Boy, One of the Two Swans at the Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon, Has Died From Zinc and Lead Poisoning A 17-year-old male mute swan, one of two who have ruled over the lagoon at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, died last week of apparent zinc and lead poisoning — which his mate was also being treated for in recent weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The Trailer For A Very Pretty New Documentary About Kitesurfing Chapter One: The Kiteboarding Legacy Begins is a new documentary by Bob van de Gronde, sponsored it seems by file-transfer company WeTransfer, all about the growing popularity of kiteboarding/kitesurfing, shot partly here
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
Arts & Entertainment Palace Of Fine Arts Won't Become A Hotel, Might Become A Museum With Restaurant Remember back in November when we learned that the Rec & Parks Department, which needs to find a new operator for the 100-year-old Palace of Fine Arts complex who can perform $20 million
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star Jesse Wellens Dresses Up As Aladdin, Takes 'Magic Carpet' Ride Through San Francisco "All I have to say is San Francisco is like a huge movie set. For Aladdin." That is Philadelphia-based YouTube celebrity Jesse Wellens's assessment as he was shooting the viral video above, here
SF News $2.25 Million Settlement Expected For Woman Injured During Early-Morning Fall From Palace Of Fine Arts Structure #SF could pay $2.25M to woman injured at Palace of Fine Arts https://t.co/yllJUZ1BVb pic.twitter.com/KMFdL3swoE— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) March 22, 2016 San Francisco's City Attorney has recommended
Arts & Entertainment 'Hunger Games' Museum Exhibit Is Catching Fire At Palace Of Fine Arts If the The Hunger Games movie and book franchise is fine art to you, the Palace of Fine Arts’ Innovation Hangar just opened The Hunger Games: The Exhibition to whet your appetite with
SF News The Palace Of Fine Arts Will Not Become A Gym, Will Likely Be A Hotel/Event Space And Restaurant Despite some public outcry over what's been perceived as the potential commercialization of the iconic Palace of Fine Arts, the Rec and Parks Commission voted this week to go forward with three of
SF News City Settles With Journey Guitarist Who Sued Over Cost Of 'Royal, Sexy, Magic' Wedding At Palace Of Fine Arts "The City by the Bay" about whom Journey guitarist Neal Schon so lovingly played — and by whom he was so terribly wronged during his Palace of Fine Arts "Royal, Sexy, Magic" themed wedding
Arts & Entertainment Proposals For Renovated Palace Of Fine Arts Include Two Gym Complexes, And An Arts Center An initial RFP (request for proposals) went out last fall to gauge interest a revamped and reimagined Palace of Fine Arts complex. The Marina-adjacent complex, which along with the outdoor promenades and landmark
Arts & Entertainment Journey Guitarist Sues San Francisco Over Palace Of Fine Arts Wedding Journey's lead guitarist and his reality TV-star wife are suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the city "extorted" them over their wedding at the Palace of Fine arts. Neal Schon and Michaele
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Scales Palace Of Fine Arts In The Name Of Health Insurance As a climber, 28-year-old Alex Honnold shares the record for the fastest climb of El Capitan in Yosemite and he's the only person to solo climb Yosemite's Triple Crown in one marathon climb.
Arts & Entertainment Baby Swans At Palace Of Fine Arts Disappear, Predator Suspected Well, we knew it was a possibility, but it's still a little sad: Those baby swans at the Palace of Fine Arts we told you about on Wednesday appear to have been consumed
Arts & Entertainment Palace Of Fine Arts Swans Pull A Jurassic Park No, they didn't menace Laura Dern, nor did they refuse to hold on to their butts. But remember how the fine scientists of Jurassic Park claimed that they had taken clever steps to
Arts & Entertainment Best 11 Tourist Spots That Locals Should Also Enjoy Tired of your neighborhood already? Well, it's time to throw on a coat, march out the door, and venture out. Hundreds of thousands of tourists come to this city each year to behold
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Adorable Baby Swans Grace The Palace Lagoon Our yearly obsession with swans and collective nouns continues this Spring with a new lamentation of cygnets at the Palace of Fine Arts. Blue Boy and Blanche, the two remaining adult swans, have
SF News Say Hello To The Palace Lagoon's New Baby Swans After last summer saw months of drama in the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts, we were beginning to wonder if the game of swans in the Marina would ever rebuild their
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Disney's California Adventure? What's Disney commercialization of a beloved local landmark and why does it -- what's that word again? Suck. Yeah, anyway, we're a bit late getting around to this Anaheim-based copycat of local treasure
SF News As the Lagoon Turns: Baby Martha Disappears SFist reported on Friday that the Palace of Fine Arts' "orphaned, injured and recently rehabbed" swan, Bella, was rejected and treated as an intruder by her brother, Baby Blue, and sister-in-law, Blanche, who
