Arts & Entertainment SF’s Newest Park Just Opened Right Next to Chase Center, Featuring Steel Beams From the Old Bay Bridge SF’s newest park has some retro charm in the form of benches and beams from the disassembled old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, as the $32 million Bayfront Park just opened Tuesday right next to the Chase Center.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Most New Expensive Park Opening Saturday, as India Basin Waterfront Park Spruces Up Hunters Point After being fenced off for years, the 2.5-acre India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes has its grand opening Saturday, and will eventually be part of sprawling 65-acre park that hopes to rejuvenate Bayview and Hunters Point.
SF News Once Secret 'Titan' Redwood Grove Under Threat From Tourists Trampling Roots Before 2011, the exact location of the Grove of Titans a cluster of incredibly old, incredibly massive California redwoods, some 26 feet in diameter was a mystery. But thanks to some internet sleuths,
SF News Land Under SF Freeway Overpasses Could Soon Become Parks San Francisco might have more than a few new parks in its future as 10 plots of land located underneath the city's elevated freeways could potentially be converted to parks and open-air recreation
SF News Parents Peeved At Daylong Delay To Clean Poopy SF Playground Human feces on San Francisco streets are nothing new — heck, there's even a couple maps out there of the most common places for the stuff, all of which surface at regular intervals at
SF News Body Found During MLK Day Cleanup Along Oakland Shoreline A "moderately decomposed" corpse was discovered Monday by a cleanup volunteer who was taking part in the eight annual Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The discovery occurred along the
SF News Full Dolores Park Opening Delayed, New Opening Date Unknown San Francisco cries a single, giant tear into its collective PBR tallboy today as we learn that the renovated south side of Dolores Park will not reopen this Thursday as planned. What's worse,
Arts & Entertainment Do This Saturday: Yoga in the Park Finale with Om Records Feeling frazzled by back-to-school season or stressed by summer's end? Lucky for you, it's the season finale of Yoga in the Park, which means a giant outdoor "ommm" for all involved. This Saturday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stow Lake Boat House Cafe Opens Thursday? [UPDATED] According to Eater, the highly anticipated cafe at Stow Lake is set to open on Thursday. What kind of food will they serve? Well, on the cafe's site, they reveal: "Our menu is
SF News Scenes from 17th Street Pedestrian Plaza Construction Construction on the 17th Street Pedestrian Plaza is wrapping up. So far, the newly tagged temporary public plaza includes plants, concrete benches, and (God willing) loads of sunlight. Here are some images of
Arts & Entertainment Potrero del Sol Skatepark Open for Business (By Travis Jensen) The new Potrero del Sol/La Raza Skatepark officially opened last Saturday in the Mission District. Hundreds of skateboarders came out for the occasion. Mayor Newsom and Jennifer Siebel were
misc Photo du Jour 142 Round and round they go. Arf! (To check out all of Darwin Bell's photos, which we strongly suggest doing, go here.)
misc Public Park Closures Needed, Says the Gov Nature lovers will be peeved. Under the budget proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today - dear God, just how did we get here? starting off a sentence like that? - nine local state
SF News Update: Missing Teen Found Police found missing diabetic East Bay teen ("missing," "diabetic," and from the "East Bay" -- ow, that's rough), who also suffers from depression, in "ok" condition this afternoon. Whew. According to NBC11, "ambulance
