Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Kicks Off With Pelosi In Attendance, Completion Due in 2021 The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Picnic Returns For Its 8th Season On Sunday This Sunday will mark the 8th consecutive spring kickoff for Presidio Picnic, the popular Sunday food-truck picnic on the Main Parade Ground of the Presidio.
SF News Coyote Aggression On Rise, Presidio Dog Owners Claim It’s “pupping season” in the Presidio, which sounds adorable, but in reality presents escalating danger for dogs and their owners. Because the pups here are coyote pups, their mother coyotes are vicious
SF News Downed Tree Blocks 19th Avenue Tunnel, Avoid Area For The Afternoon ALERT: SR-1/19th Ave blocked by fallen tree n/o MacArthur Tunnell. One lane open s/b, no lanes n/b. Expect delays. pic.twitter.com/9I2al43tEk— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) December 19, 2016
SF News SF Artist Offers Smell-Based Tours Of The Presidio This will officially be the most San Francisco thing you hear about all weekend. Artist Laura Halsey Brown is creating hand-drawn psychogeographic art kerchiefs (!) that contain smell maps of the Presidio. And this
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Presidio Gun Batteries To Become New Art Installation From People Behind Ai Weiwei Show The organization behind 2014's Ai Weiwei @Large installation at Alcatraz now has its sights set on the long vacant army gun batteries that were part of what was once known as Fort Scott,
Arts & Entertainment 'Happy Chewbacca' Viral Video Star Visits Lucasfilm, Facebook The Star Wars fan whose Facebook Live video streamed from a Kohl's parking lot made her a star visited California this week, hitting up both Lucasfilm in the Presidio and Facebook's Menlo Park
SF News Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker Donates $250 Million (And His Name) To Presidio-Based Cancer Research Center Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and onetime Facebook president, called Bill Gate's Billionaire Pledge, a promise to give half of his wealth away before he dies, "a good start" according to the Chronicle.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold The Food Vendor Lineup For Off The Grid's Presidio Picnic, Restarting April 3 Off the Grid's second most popular Marina-adjacent food truck party, their weekly Sunday Presidio Picnic series, restarts its season on Sunday April 3, and the vendor lineup has just been announced. As always,
Arts & Entertainment Annie Leibovitz Premieres Free New Show In Presidio On Friday Since its initial 1999 publication, "Women," which photographer Annie Leibovitz began as a collaboration with Susan Sontag, has changed a great deal. So has the very subject. In its latest incarnation, “Women: New
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco As Seen From A Weather Balloon Launched In The Presidio Drones be damned: This weather balloon footage from Night Crew Labs is where it's really at. Launching a complicated set of cameras held aloft by balloon from the Presidio and then tracking their
SF News Gray Foxes Are Breeding In The Presidio Again In an encouraging sign, a single gray fox sighting in February now leads us to photos of an entire gray fox family. Per sources to the Examiner, at least three of the foxes
SF News Renderings: Presidio Parklands Project From High Line Architect Adjusts For Budget, Drought Renowned for such projects as Manhattan's High Line and Staten Island's Freshkills Park, James Corner Field Operations was selected in December to design the park grounds connecting Crissy Field to the Main Post
SF News Rare Gray Fox Sighting In The Presidio Last week, the Presidio Trust took to Facebook to tell of a rare wildlife sighting. "This morning our wildlife ecologist managed to snap a picture of a rare sighting of a grey fox!
SF News High Line Architect Chosen For Presidio Park Design We now have a winner in the contest to design a park connecting Crissy Field to the Main Post of the Presidio over 13 acres and a pair of tunnels replacing Doyle Drive.
SF News How Much Of A Threat Are San Francisco's Coyotes? Is San Francisco's coyote population growing? While no city agency officially tracks their numbers, this spring the Chron's nature writer Tom Stienstra said that he estimates that as many as 100 coyotes are
Arts & Entertainment If George Lucas Doesn't Get To Build His Illustration Museum In the Presidio He's Taking It To Chicago [Updated] Beginning tomorrow, the Presidio Trust is going to be letting the public weigh in on whether billionaire George Lucas can build a museum to house his collection of illustrations and graphic art in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant From Traci Des Jardins Coming To The Presidio Top Chef Masters finalist, James Beard Award-winner, and well loved local chef Traci Des Jardins just won a bid with the Presidio Trust to open a new restaurant in one of the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday Brooze Booze: Presido Social Club After a particularly debaucherous night board a Mexican Bus -- a birthday party that took your editor from the Castro to the Marina and back again, a fete of which we recall very
SF News George Lucas Proposes Presidio Museum To Showcase His Stellar Collection You know that Sports Basement near Crissy Field? It's going to become a museum of visual storytelling, if George Lucas has his way. According to The Chronicle, the 68-year-old filmmaker (of Indiana Jones,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Social Club Exempt From Foie Gras Ban Like a scared duck fighting to get that steel tube away from its beak, the effort to eschew the foie gras ban just won't die. This week's news comes from Presidio Social Club,
Arts & Entertainment Library Patron Returns Book 37 Years Past Due The San Francisco Public Library's Presidio branch received a pleasant surprise in the mail today when a patron returned a book that was due back in November of 1974, along with its original
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Dixie Let's see, what's the food sect ballyhooing over this week. Let's see... ah, here we go: Joseph Humphrey's Dixie. Continuing the trend of southern comfort cooking, Humphrey's new joint in the Presidio features,
SF News Muslim Security Guard Wins $465,000 Harrassment Suit A security guard at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio was just awarded $465,000 by a San Francisco jury in a case against Los Angeles-based Andrews International, a private security
SF News Presidio Greening Crews Fighting Hidden Gopher War In the Presidio, efforts to re-plant the historic parade ground as a lush and hopefully not pockmarked public space are under attack from below. As Curbed reported recently an army of gophers is
