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 Fallen Tree In Stern Grove Damages SF Landmark Trocadero Clubhouse An 85-foot tree — about 10 stories tall — fell onto the Clubhouse around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, busting the roof and water system of one of the oldest buildings in the city.
SF Politics Parks Alliance Pushes Back On Accusations, Tells Supervisor Chan to Kiss Richmond Playground Goodbye The drama! A wealthy San Francisco nonprofit that helps support the city's Rec and Parks Department is having none of Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan's insinuations.
SF Politics Peskin and Chan Appear Likely to Thwart Ferris Wheel Extension, Shorten It To One Year At Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan maneuvered to get their way and keep Rec & Parks from extending the contract for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park for another four years.
Arts & Entertainment 150-Foot-Tall Ferris Wheel in Golden Gate Park and Academy of Sciences Set October Opening Dates Some of the 150th anniversary celebrations for Golden Gate Park are actually going to happen this year after all, and at the very least the 150-foot-tall "observation wheel" that we were promised is, in fact, opening for rides soon.
SF News Another Large Tree Branch Falls In Washington Square Park, Injuring Five For the second time in four years, a large branch has come crashing down from one of the trees in Washington Square Park, injuring park-goers. Thankfully, no one seemed to be seriously injured this time.
Arts & Entertainment SF to Allow Summer Day Camps Starting June 15 San Francisco and five other counties around the Bay are planning to loosen restrictions for childcare and summer day camps, giving parents some much needed relief in the coming few months.
SF News Dolores Park Predictably Trashed Over Warm Weekend, Rec And Parks Calls Behavior 'Appalling' #DoloresPark neighbors say crowds enjoying the #sunny weekend are #trashing the park. pic.twitter.com/UjtEe2Vjq3— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) April 3, 2017 Temperatures soared to 73 degrees on Saturday and Dolores Park was,
Arts & Entertainment Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary Promoter Steps Down, Haight Street Shop Owner 'Sunshine Powers' Steps In After his application for a free Summer of Love 50th Anniversary concert in Golden Gate Park was denied by the Recreation and Park Department and an appeal of that decision was also denied,
SF News In Blow To Anti-Gay Group Suing City, Judge Rules Dolores Park Pissoir Can Stay The gentlemen of Dolores Park's Gay Beach can pee easy today following a San Francisco Superior Court judge's ruling that the barely controversial pissoir can remain perched atop the southwest corner of the
SF News Woman Injured By Fallen Branch In City Park Still Waiting For City To Cover Medical Bills The couple whose lives have been permanently impacted by the failure of a tree in Washington Square Park are continuing to speak out and hold the city responsible for the accident. As the
SF News How Worried Should You Be About Falling Branches In SF Parks? San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department is now under scrutiny after a woman walking with her two children on Friday in North Beach's Washington Square Park was struck and seriously injured by a
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
SF News Yep, Religious Group Now Suing Over Dolores Park Pissoir It turns out that threat of a lawsuit a couple months ago over the new Dolores Park pissoir from one conservative, anti-LGBT group, the Pacific Justice Center, has turned into a reality, and
SF News Video: Wow, The New Dolores Park Rangers Sure Aren't Messing Around Rangers just tackled / arrested a Dolores park reveler. pic.twitter.com/ZrsUasberM— Jack (@WarrenMarcusson) February 16, 2016 Yesterday was gorgeous, and many of you followed our advice and went to Dolores Park to
SF News Old Habits Die Hard: Dolores Park Trashed After Opening Party Dolores Park is already full of garbage! pic.twitter.com/lXINISx09h— Peter Lawrence Kane (@WannaCyber) January 28, 2016 Well that didn't take long. As you no doubt know, the south side of Dolores
SF News The Fences Come Down! Dolores Park Finally Opens Fully For First Time In Two Years It's finally, finally done. After nearly two years of almost constant construction, the entire Dolores Park is now open to the public. At around 8 a.m. today, workers could be seen taking
SF News Rec & Parks Produces Goofy PSAs To Encourage Proper Trash Disposal, Bathroom Use The Rec & Parks Department hosted a pair of meetings Tuesday to engage concerned neighbors about their new "action plan" for dealing with the park's ongoing popularity, and its trash problem. And as
SF News Guy Who Made Insulting Dolores Park Video Apologizes Just a quick follow-up regarding that annoying video from last week in which a group of guys reacted ungraciously to a couple of Rec & Parks patrol officers who busted them for having
SF News Several Artificial Turf Foes Stage Sit-In As Construction Continues On Beach Chalet Soccer Fields Yesterday we told you about the construction that began on the new turf soccer fields adjacent to the Beach Chalet in Golden Gate Park, not 12 hours after preliminary election results came in
SF News Rec & Parks Dig In Early On Soccer Field Renovations As votes for opposing Propositions H an I were still being counted Wednesday, construction workers lost no time breaking ground on renovations to Golden Gate Parks’ Beach Chalet soccer fields, as SFGate reports.
SF News Mission Soccer Kids Storm City Hall After Political Win by Joe Kukura The very kids who got kicked off a soccer field by tech bros in an infamous viral YouTube video took to City Hall Thursday morning to protest a soccer field
SF News Mission Soccer Field Reservations Getting Nixed; Protest Still On This Morning Following the past week's uproar over the reservations-vs-pickup-game debate surrounding Mission Playground's soccer field, Rec and Park general manager Phil Ginsburg gave in last night and told members of the Latino Democratic Club
SF News The Tension Over Soccer Fields Is Not About Tech Bros, It's Too Few Fields, Says Chron Everyone got real up in arms over the video those Dropbox and Airbnb dudes who have since apologized squabbling with local kids over the rules governing the Mission Playground soccer field. As we
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
