SF News Rec & Parks Explains The Plant Situation Around That Pissoir At Dolores Park When we first wrote about that new open-air urinal in Dolores Park we were left with a host of unanswered questions. Like, is the thing still under construction? How come it's see-through? How
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park To Finally, Fully Reopen January 14th The long, over-crowded nightmare is over, everyone. If the grassy knolls of Dolores Park are someplace you like to call home on sunny days, you'll be happy to know that if and when
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 Is San Francisco Rec & Parks Giving Your Dog Cancer? Dog owners across San Francisco are gathering in opposition to the latest threat to face their furry companions — the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. It seems the city department regularly uses an
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
SF News More 'No Tech Zone' Signs Appear; Perpetrator Revealed As Artist Who Wants Us To Get Off Our Phones Though many jumped on the notion that that "No Tech Zone" sign that showed up in Alamo Square two weeks ago purporting to levy a $300 fine for people caught using mobile devices
SF News Once Again, Go Topless Day Kind Of Fizzles In Dolores Park Go Topless Day in San Francisco http://t.co/KxnBye1hDI #gotoplessday #SF pic.twitter.com/m4WfwVXK0B— Kat Duncan (@KatDuncanSF) August 24, 2015 Several years in a row, organizers have tried to galvanize breast-baring
SF News Alamo Square Could Close From December To July For Renovations It was pretty cool that the Department of Recreation and Parks found a way to keep half of Dolores Park open during renovations — as you doubtless know, work on that park's southern half
SF News In Small Victory For Artificial Turf Foes, State Will Study Health Effects While our own Rec & Parks Department and plenty of turf industry folks believe they've put the matter to rest over whether artificial turf made largely from recycled rubber tires causes adverse environmental
SF News Rec & Parks Hires Extra Trash Guy For Dolores Park Since we're all very concerned about the trash-pocalypse that occurs weekly, and sometimes daily, at Dolores Park, here's a very important update: Rec & Parks appears to have added a job to the
SF News Watch Several Hipsters Argue With, And Insult, Two Parks Officials Busting Them In Dolores Park Certainly we here at SFist want to denounce all War on Fun efforts in the cracking down on drinking in Dolores Park a sunny-day tradition which has been going on steadily, and with
SF News Should We Only Blame The 'Brolympics' For Trashing Fort Mason? The Fort Mason Great Meadow became an aluminum garden on Saturday, with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area tweeting and Instagramming a giant mess left by the fair-weather crowds. As CBS5 notes, a
SF News Chronicle Now Crowing About Dolores Park's Rat Problem Between C.W. Nevius and mustache twins Matier & Ross, the Chronicle has been ALL OVER the problems with Dolores Park and its massive weekend hoedowns lately. You'd think they hadn't noticed the
Arts & Entertainment About 30 People Still Protesting Artificial Turf Being Installed At Beach Chalet Soccer Fields I bet you thought this story was over last November! But you were wrong. Some 30 stalwart protesters are still engaged in a years-long battle over the installation of artificial turf on the
SF News Dolores Park Vandalism Gives Nevius New Reason To Call For More Cops Busting Drinkers In Dolores Park You should have seen this coming, especially if you're familiar with the oeuvre of Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. The case of the late-night vandals who tore up some turf doing donuts in
SF News Dolores Park Construction Gets A Four-Month Delay Completion of the first phase of the Dolores Park renovation project, the northern (hipster) half, has been delayed by about four months, as Dolores Park Works reports. This means that all hope is
SF News New Dolores Park Restroom To Rise From The Ground Next Week This is just a quick update on the ongoing construction happening in the northern half of Dolores Park, but next week is when the concrete trucks arrive! As Dolores Park Works reports, Cara
Arts & Entertainment Video: Daredevil Walks Tightrope Near Land's End He won't tell you where this high-line tightrope is, strung between a cliff and a rock outcropping over the ocean's edge near the Golden Gate Bridge, but we can tell you right now
SF News Gardener Didn't Know He Struck Woman In Holly Park 57-year-old Thomas Burnoski, who's been employed by the San Francisco Rec and Parks Department since 2006, has been identified as the man responsible for the September 5 death of 35-year-old Christine Svanemyr, who
SF News Last-Minute Appeal Fails, Dolores Park Renovation Plods On After 50 public meetings over the last three years (jesus, that makes us exhausted just typing it), Dolores Park Works has announced that they will finally be taking the publicly approved conceptual design
SF News Dolores Park Renovations Set To Begin In The Fall Last we'd heard, the first stage of the partial closing and renovation of Dolores Park was set to begin right about now. But today we learn from Dolores Park Works that the project
SF News Burned-Out Fleishhacker Pool Building To Become Delightful Green Space The once-great, but now sadly derelict, Fleishhacker Pool building was something of a magnet for homeless people and graffiti artists in recent years. That all came to an end earlier this month when
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Festival to Get Even Bigger Next Year The organizers of Outside Lands, Another Planet Entertainment, have just renegotiated their contract with Rec & Parks and raised the attendance cap for the 2013 festival from 65,000 to 75,000. Additionally,
SF News New Dolores Park Plan Features Huge Kids' Soccer Field, Slightly Smaller Gay Beach So, after multiple community meetings and sub-committee meetings which SFist did not exactly make it to, the first-draft plan to renovate Dolores Park has been unveiled, with what Dolores Park Works describes as
misc Anonymous San Franciscan Concerned Rec & Parks Logo Promotes Unsafe Swinging Over at the Examiner, Melissa Griffin got ahold of an anonymous letter sent to San Francisco's Rec and Parks Department from someone who seems to have experienced some rope swing-related trauma in their
