SF News It’s Official: Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake Will Be Renamed Blue Heron Lake After a seven-month debate over what to rename Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, the SF Rec and Parks Commission on Thursday bestowed the new name Blue Heron Lake.
SF News New Names Being Floated for the Renaming of Stow Lake A years-long campaign to change the name of Stow Lake, named for a man with an ugly legacy of antisemitism, has resulted in a short list of ten suggested new names for the 130-year-old man-made lake.
Arts & Entertainment Tupac Shakur Getting A Street Named After Him In Oakland Near Lake Merritt All eyes will be on a block of MacArthur Boulevard north of Lake Merritt, as the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename a block of that street “Tupac Shakur Way.”
SF News Western Span Of Bay Bridge To Be Named After Willie Brown Today After all the handwringing and grousing, the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be renamed today after former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. Current San Francisco
SF News Breaking News: George W. Bush Sewage Plant Renaming Qualifies for November Ballot Wayne Pickering (AKA, Brian McConnell), head of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco formed to honor George W. Bush -- which, at the risk of boasting, SFist was the first to tell