SF News Mission District Community Divided Over Dolores Hill Bomb Event, Which Might Happen This Saturday The annual, unsanctioned skate punk joyride known as the Dolores Hill Bomb might be happening this Saturday, and at a community meeting to discuss police plans, neighbors were split on whether the event should be welcomed, or cracked down upon even harder.
SF News Just 10 Days Out From the Annual Dolores Hill Bomb, SFPD Gearing Up For More Skateboard Mayhem The annual, unpermitted and outlaw Dolores Hill Bomb event is being advertised as happening on Saturday, July 6, and neither police nor event organizers appear to be changing their approach after last year’s fiasco that saw 81 minors arrested.
SF News SFPD Hit With the Inevitable Lawsuit Over ‘Dolores Hill Bomb’ Mass Arrest of 81 Minors Parents said they would sue over July’s draconian mass arrest of 117 people (83 of them minors) during this year’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding meetup, and that lawsuit against the SFPD has now arrived.
SF News DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.
SF News Parents Fume That Their Kids Were Injured In Dolores Hill Bomb Arrests as SFPD Defends Harsh Tactics The controversial mass-arrest of 81 minors (and 32 adults) at the year's unsanctioned Dolores Park Hill Bomb has some parents alleging brutal treatment of teens, but SFPD and Mayor Breed are doubling down on the need for that heavy response.
SF News City Installs Raised Dots On Dolores Street Following 'Hill Bomb' Death Instead of one there were three Dolores Street Hill Bomb events over the past week and a half, and during the third one on Friday, a cyclist collided with skateboarder sending both of them to the hospital — and the cyclist died from his injuries on Sunday.
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Tomoko Oikawa Suffers Brain Injury During Dolores Hill Bomb The annual event known as Dolores Hill Bomb, in which a bunch of skaters — including professionals — commandeer the hilly part of Dolores Street next to the park, has marked another casualty.
SF News Video: Injured Skater And 'Thrasher' Mag Editor Jake Phelps Speaks Out About Dolores Incident A clearly medicated Jake Phelps, the 54-year-old skateboarder and editor of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, spoke out to NBC Bay Area from Zuckerberg General Hospital on Thursday about the incident Tuesday night on
SF News Fight Rages On About Who Started Fight Between Cops And Skaters At Dolores Park Meanwhile in #SanFrancisco...#DoloresPark #SF #Dolores #Skateboarding pic.twitter.com/b9kU9KuEhB— jimmy alto (@jimmyalto) July 12, 2017 After witness reports suggested a police officer extended his left arm to collide with a skateboarder
SF News Ugly Dolores Park Confrontation Between Police, Skateboarders Ends In Multiple Injuries A skateboarding event adjacent to Dolores Park turned ugly Tuesday night, when police officers seeking to end the proceedings and event participants faced off. KTVU reports that "hundreds" of people were watching skateboarders
Arts & Entertainment Video: Skaters Endangering Themselves And Others On The Many Hills Of SF This new video from Thrasher Magazine is all about the hills of San Francisco, and skateboarders who aren't afraid to brave them, even when it means potentially flying into traffic. Per the video
Arts & Entertainment Benny Gold Now Open Softly On Valencia As Construction Continues In Former Mission Creek Cafe Space Mission Creek Cafe, which left its storefront at 968 Valencia in January, will be missed for its free wifi, cheap coffee, copious outlets, and fault-finding employees who took every opportunity to scream at
Arts & Entertainment The Five Best Skate Spots In San Francisco If you look at San Francisco a little differently, you'll start to see skateboarding spots everywhere. That's what the sport does: radically repurpose the urban landscape. Steps are for leaping off, handrails are
SF News Video: Skateboarder's Totally <em>Sick</em> Hallidie Plaza Noseslide With at least a few good skateparks in San Francisco it is perhaps easy to forget the joy of seeing someone with a deck and four wheels repurpose space for some wild feat
Arts & Entertainment It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Tony Hawk On A SoMa Half-Pipe! A photo posted by Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) on Apr 4, 2016 at 10:15am PDT Soaring into Birdman of Alcatraz territory yesterday was pro-skater Tony "The Birdman" Hawk, whom Hoodline spotted cruising a
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Hero Skateboards Down Grass Hill At around 12:45 p.m. on a hazy Saturday in Dolores Park, a man (loudly selling psychedelics and in all likelihood ingesting them himself) began riding his longboard down the grass hill.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Skatin' On The Dock Of The Bay "While you were sleeping" as the video puts it —or perhaps not, since as a new study says SF doesn't do that — skateboarder Daron Anderson was tearing across town. Things are a little
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Skater Pulls A Marty McFly On Corporate Shuttle Seen here totally shredding, a brave skater boy skitching on a corporate shuttle in San Francisco. And for those of you who don't know who or what a Marty McFly is: ugh, here
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: They Call Him Flipper Erik WIlson caught this dude in midair at the Dew Tour now in progress at Civic Center. Righteous.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sean Spees Skateboards Down Twin Peaks Don't try this at home kids! Seriously. Not everyone can be signed to skateboard contracts, and you may not live to see 18. But it's real pretty to watch! [SF Citizen]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, At The Creme Brulee Shop... They skate. They don't die. Check them out tonight at 1246 Folsom, open until 10 pm.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: She Said See Ya Later Boy "Mission Skateboarding" by Ohad Ben-Yoseph.
SF News Thrasher Magazine Co-Founder ID'd as Man Who Committed Suicide at SFPD Station The man who shot and killed himself outside the SFPD Mission Station on Valencia Street was identified today as Eric Swenson, a 64-year-old San Francisco resident who was also the co-founder of popular
