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 Washington Square Park Reopens After Six-Month Renovation North Beach's jewel of a green space, Washington Square Park, reopens to the public today following a six-month rehab project by Rec & Parks that included upgraded irrigation and drainage systems.
SF News Washington Square Park Takes Its Turn For Six-Month Closure, Upgrades Following on the renovations in recent years of Alamo Square and Dolores Parks, North Beach's Washington Square Park is now taking its turn — specifically to upgrade a 65-plus-year-old irrigation system that was wasting more water than any other city park.
SF News Woman Paralyzed By Falling Tree Branch Files Suit Against City Emma Zhou suffered a skull fracture, brain injury, and severed spinal cord after a 100-pound tree limb fell on her head while she sat on a bench in Washington Square Park watching her
SF News Washington Square Parkgoer Mugged At Gunpoint A man enjoying an early-morning visit to North Beach's storied Washington Square Park had his reverie brutally interrupted Sunday, when an armed man robbed him as he sat. According to the San Francsico
SF News Attorney For Woman Paralyzed By Tree Branch Says City Was Negligent In Its Tree Trimming Technique The 36-year-old woman who was paralyzed by a falling tree branch while she sat on a city park bench watching her children play has filed a claim against San Francisco alleging negligence. 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
SF News 100-Pound Tree Branch Falls And Critically Injures Woman In Washington Square Park A large tree branch fell and seriously injured a 36-year-old San Francisco woman on Friday in Washington Square Park. The woman was in the North Beach park at the time with her two
Arts & Entertainment Your Saturday Night Itinerary: Movie Night In Washington Square Park, Plus Where To Eat And Drink photo credit: a_sorense Your Saturday Night Plan: Grand Budapest Hotel in Washington Square Park, dusk. There's something so charming, so romantic about a movie screening in the park. You cozy up with
SF News When SFPD Is 'Too Busy,' North Beach Bartenders Go Vigilante On Presumed Stroller Thief Of course, confronting an alleged criminal on your own is a terrible idea. But when you see your stolen stuff in the hands of others, and the cops won't help, what are you
Arts & Entertainment Your 2014 Film Night In The Park Schedule With Drink Pairings It's that time of year again, when summer hits San Francisco and the Neighborhood Theater Foundation sets up their outdoor projection screens for the entertainment and delight of picnicking, outdoor tippling film buffs
Arts & Entertainment Your 2013 Film Night In The Park Schedule With Drink Pairings It's that time of year again, when summer hits the rest of the country and the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation sets up their outdoor projection screens for the entertainment and delight of
misc SFist Blotter San Francisco started the year with a bang. Literally. 1/1: The title of First Murder of 2008 was snatched up just a few hours after midnight. An unidentified man was shot to
SF News SFist Blotter Okay, we're kind of scared to say anything about the Your Black Muslim Bakery now, so let's just leave it at the handyman confessed, Chauncey Bailey's source has come out, and the bakery
SF News Day Around The Bay --Picture of a woman collecting bottles from people in the iPhone line by reader zombie. Thanks for sending them in, zombie! [ZombieTime.] --Four murders in San Francisco this weekend, 10 murders throughout the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --LAist Zach is coming to town as part of the CalArtsf alumni art festival: dance, spoken word, world music, animation, paintings, and lots more artistic expression at Cowell Theater and the Herbst Cafe
Arts & Entertainment Don't Fence Me In First off, we would like to report that getting booze was not a problem. Not a problem at all. We, in fact, quote a friend of ours who we ran into: "mumble...mumble.
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF News Not Dead Yet Over the weekend, a compromise was reached in that people who wanted to drink booze inside Washington Square Park, where the music could be heard, can. It's just that they'll be cordoned off
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of the festival who
Arts & Entertainment We Have No Idea What Yvesdroppings Are Referring To Yes, we know that technically it should be "to what Yvesdroppings refer." Whatever. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl on Phone: "He wants to move to
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
SF News Love and Endorphins SFist stayed true to its pledge on Friday and drunk itself into submission on Saturday at the North Beach Jazz Fest. [Ed. Note - After sitting in a park drinking beer for four
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night in the City SFist has been told by our coworker that it is our sworn duty to end up passed out in a gutter tonight. We humbly accept this mission, and encourage everyone to do the
