The Bay Area is no slouch when it comes to decking the proverbial halls. There are plenty of spots that take the business of holiday light decorating seriously.
From April through September, most of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park closes to vehicular traffic on Saturdays. But campaigns to extend the sixth-day car ban to a year-round stoppage run off course.
Last summer, someone torched part of the playground in the Koret Children’s Quarter in Golden Gate Park in the middle of the night, necessitating expensive repairs.
In honor of late comedian and San Francisco resident Robin Williams, the city of San Francisco will officially rename Sharon Meadow after the Academy Award-winning comedian.
SF Arts Commission meeting revisited complaints about Civic Center statue depicting the Spanish conquest of native tribes, just one of the SF public images of scenes and figures of colonial history.
Sharon Meadow, site of the annual Comedy Day festival, would become Robin Williams meadow if sponsors can just convince the city to go along with it and raise the money to replace all of the signs.
From Friday until Sunday, scores hip aural enthusiasts and artisan food sect members will, en mass, head to the annual Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park. And that means your weekend commute in or anywhere near central SF is janked.
With green space covering nearly one fifth of the city and with the eighth highest rate of per capita spending, the Trust For Public Land declared San Francisco's park system one of the best in the nation.
Interactive site records over 10,000 historic markers around the world, including a few here in San Francisco that are pretty weird, as far as things you'd want to commemorate.
Where do the best San Francisco parks come from? From deserts, cemeteries, excavated hills, and apartment fires, as we see when we peer into the past via historical photos to see how public renovation can make something out of nothing (or close it).