Photos from the Great Hauntway event, 2023.
Photos: The Great Hauntway, 2023
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City Hall: Joel Engardio
I introduced a ballot measure urging San Francisco’s public schools to let kids take algebra by the eighth grade. Now, we make everyone wait until ninth grade because some aren’t ready for algebra sooner. Let’s better prepare all students instead of holding back kids who love math.
Sponsored: Annual Holiday Market at St. Francis Episcopal Church
Holiday Market, Nov. 11 and 12.
Roy Tahtinen’s ‘HeartSFound’ Photographs Are Love Letters to San Francisco
Roy Tahtinen conceived of his current photographic series on Valentine’s Day in 2016, when he made “an unintentional pivot” while collecting stones at Ocean Beach.
Award-Winning Filmmaking Partners Tell Stories That Need to Be Told
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, co-directing, co-producing and co-writing partners since 1978, are promoting their latest documentary, “Música!” during the fall film festival circuit. Despite winning Oscars, Emmys and a Grammy, creating and releasing new work never gets old.
Osher Lifelong Learning Serving Older Adults for 20 Years
If you are 50 years old or older and looking to make new friends and/or kick your brain into a higher gear, now is an excellent time to get acquainted with one of the Bay Area’s treasures, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State.
Press Release: Third Annual ‘Great Hauntway’ Planned for Oct. 29
The Friends of Great Highway Park has announced the return of The Great Hauntway, San Francisco’s largest car-free Halloween trick-or-treating event. The Great Hauntway is a free, family-friendly community Halloween event featuring more than a mile of trick-or-treating, kids’ activities and live music from Carry Nation. The Great Hauntway will take place on Sunday, Oct. 29, 1-4 p.m on the scenic Upper Great Highway between Judah and Taraval streets.
Letter to the Editor: Peering Into SF’s Future
Let us peer into San Francisco’s future. While mutual funds might warn that “past performance is no guarantee of future results,” one can predict how things will progress in our area by looking at the way such matters have gone in the past.
Botanical Garden’s Flower Piano Event Draws 65,000 Music Lovers to GG Park
From Sept. 8 to 12, Flower Piano came back for its eighth annual appearance. Hosted by the Gardens of Golden Gate Park (GGGP) and organized by Sunset Piano, the event celebrated the diversity of music in all its forms.
Photos: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2023
The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival started in 2001 in Golden Gate Park and has grown to three full days of music on six stages drawing hundreds of thousands of fans. The festival is a gift to the City from the late philanthropist Warren Hellman and is free to attend.
First-Ever Sunset Night Market an Overwhelming Success
Irving Street between 20th and 23rd avenues was packed with people for more than five hours on Sept. 15 at the first-ever Sunset Night Market. The event was the brainchild of District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio who saw the crowds at the night market in Taipei, the home of his husband’s family, and initiated a similar event in the Sunset.
‘Then and Now’: Lower Great Highway at Vicente Street
Comparison photos of Lower Great Highway at Vicente St. roughly 95 years apart.
Sixth Station Trio Plays Ghibli Tribute For Flower Piano Debut
On Sept. 8 and 10, local band Sixth Station Trio made its Flower Piano debut. With Katelyn Tan on the piano, Anju Goto on the violin and Federico Ramirez on the cello, the band played a tribute to Studio Ghibli: an hour-long collection of music from the whimsically animated Japanese films.
Sunset District Artist Jeremiah Daly Inspires Awe Through His Abstract Work
The metamorphosis of the Stonestown Galleria from an archaic, 20th-century, car-centric shopping mall into a modern panoply of products, services and entertainment choices is progressing with a new arcade and bowling alley proposed for development there.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
Thank you to everyone who attended the first-ever Sunset Night Market. More than 10,000 people showed up. Longtime residents said they’ve never seen that many people gathered on Irving Street or anywhere in the Sunset before.
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