Before there were any humans around to construct artificial waterfalls, the rock next to today’s Rainbow Falls was forming on the ocean floor more than 100 million years ago.
‘Looking Back’: Rainbow Falls
A Plan for Concerts After Outside Lands Goes to Board of Supervisors
Starting next year, another weekend of August concerts will be held at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park following the Outside Lands Music Festival if the San Francisco Board of Supervisors green-lights the proposal in September.
Press Release: Agreement Reached on Proposed Concerts in GG Park Pending Board Approval
A proposal to host a series of ticketed concerts in the Golden Gate Park Polo Fields will go before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in September following an initial agreement reached today between the Recreation and Park Department, Another Planet Entertainment (APE) and District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan.
Letter to the Editor: Problems With Approval Process for Extra GG Park Concert
Since the first concert isn’t projected to take place until after the 2024 Outside Lands, what’s the hurry? Why not put off the vote for a month and follow up on some of the concerns raised? People who depend on the Polo Fields cycling track for exercise and relaxation are locked out for 4-5 weeks if the post-Outside Lands concert is approved.
Press Release: Bouquets to Art at de Young
The Bay Area’s beloved floral fundraiser, Bouquets to Art, returns this June, celebrating fresh summer florals in conversation with the permanent collection and architecture of the de Young museum.
Press Release: Third Annual Bruce Ettinger Bottle Yacht Regatta at Spreckels Lake, GG Park
Come cheer on the bottle boats on Sunday, June 11 at 1 p.m. at the Third
Annual Bruce Ettinger Bottle Yacht Regatta hosted by the San Francisco
Model Yacht Club at Spreckels Lake (36th Ave/Fulton Street) in Golden
Gate Park.
From a Reader: Roosevelt Middle School’s 5K Run in GG Park
700 students seen running through Golden Gate Park!
‘Looking Back’: Rose Garden
If it was once a well-known fact that roses could not be grown in San Francisco, how is there a flourishing rose garden in Golden Gate Park?
Press Release: The 4-1-1 on 4/20 2023
San Francisco’s legendary 420 celebration will return to Golden Gate Park Thursday, drawing an estimated 20,000 cannabis fans and sparking a citywide effort to ensure the high spirits bring minimal hassles.
2023 Concert Series at GG Park’s Music Concourse Runs Through November
Free live music will greet listeners in Golden Gate Park once again throughout the majority of 2023. In late February, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced the return of the free live music series at the popular bandshell, with 2023 marking the third series of performances that range from R&B and soul to salsa music.
‘Looking Back’: Sue Bierman Grove
Despite America’s love affair with the automobile after World War II, no freeway directly connected the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge between Hayes Valley and the Presidio, so traffic relied on city streets.
Kehinde Wiley Debuts Ambitious Exhibit at the de Young
“Art should show you something you’ve never seen before.” – Kehinde Wiley
Press Release: Community Event Celebrating Inclusion of People With Disabilities, April 22 in GG Park
Best Buddies International, a groundbreaking nonprofit founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), is excited to announce the Best Buddies Friendship Walk: San Francisco in Golden Gate Park.
Photos: Cal. Academy of Sciences Rock Fund Program
Elementary students from Sunset and Richmond district schools, including Francis Scott Key Elementary, Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary, and Claire Lilienthal Elementary and their family members were among the 8,000 visitors treated to a free family night at the California Academy of Sciences, thanks to the museum’s Rock Fund Program which underwrites access for all San Francisco’s school kids through field trips and other activities.
Letter to the Editor: More to the Story – Botanical Garden’s History
The ambience of the redwood grove will be forever impaired by the new fence. Beloved gardens are gone forever. And taxpayers are on the hock for millions to pay bond interest for for these “improvements” as well as for the new $1.1 million fence, advertising and signage. All without a single meeting of local community members taking place!
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