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California Academy of Sciences Begins Epic Animal Migration

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Below Expectations

Dining is unexpectedly hidden under the new planetarium and aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

Too Much Nature

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Let Us Atom

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

I Sea Food and I Paint it

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Waterbar Wets Whistle of Thrillist

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Eating Right

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Move 'Em Out

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Get Out of the House Free Card

Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.

Seats for a Song

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Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

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I, Chocoholic

The more you learn about the sweet stuff, the better it gets

Further Browsing

The more you learn about the sweet stuff, the better it gets

Run Away

Better than Bay to Breakers?

Ant Invasion

See them creep and crawl in SOMA

Say It Loud

Korean-Americans find their voice

Haunted Happenings

Halloween Listings

Use Your Head

Agent Skull-y

Birthday Bash

The Academy turns 150

Moonstruck

Two museum events that'll turn your kids into space cadets

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Songs of Science

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

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If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

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If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

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Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>

The You Lagoon

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>

Urchin Art

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>

Penguins Defy Arranged Couplings at the California Academy of Sciences

The illicit love of Howard and Safara​Last night at the California Academy of Sciences, a group of spectators gathered around the African penguin exhibit squealed and cooed as twenty blackfoot penguins bopped around their rocky enclosure like so many wind-up toys. These parti ... More >>

California Academy of Sciences Turns One

The illicit love of Howard and Safara​Last night at the California Academy of Sciences, a group of spectators gathered around the African penguin exhibit squealed and cooed as twenty blackfoot penguins bopped around their rocky enclosure like so many wind-up toys. These parti ... More >>

F*&k Your Car Fish

The illicit love of Howard and Safara​Last night at the California Academy of Sciences, a group of spectators gathered around the African penguin exhibit squealed and cooed as twenty blackfoot penguins bopped around their rocky enclosure like so many wind-up toys. These parti ... More >>

Could Discovery of 'Extinct' Plant Toss Monkey Wrench Into Doyle Drive Rebuild?

© California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita​The other day we reported on the apparent discovery of a Franciscan Manzanita in the Presidio -- the first wild specimen of the native San Franciscan plant spotted since 1947. But, in a development that appears to be ironic -- without any m ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Thursday's Prix-Fixe Madness

​From now through the end of SF Beer Week, we're providing daily quarterbacking for the frothiest events. Skol, dudes. Jesse Friedman/Beer & Nosh​We're over the Beer Week hump ― time to let the real gluttony begin. Behold the prix-fixe beer dinner: Thursday has eight on the schedule, ... More >>

Last Night: Noise Pop Pre-Party at California Academy of Sciences

​NightLife's Noise Pop Pre-Party Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 NightLife at California Academy of Sciences Better than: Sitting in science class. It's a shame that so many locals have yet to experience the city's best bar: NightLife at the Academy of Sciences. Like watching Planet Earth, and Cosmos b ... More >>

Dawn Party With Fool's Gold at Cal Academy This Weekend

Marianne WilliamsFool's Gold​San Francisco has a knack for seamlessly blending the sacred with the hip -- just look at Grace Cathedral's monthly EpiscoDisco event -- and that's definitely the case with Saturday's Dawn 2010. Presented by Reboot and Tablet Magazine in celebration of Shavuot -- ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Fool's Gold at California Academy of Sciences

​Fool's Gold  Saturday, May 15, 2010 Dawn 2010 party at the California Academy of Sciences Better than: Staring at the albino alligator... ... although that wasn't an immediate consensus among the swank crowd at Saturday's Dawn 2010 party. Held in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuo ... More >>

Moving Franciscan Manzanita: Not Cheap

© California Academy of SciencesThe most expensive bush since Reggie Bush? ​Readers may recall the irony of scientists discovering an "extinct" Franciscan Manzanita, a plant no one had seen for 60 years in the wild, right in the middle of land about to be leveled for a highway project. At the tim ... More >>

Franciscan Manzanita, Once Thought Extinct, On Way to Becoming 'Endangered'

© California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita: Once 'extinct,' now 'endangered'? ​Usually, a species has to be endangered before it goes extinct. Not the Franciscan Manzanita. It went extinct -- and now it may become endangered. Readers may recall the discovery last year of a Francisca ... More >>

Our Ideas for the New Golden Gate Park App

Parks hold other wonders besides waterfowl​The California Academy of Sciences has just launched a new app that serves as a guide to Golden Gate Park, according to richmondsfblog.com. The app offers a few different functions, including a "field guide" to the park's flora and fauna; a map; an "adven ... More >>

Yule Log Burns On

That's the basic idea...​Is it a sign of the decline and fall of western civilization or, rather, a wonderful thing that one of the Bay Area's highest-rated Christmas TV programs is simply footage of a log burning -- for hours? By now you know: The answer is "yes."  The "holiday log" once aga ... More >>

Park It Right Here

That's the basic idea...​Is it a sign of the decline and fall of western civilization or, rather, a wonderful thing that one of the Bay Area's highest-rated Christmas TV programs is simply footage of a log burning -- for hours? By now you know: The answer is "yes."  The "holiday log" once aga ... More >>

Tonight: The Nightlife's Paved With Cheese

Janky Barge DJ Collective Knows How to Have a Good Time.​Cheese Lover's Nightlife Where: California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse (at Martin Luther King Jr., in Golden Gate Park), 379-8000 When: Thurs., May 26, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $12 ($10 for members) The rundown: The California Ac ... More >>

Best Coast Charms the Wildlife at Cal Academy of Sciences

Stian RasmussenBest Coast at Cal Academy last night.​ Best Coast Eskmo Motion Potion DJ Platurn Eric Sharp August 11, 2011 California Academy of the Sciences / Outside Lands night show Better than: Being the tortoise that Claude the albino alligator uses as a stepping stone. It's always hard ... More >>

A Quick and Easy Guide to Talking (or Not Talking) at Concerts

​After having Jens Lekman's subtly gorgeous show at California Academy of Sciences nearly ruined last night by loudly chattering drunks, we think it's perhaps time to lay down some reasonable guidelines for talking during shows. No pop music show, no matter how quiet, is like the symphony, whe ... More >>

The Skull Behind the Face

​After having Jens Lekman's subtly gorgeous show at California Academy of Sciences nearly ruined last night by loudly chattering drunks, we think it's perhaps time to lay down some reasonable guidelines for talking during shows. No pop music show, no matter how quiet, is like the symphony, whe ... More >>

Boozing at the Library: Friends of the Library Hosting Happy Hour

Books Heart Booze​If you've ever heard the representative of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library drone on during Board of Supes' meetings until he's gonged off the public comment podium, you'll know that then knocking back a hard one couldn't hurt. You can even help the bookish boozing alo ... More >>

The Universe in a Snowman

Books Heart Booze​If you've ever heard the representative of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library drone on during Board of Supes' meetings until he's gonged off the public comment podium, you'll know that then knocking back a hard one couldn't hurt. You can even help the bookish boozing alo ... More >>

Burma Superstar's New Location and The Ice Cream Bar Readies to Open

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. With an hour-and-half average wait time (on a Tuesday!) at the original Burma Superstar on Clement, we can't say we're surprised the owners are looking to open their fourth (second in the City) location. ... More >>