National Park Service

The Cup Runneth Over: S.F.'s America's Cup Decision Looms

San Francisco's Top Five Diners

​Even San Francisco natives like me are sometimes alarmed by the pressure applied to denizens of this city to publicly acknowledge that we live in the best place on earth. That being said, we certainly do have access to the best of things here: The best intoxicants, stimulants, and ingredients; th ... More >>

Spotting Birds at a Record Pace, with a Camera and a Bike

Palace of Fine Arts Has New Tenants -- Barn Owls

They're cute when they're young.​Many people know about the great horned owl family living on Strawberry Hill in the middle of Stow Lake. But did you know barn owls -- the ghostly-looking birds with white, heart-shaped faces -- are making a family at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina?Josi ... More >>

'Tea Party's Gonna Get You,' Ex-Presidio Trust Employee Threatens

Hi. I'm your new co-worker.​A Federal Judge has issued a restraining order banning Robert Stokes from visiting his ex-employer, The Presidio Trust, after he threatened to sic the Tea Party on the organization that manages the sprawling San Francisco park."You know what: I'm gonna get a hold of the ... More >>

BASE Jumper Won't Stop Illegal Leaps Despite Yosemite Tasing

Off the Grid Organizer Seeking Permits for Street-Food Markets in S.F. Parks

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyRec and Park commissioners vote Thursday to allow Off the Grid-like markets in three city parks.​The organizer of S.F.'s Off the Grid street-food market at Fort Mason Center could soon be rolling out similar events in three city parks. At Thursday's regularly scheduled ... More >>

Bleeding Green

Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.

Elizabeth and Jeffery Easterling Died on First Sailing Trip 'Out the Gate'

Exclusive to SF WeeklyJeff and Beth Easterling's empty boat, the Barcarolle. This was, apparently, the couple's maiden voyage 'out the Gate.''​Jeff and Beth Easterling were experienced sailors. Their ship, the Barcarolle, was a good boat. But they had apparently never before experienced the condit ... More >>

'Pedophile Island' Proposed By California Gov. Candidate

​Is it just us, or does state politics have an unseemly apocalyptic tone these days? First we had "demon sheep" -- twice -- then "apostles of darkness." Now Republican gubernatorial candidate Douglas Hughes, an erstwhile unknown, has come forward with what just might be the wackiest millenarian ca ... More >>

Eric Mar Pushes Non-Binding Resolution to Save Louis' Restaurant. Naturally.

Feds threatening to board up your 73-year-old restaurant? We got a non-binding resolution for that! ​We've written a bit about the plight of Louis' Restaurant, the 73-year-old city institution perched over the remains of Sutro Baths. The restaurant has lasted this long despite the arbitrary decisi ... More >>

Meet the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron’s Head Park

Pretty Bad Girls

Without parental guidance, they lived wild and free at an early age, but murder will keep them locked up for years.

Presidio Trust's Fisher Museum Propaganda War Continues

The term 'Presidio Trust' has become an oxymoronThe Presidio Trust is a wholly owned government corporation created by Congress to manage the Presidio.The Presidio Trust is not a private fiefdom assigned to connive its way into granting Gap magnate Don Fisher his dream of creating a publicly-subsidi ... More >>

The Pork Park

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is quietly trying to keep the Presidio on the public teat. That's a good thing.

SF Weekly Letters

Fall Into the Cash

Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

The Little Tribe That Could

As descendants of San Francisco’s aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change.

Bambi Must Die

The efficient killing of invasive deer is being fought by concerned animal activists in Marin. But who's looking out for S.F. venison connoisseurs?

It Will Keep Shining

After years of self-sacrifice, legendary newspaper editor Dave Mitchell sells his beloved Point Reyes Light

Can Light Stay Afloat?

POINT REYES -- Can Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Mitchell keep his small, renowned, and cash-starved newspaper going? It's a question...

An Instigator's Instigator

The guy who pitted dog people against plant people in one of S.F.'s epic political battles has, um, switched sides

Am I Blue

Characterless chowders and seafood seem at home in the too-casual Blue Mermaid

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

Poisoned Gods

As museums return stolen religious artifacts, Native Americans are learning that their most sacred objects may kill them

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 14, 2002

Hail the Conquering Hero

Why is a Bay Area filmmaker who cherishes his independence about to direct a $40 million studio film?

Shut Up!

Former musician Bernie Krause has spent 30 years recording the pristine sounds of nature in the remotest corners of the world. Now, after all his travels, he has an important message for the human race: Shut up!

Balkans by the Bay

Aquatic Park, long mismanaged by a jumble of self-interested entities, needs public-spirited refurbishment

Citizen Canine

As the dog wars heat up, desperate times call for desperate measures -- perhaps a mandatory test for off-leash pets?

West Coasters

Cliff House

No March Madness

The fervor isn't building for another gay rally on Washington

A Hobo's Progress

U. Utah Phillips, inspiration to Ani DiFranco and card-carrying Wobbly, is Northern California's institutional memory of itinerant folk

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Ship of Fools

Men keep falling in love with the aging steam schooner Wapama. She always exacts her price.

Presidio Originals

The Muwekma Ohlone tribe pushes for a voice in Presidio planning -- and, perhaps, a piece of a national park

Boondoggle by the Bay

Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

Night + Day

A Pollution Breakthrough

Powerful new environmental cleanup regime relies on expert use of votive candles, flowers

Cliff Notes

Night Crawler

That Sinking Feeling

Sinkhole that ate Seacliff still eats at its residents

The Grid

Rural Renewal

Will paving one of S.F.'s last dirt streets improve or ruin east Bernal Heights?

Dog Bites

Letters

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?