Subject: San Francisco Zoo

• Chronicle Building Landmarked, Up for Sale in Same Week

  October 25, 2007

• San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attacks, Kills Slow News Day -- 12.26

  December 26, 2007

• The Slingshot Heard Round The Bay, Or Maybe Not

  January 2, 2008

• Tatiana The Tiger Slingshot Theory Seemingly Debunked

  January 4, 2008

• These are the Days of Repetition. These are the Days of Repetition.

  January 11, 2008

• The Chronicle Mashup: An Amalgamation of All the Stories Our Local Paper Has Covered to Death

  January 23, 2008

• Seriously, people. Stop taunting the animals at the SF Zoo.

  March 3, 2008

• SF Government InAction: We blame everybody. EVERYBODY!

  By Benjamin Wachs San Francisco has managed to come out of the most hopeful election in US memory more divided than ever. It’s not because Prop 8 passed – everybody loses at some point in a Democracy. It’s because our search for someone to blame has now got us hating each other even more than we did two weeks ago. Instead of using this loss to reflect on ways we can build better, stronger, more vibrant movement and establish new connections, our very first reaction … right out

  November 17, 2008

• Snacktion: Wright's Pink Popcorn

  Name: Pink PopcornBrand: Wright's Popcorn and Nut CompanyOrigin: San FranciscoFound at: Wishbone (601 Irving)Cost: $1.25Ingredients: Popcorn, sugar, corn syrup, coconut oil, soy lecithin, color added (includes FD&C Red #40), artificial flavor, waterCalories per serving: 130Why I bought it: I have fond memories of being a young child and gobbling this pink popcorn at the San Francisco Zoo. I have never seen it anywhere else, so I got was pretty excited to see it on the shelves at the eternall

  January 6, 2009

• S.F. Zoo Maitenance Worker's Ghastly Tell-All Doesn't Say Much

  Following the 2007 tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, a former zoo maintenance worker, Lloyd Kraal, briefly garnered a place in the spotlight when he claimed that zoo officials ignored his previous warnings that the tigers would escape from their enclosure. He also claimed that his superior, Gogo Heinrich, had sexually harassed him. He filed a wrongful termination and sexual harassment suit against his former employers. While the zoo allegedly acknowledged that Heinrich's actions were inappr

  May 29, 2009

• Night+Day

  May 22, 1996

• Benjamin Wachs' New Year's Resolutions

  January 7, 2009

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  December 31, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  December 24, 2008

• Become a San Francisco Dog Poop Detective

  September 10, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  March 26, 2008

• Bouncer Sees The Three Stages of Relationships at Pilsner Inn

  January 23, 2008

• Environmentalists to Answer Letterman-esque Question at S.F. Hearing: Can Man in Bear Suit Hand Petition to Secretary of Interior?

  Will bears of color be heard from as well? In this city, you've got to watch yourself when you crack wise about ferocious wild predators gallivanting through the city; after Tatiana the Tiger hopped the fence at the San Francisco Zoo, all bets are off. So when the Center for Biological Diversity announced that a polar bear would be handing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar an environmental petition at a Mission Bay hearing tomorrow morning, one could be forgiven for imagining the worst (and

  April 15, 2009

• Seats for a Song

  September 5, 2007

• Animal Collective

  August 1, 2007

• 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?

  March 21, 2007

• Beetle Mania

  June 1, 2005

• Affairs to Remember

  A comprehensive guide to Valentine's Day events for those in love, opposed to love, and everything in between

  February 9, 2005

• Fowl Play

  February 2, 2005

• Life on the Savanna

  May 26, 2004

• Round One!

  Get KO'd at the Cow Palace

  March 24, 2004

• Doctor's Appointment

  Commemorate a Seussian century

  March 3, 2004

• Hula Hoedown

  February 18, 2004

• Communiqués From Kabul

  Afghan art at the Crissy Field Center

  January 21, 2004

• Squeezebox Celebration

  Give the accordion a hand

  June 11, 2003

• Crazy for Christmas

  Tired of a traditional holiday? Try opening presents with an elephant or playing a game of Ba-Da-Bingo!

  December 26, 2001

• Sound Advice

  December 5, 2001

• What's Love Got to Do With It?

  Valentine's Day Amusements

  February 14, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Nothing happened last week – and Laurel Wellman tells you all about it

  January 3, 2001

• Reel World

  Animal House; I Can't Sleep

  July 19, 2000

• Busted Hearts Club

  "Love Stinks"

  February 9, 2000

• Night Crawler

  February 10, 1999

• Night + Day

  December 23, 1998

• The Five Days of Eros

  February 11, 1998

• Night Crawler

  February 19, 1997

• Who's Watching the Zoo?

  As the $48 million June ballot measure looms, so do questions about the financial assumptions behind it

  February 19, 1997

• Saturday Night: The 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hilton

  Chelsea HandlerGLAAD Media Awards May 9, 2009 The Hilton Review and sketches by Evan James Better than: All six volumes of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. So much great writing has been done about gay media awards shows--The Sound and the Fury, Moby Dick, Little Women. So when I was asked to attend the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defenestration Media Awards, to mix fast-talking red carpet reportage, penetrating psychedelic insight, and light-hearted mendacity l

  May 11, 2009

• Told You So: Newsweek Reports SF Wastewater Plant Now a Popular Tourist Destination. Imagine How Popular It'd Be If We'd Named It After George W. Bush.

  Turns out that wouldn't have been a bad idea after all Funny how being broke changes your perspective on things. Not so long ago, a goodly number of Californians still seemed to believe that marijuana made you behave like flesh-eating zombies as depicted in the now-laughable film Reefer Madness. Yet now that the state's run out of money and our bond rating is "Top Ramen," the idea of legalizing pot and taxing it appeals to a healthy majority of Californians -- and Gov. Arnold "Is Numero Uno" Sch

  May 12, 2009

• Lost In the Zoo -- With Hordes and Hordes of Kiddies

  Children to right of them, children to left of them, children in front of them... As you can see in the above photograph, one, two, three -- FOUR -- school buses pulled up simultaneously this morning at the San Francisco Zoo, depositing their youthful, hyperenergetic, Miley Cyrus-adoring cargo onto the baking pavement. One moment after this photo was taken the No. 18 bus pulled up and disgorged its own contingent of tiny children. Clearly, for anyone harboring a yen for wild, carnivorous beastie

  May 21, 2009

• Zog's Dogs Not Exactly Artisan, but They Do Have a Zippy Sense of Humor

  M. Brody A kielbasa receives a squirt of mustard. Tucked behind the FiDi's One Post building (where Post, Market, and Montgomery meet) is Zog's Dogs, a new, bright yellow stand serving up an array of dogs and widely sourced sausages. Prices range from $3 for a corn dog to $6 for the Prop 8 Dog (two wieners snuggling in one bun). The quarter-pound sausages include hot links, spicy Italian Calabrese, bratwurst, lemon chicken, and low-fat turkey spiced with peppers and cilantro. M. B

  August 5, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  What was the F'd up part of the bridge again?​This was a week for openings. The bridge opened, a sex club opened in one of the city's least sexy locales, and, speaking of openness and sexiness, an elephantine state Assemblyman was remarkably frank with his astoundingly filthy claims of sexual conquests of women who had pending government business before his legislative boards. Phew! It's time for a weekend. But first, a news quiz. 1. Xiyu Li is: A. The crewman who died after falling off a San

  September 11, 2009

• S.F. Zoo 'Grizzly Bear Man' Heading to Another Uncomfortable Enclosure -- Court

  Kenneth Herron​Kenneth Herron, the man who somehow entered the San Francisco Zoo's Grizzly Bear Grotto last month will this morning again be in a room filled with foreboding creatures -- a local criminal court.Pre-trail motions before Judge Wallace Douglass are scheduled to commence at 9 a.m. today, with a jury panel ordered for tomorrow morning, according to the District Attorney's office. Herron, 21, has pleaded not guilty to a pair of charges: trespassing and the eye-catching unlawful distu

  October 26, 2009

• Law Prof: Yes, You Can Spend Night in Bear Grotto and Not Break Any Laws

  More intimidating than trespassing laws, it would seem...​Bob Talbot was shocked when he read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who nearly made the grave -- by crawling into the Grizzly Bear Grotto at the San Francisco Zoo. Yesterday, Judge Wallace Douglass ruled that Kenneth Herron's much-publicized foray into the bear enclosure did not constitute trespassing, as the 21-year-old homeless man "did not intend to make the bear enclosure his place of residency, nor did his actions convey

  November 3, 2009

• Breaking: Bear Baiter Beats the Rap

  Kenneth Herron​Kenneth Herron, who yesterday had the trespassing charge tossed following his foray into the San Francisco Zoo Grizzly Grotto, today beat the one remaining charge -- "willfully disturbing a wild and dangerous animal -- to wit, bears."Herron, 21, who has a history of mental illness, will be released by the San Francisco Sheriff's department to officials in either Sacramento or Union City -- "both of which have criminal holds placed on the defendant for open criminal matters," acc

  November 3, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  Need someone to help you figure out how many grams are in an ounce? Here's your ace.​Gavin! Timmy! Tyson Beckford! Grizzly Bear! Immunity to cereal! What a week. But were you paying attention? 1. Putting the bizarre cherry atop a surreal sundae, an expert witness gave what rationale for 21-year-old homeless man Kenneth Herron entering the San Francisco Zoo's Grizzly Bear Grotto? A. The defendant believed he was a spiritual cousin of the bears, and wished to free them from their metaphysical bo

  November 6, 2009