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Yosemite National Park

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2013

    It's Not Too Late To Book a Chef's Holiday Dinner at the Ahwahnee Hotel

    Itching for a snow outing with magnificent views of Half Dome, Glacier Point and Yosemite Falls ... and an easy drive? Consider Yosemite instead of the usual Tahoe run. Hotel options can be Pricelined as low as $65 a night in neighboring Mariposa or you can pretend you are in your own personal Downt ... More >>

  • Music

    September 12, 2012

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Itching for a snow outing with magnificent views of Half Dome, Glacier Point and Yosemite Falls ... and an easy drive? Consider Yosemite instead of the usual Tahoe run. Hotel options can be Pricelined as low as $65 a night in neighboring Mariposa or you can pretend you are in your own personal Downt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2012

    R.I.P. Matthew Africa, Beloved Oakland Hip-Hop DJ

    We're just getting word via Facebook and other sources that beloved local hip-hop DJ Matthew Africa passed away this Monday in a car accident. He was 40. His sister, Julia Africa, posted the following on Facebook: My brother, Matthew Africa, was killed in a car accident on Monday afternoon. He and ... More >>

  • News

    September 5, 2012

    SF Weekly Letters

    We're just getting word via Facebook and other sources that beloved local hip-hop DJ Matthew Africa passed away this Monday in a car accident. He was 40. His sister, Julia Africa, posted the following on Facebook: My brother, Matthew Africa, was killed in a car accident on Monday afternoon. He and ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 2012

    Carbon Tax Funds: S.F. Monies Are Sitting Around Unused

    We're just getting word via Facebook and other sources that beloved local hip-hop DJ Matthew Africa passed away this Monday in a car accident. He was 40. His sister, Julia Africa, posted the following on Facebook: My brother, Matthew Africa, was killed in a car accident on Monday afternoon. He and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2012

    Another Yosemite Camper Dies From Hantavirus

    Sadly, another adventurer who visited Yosemite this summer has reportedly died from a rare, rodent-borne disease otherwise known as the hantavirus. Health officials issued an alert yesterday, warning anyone who visited the national park this summer to watch out for flu-like symptoms -- and see a doc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2012

    Live Review, 8/25/12: The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit Leads a Backwoods-Style Stomp at Great American

    Shelby Ash Presents Big Ass Hillbilly Show No. 3 featuring the Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, the Trespassers and the Harmed Brothers. Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: kissing your cousin without a condom. The awfullest bad jokes ever, premium beer bellies, and epic m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2012

    This Land is Our Land

    Shelby Ash Presents Big Ass Hillbilly Show No. 3 featuring the Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, the Trespassers and the Harmed Brothers. Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: kissing your cousin without a condom. The awfullest bad jokes ever, premium beer bellies, and epic m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Top 5 Places to Escape Christmas

    Whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Shaman, anti-consumerist, or Mr. Grinch, you could be one of the millions who don't leave cookies out for an old fat man who illegally enters your home via fireplace-shimmying. And that's okay! Because here in America, we're known for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Francisco Carrillo-Beltran, Mexican National, Accused of Smuggling Meth Through Airport

    Great for massages, not so great for drug smuggling​Border Patrol agents seized about 11 pounds of methamphetamine from Francisco Carillo-Beltran's luggage as he traveled through the Fresno/Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 11. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 42-year-old Carr ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2011

    SF's Drinking Water May Be Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS

    Great for massages, not so great for drug smuggling​Border Patrol agents seized about 11 pounds of methamphetamine from Francisco Carillo-Beltran's luggage as he traveled through the Fresno/Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 11. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 42-year-old Carr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    S.F. Rising: Spot Bagel Plays with Seeds, Chiles, and Corn

    Jonathan KauffmanSpot Bagels: double onion, plain, cinnamon raisin, and the Frieda.​ Red boxes with clear plastic doors began appearing in local markets like Bi-Rite and Good Life a few weeks ago, labeled with the name of the Bay Area's newest bakery, Spot Bagel. Tantalizingly empty at first, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Possible Norovirus Outbreak at Camp Mather

    Norovirus in the house ​San Francisco officials are scrambling to disinfect a local camp where they suspect kids have been in contact with the nasty Norovirus. According to the Examiner, three campers and some employees reported having symptoms of the gastrointestinal virus, which include vomiting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Seniors to S.F.: Stop Killing Us!

    Would you want your grandmother crossing that street?​San Francisco senior citizens are tired of being killed crossing streets -- and understandably so. That's why on Wednesday they plan to do something about it. They're inviting the public to watch them attempt to cross a dangerous intersection o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Yosemite Buffalo Soldiers' History Should Be Part of School Curriculum, Jackie Speier Says

    Buffalo Soldiers remembered​Too bad Mark Matthews, the last surviving Buffalo Soldier who died six years ago at age 111, isn't around to mark this historic moment.Congresswoman Jackie Speier is pushing through a bill that would --for the first time ever --give the nation's all black cavalry a prom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Men Walking Across United States Pass Through San Francisco

    Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?​Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    BASE Jumper Won't Stop Illegal Leaps Despite Yosemite Tasing

    Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?​Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Hunters Point Project's Contentious Bridge Not a Done Deal Yet

    I know, how about we build a freeway bridge over your park?​It's not over until it's over: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has allowed Lennar to go ahead with a Hunters Point housing development proposal that includes a 41-foot wide bridge bridge over Yosemite Slough. But that doesn't mean ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Barbara Boxer Helps Score $36.8 Million for California Counties. S.F. Gets a Piddling $5,668.

    Hey, thanks a lot!​Sen. Barbara Boxer, in a tight re-election contest against Republican Carly Fiorina, has helped largely poor and rural California counties to a vat federal funds. Boxer has lent a hand in hastening this year's installment of government payments showered upon counties to com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Seriously?? Two More Vehicles Torched Last Night

    nhtroopers.orgTwice last night​When fans jump onto the fields of play during baseball games, television crews typically point their cameras towards the sky, scoreboard or something anything else. This is done to discourage future knuckleheads -- who realize they won't get any media attention -- fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Baylinks: Aliens, Bomb Threats, & Molly Ringwald

    ​Good Vibrations aligns itself with organization that champions clitorises and space aliens. [SFAppeal]What would Wednesday be without a bomb threat? [SFist]Molly Ringwald spotted at Delfina. No word on if she did the lipstick trick. [Mission Mission]A look at an overlooked body of water in S.F., ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Move to Ban Smoking in State Parks Gains Steam. Guns in National Parks? That's Fine.

    This may soon be illegal in State Parks. It's still kosher in National Parks, though -- as are firearms. ​ Smoking in the park? Perish the thought. A smoking gun in the park? Well ... that all depends on the park. Yesterday, the state Assembly passed a bill enacting a broad smoking ban in the sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    This Week: Black Cuisine 2010, Bayview's 30th Annual Soul Food Cook-Off

    ​Now in its 44th year, the Pillsbury Bake-Off may be more venerable than Bayview's 30-year-old Soul Food Cook-Off, but we know which contest we'd rather judge. This Friday and Saturday, Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services brings together cooks and musicians for Black Cuisine 2010, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Today's Lesson: Drive Too Fast on Bay Bridge S-Curve, and You Can Die

    Some day, our bridge will come​There may yet be mitigating factors regarding this morning's fatal plunge by a speeding truck driver off the Bay Bridge's ungainly new S-Curve to Yerba Buena Island 200 feet below. But it seems that the takeaway is a message so simple that state authorities and the m ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    Fixing Hetch Hetchy Dam costs $1 billion more than it should

    Some day, our bridge will come​There may yet be mitigating factors regarding this morning's fatal plunge by a speeding truck driver off the Bay Bridge's ungainly new S-Curve to Yerba Buena Island 200 feet below. But it seems that the takeaway is a message so simple that state authorities and the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Critical Ass: SF's World Naked Bike Ride 2009

    On Saturday at noon, Justin Herman Plaza was sun-drenched and buzzing with the activity of particularly open-minded crowd, and passersby were beginning to take notice. "What the hell are all these people doing half-naked and shit?" one man cried.He was obviously not familiar with the way t ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    On Saturday at noon, Justin Herman Plaza was sun-drenched and buzzing with the activity of particularly open-minded crowd, and passersby were beginning to take notice. "What the hell are all these people doing half-naked and shit?" one man cried.He was obviously not familiar with the way t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Will the new Hetch Hetchy plan wring San Francisco dry?

    Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

  • Film

    August 6, 2008

    To the Limit

    Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

  • Music

    July 2, 2008

    Nonconformity Still Reigns!

    The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Worst Chronicle Headline-Photo SNAFU yet

    The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2008

    Hanging Around

    The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

  • Listen Up

    March 15, 2006

    Band of Brothers

    Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

  • News

    March 2, 2005

    Drawn and Quartered

    A few designs for the California quarter that better capture the nature of our splendid state

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2005

    Your Year to See the World

    How to travel well in 2005 without bankrupting yourself

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2005

    Free the Forests

    Arbor Day art show

  • Dining

    October 20, 2004

    Reality Check

    Everyone can find something to like at Sydney's Home

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Big Dam Mess

    The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2004

    Spies in the House of Love

    Leave your Manolo Blahniks at home for the "Sex in the City Tour"

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2003

    Voicing It Over

    Screen hecklers gone wild

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Bowling for People With Bad Backs

    HyperBowl

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Bike Ride

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Five Best Places to Celebrate the Sunset

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Calendar

    June 23, 1999

    Night & Day

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Calendar

    June 2, 1999

    Street Smarts

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Calendar

    February 26, 1997

    Night+Day

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Calendar

    August 28, 1996

    Unspun

    Marin Headlands Loop

  • Calendar

    April 17, 1996

    Night+Day

    Marin Headlands Loop

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