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Bluegrass Grows in Golden Gate Park.

Senor Cardgage — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:36:48 -0800

Bluegrass Grows in Golden Gate Park. The line-up for the 8th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has been announced for the first weekend of October in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, its traditional location since its inception in 2001. Concieved (and fully funded out of pocket) by San Francisco billionaire (and amateur banjo player) Warren Hellman as "a selfish gift" to his hometown, the festival has featured bluegrass legends like Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley, to more tangentially-related acts like Drive-By Truckers and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. This year's eclectic line-up features some regulars, some odd surprises, some bonafide Legends and even a folky Balkan curveball or two. Also, have I mentioned that it's free?

Look, you work your side of the street, and I'll work mine.

miss lynnster — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:14:16 -0800

The Bullitt chase entirely geocoded. (Previously.)

Tales of the City

loquacious — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:20:49 -0800

In 1974 - or 1976, depending who you ask - Armistead Maupin began writing "an extended love letter to a magical San Francisco” in the form of a serialized, fictional drama published originally in the Pacific Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, originally called "The Serial" which then became collectively known as Tales of The City. It is a suprisingly beautiful, deep, emotional, cosmopolitan and lasting tale about life in San Francisco in the turbulent, heady days of the 1970s and 1980s. Widely credited with and cherished for helping spread a little of the openess, tolerance and acceptance that San Francisco is now famous for. It then became a series of books - Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You - and lastly, the spin-off tale of Michael Tolliver Lives. Almost exactly twenty years after first publishing, it then became an excellent miniseries from the United Kingdom's Channel 4, which aired in the United States on PBS, but not without protest or limitations. San Francisco... this post is for you. All of you. More than the Mission burritos, more than the diverse weather, more than the beautiful, breathtaking views and the odd experience of falling deeply in love with a place - and only slightly less than the many real people I've met - this has touched me the most. Thank you. (Get your YouTube samples here.)

SF Officials secretly switch torch path in SF

aacheson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:29:05 -0800

Sneaky subterfuge! At the "last minute," the torch is re-routed miles away from the tens of thousands of people waiting to see it. Mayor comes 'under fire" for lying to the people.

A (Republican) Change of Heart

fourcheesemac — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:58:29 -0800

The Mayor of San Diego has a change of heart. GOP Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego comes out in support of gay marriage.

Then and now

drstein — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:12:38 -0800

San Jose, CA - then & now - a decent collection of old photos, matched up with recent photos taken from the same vantage point. An interesting look at how things have changed around here. (Found in a reddit comment earlier today)

The Bushmen get to go home!

jefgodesky — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:21:49 -0800

The Bushmen get to go home! "Lady" Tonge said they were "holding the government of Botswana to ransom" by having the gall to keep on living. Others recognized genocide for what it is. They used the internet to tell us how much they wanted to go home and now, in one of those few moments where something goes right, they can go home.

Gang life in San Francisco

derangedlarid — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:01:07 -0800

Ima Gangsta -- the motivation and the regret. "San Francisco has an out of control gang violence problem, but what motivates young people to join gangs? Ruben City Palomares -- in his first film -- explores the reasons young homies choose to get jumped into a gang and reveals the lifetime of regret older gang members carry as a result of their fateful decision to be a gangsta. Palomares, 16, is a filmmaker with Conscious Youth Media Crew."

"brains."

Extopalopaketle — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:05:13 -0800

It's that time of year again. Zombies. San Francisco. Vancouver. And in case you missed the big one last year, Vancouver 2005.
All this right on the heels of another, and bigger, Skytrain Party, celebrating robots and the new station.
When you live in No-Fun City, you gotta make your own.

sony tries counter culture to sell playstations - and gets beat down

specialk420 — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:02:58 -0800

sony tries counter culture to sell playstations - and gets beat down
or was it all part of the plan?