This feline resident of the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Gardens near the Dutch Windmill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park appears to think it owns the place.
Now, some people don’t support the feral cat colonies of Golden Gate Park. Others do.
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The SFBC’s Second Annual Family Day was well-attended this past (Healthy) Saturday in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Check out a bunch of photos from the day at the Flickr from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.
People enjoyed a bicycle road-eo, games, a safety clinic, a scavenger hunt, a parade and some free bike maintenance.
But best of all, some children gained their Freedom From Training Wheels. (Four wheels bad, two wheels good, right kids?)
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See you next year!
Well, it’s the beginning of September, so it must be time for another 911 Truth March in Golden Gate Park.
Turnout was better than last year, based upon this 2007 report from Zombietime, that dude from Berkeley. (Of course, Zombietime.com started as a ”platform to expose the craziness that has emerged on the left side of the political spectrum since 9/11,” so don’t expect sweetness and nice at that site.)
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It’s hard to say just how this ridiculous conspiracy theory will hold up when compared with the tried-and-true JFK and Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories.
Of course you are free to read the San Francisco Chronicle and then believe that “…there is simply no way 19 [people] with box cutters sent by some [person] could have pulled off the most perfectly orchestrated air attack of the century.”
Your choice.
This is what it looked like at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park at the 10th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival 2008, Music Conciousness Action, featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead, Ziggy Marley, Warren Haynes, Rebelution, Martin Luther, King Britt, and Cheb i Sabbah.
No longer known as the “911 Power to the Peaceful” festival as it was in 2007, this year’s effort allowed you to hear about Aloysius Weasel Bear, and see about how to “connect the dots from Palestine to Pine Ridge,” and wonder about the call-and-response question, “Can you feel me?”
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Yoga Tree was in the house to inspire.
And there were 5 or 6 dudes trying to sell you weed brownies.
Of course.
This is what it looks like in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when monks are walking around the Japanese Tea Garden.
Take a look at the place here and read about it here.
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Find the Lucky Money Fish and win!
This hungry Great Blue Heron waited around for a few minutes before plucking a pocket gopher from a hole in a meadow in Golden Gate Park.
It’s the circle of life. Poor little feller.
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Was the recent, successful Outside Lands music festival a transcendent musical experience, chaotic logistical nightmare, or a little bit of both?
Despite some discord, things went the way you would have expected. The kids that came up from Stanford University liked it and the solons of Sacramento thought the whole deal was worth the trip.
Even though thousands of people snuck in, Parks and Rec made more money than anticipated. This paves the way for more concerts in Golden Gate Park. See you there!
These young lovers skated down to the festival. Will they be able to come back next year?
Hey look what was parked on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, soon to become a National Park, during Opening Night of the 2008 Outside Lands music festival. That’s right, it’s our old friend, the Do It Outdoors MGD Beer rolling billboard.
Except this time, it wasn’t rolling. It was parked in the same place for what seemed to be hours, emergency blinkers clickety-clicking away.
From Wisconsin with love:
Which is worse:
1. A rolling billboard driving around one block over and over again on the streets of San Francisco?
or
2. A rolling billboard parking in the same place for a long time in Golden Gate Park?
Does the Miller Brewing Company, maker of beer with “fruity, hoppy undertones” per its yuppified website, know how its product is being promoted over here?
The Outside Lands music festival, not to be confused with the Western Neighborhoods Project, opened yesterday in Golden Gate Park with a large attendance.
Look for the live webcast today and tomorrow. Check out the photo gallery.
It’s Beck! See videos of his set here.
Now, it’s Radiohead! See videos of their set here.
The reviews are already in at 58 Hours, a Radiohead Gig Database:
“Great Show. Idioteque, Talk Show Host, Android, Gloaming and Plastic Trees were amazing. The light show really was stunning. A few drawbacks (to be honest), the sound (I mean, the entire sound) went completely out twice. Also, festival crowd was very chatty….killed the atmosphere on quieter songs like Exit Music. However, Plastic Trees was so show-stopping-breathtaking that the place really seemed to go silent.”
Grab your $85 and see you there! (And be sure to head over to the Foggy Bridge Canteen for some hyper local wine.)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 @ 5PM
RADIOHEAD
BECK
MANU CHAO
THE BLACK KEYS
COLD WAR KIDS
STEEL PULSE
LYRICS BORN
BLACK MOUNTAIN
BENEVENTO/RUSSO DUO
THE FELICE BROTHERS
HOWLIN RAIN
THE DYNAMITES FEATURING CHARLES WALKER
CARNEY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 1PM
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS
PRIMUS
CAKE
STEVE WINWOOD
CAFÉ TACVBA
LUPE FIASCO
REGINA SPEKTOR
GALACTIC’S CRESCENT CITY SOUL KREWE
M. WARD
DEVENDRA BANHART
MATT NATHANSON
TWO GALLANTS
DREDG
ABIGAIL WASHBURN & THE SPARROW
QUARTET FEATURING BÉLA FLECK
THE WALKMEN
KAKI KING
THE COUP
LIARS
DONAVON FRANKENREITER
NELLIE MCKAY
GOAPELE
SEAN HAYES
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES
THRIVING IVORY
EVEREST
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 1PM
JACK JOHNSON
WILCO
WIDESPREAD PANIC
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
ANDREW BIRD
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS
STARS
ROGUE WAVE
ALO
JACKIE GREENE
LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES
MIKE GORDON
THE COOL KIDS
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS
LITTLE BROTHER
BON IVER
VIENNA TENG
THE MOTHER HIPS
THE MIGHTY UNDERDOGS FEATURING GIFT OF GAB, LATEEF AND HEADNODIC
NICOLE ATKINS & THE SEA
SILA & THE AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE
K’NAAN
CULVER CITY DUB COLLECTIVE
That’s the only reasonable conclusion one can reach after seeing these new red and white BOAC stickers all over the Haights near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Panhandle. BOAC, after being saddled with some clunker aircraft, became British Airways in the 1970’s but people still seem to love the brand.
Why? Well, the stewardess uniforms, for example. They had “fab” designs, complete with “cute hats.” And people still collect cool BOAC souvenirs like currency converters, matchbook covers, and related ephemera.
Or maybe it’s the opening track of the Beatles’ White Album that some folks are thinking about. Back then, people had to worry about the Russians annexing neighbouring countries and stuff.
Thank goodness that’s all in the past.
Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Oh, the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
And that Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Godspeed, little Georgia.
