Arts & Entertainment Funk Legend Sly Stone, Whose Career Was Born In SF, Has Died at 82 The founder of Sly and the Family Stone, a one-time San Francisco DJ who started the groundbreaking funk band that’s now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Monday morning in Los Angeles from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Transamerica Pyramid Opens Time Capsule That’s Been Secretly Hiding There for 50 Years The Transamerica Pyramid just opened a time capsule of historical SF antiquities from its early days in 1974, including relics showing how much people hated it at the time, and you can check out these artifacts for yourself starting Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Kezar Stadium Turns 100 on Friday, and Boy It Used to Be a Heck of a Lot Bigger The former home field of the San Francisco 49ers (and the Raiders!) Kezar Stadium has its 100th birthday on Friday, and it was once a global attraction sports and music destination before becoming the rec-level track meet field that it is today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 167th Anniversary This Sunday, With $1.67 Jack Daniels Shots Sunday marks the 167th anniversary of the 7 Mile House bar and restaurant, and they’ll be marking the occasion with $1.67 whiskey shots, free adobo, and a historical presentation of 7 Mile House’s (often criminal) 167-year history.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill 175th Anniversary Party Draws Willie Brown, Mayor Breed, and Aaron Peskin (Who Were Very Nice to Each Other) The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
SF News This Week Is the 50th Anniversary of the Patty Hearst Kidnapping, One of SF’s All-Time Wildest Stories SF headlines of the mid-1970s were dominated by the saga of Patty Hearst, an heiress who was kidnapped, only to join her captors and rob banks with them. After her release from prison, she has led a life of dog shows and John Waters movies.
SF News Throwback Thursday: A Sitting U.S. President Died in San Francisco, 100 Years Ago This Week Warren G. Harding, roundly considered one of the worst U.S. Presidents of all time, kicked the bucket exactly 100 years ago this week at SF’s Palace Hotel, which is still the Palace Hotel at Market and New Montgomery streets.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Cult Hero ‘Sister Jean’ Was Born And Raised Right Here in San Francisco The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.
SF News First-Ever Map Depicting San Francisco Bay Is Going to Auction This Month A map, which was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is considered among historians to be the first map showing the San Francisco Bay, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on October 25.
Bay Area Sports The USF Dons' Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and the Alley-Oop Origin Story Bill Russell's recent passing at age 88 highlights the evolution of the game of basketball, and the countless contributions made by two Bay Area-bred greats.
SF News History Lesson: SF Had an Anti-Mask League During the 1918 Flu Pandemic Who Rallied Against Face Masks It turns out that, a century ago, San Francisco was home to a movement akin to the "liberate" protests that have been going on around the country, in which city residents formed an Anti-Mask League as the 1918 influenza pandemic extended into January 1919.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quaint 1950's Footage Of San Francisco Sights Some archival footage of San Francisco in 1955 from the Prelinger Archives comes from amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini, and it's a charmingly direct, picturesque tour of the city from a guide who sounds straight out of 1950s narrator Central Casting.
SF News SF To Designate Nation's First Transgender Historic District In The Tenderloin After a complicated back-and-forth process between local activists, politicians, and the developer of a large hotel and condo complex on Market Street, San Francisco will designate the nation's first
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Fillmore Promoter Bill Graham Set For Film Treatment Bill Graham, a towering figure in San Francisco and rock history, is set to receive the music bio pic treatment courtesy of Fox. Deadline broke the news, reporting that writer Zach Dean and
Arts & Entertainment Happy 40th To 'The Last Waltz,' The Greatest Concert In San Francisco History The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco was the first place that the Band played as "the Band," guitarist Robbie Robertson tells director Martin Scorsese in an interview from his magnificent concert
Arts & Entertainment The Totally Preposterous History Of Cliff House You'd be forgiven for assuming that Cliff House, a building that's super casually very precariously perched on some rocks at the edge of a continent, was built on a
SF News From Gold Rush Almshouse To Hospital, Laguna Honda Celebrates 150 Years Of Care At 150, Laguna Honda is even older than most of the people living there. The establishment dates to 1866, and to ring in its anniversary this year, volunteers have assembled photographs and artifacts
SF News Remembering The Hunters Point Uprising, Sparked 50 Years Ago After Police Killed Unarmed Black Teen "This is the San Francisco America pretends does not exist," the writer James Baldwin said while surveying the historically black Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in 1963. That quote, from the documentary
SF News With New Shine, Old Mint Hosts Pop-Up History Museum San Francisco's Old Mint, est. 1854 for all that filthy Gold Rush lucre, hasn't been shiny and new in quite some time. Not since it closed in 1937 with
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Were The Zebra Killings Really That Terrifying? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers
Arts & Entertainment Video: Remembering The Population And Construction Boom Of 1960s If you think there are a lot of new construction cranes now, and too many people trying to move into San Francisco lately, take a look at this slightly alarmist newsreel from 1963
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Here's How SF Moved A Bunch Of Houses Across The City Photographer Dave Glass took most of these photos in 1976 and 1977, when, as part of an urban renewal project in the Western Addition, 19th century Victorians were moved across the city to
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Sutro Baths Go Up In Flames San Francisco's Sutro Baths burned to the ground under questionable circumstances back on June 26, 1966, but it wasn't until yesterday that the Western Neighborhoods Project put this footage
