Arts & Entertainment New Hill Bomb Event Pops Up on Telegraph Hill, Lots of Cops Show Up The notorious skateboard hill-bomb event that used to happen on Dolores Street next to Dolores Park, and which last year became a smaller, city-sanctioned event on Twin Peaks, inspired a new version at another location this past weekend.
SF News Saturday Links: 2023 Dolores Park Skate Bomb Lawsuit Extends to Class Action Status, 113 May Now Join The Millbrae police chief suspected of commuting from Idaho is now being investigated by Idaho officials; the firefighter who saved the Marina after the 1989 earthquake has died; and 113 people who were arrested during the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb can now take part in an existing lawsuit.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Didn't Happen This Year, a More Organized Version Set for Twin Peaks After years of general chaos and injuries, and now being "forced into cooperating with police," SF's skaters are going to be having a fully permitted and organized "hill bomb" event this weekend on Twin Peaks.
Arts & Entertainment UN Plaza Skatepark Getting Expanded Next Month, Converse-Sponsored Event Planned The popular skatepark at UN Plaza is getting upgraded and expanded in early February, with several new beginner-friendly, skate-able features being added, and Converse is hosting a skateboarding event in the park on February 15.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Happens Despite Police Blockade, Moving One Block Over to Church The skaters and their fans would not be deterred on Saturday, and instead of doing the traditional hill bomb on the Dolores Street hill between 19th and 21st, they just bombed down Church Street from 20th.
SF News Mission District Community Divided Over Dolores Hill Bomb Event, Which Might Happen This Saturday The annual, unsanctioned skate punk joyride known as the Dolores Hill Bomb might be happening this Saturday, and at a community meeting to discuss police plans, neighbors were split on whether the event should be welcomed, or cracked down upon even harder.
SF News Just 10 Days Out From the Annual Dolores Hill Bomb, SFPD Gearing Up For More Skateboard Mayhem The annual, unpermitted and outlaw Dolores Hill Bomb event is being advertised as happening on Saturday, July 6, and neither police nor event organizers appear to be changing their approach after last year’s fiasco that saw 81 minors arrested.
SF News SFPD Hit With the Inevitable Lawsuit Over ‘Dolores Hill Bomb’ Mass Arrest of 81 Minors Parents said they would sue over July’s draconian mass arrest of 117 people (83 of them minors) during this year’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding meetup, and that lawsuit against the SFPD has now arrived.
SF News And Just Like That, UN Plaza Becomes a Skate Park In a matter of weeks, crews from the SF Rec & Parks Department transformed UN Plaza from the nexus of black-market chaos that it has been for at least a decade into a clean and lively skateboarding and table-tennis destination.
SF News DA Jenkins Drops Charges for Pretty Much Everyone Arrested at Dolores Hill Bomb Last Month It's a predictable ending to the mass arrest of everyone who happened to be standing near last month’s Dolores Hill Bomb skateboard rally — the DA is dropping the charges against all but two of the 34 adults arrested in the roundup.
SF News Parents Fume That Their Kids Were Injured In Dolores Hill Bomb Arrests as SFPD Defends Harsh Tactics The controversial mass-arrest of 81 minors (and 32 adults) at the year's unsanctioned Dolores Park Hill Bomb has some parents alleging brutal treatment of teens, but SFPD and Mayor Breed are doubling down on the need for that heavy response.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Gather at SFPD's Mission Station Over Hill Bomb Arrests BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
SF News Police Crack Down on Skateboarders' Dolores Hill Bomb Saturday, Arrest and Detain Dozens Hundreds of police officers in riot gear shut down the notorious Dolores Hill Bomb event Saturday night, arresting and detaining dozens of adults and teenagers in a chaotic scene.
SF News Dolores Hill Bomb Returns, Self-Driving Waymo Car Gets Given the Business by Skate Punks Things really went downhill at the notorious annual Dolores Hill Bomb skater celebration Saturday, and while it appears there were no human injuries, a passing Waymo self-driving car got mobbed, jumped on, and tagged.
SF News City Installs Raised Dots On Dolores Street Following 'Hill Bomb' Death Instead of one there were three Dolores Street Hill Bomb events over the past week and a half, and during the third one on Friday, a cyclist collided with skateboarder sending both of them to the hospital — and the cyclist died from his injuries on Sunday.
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Tomoko Oikawa Suffers Brain Injury During Dolores Hill Bomb The annual event known as Dolores Hill Bomb, in which a bunch of skaters — including professionals — commandeer the hilly part of Dolores Street next to the park, has marked another casualty.
SF News 25-Year-Old Skateboarder Killed In SoMa Collision A skateboarder died Tuesday afternoon after a collision with a vehicle at the intersection of 7th and Mission streets.
SF News Famed Skateboarder and Thrasher Magazine Editor Jake Phelps Has Died at 56 Young and old skate punks alike have heavy hearts today. The legendary skateboarding activist and editor-in-chief of Thrasher ran the magazine for 26 years.
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Peter Starrs Dies In Motorcycle Accident 24-year-old skater Peter Starrs has been identified as the victim in a fatal motorcycle accident that occurred near the 101-80 connector ramp in S.F. early Saturday. According to the
SF News Elderly Woman Killed By Skateboarder in Capitola 83-year-old Maryann Slettehaugh was struck by a 17-year-old kid on a skateboard Tuesday afternoon as she crossed a street in downtown Capitola, just south of Santa Cruz. Police say
misc Morning Palate Cleanser: 'B4 The Mission Was Clean' B4 The Mission was Clean from patrick gleason on Vimeo. Skate culture maven Patrick Gleason compiled this video, which contains High8 footage of skateboarders shot in the Mission between 1994 and 1997, set
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dinosaur Jr.'s "Over It" With the new album, The Farm, J Mascis and the gang return to mid-nineties form in sound and song writing. They're performing at The Fillmore tonight and we believe there
