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(02-18) 12:01 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Two more San Francisco outhouses have been set ablaze in recent days outside construction sites, this time in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, authorities said Wednesday.
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A portable toilet went up in flames shortly before midnight Tuesday at 17th and Kansas streets, police said. That was about two blocks from where one was set ablaze about 4:25 p.m. Sunday, at 15th and Kansas streets.
The fires bring to 24 the number of arson attacks on portable toilets at San Francisco construction sites in the past three months. Most of the fires have happened on Russian Hill, and no one has been hurt.
Police said they don't know whether the latest fires were set by a copycat or by the same person who torched the Russian Hill outhouses.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
LOLOLOLOL WTF who? why? I bet its some crazy schizophrenic who thinks they are portals to some evil otherworld.
The San Francisco Blues Festival announced the cancellation of this year's festival this week, throwing into question the entire future of the longest-running blues festival in the country.
Festival attendance never recovered from the 2001 event, held 11 days after the attack on the twin towers, producer Tom Mazzolini said. "It never came back to those wonderful years in the '90s and '80s. It was like the air went out of the room."
Mazzolini, who started the festival on a rainy weekend in 1973 at a funky USF gym, presented the annual event over September weekends at the Great Meadow in Fort Mason to crowds of more than 10,000 during the festival's halcyon days. All the great names in the field played the event - B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Etta James and dozens of others.
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Ah well, apparently it is short in funding and hasn't had good attendance in several years.
(02-11) 20:29 PST -- Like banishing beads and masks from Mardi Gras or removing the red carpet and gold statues from the Academy Awards, the banning of floats, beer and nudity at this year's Bay to Breakers will take all the fun out of it, many longtime revelers say.
City leaders and sponsors of the 98th annual wacky footrace announced several major changes Wednesday that detractors say will turn the over-the-top, only-in-San Francisco party into a 12K footrace like any other race in any other city in the world.
At the May 17 event, police will cite or arrest anybody openly drinking alcohol or appearing to be drunk, and will physically remove floats and any other items on wheels like shopping carts with kegs in them, officials declared.
People dressed in oversized costumes must run at the back of the pack, walkers must stay to the right while runners stay to the left, and no in-line skates, bicycles or skateboards are allowed. Nudity is not allowed, though police said they aren't planning to issue citations for indecent exposure.
At least the Elvis costumes can stay.
Gabrielle Harris, a 29-year-old publicist who lives in San Rafael, has run the race three times and called the changes devastating.
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First Halloween, The Blues Festival, and now Bay to Breakers.
I hope they don't cancel the gay rodeo at Cow Palace. I want to go this year :(
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A portable toilet went up in flames shortly before midnight Tuesday at 17th and Kansas streets, police said. That was about two blocks from where one was set ablaze about 4:25 p.m. Sunday, at 15th and Kansas streets.
The fires bring to 24 the number of arson attacks on portable toilets at San Francisco construction sites in the past three months. Most of the fires have happened on Russian Hill, and no one has been hurt.
Police said they don't know whether the latest fires were set by a copycat or by the same person who torched the Russian Hill outhouses.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
LOLOLOLOL WTF who? why? I bet its some crazy schizophrenic who thinks they are portals to some evil otherworld.
The San Francisco Blues Festival announced the cancellation of this year's festival this week, throwing into question the entire future of the longest-running blues festival in the country.
Festival attendance never recovered from the 2001 event, held 11 days after the attack on the twin towers, producer Tom Mazzolini said. "It never came back to those wonderful years in the '90s and '80s. It was like the air went out of the room."
Mazzolini, who started the festival on a rainy weekend in 1973 at a funky USF gym, presented the annual event over September weekends at the Great Meadow in Fort Mason to crowds of more than 10,000 during the festival's halcyon days. All the great names in the field played the event - B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Etta James and dozens of others.
Full Article Here
Ah well, apparently it is short in funding and hasn't had good attendance in several years.
(02-11) 20:29 PST -- Like banishing beads and masks from Mardi Gras or removing the red carpet and gold statues from the Academy Awards, the banning of floats, beer and nudity at this year's Bay to Breakers will take all the fun out of it, many longtime revelers say.
City leaders and sponsors of the 98th annual wacky footrace announced several major changes Wednesday that detractors say will turn the over-the-top, only-in-San Francisco party into a 12K footrace like any other race in any other city in the world.
At the May 17 event, police will cite or arrest anybody openly drinking alcohol or appearing to be drunk, and will physically remove floats and any other items on wheels like shopping carts with kegs in them, officials declared.
People dressed in oversized costumes must run at the back of the pack, walkers must stay to the right while runners stay to the left, and no in-line skates, bicycles or skateboards are allowed. Nudity is not allowed, though police said they aren't planning to issue citations for indecent exposure.
At least the Elvis costumes can stay.
Gabrielle Harris, a 29-year-old publicist who lives in San Rafael, has run the race three times and called the changes devastating.
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First Halloween, The Blues Festival, and now Bay to Breakers.
I hope they don't cancel the gay rodeo at Cow Palace. I want to go this year :(