Entries from SFist tagged with 'jimherd'
March 7, 2008
Photo: Jim Herd Mating season, it's on. This wild turkey was found inside the city limits of San Jose. Who knew?......
Continue Reading "Photo du Jour 77"
March 5, 2008
Photo: Jim Herd At first, we thought this was a bunch of art students or gamesters when we saw people setting up cones and bowling balls on a steep hill. Sidewalk bowling? Appears to be an exercise class, with some people forced to run uphill while others do bowling ball pushups in a kind of urban basic training. Strange.......
Continue Reading "Sidewalk Bowling In Potrero Hill?"February 29, 2008
Don't forget: famed photog, Annie Leibovitz, has an exhibit opening at the Legion of Honor tomorrow, which runs through May 25. The show runs the gamut from her professional stuff -- you know, the images of Cindy Crawford with a snake; a nude Demi Moore with fetus; and Chris Rock with top hat -- to some of her more personal works. Do stop by, won't you? Also, she was in town today to promote......
Continue Reading "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005"February 27, 2008
Photo credit: Jim Herd Word is that the next few days are prime for catching parrots kicking it over at Justin Hermann Plaza (at Clay and Drumm.)......
Continue Reading "Photo du Jour 68"February 27, 2008
Visitors to all the standalone Starbucks across the country yesterday evening couldn't get their buzz on. Why? Because of the temporary national shutdown. Starbucks workers, like these on busy Masonic (where there will be a rally to make that avenue safer at 11:00AM this morning by the way), learned how to do things the Starbuckian way last night. So. What do think, espresso fans? Did it work? Were the "parters" (aka workers) "energized"? Was......
Continue Reading "Starbucks' National Re-Programming Camp - Did It Work? "February 26, 2008
Jackie Speier runs for Congress again, after a 29-year break. ...
Continue Reading "Meet Jackie Speier, Your New Congressional Representative"February 26, 2008
The Apple Moth vs. San Francisco......
Continue Reading "San Francisco Screams NO to Apple Moth Spraying"February 25, 2008
Tinkering with and/or eliminating rent control in California...
Continue Reading "The Rent Control Battles of 2008 -- They're On! "February 23, 2008
The Chinese New year parade for the year of the rat, 2008...
Continue Reading "2008 Chinese New Year Parade in S.F.: Year of the Rat"February 22, 2008
The pros and cons of law school...
Continue Reading "Survivor Winner Yul Kwon Speaks About Law School in S.F."February 21, 2008
The big cat grottoes re-open for public view....
Continue Reading "San Francisco Zoo Re-Opens Lion And Tiger Grottoes"February 20, 2008
February 20, 2008
Nancy Pelosi dedicates a campus and opines on the presidential race....
Continue Reading "Pelosi Says Voters, Not Superdelegates, Should Decide"February 19, 2008
Ride your bike at the San Francisco Zoo without fear of ejection or arrest on the BikeAbout tour. ...
Continue Reading "San Francisco Zoo's BikeAbout Lets You Cycle at the Zoo"February 18, 2008
That global hegemony is finally paying off....
Continue Reading "New Clubman from MINI Makes Its Debut in San Francisco"February 15, 2008
These two would-be brides were all dressed up with no place to go at San Francisco City Hall yesterday....
Continue Reading "Rebuffed at San Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day"February 14, 2008
Here's what you can do for Valentine's -- head on up to the Legion of Honor......
Continue Reading "Cinema Supper Club at the Legion of Honor Closes Tonight"February 14, 2008
All together now: We declare our right on this earth to park our cars within 50 feet of our favorite coffee shops, to be drivers, to be respected as drivers, on this earth, in the Mission, where we intend to find parking wherever we can by any means necessary....
Continue Reading "How Acceptable is it to Park Your Car in the Middle of Valencia? "February 13, 2008
California's First Lady makes yet another visit to S.F...
Continue Reading "First Lady Maria Shriver Graces S.F. for WeConnect.net"February 12, 2008
You know what really grinds our gears?...
Continue Reading "Jammed Up Parking Meters Really Grind Our Gears"February 11, 2008
Bay Area locals prove that some birds can chirp with their tails....
Continue Reading "UC Berkeley Solves a Mystery and the World Cheers"February 8, 2008
"I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth."...
Continue Reading "Beebe Memorial - Where Every Sunday is Super Sunday"February 7, 2008
Does S.F. have any other old-school stand alone phone booths?...
Continue Reading "Is This the Last Phone Booth in San Francisco?"February 6, 2008
It's time again for another Love on Wheels event...
Continue Reading "The SFBC's "Love on Wheels" Dating Game Happens Friday"February 5, 2008
Do you have your copy yet?...
Continue Reading "Willie's Book Tour for Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times"February 5, 2008
This was the scene tonight in the Castro with hundreds of extras helping to make movie magic....
Continue Reading "On the Set: Sean Penn is Harvey Milk"February 4, 2008
If this San Francisco woman is any kind of bellwether, Hillary Clinton will not win in San Francisco tomorrow....
Continue Reading "Hillary Loses the Woman Vote in San Francisco"February 4, 2008
The 12th Annual Tết Festival Ceremony occurred yesterday all around Little Saigon in San Francisco...
Continue Reading "Have a Happy Year of the Rat -- Tết Festival in Little Saigon"February 3, 2008
Congratulations to all the participants at this year's San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K...
Continue Reading "Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K"February 1, 2008
This Western Spiny Softshell turtle (Trionyx spiniferus hartwegi) does her best best to keep it real in San Francisco, despite being a Critically Endangered species....
Continue Reading "Know Your Endangered Species - Golden Gate Park"