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And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. 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She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. I have this vivid memory of going to a big music festival and watching one of my friends pick up this empty metal water bottle that someone had just tossed on the ground. And she was pretty irritated when she swooped it up. “That’s how people twist their ankles out here,” I remember her saying. And I’m grateful for people like her at music festivals where it’s pretty common to see trash sprinkled on the grounds after the crowds disperse at the end of a performance. 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She’s also known as SF Gate Girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Which I’ve done my calculations, and that’s roughly 71,000 chihuahuas. So that’s a lot of little dogs that are going into — I have nothing against them. But just for some simple calculation, that’s lot of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] How is that trash generated? I mean, I’ve been to Outside Lands before. There’s a ton of vendors selling food and stuff like that, I imagine. Like, what kinds of trash are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Lots of different types. So there’s a lot of the compost trash that gets produced by the vendors and the customers buying the food. So all of the utensils, the bowls, the plates, the cups, the food, you know, if you don’t finish your food, all of that goes into compost. And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. They from the beginning partnered with a company called Clean Vibes and the first ever festival 2008 for those who attended that first festival the headliners were Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and Radiohead and back then 64% of the total waste was diverted from landfill. Fast forwarded now, it’s now 89% from our most recent data in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Yeah, and you actually went to see for yourself how this all works. 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She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? 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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> gears up for a weekend-long celebration of the Grateful Dead, one group brought flower power revival to Market Street on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people, laden with good vibes, descended on the thoroughfare for a so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kindnesscrawl.com/\">Kindness Crawl\u003c/a> — a spontaneous celebration of joy, marked by random acts of kindness to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group walked around four miles, from the Ferry Building to Golden Gate Park, handing out free flowers, art and hugs. The result: a trail of smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel happy. I love seeing stuff like this,” said Akira Green of Hayward, who was visiting the city with friends. “It’s really great that people are doing this just because they want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Longworth makes a sign in preparation for the Kindness Crawl at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people behind the effort are enrolled in Self Mastery Trilogy, a Healdsburg-based personal development program that requires a “Make a Difference” project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Gates gives away a free hug while wearing a “free hugs” sign at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl participant holds flowers in their tote bag. Right: Sebastian De Voogd wears a “Kindness Crawl’ T-shirt decorated with pins. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Ashley Gates (left) hands a flower to a pedestrian on Market Street during the Kindness Crawl. Right: A Kindness Crawl participant hands a flower. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This led to the Kindness Crawl, which the group first tested earlier this year at the farmers market in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants give away flowers and postcards to a driver on Pine Street. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands a postcard to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We decided that something small, like spreading kindness, was actually the thing that could have the biggest impact and make the most ripples in the world,” said Kali de Voogd, a participant in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drea LaRox hands goodies to a bus driver in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian holds a flower she was gifted. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the group continued its crawl, some people ignored them or brushed away the free flowers. But even folks reluctant to deal with strangers — like Derek Stone, on his lunch break at Union Square — accepted the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands flowers to passersby in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant holds up a sign reading “Unified by Joy” in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kindness Crawl participants gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Right: Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally shares an embrace with a passerby near City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally gives a hug to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I’m gonna carry on this energy,” said Stone, who said he often has his guard up. “I’m gonna try to give someone else a compliment. I might even give this flower to someone. So it’s gonna go full circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer fills a cart with bouquets of flowers at the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s to replenish the group’s supply of flowers. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants pause to buy more flowers midway through their walk to Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl volunteer beams while handing roses and sunflowers to two people inside a van during a moment of street-side joy. Right: Kindness Crawl co-organizer Drea LaRox, 35, of Healdsburg, waves at passing cars while holding a sign that reads “Kindness is Gangster” in Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants believe even a small gesture, such as hugging a stranger, can make a positive impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer places flowers on washing machines inside a Hayes Valley laundromat. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vintage VW bus filled with flower recipients drives past Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A handwritten note reading “Even on your off days, you’re still worthy of love!” is left on a motorcycle seat near Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ It feels warm. It feels connecting. It feels loving to me,” said Drea La Rox, another participant. “It feels like I am a part of their life just for a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> gears up for a weekend-long celebration of the Grateful Dead, one group brought flower power revival to Market Street on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people, laden with good vibes, descended on the thoroughfare for a so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kindnesscrawl.com/\">Kindness Crawl\u003c/a> — a spontaneous celebration of joy, marked by random acts of kindness to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group walked around four miles, from the Ferry Building to Golden Gate Park, handing out free flowers, art and hugs. The result: a trail of smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me feel happy. I love seeing stuff like this,” said Akira Green of Hayward, who was visiting the city with friends. “It’s really great that people are doing this just because they want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00007_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Longworth makes a sign in preparation for the Kindness Crawl at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The people behind the effort are enrolled in Self Mastery Trilogy, a Healdsburg-based personal development program that requires a “Make a Difference” project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00050_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Gates gives away a free hug while wearing a “free hugs” sign at the Ferry Building. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-1-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl participant holds flowers in their tote bag. Right: Sebastian De Voogd wears a “Kindness Crawl’ T-shirt decorated with pins. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-2-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Ashley Gates (left) hands a flower to a pedestrian on Market Street during the Kindness Crawl. Right: A Kindness Crawl participant hands a flower. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This led to the Kindness Crawl, which the group first tested earlier this year at the farmers market in Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00253_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants give away flowers and postcards to a driver on Pine Street. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050587\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00367_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands a postcard to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We decided that something small, like spreading kindness, was actually the thing that could have the biggest impact and make the most ripples in the world,” said Kali de Voogd, a participant in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00442_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drea LaRox hands goodies to a bus driver in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00414_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian holds a flower she was gifted. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the group continued its crawl, some people ignored them or brushed away the free flowers. But even folks reluctant to deal with strangers — like Derek Stone, on his lunch break at Union Square — accepted the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731-KINDESSCRAWL_00477_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant hands flowers to passersby in Union Square. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0006_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl participant holds up a sign reading “Unified by Joy” in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-3-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Kindness Crawl participants gather on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Right: Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally shares an embrace with a passerby near City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0011_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl organizer Scott Keneally gives a hug to a pedestrian. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I’m gonna carry on this energy,” said Stone, who said he often has his guard up. “I’m gonna try to give someone else a compliment. I might even give this flower to someone. So it’s gonna go full circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer fills a cart with bouquets of flowers at the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s to replenish the group’s supply of flowers. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0001_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindness Crawl participants pause to buy more flowers midway through their walk to Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2000x701.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-160x56.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Kindness-Crawl-DIP-4-2048x718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A Kindness Crawl volunteer beams while handing roses and sunflowers to two people inside a van during a moment of street-side joy. Right: Kindness Crawl co-organizer Drea LaRox, 35, of Healdsburg, waves at passing cars while holding a sign that reads “Kindness is Gangster” in Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants believe even a small gesture, such as hugging a stranger, can make a positive impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0008_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kindness Crawl volunteer places flowers on washing machines inside a Hayes Valley laundromat. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0010_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vintage VW bus filled with flower recipients drives past Alamo Square Park. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250731_KINDNESSCRAWL_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A handwritten note reading “Even on your off days, you’re still worthy of love!” is left on a motorcycle seat near Hayes Valley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ It feels warm. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, August 1, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This weekend, San Francisco will once again become \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the center of the deadhead universe.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s because it’s the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Dead & Co., the band’s latest iteration, will be playing three shows in Golden Gate Park, starting Friday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamala Harris’ decision not to run for California governor has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democrats-aec62ece092b994ca1a546095683c2e6\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened up the field\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ahead of next year’s election. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duplexes will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-fire-mayor-bass-governor-newsom-sb9-duplex-ban\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no longer be an option\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for homeowners starting to rebuild in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/07/california-glock-ban-kamala-harris-newsom/\">poised to ban the sale\u003c/a> of new Glock handguns.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">\u003cstrong>Fans Pour Into SF For Grateful Dead’s 60th At Golden Gate Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fans of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/grateful-dead\">Grateful Dead\u003c/a> are pouring into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people once wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11682940/bob-weir-criticizes-politicians-on-stage-at-bonnaroo\">Bob Weir\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201206251000/mickey-hart\">Mickey Hart\u003c/a>, will play \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-park\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s Polo Field starting Friday with an estimated 60,000 attendees each day. The last time the band played that part of the park was in 1991 — a free show following the death of concert promoter and longtime Deadhead \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11409279/bill-graham-the-personality-no-museum-could-possibly-contain\">Bill Graham\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly, times have changed. A general admissions ticket for all three days is $635 — a shock for many longtime fans who remember when a joint cost more than a Dead concert ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formed in 1965, the Grateful Dead is synonymous with San Francisco and its counterculture. Members lived in a dirt-cheap Victorian in the Haight and later became a significant part of 1967’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-of-love\">Summer of Love\u003c/a>. That summer eventually soured into bad acid trips and police raids, and prompted the band’s move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a> on the other end of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913489\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>. But new Deadheads kept cropping up — even after iconic guitarist and singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13342850/jerry-garcias-guitar-heads-to-auction-could-fetch-1m\">Jerry Garcia\u003c/a>’s 1995 death — aided by cover bands and offshoots like Dead & Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"Page-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democrats-aec62ece092b994ca1a546095683c2e6\">\u003cstrong>2026 Race For CA Governor Goes Into New Gear And Directions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After months of uncertainty, the race to become California’s next governor started Thursday. Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-california-governor-2026-eeea5d7315d65cebb50692c5311379fb\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">decision\u003c/a>\u003c/span> Wednesday to bypass the 2026 contest pushed the campaign into a new phase, lacking its biggest potential star and the presumptive early favorite. Harris’ formal exit opens the door for additional candidates to venture in, while scrambling a crowded field with no dominant candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats remain favored to hold the seat now occupied by term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a state where Republicans have not won a statewide election in nearly two decades. Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over registered Republicans statewide. “The starting gun just popped,” said Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta, calling it the first truly wide-open governor’s race in over a quarter-century. “The race is on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-fire-mayor-bass-governor-newsom-sb9-duplex-ban\">LA Mayor Bans Duplexes In Palisades Burn Zone\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Duplexes can no longer replace single-family houses in the Pacific Palisades as rebuilding begins for the more than 5,000 homes destroyed by the January fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-emergency-executive-order-prohibit-sb-9-applications-within-palisades-burn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>ordered a ban\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on duplex projects in the Palisades. The move came after an order the same day from Gov. Gavin Newsom that granted local governments permission to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-palisades-fire-rebuilding-sb9-adu-mayor-bass-housing\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>suspend a state housing density\u003c/u>\u003c/a> law in burn zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law at play, Senate Bill 9, allows single-family homeowners across the state to build duplexes and split their lots, potentially creating up to four units of housing on land previously zoned for one unit. 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The switches can be made illegally on a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the bill targets only a narrow category of guns that are increasingly used in violent crimes. But critics argue the proposal opens the door to broader restrictions on all semi-automatic handguns. That, they say, potentially includes other popular models like the one Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/gavin-newsom-first-gun-shawn-ryan-podcast/65417617\">recently got as a gift\u003c/a> from a conservative podcaster. Newsom hasn’t indicated whether he’ll sign the measure.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Next to Lurie stood San Francisco law enforcement, fire and parks leaders who took turns assuring the public the event would be a safe one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our public safety teams and local law enforcement will be operating at full staffing, with additional personnel to manage the increases with all of these attendees and visitors,” Lurie said. “Our teams are equipped and trained to handle a variety of situations, and we are fully prepared for any emergencies that may arise during these weekends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050533 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations this weekend with multiple performances by Dead & Company. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910768/grateful-dead-keep-on-truckin-for-their-60th-anniversary\">Dead & Company shows\u003c/a> kick off a busy few weeks for the park, which is hosting two more events — Outside Lands and country musician Zach Bryan — over subsequent weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time ever there’s been three weekends of concerts in a row in Golden Gate Park,” said Allen Scott, president of concerts and festivals for Another Planet Entertainment, which produces Outside Lands as well as the new \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/\">Golden Gate Park Concerts series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the park hosted a bill led by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955656/deftones-system-of-a-down-tickets-presale-code-san-francisco-golden-gate-outside-lands\">System of a Down and the Deftones\u003c/a> the weekend after Outside Lands, the first such show put on by Another Planet after city officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960570/sfs-golden-gate-park-may-soon-host-new-concert-series-from-producers-of-outside-lands\">approved the expanded series\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12049174 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00014_TV-KQED.jpg']Scott said they’re expecting 450,000 people coming to San Francisco over the next three weekends, 290,000 of whom are from outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has always been a cultural destination and a world-class city, and this … these three weekends will prove it,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie encouraged all concertgoers to sign up for AlertSF by texting GGPC to 888777 and make plans with friends and family, as cellphone reception in San Francisco during large-scale events is notoriously unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next few weeks, we are going to keep everyone safe,” Lurie said. “We are going to shine on the global stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate the three concert weekends will bring in over $150 million into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Ginsburg, head of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, said music is part of the city’s history, and the back-to-back-to-back festival weekends in Golden Gate Park are equally historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just hosting concerts; we’re bringing people together, boosting our economy, showing the world that San Francisco is alive and thriving and, perhaps most importantly, facilitating joy,” Ginsburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This weekend, San Francisco is hosting shows and celebrations honoring 60 years of the Grateful Dead’s music. Dead & Company, which performs Grateful Dead covers and includes former members of the original band, will be headlining three nights in Golden Gate Park.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For some Deadheads, it’s a chance to celebrate the Dead’s music in the city where the band became famous. 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San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. It was September 1972 at the Palace Theater, a roughly 2,500 seat rundown movie theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. And Chuck Schwartz was attending what would become his favorite Grateful Dead concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:00:27] It was general admission, and we all got there at noon, and we were very close to the front when they were letting people in, and the tickets were like five bucks maybe. And I remember it clearly to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:45] For Chuck and many other deadheads, the Grateful Dead, best known for being pioneers of the jam band and the soundtrack of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, were renegades. They were these sort of outlaws whose shows were unique because they were freewheeling and surprising every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:01:10] We were on Phil Lesh’s side, the other side, and Bob Weir always played in the middle. To see it and be in the the middle of it was just, it just locked me in and it was just fantastic. It was hard to describe. And the world, of course, was a very different place then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:37] San Francisco is gearing up for Deadhead Disneyland. The city is hosting shows for the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, featuring a famous offshoot of the band, Dead and Company. Tickets are going for $635 for three-day general admission, and thousands of Deadheads are expected to attend the shows and related events. But not Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] It just feels super commercialized and just not the spirit that I felt when I attended shows and got involved in the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Today we talk with Chuck’s daughter and San Francisco-based writer Carly Schwartz about the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary shows and why some deadheads are boycotting them. Carly, Do you identify as a dead head?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] I feel like I might be disingenuous to say I’m, you know, a religiously fanatic deadhead. I am a religious fanatic fan of the band Phish, and so it’s kind of a cousin of the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] This is Carly Schwartz, a writer and author based in San Francisco. She recently wrote about the Grateful Dead for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] That was my entry point into Grateful Dead, obviously I heard it around the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] The Grateful Dead got me my start in loving music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] My father’s name is Chuck Schwartz. He lives in Connecticut now. And he basically raised me the way I say it is as the gospel according to Jerry. I mean, Jerry Garcia, who is I guess for all intents and purposes, he was considered the front man. He was the lead guitarist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] I guess I just had it on all the time when they were kids. And so I guess they just assimilated it by osmosis if nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] This was just such a big part of his life and therefore my life as his daughter. I have these memories of him mowing the lawn on a Sunday and just belting out some Jerry lyrics. And my mother, funnily enough, could not stand the Grateful Dead. To this day, she brags about how she never accompanied him to a show. And she called it “neer-ne-neer” music. She’s like, oh, there’s your dad and his “neer-ne-neer”. And my brother and I are just rolling our eyes. There’s dad blasting his Jerry again. But it really was this omnipresent force. I mean, in the car, when he’s gardening around the house, it was just, yeah, it was a soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] As a kid I wanted to not be like my parents, so of course I found my way into the next generation Grateful Dead, which is Phish, and became equally fanatic about them. But yeah, I mean you can’t be as into Phish as I am without having deep respect for the Dead, what they do, the genre they basically invented. I think they’re the godfathers of just an incredible musical movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Yeah, the jam Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] Which I learned from your dad, actually, who I had the pleasure of speaking with on the phone. He was really breaking it down for me, because I have to admit, I’m not like, I didn’t grow up listening to Grateful Dead. It’s not something I’m totally familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Well, it’s his favorite subject matter. He was telling me the one thing he was bummed that he forgot to tell you was his theory on the jam band gene. If you are at a show and you hear someone go off on a crazy guitar jam, you’ve got the gene if after 25 minutes you’re like, oh man, that wasn’t really long enough, but it was pretty good. But if after 90 seconds you’re like, ugh, I hope this ends soon, I just want to get back to the songs and the lyrics, then you do not have the gene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] I think with a jam band there comes a point where the players have played together for such a long time that they kind of morph into a single organism or they just can anticipate what their fellow musicians are going to play and I think that’s when the magic occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:06:20] I think they’re much more of a live band than a studio band. I guess the way I describe the music is kind of if rock music had improvisational jazz but done with rock instruments. Different every time. Sure, it’s different every time, I mean it really is like incomprehensible to someone who’s not into them, why anyone would like it, you know it’s nonsensical, it’s noise. But it’s so cool to hear these instruments together doing this magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So Carly, there’s a bunch of stuff going on in San Francisco this weekend. Tell me about the 60th anniversary shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Yeah, so in celebration of the band’s 60th anniversary, or what would be the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, Dead and Company is playing three shows in Golden Gate Park. They are sold out. They have incredible headliners who are considered, you know, guitar gods in their own right. And around the city, a bunch of other stuff is happening. There’s a festival at one of the piers that’s put on by Phil Lesh’s son. There is a street naming after Jerry Garcia. Mickey Hart, the drummer, has an art exhibit somewhere in town, and then Jerry Day is also on Saturday. This is the annual celebration of Jerry Garcia, so I’m sure a lot of folks are coming out, even just for that in itself, is a huge celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] So there’s a 60th anniversary show happening in San Francisco this weekend with Dead and Co, which to be clear is not the same as Grateful Dead, but is sort of an offshoot, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Yeah, so the Grateful Dead was started by Jerry Garcia. He is this mythological figure. I mean, Rolling Stone has ranked him, I think, in the top 50 guitar players of all time. He sort of invented this “neer-ne-neer” music, if you will, that my mother scorned in my childhood. And yeah, and he’s a local guy. He grew up in the Excelsior. We celebrate Jerry Day in San Francisco every year. And when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, a lot of people, my father included, considered that to be the end of the Grateful Dead. The Grateful dead, as it was known, was over. However many, many incarnations have sprouted in the subsequent years. And then Dead and Co. is the newest incarnation which has John Mayer playing Jerry’s guitar parts but has Bob Weir really as the front man. He’s still playing the rhythm guitar parts but he sings a lot of Jerry’s original lyrics and obviously his songs as well. That’s pretty much the closest we have to The Grateful Dead today, given two remaining members are in that band, including Bob Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Dead in Company does this sort of bluesy, slower John Mayer fronted thing, which I personally, as a millennial who grew up with John Mayor and was a big teeny-bopper fan in my teens, I love. I think he’s one of the most talented living guitar players. I love his sort of, bluesy bent on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] It is absolutely not Jerry Garcia, and I think that’s kind of the point. If they had found a Jerry clone, it would have been, I think, more sad, and this is just breathing new life in an absolutely more mainstream sort of stadium theater way, but I’m not offended by that, and I’m stoked. I mean, it’s Bob Weir in Golden Gate Park. I gotta go pay my respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] It sounds like you were very excited about this show coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] Oh, yeah. I mean, when they announced, it didn’t even occur to me that this would be anything but something to celebrate, which is why I was shocked as I wrote in my Standard piece to hear my father’s response. I was thinking, oh my gosh, I’ll get my dad to come back to San Francisco, where I was born, and we’ll go to Golden Gate Park, where it all began, and see these shows together. And he was just like, abso-frickin’ Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Tell me a little bit more about your dad’s reaction and what about it was so surprising to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] I think the ticket price was what generated the most sort of indignance. I mean, I’ve heard words used like it’s unconscionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] As a deadhead, it just felt very commercialized and kind of like a money grab or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I was, you know, a little eyebrow-raisey at the prices. Over $200 for a day, over $600 for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I didn’t feel they were treating the long-time fan base barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] With the risk of sounding hyperbolic. It was kind of heartbreaking to talk to these folks for my article who just love this band and have built their lives around forming community around this band and are priced out of being able to do this really special thing, which is the 60th anniversary and the place where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I feel like concert tickets these days are just very expensive generally. I mean, I’m thinking Taylor Swift, I think Beyonce, just the biggest shows of our time seem just like so out of reach. But what was it about ticket prices for a Grateful Dead sort of cover band, offshoot that was so irritating in particular to Deadheads?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] Right. I mean, I think deadheads are used to a culture where this band was playing for free or for very accessible prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] Their whole approach was that the band, the audience, was one big experience for everybody. And it just felt like they were integrated with their community. And this just doesn’t have that feel for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] You know, they did The Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park in the 60s for free. They did a free show in the early 70s. I ran the numbers as part of the Standard piece. And it was really fun tracking down old ticket stubs online. But I really didn’t see anything face value for more than, I think, $35 at the time, which translates to under $70 today, which even then, you know, is probably a hefty investment for some people, but orders of magnitude less than what you’re paying today. 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Tickets are going for $635 for three-day general admission, and thousands of Deadheads are expected to attend the shows and related events. But not Chuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] It just feels super commercialized and just not the spirit that I felt when I attended shows and got involved in the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Today we talk with Chuck’s daughter and San Francisco-based writer Carly Schwartz about the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary shows and why some deadheads are boycotting them. Carly, Do you identify as a dead head?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:02:39] I feel like I might be disingenuous to say I’m, you know, a religiously fanatic deadhead. 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He was the lead guitarist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] I guess I just had it on all the time when they were kids. And so I guess they just assimilated it by osmosis if nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] This was just such a big part of his life and therefore my life as his daughter. I have these memories of him mowing the lawn on a Sunday and just belting out some Jerry lyrics. And my mother, funnily enough, could not stand the Grateful Dead. To this day, she brags about how she never accompanied him to a show. And she called it “neer-ne-neer” music. She’s like, oh, there’s your dad and his “neer-ne-neer”. And my brother and I are just rolling our eyes. There’s dad blasting his Jerry again. But it really was this omnipresent force. I mean, in the car, when he’s gardening around the house, it was just, yeah, it was a soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] As a kid I wanted to not be like my parents, so of course I found my way into the next generation Grateful Dead, which is Phish, and became equally fanatic about them. But yeah, I mean you can’t be as into Phish as I am without having deep respect for the Dead, what they do, the genre they basically invented. I think they’re the godfathers of just an incredible musical movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] Yeah, the jam Band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:04] Which I learned from your dad, actually, who I had the pleasure of speaking with on the phone. He was really breaking it down for me, because I have to admit, I’m not like, I didn’t grow up listening to Grateful Dead. It’s not something I’m totally familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:05:19] Well, it’s his favorite subject matter. He was telling me the one thing he was bummed that he forgot to tell you was his theory on the jam band gene. If you are at a show and you hear someone go off on a crazy guitar jam, you’ve got the gene if after 25 minutes you’re like, oh man, that wasn’t really long enough, but it was pretty good. 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But it’s so cool to hear these instruments together doing this magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So Carly, there’s a bunch of stuff going on in San Francisco this weekend. Tell me about the 60th anniversary shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:07:07] Yeah, so in celebration of the band’s 60th anniversary, or what would be the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, Dead and Company is playing three shows in Golden Gate Park. They are sold out. They have incredible headliners who are considered, you know, guitar gods in their own right. And around the city, a bunch of other stuff is happening. There’s a festival at one of the piers that’s put on by Phil Lesh’s son. There is a street naming after Jerry Garcia. Mickey Hart, the drummer, has an art exhibit somewhere in town, and then Jerry Day is also on Saturday. This is the annual celebration of Jerry Garcia, so I’m sure a lot of folks are coming out, even just for that in itself, is a huge celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] So there’s a 60th anniversary show happening in San Francisco this weekend with Dead and Co, which to be clear is not the same as Grateful Dead, but is sort of an offshoot, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:08:04] Yeah, so the Grateful Dead was started by Jerry Garcia. He is this mythological figure. I mean, Rolling Stone has ranked him, I think, in the top 50 guitar players of all time. He sort of invented this “neer-ne-neer” music, if you will, that my mother scorned in my childhood. And yeah, and he’s a local guy. He grew up in the Excelsior. We celebrate Jerry Day in San Francisco every year. And when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, a lot of people, my father included, considered that to be the end of the Grateful Dead. The Grateful dead, as it was known, was over. However many, many incarnations have sprouted in the subsequent years. And then Dead and Co. is the newest incarnation which has John Mayer playing Jerry’s guitar parts but has Bob Weir really as the front man. He’s still playing the rhythm guitar parts but he sings a lot of Jerry’s original lyrics and obviously his songs as well. That’s pretty much the closest we have to The Grateful Dead today, given two remaining members are in that band, including Bob Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] Dead in Company does this sort of bluesy, slower John Mayer fronted thing, which I personally, as a millennial who grew up with John Mayor and was a big teeny-bopper fan in my teens, I love. I think he’s one of the most talented living guitar players. I love his sort of, bluesy bent on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] It is absolutely not Jerry Garcia, and I think that’s kind of the point. If they had found a Jerry clone, it would have been, I think, more sad, and this is just breathing new life in an absolutely more mainstream sort of stadium theater way, but I’m not offended by that, and I’m stoked. I mean, it’s Bob Weir in Golden Gate Park. I gotta go pay my respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] It sounds like you were very excited about this show coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] Oh, yeah. I mean, when they announced, it didn’t even occur to me that this would be anything but something to celebrate, which is why I was shocked as I wrote in my Standard piece to hear my father’s response. I was thinking, oh my gosh, I’ll get my dad to come back to San Francisco, where I was born, and we’ll go to Golden Gate Park, where it all began, and see these shows together. And he was just like, abso-frickin’ Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Tell me a little bit more about your dad’s reaction and what about it was so surprising to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] I think the ticket price was what generated the most sort of indignance. I mean, I’ve heard words used like it’s unconscionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] As a deadhead, it just felt very commercialized and kind of like a money grab or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:23] I was, you know, a little eyebrow-raisey at the prices. Over $200 for a day, over $600 for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] I didn’t feel they were treating the long-time fan base barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] With the risk of sounding hyperbolic. It was kind of heartbreaking to talk to these folks for my article who just love this band and have built their lives around forming community around this band and are priced out of being able to do this really special thing, which is the 60th anniversary and the place where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] I feel like concert tickets these days are just very expensive generally. I mean, I’m thinking Taylor Swift, I think Beyonce, just the biggest shows of our time seem just like so out of reach. But what was it about ticket prices for a Grateful Dead sort of cover band, offshoot that was so irritating in particular to Deadheads?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:21] Right. I mean, I think deadheads are used to a culture where this band was playing for free or for very accessible prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] Their whole approach was that the band, the audience, was one big experience for everybody. And it just felt like they were integrated with their community. And this just doesn’t have that feel for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] You know, they did The Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park in the 60s for free. They did a free show in the early 70s. I ran the numbers as part of the Standard piece. And it was really fun tracking down old ticket stubs online. But I really didn’t see anything face value for more than, I think, $35 at the time, which translates to under $70 today, which even then, you know, is probably a hefty investment for some people, but orders of magnitude less than what you’re paying today. I think folks I spoke to were really turned off by this sort of corporate nature of it, this Ticketmaster, Live Nation ecosystem, you know, setting the prices from the get go to create this sort of scarcity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] It just feels super commercialized and just not the spirit that I felt when I attended shows and got involved in the whole scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:13:43] The numbers are showing this week on these resale sites that actually there is a supply of these tickets that are available for the face value or maybe even less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:54] Your dad talked about the sort of spirit of the dead and how this sort of modern version of ticket sales etc doesn’t seem to honor the spirit of a dead in that way and that that was sort of one of the things that also really put him off is this I mean in his eyes it seems like the grateful dead sort of died with Jerry Garcia probably the most well-known member of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:14:22] Oh yeah, I mean that’s, he’ll say over and over again there, you know, the Grateful Dead ended in 1995, but that doesn’t mean their songs don’t live on through these other bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chuck Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] It astounds me that the Grateful Dead are as popular as they are, what is it, it’s 30 years after Jerry died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carly Schwartz \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] I mean, I feel that, you know, if and when we’re human beings, everyone’s going to die. 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"content": "\u003cp>All aboard the “Trippy Train.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is rolling out three Grateful Dead-inspired Muni vehicles, wrapped in fluorescent florals and psychedelic-inspired graphics, ready to transport riders back to the Summer of Love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no better place to celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead than right here in San Francisco, and now that legacy is rolling through our neighborhoods literally,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said at a press conference on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans riding the 5 Fulton, 7 Haight/Noriega or N Judah routes might get lucky enough to take a long, strange trip on one of the ‘60s-inspired, tie-dye vehicles now through the end of the Dead & Company’s highly-anticipated run of outdoor concerts at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields Aug. 1–3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two “Psychedeli-Buses” and the “Trippy” Metro Train will be a part of the fleets on those standard routes for the next three weeks, and a few of the dozens of vehicles Muni plans to run to and from the shows, which are expected to draw tens of thousands to the city per night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00045_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00045_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00045_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00045_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00045_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain and Field Operations Bureau of the Golden Gate Division Angela Wilhelm (left) and Mayor Daniel Lurie (right) chat before boarding one of the psychedelic-themed buses in the Haight Ashbury District in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. 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The transit agency is currently projecting annual deficits above \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037653/sfmta-launches-major-reorganization-to-address-mounting-budget-shortfall\">$300 million \u003c/a>beginning in 2026, fueled by low post-pandemic ridership and decreased funding sources, as it makes cuts to staff and services.[aside postID=arts_13978193 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/0-2000x1333.jpg']The funky additions to the fleet may be a part of a push to reach younger residents, a strategy that has included the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://themunistore.com/\">merchandise\u003c/a> with its iconic worm logo earlier this year and partnering with the \u003ca href=\"https://shop.sfcityfc.com/collections/jerseys\">SF City FC soccer club\u003c/a> on a new line of jerseys with the signature emblem across the chest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The funky additions to the fleet may be a part of a push to reach younger residents, a strategy that has included the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://themunistore.com/\">merchandise\u003c/a> with its iconic worm logo earlier this year and partnering with the \u003ca href=\"https://shop.sfcityfc.com/collections/jerseys\">SF City FC soccer club\u003c/a> on a new line of jerseys with the signature emblem across the chest. A special tie-dye Muni shirt is available in honor of the wrapped buses and shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said the concerts — and multitude of city events built up around them — are bringing visitors, and Muni riders, to the city, boosting the city’s economy and tourism industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not just about the music,” he said. “These events are going to generate major economic revenue for the city of San Francisco … Hotel demand for Thursday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 3rd, is up an average of 53%, tourism industry leaders are reporting bookings from fans across the country and the world and small business owners right here on Haight say their sales have already seen a noticeable increase in foot traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their limited run, a ride on the hippie bus may be as coveted as concert passes themselves. With three-day tickets starting at $635, VIP passes to the festival — which will also feature special guests Sturgill Simpson, Billy Strings and the Trey Anastasio Band — are listed \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/dead-company-san-francisco-tickets-8-1-2025/event/158351685/?quantity=2\">for as much as $10,000\u003c/a> apiece on the resale site StubHub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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They’re expected to explain how the Alliance, a nonprofit that worked closely with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and acted as the fundraising arm for about 80 community groups, misspent nearly $4 million, though Fielder said they plan to appear with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we’ll get some answers as to how this all transpired and happened, although it’s unclear … as they’re also going to be there with their lawyers,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People row on a rental boat on Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on June 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Partner organizations began raising concerns about the Parks Alliance’s finances in late April, after struggling to get reimbursements. In May, the board chair, Louise Mozingo, told a donor in leaked emails that the Alliance had used at least $3.8 million earmarked for specific projects to cover operating expenses, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $1 million of the misspent money is owed to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043932/how-a-trusted-sf-nonprofit-unraveled-and-took-millions-with-it\">criminal investigation\u003c/a> into the Parks Alliance. City Attorney David Chiu and Controller Greg Wagner also announced a public integrity review of the nonprofit’s finances. On May 23, Mayor Daniel Lurie directed departments to halt all funding to the organization. The organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">collapsed\u003c/a> in early June.[aside postID=news_12043932 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-39-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003cstrong>Warning signs: \u003c/strong>This isn’t the first time the Parks Alliance has been mired in scandal. In 2020, former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru funneled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">nearly $1 million in donations\u003c/a> from city contractors into a Parks Alliance bank account for personal use. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in federal prison two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Supervisor Connie Chan raised concerns that the nonprofit’s donations were unfairly influencing investment decisions by the parks department. Her concerns prompted a subpoena of financial transactions between the Parks Alliance and the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>One of the biggest questions now is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">what happens to the Alliance’s many community partners\u003c/a> — groups that coordinate park cleanups, maintain public water fountains and staircases, and perform habitat restoration and trail maintenance, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the groups don’t have tax-exempt status and rely on the Parks Alliance to hold and distribute funds. 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"content": "\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. Tim Ramirez, who manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s\u003c/a> Division of Natural Resources, said the temple is a reminder of the vision and foresight of those who first imagined Hetch Hetchy and its role in the success of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SEASACHI-SWITCH-QUEERSURF-JUNE-7-2025-_23-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emeryville Shellmound Memorial, Emeryville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a massive archaeological site, the Emeryville Shellmound Memorial pays a small tribute to the history of the Ohlone people, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">shellmounds — used as burial or ceremonial sites — used to dot the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a shopping mall, the former shellmound was excavated to make way for the mall. This spot is often used as a gathering place for protests on Black Friday that call attention to the site’s destruction and the mishandling of Indigenous remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1910 and 1940, around 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.aiisf.org/history\">Angel Island,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821133/the-little-known-history-of-japanese-internment-on-angel-island\">many of whom were detained or interrogated\u003c/a> as their status was processed.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a state park and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1582/index.htm\">National Historic Landmark\u003c/a>, the island houses a history museum and a monument to the Chinese immigrants who were detained on the island. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034009/angel-island-exhibit-aims-shine-light-border-surveillance-american-exclusion\">A new exhibit opened this spring\u003c/a> focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border amid President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration crackdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanforan Memorial, San Bruno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 2022, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tanforanmemorial.org/\">Tanforan Memorial\u003c/a> commemorates the 8,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned there in 1942 while more permanent internment camps were under construction, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">the United States invoked the Alien Enemies Act\u003c/a> to detain people of Japanese descent living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/planning/art-program/exhibit\">San Bruno BART\u003c/a> station, the memorial was designed to replicate a horse stall, like the ones detainees were forced to occupy at the former racetrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. Tim Ramirez, who manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s\u003c/a> Division of Natural Resources, said the temple is a reminder of the vision and foresight of those who first imagined Hetch Hetchy and its role in the success of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The group’s former leaders, including Robert Ogilvie, the organization’s CEO until just days ago, his predecessor, Drew Becher, and former treasurer, Rick Hutchinson, will be required to appear before the committee under penalty of perjury, and could be held in contempt if they refuse to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton lambasted the organization for its fiscal mismanagement and lack of transparency, which has left dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm to neighborhood groups across San Francisco cannot be overstated,” said Walton, a member of the Government Audit & Oversight Committee. “Many of these groups are volunteer-run. They did nothing wrong. Their funds were held in a trust, and now those funds may be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s implosion comes as its leaders last month admitted to misspending at least $3.8 million in restricted funds in order to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\"> launch civil and criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042690 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 50 years, the Parks Alliance was a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects and serving as a fiscal sponsor for more than 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know the Parks Alliance’s full assets at this time, but we do know they owe the city and many nonprofits a lot of money,” Walton said. “We are here to demand answers. This is about public trust, accountability and the real consequences of failed oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, the Alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to improperly spending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “nonprofit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to \u003cem>the Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.[aside postID=news_12042526 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42458_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_GGP_03302020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Parks Alliance, a prominent nonprofit that has supported the city’s public spaces for more than 50 years, is reportedly preparing to shut down amid revelations that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">misspent millions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s board members voted last week to begin shuttering operations and laying off staff, leaving dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/troubled-s-f-parks-alliance-shut-amid-city-20357746.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/02/sf-parks-alliance-shut-down-close/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported on Monday, based on information both outlets said they received from an anonymous source familiar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees who work with at least some of the local groups that the Parks Alliance supports have already received layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implosion of the organization comes as its leaders recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\"> admitted to misspending\u003c/a> at least $3.8 million in restricted funds to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to launch civil and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/da-launches-criminal-probe-nonprofit-misspending-20335694.php\">criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance has long been a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects, serving as a fiscal sponsor for about 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow Falls at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those groups is Sutro Stewards, which performs habitat restoration and trail maintenance on Mount Sutro and, until this week, had eight staff members, all of whom are technically employed by the Parks Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was laid off yesterday, as was all my staff,” Ildiko Polony, the group’s executive director, told KQED. She said all of her employees received a notice on Monday afternoon from the Parks Alliance, sent to their personal emails, with separation paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to significant financial challenges, the San Francisco Parks Alliance had to make a difficult decision to lay off employees effective May 30th,” the email stated, according to Polony, who said she had a feeling this was coming after her entire staff on Friday received vacation payouts on their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s how we found out,” she said, noting that the email doesn’t explicitly state the alliance is shutting down. “The communication was horrible. And this is incredibly detrimental to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13975608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Sister-Act-2-at-Dolores-Park-2022_1920-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of the many community groups that receive fiscal sponsorship from the alliance, in an effort to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all came together to try to work with the board of directors, the board of trustees of SFPA, to right the ship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the fiscally sponsored groups are volunteer-led, using the alliance to park their individual donations, although at least two others have employees who were also laid off on Monday, Polony said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups involved operate in every part of the city, performing an array of open-space improvement projects, she said, including litter cleanup in parks and maintaining public water fountains and stairways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really want people to understand is that while what’s happened with SFPA is unjust, egregious, unfair, possibly criminal and horribly negligent, they’ve [also] basically stolen our money,” added Polony, who said the Parks Alliance is still holding about $175,000 in funds raised by her organization that may now be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they had access to spend money that my group, as well as most of these other partner groups, had entrusted with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to misspending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-1020x664.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who the FBI arrested in January on public corruption charges. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “non-profit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downfall of the alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035871/sf-will-let-nonprofits-report-less-about-themselves-fears-political-attacks\">series of scandals\u003c/a> involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">arrested for allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not the first time the Parks Alliance, which operates independently from the parks department but is closely linked to it, has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million in donations \u003c/a>from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg']Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years in federal prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following news of the alliance’s imminent closure, the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee, co-led by Fielder, announced it would hold a hearing on Friday addressing allegations of financial mismanagement directed against the organization, while also introducing a motion to initiate an audit of the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offices of the city attorney and controller, which had already been reviewing the Parks Alliance’s finances, said in a statement on Tuesday that they sought to make sure that any closure or liquidation process “takes into account the needs of the City and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial mismanagement at the Parks Alliance has done real harm to San Francisco, which is why we are working on a joint public integrity review of the matter,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polony said that while the alliance has always been disorganized, it served a critical role in enabling groups like hers to do public service work that directly benefits the city and its residents. And she said it’s incumbent on the city to now step in and fix the mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city hasn’t been able to raise the revenue via taxes to support our public space,” she said. “And so, the function that SFPA provided needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other groups in her coalition, Polony is now rushing to find a new fiscal sponsor to access her funds so she can rehire her staff and continue the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had this been done smoothly, had the city worked with the Alliance to create a transition for all of these community partners, this could have been done with a lot less harm,” she said. “Their going under makes a bad problem even worse for us because now we’re left in the lurch with no one to catch us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. 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They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. 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Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. 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Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. 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I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. But if they do go after children, then that’s when they will take action and discuss what has happened with federal agents and jointly decide when coyotes need to be taken out. So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. And so coyotes are getting accustomed to associating humans with food. And that is a huge problem behind all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] It’s interesting. It sounds like, I mean, part of the problem is our relationship to the coyotes, actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] Right, so when this particular coyote was killed last fall, the Presidio Wildlife people actually got together and held a funeral for the coyote. They sang songs and spread flowers and they felt really devastated because this is a coyote family that lives in the Presidio, you know, well known to people who work there. They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. Luckily it didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] I mean, other than, I guess, following these warning signs, are there any other precautions that pet owners are taking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, there’s a new dog accessory these days, which is a vest with spikes on it. Some look kind of construction worker vest orange vibes where others are more punk looking with like black vests and silver spikes. But a lot of dog owners are doing that because coyotes, you know, are not gonna want to grab something with spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] What has the reader response been like to your story? You’re writing about San Francisco for the New York Times, and there’s a lot of people nationally talking about San Fransisco, but how are they feeling about the San Francisco Coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:14:04] We got a great response. It was really surprising to see how into this story people were, just really captivated by these amazing photos, somuch so that I wrote a follow-up piece describing how the photos were taken. So I got to interview Loren Elliott, the photographer, about how exactly he took these photos. He went out and heard a howl at Bernal Hill and found this coyote pretty early in the morning who was just stirring and he actually spotted it and he was able to take this just wonderful photo that really captured people’s attentions where the coyote is howling and his face is framed in sunlight and right outside the shadow is a car driving past and a woman jogging just feet from him. And when he saw that image on the little screen on his camera, he was like, “Oh, there’s something here. I’m going to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:03] Yeah, the images in the story are incredible, they’re really cool to look at. Well, Heather Knight from the New York Times, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, stoners from the Bay Area and beyond have made a pilgrimage to Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on April 20 — to collectively combust their favorite plant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">in observance of 420\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981277/san-franciscos-420-festival-cancellation-reveals-difficulties-in-cannabis-industry\">like last year\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">2025’s “official” 420 celebration at Hippie Hill has been canceled\u003c/a>, as both event organizers and the city said they lacked the resources to hold the celebration this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">What does the law say about smoking cannabis in public in San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Despite the cancellation, many people are still likely to descend on the park to celebrate, in a nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103141/how-did-420-become-a-phenomenon-we-tracked-down-the-guys-who-invented-it\">the grassroots beginning of the holiday.\u003c/a> For almost a decade, it’s been legal in California for people age 21 years or older to buy and use marijuana — \u003ca href=\"#is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">with some important caveats.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for those who plan to celebrate cannabis’ marquee day by sparking up some “jazz cabbage” of their own, keep reading to find out how and where to mark 420 safely and legally in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the San Francisco 420 celebration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the years before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">cannabis was legalized in California in 2016\u003c/a>, 420 in San Francisco was an informal — but still well-attended — gathering of devoted potheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on April 20, cannabis enthusiasts would gather on Hippie Hill overlooking Robin Williams Meadow (formerly Sharon Meadow) in Golden Gate Park and enjoy the drug by sparking up collectively at 4:20 p.m., producing\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\"> a cloud of weed smoke worthy of a false alarm to the fire department\u003c/a>. (As for \u003cem>why “\u003c/em>420” came to mean “marijuana,” you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">read or listen to KQED Bay Curious’ episode\u003c/a> on how five San Rafael high school students coined the phrase back in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-949250112-e1744312988362.jpg\" alt=\"People wore pot-themed gear, like these marijuana leaf glasses, during a 420 celebration on 'Hippie Hill.'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of San Francisco’s annual 420 celebration on “Hippie Hill” gather on the lawn wearing sunglasses shaped like cannabis leaves. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the increasing popularity of the informal San Francisco 420 event brought growing pains, culminating in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.420hippiehill.com/info\">reports of violence, theft and 11 tons of trash\u003c/a> being left behind by attendees, putting it at “risk of being shut down,” according to the event’s website. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">that 2016 voter-approved measure that legalized cannabis statewide\u003c/a> also provided the opportunity for organizers to apply for permits, and in 2017, they formally sought the city’s blessing to turn the Hippie Hill 420 party into an officially-sanctioned bud-bonanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the celebration has morphed from an informal gathering of hacky sacks and drum circles into a highly produced event, complete with increased amenities like portable restrooms and medical services, within a fenced-off perimeter with security. That is, until …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The SF 420 event is canceled for a second year in a row. Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">the same reasons as last year\u003c/a>. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers canceled the celebration in 2024 — and those same economic conditions have forced the same outcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There were conversations with organizers early on to see the feasibility of having the 420 festival, but because of economic challenges within the cannabis industry, organizers couldn’t secure sponsorships” for the 2025 event, said Daniel Montes, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department communications manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes also said that “city budget cuts” had affected the department’s “ability to cover staffing for the event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will people still gather at Hippie Hill on 420 even if the official event is canceled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If last year is any indication, then yes. Despite the cancellation of the official 420 festivities in 2024, hundreds of people still showed up to Robin Williams Meadow to keep the tradition alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second year running, the city is seeking to activate the area with alternate — and decidedly non-weed-themed — events in lieu of any official 420 celebration, partnering with coed sports league Volo Sports to hold an event called “\u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2149\">Peace, Love and Volo Field Day\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11662140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park during the 2015 420 celebration.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park during the 420 celebration in 2015. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event will feature volleyball and kickball tournaments in Robin Williams Meadow, adjacent to Hippie Hill, and according to the city, “mark[s] a shift from the traditional cannabis culture celebration that previously took place in the park on that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means less hype, but also fewer services, like security or porta potties, and the prospect of consuming cannabis in public without the city’s blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">\u003c/a>What does the law say about consuming or possessing cannabis in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It is legal for anyone age 21 and older to buy and use cannabis in California. “But, like tobacco and alcohol, there are laws that you need to follow,” warns the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information--know-your-rights-cannabis-consumer\">City of San Francisco’s know-your-rights page on consuming cannabis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your age, it is illegal to consume cannabis in public in California — including places like parks, sidewalks and beaches. The only place that legal cannabis consumption is permitted is in a private residence, like your home or someone else’s — or another place that has applied for the appropriate permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events like San Francisco’s 420 festival apply for such permits to allow the legalized consumption of cannabis. It’s similar to how an event like Oktoberfest might apply for a permit to operate a beer garden, said Ken Seligson, the principal attorney at Seligson Law, a cannabis law firm.[aside postID=news_12032246 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/98579521_qed-1020x680.jpg']“ These designated events are given that leeway because there are security and safety protocols that are required to have an event like that,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no official 420 celebration happening this year, it will be technically illegal to consume cannabis in public in Golden Gate Park this year. However, as many San Franciscans know, the day-to-day realities in San Francisco can be quite different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think the risk would be low — but not zero — to show up on 420 and consume cannabis in Golden Gate Park,” said Seligson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligson said that generally, people are less likely to get busted for consuming cannabis in public in San Francisco because “ police have discretion in enforcing these rules and they have priorities. Cannabis is one of the lowest priorities for enforcement in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/DO/letstalkcannabis/CDPH%20Document%20Library/October%202017%20Update/CDPH-Adult_Use_Cannabis_Penalties.pdf\">The penalty for consuming cannabis\u003c/a> in a public place is an infraction of up to $100 for adults. But that penalty goes up if you’re caught smoking cannabis in a place where tobacco is prohibited — or within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center or youth center while children are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘ That’s where you might see the discretion of a police officer,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about smoking or carrying cannabis on federal land like the Presidio?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is blessed with a multitude of scenic properties that are owned by the federal government, which could strike someone as the perfect place to (ahem) take a walk with some friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seligson said cannabis consumers should be aware that the chances of police enforcing cannabis law is much higher on federal property — and the penalty is much more harsh. 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(As for \u003cem>why “\u003c/em>420” came to mean “marijuana,” you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">read or listen to KQED Bay Curious’ episode\u003c/a> on how five San Rafael high school students coined the phrase back in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-949250112-e1744312988362.jpg\" alt=\"People wore pot-themed gear, like these marijuana leaf glasses, during a 420 celebration on 'Hippie Hill.'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of San Francisco’s annual 420 celebration on “Hippie Hill” gather on the lawn wearing sunglasses shaped like cannabis leaves. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the increasing popularity of the informal San Francisco 420 event brought growing pains, culminating in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.420hippiehill.com/info\">reports of violence, theft and 11 tons of trash\u003c/a> being left behind by attendees, putting it at “risk of being shut down,” according to the event’s website. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">that 2016 voter-approved measure that legalized cannabis statewide\u003c/a> also provided the opportunity for organizers to apply for permits, and in 2017, they formally sought the city’s blessing to turn the Hippie Hill 420 party into an officially-sanctioned bud-bonanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the celebration has morphed from an informal gathering of hacky sacks and drum circles into a highly produced event, complete with increased amenities like portable restrooms and medical services, within a fenced-off perimeter with security. That is, until …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The SF 420 event is canceled for a second year in a row. Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">the same reasons as last year\u003c/a>. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers canceled the celebration in 2024 — and those same economic conditions have forced the same outcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There were conversations with organizers early on to see the feasibility of having the 420 festival, but because of economic challenges within the cannabis industry, organizers couldn’t secure sponsorships” for the 2025 event, said Daniel Montes, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department communications manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes also said that “city budget cuts” had affected the department’s “ability to cover staffing for the event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will people still gather at Hippie Hill on 420 even if the official event is canceled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If last year is any indication, then yes. 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