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By Murray Schneider Admirers of the photography of Bruce Conner gathered together on March 3 for an evening reception at the Gallery Paule Anglim, which premiered 13 color photographs edited and transferred to digital color format by the Glen Park avant-garde artist before his death in 2008. The exhibit, “Mabuhay Gardens: Punk Photography & Collage,” […]

Please note that the Highland Street Bridge will be closed from March 9-16.  The Richland Street Bridge will be closed from March 16-23 for construction.   The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside station newsletter.   Thursday March 1 Nothing in the report from Glen Park   Friday March 2 10:30am          Unit Blk […]

Beginning March 16th and running until March 20th, the Balboa Theater will program “Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood,” a festival of Bengali movies from Tollywood. With the anticipated 2012 release of “Aparajita Tumi” from acclaimed director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, shot entirely on location last summer in the San Francisco Bay Area (with key scenes filmed in […]

Thursday February 16   2:15pm unit blk Chenery Theft Police Services Aide Flynn prepared a report regarding a theft. The victim came to the station and told the PSA that while in the restroom she left her phone in a stall and exited to wash her hands. While she was washing her hands a suspect […]

Martin Duggan caught this San Francisco  alligator lizard in Glen canyon on Tuesday sunning itself on a rock. The lizard is officially called Elgaria coerulea coerulea. They range from 2.75 to  5.87 inches in length from snout to vent. The subspecies lives in to California  from northern Sonoma County, south along the coast to northern Monterey […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Jeanne Halpern, who lives on a hill overlooking O’Shaughnessy Boulevard, acquired a green thumb in 2000 and a dozen years later her Valletta Court backyard, once rife with invasive weeds, now has a totally different look. Halpern’s backyard is perched on a slope that would challenge a sure-footed Billy […]

Thank you so much to those of you who responded to the survey about the Glen Park Festival. We’ve received many warm fuzzies and lots of helpful feedback, and we appreciate so many of you taking the time to respond. We’ve received 236 responses so far, 229 of whom feel positively or very positively about […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]

From the Festival organizers: As most of you know, the Glen Park Festival is a one-day annual community event that brings our neighborhood together and raises money for schools and nonprofits in the Glen Park area. There are a few neighbors on Wilder Street who have signed a petition in protest of the festival. What they are asking […]

By Murray Schneider Later this year Diamond Heights resident, Richard Craib, steps down as president of the 130-member Friends of Glen Canyon Park, a position he has held for 15 years. Craib, 71, a native San Franciscan, was raised in the Sunset District and a 1958 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He has lived […]