Christian protesters at a 2006 gay pride event in San Francisco.

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

In May 2006 a team of scientists led by Dr. Luigi Naldini and Dr. Brian Brown from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy ( HSR-TIGET ) in Milan, Italy reported a breakthrough for gene therapy in which they developed a way to prevent the immune system from rejecting a newly delivered gene.

In 2006, a Navy sailor, James Eric Benham, and his brother attacked four goths in San Diego California.

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

On December 21, 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and nonprofit Media Alliance filed suit to make the details of Reilly's lawsuit — and MediaNews and the Chronicle's response — public.

His final U. S. performance was in San Francisco on August 20, 2006, as headliner at the Festival of the Golden Gate ( Foggfest ) on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason.

En route home to San Diego from New York City on a cross-country commercial airline flight he endured a minor heart attack on June 11, 2006.

Murat's album with his " San Francisco / Miami Impressions " was recorded in Miami, Florida and was published in 2005 as Automaton² ( Automaton Squared ) followed by " Binfen 2005 Remix ", " Electric Levantine " ( 2006 ), " Umami " ( 2007 ) and " Beside the Sun " ( 2010 ).

He died of heart failure at the age of 94 years in San Francisco on November 16, 2006.

* 2006 – Twitter is created by Jack Dorsey in San Francisco, California.

Starting in week 13 of the 2006 season, the Saints wore black pants with the black jerseys against the San Francisco 49ers, and in a Week 16 game in The Meadowlands against the New York Giants ( a 30 – 7 Saints win ), the Saints wore the black pants with their road white jerseys.

* Rushing Touchdowns: 3 Reggie Bush ( December 3, 2006 vs San Francisco 49ers )

* Total Touchdowns, Game: 4 Joe Horn ( December 14, 2003 vs New York Giants ) & Reggie Bush ( December 3, 2006 vs San Francisco 49ers )

In late 2006, the license to build Rickenbacker acoustics was granted to Paul Wilczynski, a luthier with a workshop in San Francisco, California.

Conservative Christian protesters at a 2006 gay pride event in San Francisco. The relationship between religion and homosexuality can vary greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and sects, and regarding different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality.

The 2007 San Diego Chargers season began with the team trying to equal their 2006 regular season success ( 14 – 2 ) and avoid another early departure in the playoffs.

San Diego Chargers uniform: 1992 – 2006.

The second San Marino Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe was from November 2006 until May 2007.

Clemens made his return on June 22, 2006, against the Minnesota Twins, losing to their rookie phenom, Francisco Liriano, 4 – 2.

2006 also ended up being the last year of Bruce Bochy's tenure as the manager of the Padres, taking the managerial position for their divisional rivals, the San Francisco Giants.

Later they played a series of highly acclaimed and sold-out gigs during mid-October 2006 in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, and toured Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Dublin, and Nottingham in mid-December 2006.

Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award.

Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Wodaabe-Herdsmen of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993, Lessons of Darkness in 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder in 2006.

On December 10, 2006, the non-residential portion of the building was sold by San Francisco based Shorenstein Properties LLC for $ 385 million and was purchased by a joint venture of Chicago-based Golub & Company and the Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds.

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood, Sr. ( 1906 – 70 ), a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth ( Runner ) Eastwood ( 1909 – 2006 ), a factory worker.

His managing career would go on to include Cleveland ( 1975 – 1977 ); the San Francisco Giants ( 1981 – 1984 ); the Orioles ( 1988 – 1991 ); and the Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals franchise ( 2002 – 2006 ).

On June 6, 2006, Baez joined Bruce Springsteen on stage at his San Francisco concert, where the two performed the rolling anthem " Pay Me My Money Down ".

Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci released a documentary in 2006, Pasolini prossimo nostro, based on an interview with Pasolini done on the set of Salò in 1975.

However, in an op-ed in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter on February 28, 2006, two senior SVT reporters criticised the TV documentary severely, claiming that the filmmaker had fabricated a number of statements while omitting other contradictory evidence.

( Baz Luhrmann, 2001 ) and Happy Feet ( which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for filmmaker George Miller in 2006 ) also entered the top ten list during the first decade of the new century.

In 2006 he was also featured in an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

* David-Matthew Barnes, class of 2006 ; novelist, playwright, poet, and filmmaker.

In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film.

She maintained a romantic relationship with photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks for many years until his death in 2006.

In 2006, a filmmaker, animator and fan of Williams ' work named Garrett Gilchrist created an unofficial DVD titled The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut, featuring a restored version of the movie he edited himself based on Williams ' original workprint, mixing the original audio track, finished scenes from the released versions, pencil tests, rare footage and pieces of the storyboard.

In 2006, Christian Bök and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet, produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

In 2006 Marlett and her work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

In October 2007, the Enquirer ran a story about the 2006 affair with Hunter, a filmmaker hired by the Edwards political team, although Edwards dismissed the story as " completely untrue, ridiculous " and " false.

At first she attended the 2006 Film Festival along with filmmaker Karan Johar to represent the Hindi film industry and promote Johar's then-forthcoming Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, which featured Zinta in a leading role.

With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted Ghost World into the 2001 film of the same name, and he also adapted another Eightball story into the 2006 film Art School Confidential.

In 2006 Gervais and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

A documentary by Chicago filmmaker Brian Harrison on WCCW and the Von Erichs, Heroes of World Class, was released on DVD on June 15, 2006, to rave reviews from fans and critics alike.

Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei made a 95-minute documentary titled The Giant Buddhas ( released in March 2006 ) on the statues, the international reactions to their destruction, and an overview of the controversy.

In 2006, Comedian and filmmaker Paul McDermott hosted the series.

In Siberia in 2006, a documentary filmmaker was the first foreigner to reach the world ’ s coldest region with a passenger vehicle in winter, driving a stock G 500 nearly 19, 000 km without a single breakdown, in temperatures as frigid as – 63 ˚ F.

In October 2006, the network premiered TCM Underground, a Friday late-night series hosted by rocker / filmmaker Rob Zombie, which features a number of cult films personally selected by Zombie.

* A 2006 Haitian operatic adaptation of the play, titled Le Maryaj Lenglensou, was produced by Dutch filmmaker Hans Fels, with a score by Haitian composer Iphares Blain.

In 2006, a short documentary by filmmaker Steve Lippman, " Mariners and Musicians ", based on the album and interviews with Cash, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was screened at festivals worldwide.

In 2006, the independent feature Becoming Royston paid homage to the above-mentioned filmmaker.

Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time ( An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for ' Superman ').

In 2006, Williams was honored by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award, presented in honor of his achievements as a filmmaker.