San Francisco Ballet 2011, theatrical distributor IndieNetFilms arranged for additional screenings throughout the U.S. and Canada. In December 2011, the U.S. premiere of John Neumeier's "The Little Mermaid", performed by San Francisco Ballet, was broadcast nationally on PBS's "Great Performances: Dance in America", and also internationally. DVDs of the "Nutcracker" and "The Little Mermaid" performances were released in 2008 and 2011, respectively. CD recordings of the complete score of "Nutcracker" and Shinji Eshima's "RAkU" were released in 2010 and 2012, respectively. The company has garnered numerous accolades and awards. In 2005, San Francisco Ballet won its first Laurence Olivier Award, in the category
San Francisco graft trials also went on strike. On May 7, 1907, what would later be called "Bloody Tuesday", six streetcars carrying armed guards attempted to leave the carbarn. An enraged mob threw rocks and bricks, gunfight erupts between guards and men shooting from nearby vacant lots. From inside carbarns, strikebreakers opened fire on crowd. Two dead, 20 wounded. The contract for handling the baggage for attendees of a national convention of the Epworth League in San Francisco was given to a non-union company. During the prior year, a union company was hired during another convention in San Francisco to handle the baggage, but