Category: Local

  • Visiting the new Venus sculpture at Trinity Place

    Trinity Place, the aggressively rectangular apartment buildings in mid market are still under construction. But the main plaza and much reported on Venus sculpture by […]

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  • Public notice: Beware of robots

    The other day I noticed an inconspicuous flyer attached to a phone pole at 16th and Valencia. Upon further examination, this notice combines seemingly every […]

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  • Hiking Mount Davidson

     San Francisco has “seven hills,” depending how you count. Before I’ve written about hiking up Mount Sutro, Twin Peaks, and Bernal Heights. Yesterday I finally […]

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  • Muni Murals outside Laguna Honda

    About a year ago, the wall facing Forest Hill station at Laguna Honda hospital got the mural treatment. Today I (finally) found myself over there […]

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  • The Cable Car Museum

    Some museums require a complicated explanation about how to get there; not so with the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Both of the Powell Street […]

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  • Honey bears invade BART station

    A series of fnnch’s honey bears have invaded the Powell BART/Muni Metro station as I discovered on the way home this evening. These are among […]

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  • Castro Valley’s Lake Cabot

    Recently at work we had a day trip — normally that wouldn’t be worthy of a blog post, but in this case we took a […]

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  • Breakers to Bay

    Earlier this afternoon I decided to do something I’d never done before: walk all the way from Ocean Beach to the Embarcadero, across the entire […]

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  • Temporary public art: Night & day edition

    If you’ve ever read this blog before, you’ve probably figured out that I spend a lot of spare time wandering the streets of San Francisco […]

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  • Revisiting the Winchester Mystery House

    As a kid, I took the Winchester Mystery House tour with my aunt. I don’t remember exactly how old I was, maybe around twelve. It’s […]

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