Category: Local
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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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Hôtel de ville de San Francisco
I stopped by City Hall today to find it’s still lit up in red white and blue in commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor […]
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Hiking Bernal Heights Park
If you live in San Francisco you’re undoubtedly familiar with Bernal Heights Park, even if you don’t know it by name — it’s the big […]
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City Guides tour of Lands End: Sutro Heights
I’m no good at planning, so it comes as no surprise that I’d neglected to make plans for Labor Day and had to find something […]
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Murals of Lilac Alley
These days it seems pretty much every alley around 24th and Mission is a de-facto canvas for street artists. Overall this is a good thing; […]
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Sam and Max mural spotted in the Mission
While wandering through the Sunday Streets crowd today I got a little off the beaten path and spotted the mural above. It’s unmistakably a depiction […]
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Details leaked regarding mysterious new restaurant at 17th and Valencia
Almost a year ago I reported that the team behind Garcon seemed to be quietly working on a new restaurant at the former site of […]
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Turn Up: There’s a whole other world up there
This year I’ve been doing a number of “30 day” projects where I try to see what I can accomplish in my spare time in […]
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Hiking Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks
For the past few years I’ve been aiming for 10,000 steps a day to make my fitness tracker happy get some exercise. Most days I […]
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Sunset sign scorns dickish tree thief
“Don’t be a dick” is an excellent rule to live by. Nobody wants to be around a dick because they don’t want to be the […]
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