Category: Local
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What’s the deal with the plaque in the road at Van Ness and Market?
If you’ve crossed the street at Van Ness and Market recently you may have noticed a strange little plaque embedded in the road near the […]
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52nd annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Earlier today was Muni’s annual(-ish) Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest. What is a Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, you ask? It’s a two-part contest where […]
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San Francisco’s city hall 100th anniversary celebration
San Francisco’s city hall building celebrated its 100th anniversary today, complete with a visit from mayors from around the country as well as the president. […]
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Dolores Park: What’s in a name?
The freshly renovated section of Dolores Park opens later this week. If you’re like most people, the name “Dolores Park” conjures up images in your […]
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Introducing Sanfranciscius, the temperature scale for San Franciscans
We’re all familiar with checking the weather and seeing the temperature measured in Fahrenheit and/or Celsius. But aren’t those scales a bit arbitrary? Celsius’ 0 […]
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Narrow streets, remixed
Over at Steve Dombek’s Narrow Streets SF website, he proposes undoing America’s 20th century mistake of building ultra-wide streets here in San Francisco. Instead, the […]
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Recipe theft: Cafe Madeleine’s butter lettuce salad with goat cheese
Every now and then you eat something at a cafe or restaurant that’s so good, you have to reverse engineer the recipe and make it […]
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La Cumbre’s new paint job boldly stakes claim to Mission-style burrito’s origin
Recently Taqueria La Cumbre on Valencia got a fire engine red paint job. But far more bold than the color scheme is the claim painted […]
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Top 5 strangest things in Little Delhi’s Twitter feed
One of my favorite Indian restaurants in San Francisco is Little Delhi in the Tenderloin. Great food, reasonable prices, and they offer takeout and delivery. […]
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