Tag: Francisco

I have spent my whole life in Boston. Any Bostonian, including my partner Mary, would say it is the best place in the whole world. I spent the majority of my time behind a laptop, sometimes with a notepad, but I got to see enough of the city over the last 25 years. Everything ranges from Fenway Park...

I remember when, a few years ago, being in Lisbon, I was talking to someone on the Internet that lives in the San Francisco area. At one point he mentioned that the best-known bridge in Lisbon (the 25 of April Bridge) was very similar to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. After our convers...

Composting is the natural decomposition of organic matter. It takes approximately 90 days to go through a complete decomposition process. After three months, the food waste, combined with natural material such as leaves and mulch, becomes a soil full of life, with over 50 billion microorga...

I hate pooping outside my home, and if forced to do it, my friend describes my bathroom habits as positively dainty. I won’t drop a deuce unless my toilet comes with four secure walls and a latched door lock, and I can’t do cubicles unless the partitions go to the floor. It isn’...

Eddie Tate, a 51-year-old homeless man from Tennessee, spent his entire life battling substance addiction. He had been a hyperactive infant, and his father had a habit of putting alcohol in his bottle so he would go to sleep. As an adult, Eddie moved to San Francisco, where he was incarcerated from ...

When I first landed in the Bay Area my taxi driver got lost. It was July 2011. I had just stepped off a 13-hour flight from London, where I had spent the past 2 years. (Technically the flight was from Stockholm where I had been visiting friends for a long weekend, but regardless — ) I wa...

Design is like a time capsule. It captures the aspirations of the moment during which it was made. I’m obsessed with historic design because it tells a visual story of our human experience. If you know what to look for, you can see the story of San Francisco in its homes. In the earliest st...

I arrived at The Walt Disney Family Museum by foot, overdressed, drenched in sweat, having underestimated San Francisco’s fickle weather once again. This made me start my visit in a way every museum must secretly dream of — straight from the gift shop. I grabbed a fleece adorne...

I found myself in The City some time last month. There’s lots to see within the Bay Area especially from the perspective of a student of transit. Apart from the usual buses and heavy rail, there’s also the world-famous cable cars. There are even trolleybuses, what they call BRT, and s...

Maybe it was from a recent binge-watching session of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, or maybe it was his recent visit to the city by the bay — what matters is that I suddenly felt compelled to compile every single place (food and drink-wise, that is) that Anthony Bourdain has b...

San Franciscans rave to no end about our excellent food, parks, beaches and art scene, but not always do we talk about raising our kids here. I, for one, am so grateful to raise my daughter in our foggy city, but my reasons may not fit every mold. My partner and I grew up in the North Bay, moved ...

San Francisco is setting aside $1.1 million to fund a “green oasis” of open public space in one of the city’s densest neighborhoods, the Tenderloin. Last Tuesday, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority board approved two five-year prioritization programs including sev...

When I first saw San Francisco in 1988, I was instantly enchanted. I was flying out to The City to meet my late husband. He was giving presentations at an International tech conference. My plane was flying in from the South at Sunset, and I had spectacular views of the sparkling ocean. ...

we had to visit the special place we called “the Greens.” Our friends and neighbors around the corner, David and Barry, called this area the Greens because their parents, Patrick and Deidre, referred to it as the Greens after St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. It’s a park in the ...

Superfine Arts Fair at Fort Mason is a carefully-curated event designed not only to provide attendants with access to exciting new artists but also provide the artists with support in their careers, you can feel good knowing that 100 percent of the sale revenue goes to the artists. I walked around o...

Making friends anywhere can be tough but the lifestyle and culture of San Francisco can make it more difficult than other places. Making friends in San Francisco is something often discussed in Reddit forums. Things like cold weather, lack of late-night activities, WFH, addiction to apps, poor so...

San Francisco is a mess. At least the downtown and SoMa districts are. If you live in the Marina, Pac Heights, Castro, Dogpatch, or any neighborhood that isn’t the downtown doom strip, your life is fine. The nation and the world believes our city is forever doomed and will sink under the weigh...

In a significant diplomatic development, President Joe Biden of the United States and President Xi Jinping of China are scheduled to meet in the San Francisco Bay area next week. This face-to-face encounter, set for November 15, marks only their second meeting during the Biden presidency. The...

Everyone knows the shortest alley in San Francisco is Balance Place, and of course Vermont Street is the crookedest. The steepest grade? Bradford Street. But what about that old tale you might’ve heard from a drunk companion late one night that some San Francisco streets were actually ...

It was July 2017. I was en route to SFMOMA, stoned out of my mind, and couldn’t stop laughing. I scoured Twitter for the chicken origin story, but came up empty. If I didn’t have that photo on my phone, I would assume I had imagined it. My favorite thing about visiting a new city is w...

A few months ago, a viral video showed a group of teens and tweens getting off a crowded San Francisco Muni bus, only to encounter a gantlet of junkies splayed out on a city sidewalk. This video wasn’t intended to inspire sympathy for people suffering from addiction and homelessness,...

With Memorial Day Weekend right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get out there and appreciate good ol’ fashioned California beauty. These beaches are all under a 3 hour drive from SF, which is arguably the perfect amount of time before the drive gets too long. In fac...

1) Describe Dataset and Preprocessing — Dataset comes from the SF Police Department incident reports. This data is typically updated daily, but the Tableau visualization is not updated daily. — Strict focus is put on “car break-ins with items stolen valued > $0” ....

Inthe first week of September, David Woo, VP of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council, assured readers of the HANC newsletter that despite what they might have heard, there is no housing crisis in San Francisco. The crisis is entirely “manufactured,” Woo wrote. His evidenc...

Inthe early ’90s, my friends and I used to tape flashlights to the handlebars of our bikes and go riding around in underground storm-drain tunnels. There was a whole network of these tunnels under the city that sat empty for most of the year. We would go for miles snaking up and down the sides...

San Francisco remains the vibrant city it has always been, and continues to restore a bit of the luster that was lost due to COVID-era issues. Every city has problems. But despite the stale narrative to the contrary, San Francisco remains one of the great cities in the world. This month’s Top ...

San Francisco suffered their second straight defeat as a result, something they hadn’t done since this day a year prior, and it was clear that everything had changed after a strong 5–0 start. The NFL will constantly humble you, defensive end Nick Bosa said. “And starting 5&ndash...

We met mid-pandemic and spent hours on the phone getting to know each other. I liked his deep voice and the little song clips he’d record for me. He was a whimsical, creative type who lived in an eclectic household in Oakland. Definitely the type who goes to clambake parties. We bonded...

Its that time of the year again, near the end of the year is when holidays are in full force and the city has a ton of festivities to offer. San Francisco, a city known for its vibrant and diverse food and drink scene, has seen the emergence of trendy pop-up bars in the recent years. These temporary...

Like me, many San Franciscans have thought about it. With brazen shoplifting now as common as fog in the Outer Sunset district, what would any of us do if a theft happened right before our eyes? Would we call for help? Would we challenge the shoplifter? Would we back off if the shoplifte...

I moved to San Francisco just after the 1989 earthquake. I found an apartment in Noe Valley with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a backyard with blackberry bushes. My roommates were two longtime SF denizens. Susan was an aspiring romance novelist from Maryland. John taught photography at San Francisco St...

The Golden Gate Bridge is not just a bridge; it’s an architectural masterpiece that has become synonymous with San Francisco. Spanning 1.7 miles across the Golden Gate Strait, this marvel connects San Francisco to Marin County. The bridge offers breathtaking views of the city and the bay, m...

Después de varios años de actividad artística y otros como profesor de actuación en provincia, fui becado para realizar una Maestría en Gobierno y Políticas Públicas, estudios que me ayudaron para entender la magnitud de la labor que realizaba en Buen...