The Crazy Circus House of San Francisco
It’s a wonderland where artistry is celebrated, watch-checking is frowned upon, and generic home décor does not exist....
The Best Chinese Dumplings in San Francisco
What actually makes a good dumpling, and which San Francisco kitchens get it right....
Surf’s Down
I’d recently started to accumulate a quiver of damaged boards, the way some people collect rare records....
Costume Shopping with the San Francisco Opera
Every day is Halloween in San Francisco. Between the period parties, street fairs, themed races, gatherings, and club nights, we have enough reasons to don festive getups year-round....
SF Running Clubs
By Mary Catherine O’Connor....
Booze Cruise
I enjoyed my first (legal) drink at Vesuvio, tasted my first (legal) absinthe at Beretta, and made out with more fools than I care to mention in the big red booths in the back of Li Po Lounge....
Haunted by a Hotel’s Lonely Souls
So reads the farewell note from Florence Cushing, who hurled herself from the seventh floor of Hotel Paisley at 432 Geary in 1911....
Creative Loafing
I always assumed that when the small person growing inside me moved out, I would — BOOM — feel like the quintessential mother....
Literary Drinking
As a poet recently released from the repressive wine-and-cheese readings of academia, I’m really tired of balancing plastic cups of Two-Buck Chuck on my knees while listening to a guy at a podium whose every sentence trails upward....
Naked Lunch
During my youth, I became skilled in the art of changing my clothes while remaining dressed....
Night at the Museum
I am proud to call myself an art lover. I studied art history in college and I’ve been to countless gallery openings....
The Spice Must Flow
Obsessing over Japanese curry in San Francisco....