Bernal HeightsA collection of 10 posts

Less than a week ago, Deb Follingstad was just another San Franciscan who’d come face-to-face with the city’s all-consuming housing crisis....

San Francisco, already stricken by a predatory housing crisis, reacted vehemently, with the story ricocheting from Facebook to Reddit to local Bay Area publications....

Your friends, maybe your families, are butting up against a system that puts profit over person, one in which we find ourselves putting up with the bare minimum that housing can offer because, well, it’s all we can afford....

Bernal Heights is a neighborhood of many names. There’s “Nanny Goat Hill,” referencing the goats that used to graze there....

The names of San Francisco’s various neighborhoods are important. They not only tell you where you are on a map, they often involve interesting stories about the history of the area....

I first visited Bernal Heights when I knew nothing about San Francisco except for its tourist spots, when I came to stay with a childhood friend....

While our city’s status as Gemini can be verified by its charter, these neighborhood designations are the product of my own intuitive dabbling in the astrological arts....

Any number of things might have taken you into 331 Cortland in the three years since this Bernal Heights marketplace opened its doors: a hankering for a deli sandwich or a piping hot piroshki, the need for a sharper knife or a particular blend of spices....

It was a regular Thursday evening at The Royal Cuckoo when Big Bones suddenly grabbed his harmonica and started accompanying Chris Siebert, who was playing the Hammond organ behind the bar....

When I was a tweenager, the library was pretty much the greatest place on earth....