Parks and Recreation
My first encounter with a San Francisco parklet was at Four Barrel Coffee on Valencia a while back....
Civic LifeA collection of 54 posts
Living in SF Means… Best of 2011
The noise comes through the walls, through the ceiling, through the floor. The sound of muffled moans and love murmurs in Spanish, in Cantonese, in Tagalog, in English, in Arabic, in French, in…...
Give a Little Bit
Fortunately, San Francisco has some of the best homeless programs in the country....
Water World
When I heard about a community of floating homes, rocking on waves and only a 25-minute walk from downtown, I figured there wasn’t much of a story: some nuts living on the water....
Know Your NIMBYs
The following is a handy guide to the most common NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard-ers), or those among us who take issue with the ever-blowing winds of change....
Sister City
I was never in a Sorority. This is probably because I went to New York University, where you didn’t need to join a sisterhood to find someone to braid your hair when you could get a complete makeover from a drag queen working the MAC counter....