Category: Local
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Mission San Rafael Arcangel
For the Forth of July weekend, I decided to split the difference between a real vacation and a “staycation,” opting to explore several parts of the North Bay I’ve never or rarely been to in the past. My first stop is in San Rafael, named after the second to last of the Spanish missions in…
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Gondola ride to Salesforce Park
The term “gondola” can mean many different things. The first that comes to my mind are the boats in Venice, but here I’m talking about a different form of transportation: a gondola lift. This gondola in particular takes visitors up from ground level to Salesforce Park on the top of the freshly re-opened Salesforce Transit…
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Lakefest at Lake Merritt
Today was Lakefest at Lake Merritt in Oakland. I’d never been to this festival before and decided to go take a look. Lakefest is a free street festival outside the boat house at the north side of the lake. There’s your typical street food vendors, artists, and local businesses with booths. Walking over from the…
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Pride rocks! (Sure, we’ll go with that headline)
The space at 2223 Market Street has seen many restaurants come and go over the years, including the memorably named 2223. These days it’s home to Izakaya Sushi Ran, a Japanese gastropub (no, I’m not exactly sure what that means either.) The new restaurateurs placed a large rock — if not a small boulder —…
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Namu Gaji’s colorful new paint job
A few months ago a building at the corner of Dolores and 18th Street started a somewhat belated seismic retrofit, which meant the temporary closure of its two ground floor tenants: hip Korean restaurant Namu Gaji and the ever popular Bi-Rite Creamery. Bi-Rite Creamery never closed entirely, instead operating out of a food truck parked…
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Vaillancourt Fountain
Of all the controversial elements of San Francisco, Vaillancourt Fountain easily evokes the strongest love-it-or-hate-it response of any water feature. Sitting in the corner of Embarcadero Plaza (formerly Justin Herman Plaza) it looks like a large knot of rectangular pipes spewing water in various directions — when it’s on, that is. Over the past couple…
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What was “The Latitude”? Part Three: In Bright Axiom
I’ve been meaning to conclude my first two blog posts about Nonchalance’s The Latitude (part one, part two) with a final wrap up since 2016, and yet somehow I never quite knew what I wanted to say. Tonight, I finally have an excuse to get all my thoughts written down once and for all —…
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South Beach security droid
Recently housing/retail complex The Beacon, located by the 4th and King Caltrain terminal and the Giant’s ballpark, added a roaming security droid on the sidewalk surrounding the building. These are increasingly common in shopping malls, but on public sidewalks? Is that even allowed? The first time I saw this particular droid was outside the Taco…
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Pink Triangle Park and Memorial
After delving into the potential futures of Harvey Milk Plaza yesterday, I thought I’d hop across the street and discuss one of the most overlooked public places in San Francisco hidden in plain sight. Located on a small triangular piece of land between Market Street and 17th Street, Pink Triangle Park and Memorial — often…
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“Save Harvey Milk Plaza” written in dust
Yesterday while walking through Church Station I noticed the renovations there were winding down, and behind the semi-demolished storage area someone had written SaveHarveyMilkPlaza.org in the dust on the orange railing. This is a reaction to proposed changes at Castro Station, the next station outbound from Church. The plaza on the south side of the…
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