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52nd annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Earlier today was Muni’s annual(-ish) Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest. What is a Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, you ask? It’s a two-part contest where “amateurs” (non-Muni employees) compete, and a second part where cable car operators compete. The rules for each part are very different. The amateur competition allows music, dancers, and apparently bribing…
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San Francisco’s city hall 100th anniversary celebration
San Francisco’s city hall building celebrated its 100th anniversary today, complete with a visit from mayors from around the country as well as the president. But this is a city that knows how to party — there was also live music, food trucks, various sculptures, and a light show projected on city hall itself. I…
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Dolores Park: What’s in a name?
The freshly renovated section of Dolores Park opens later this week. If you’re like most people, the name “Dolores Park” conjures up images in your mind of a never ending Pabst-soaked frat party. But why is it called Dolores Park? Who — or what — is it named after? Let’s start at the beginning. Originally,…
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Introducing Sanfranciscius, the temperature scale for San Franciscans
We’re all familiar with checking the weather and seeing the temperature measured in Fahrenheit and/or Celsius. But aren’t those scales a bit arbitrary? Celsius’ 0 to 100 range is based on freezing and boiling water, respectively. Fahrenheit’s scale is based on… well, who cares. It doesn’t make any sense. But neither scale was invented specifically…
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Narrow streets, remixed
Over at Steve Dombek’s Narrow Streets SF website, he proposes undoing America’s 20th century mistake of building ultra-wide streets here in San Francisco. Instead, the land would be sold off to build new housing, and we’d be left with traditional (or “narrow”) streets like you find in the rest of the world. Naturally, this idea…
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Recipe theft: Cafe Madeleine’s butter lettuce salad with goat cheese
Every now and then you eat something at a cafe or restaurant that’s so good, you have to reverse engineer the recipe and make it yourself. Such is the case with San Francisco mini-chain Cafe Madeleine and their excellent butter lettuce salad. Don’t know what butter lettuce is? Sometimes it’s called butterhead, Boston lettuce or…
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La Cumbre’s new paint job boldly stakes claim to Mission-style burrito’s origin
Recently Taqueria La Cumbre on Valencia got a fire engine red paint job. But far more bold than the color scheme is the claim painted on the building: “Birthplace of the Mission Style Burrito.” As with any such claim, it’s a hotly contested one. As Wikipedia notes it’s not clear if Mission-style burritos were invented…
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Top 5 strangest things in Little Delhi’s Twitter feed
One of my favorite Indian restaurants in San Francisco is Little Delhi in the Tenderloin. Great food, reasonable prices, and they offer takeout and delivery. Can’t recommend them enough! But you’d never know how great Little Delhi’s food is judging by their completely off the rails Twitter feed. Here’s the top 5 strangest things they’ve…
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Everything you do is a balloon
I imagine the conversation went a little something like this: “Hey, how should we decorate our storefront?”“Well, all I have is this bike pump and a drawer full of balloons.”“Uh… *scratches head* sounds kinda like a plan!” And there you have it; a storefront filled with balloons. (With apologies to Boards of Canada.)
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