Tag: nob hill

  • Aura at Grace Cathedral

    Next to a cable car line on top of San Francisco’s Nob Hill sits Grace Cathedral, a relatively modern church that looks like a scaled-down version of Paris’ Notre Dame. I arrived on a recent evening to see AURA by Moment Factory. Clocking in at just under an hour, AURA is a projection-mapped light show…

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  • Portals of the Past

    While wandering through Golden Gate Park on a particularly foggy afternoon, I stopped by Lloyd Lake to see one of the park’s more unusual features up close. Although Portals of the Past looks like a sculpture — and in a way it is — originally it was something else entirely. Some time ago while on…

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  • The Tony Bennett statue

    Today I came across the statue of Tony Bennett just outside the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. It’s been there since 2016 though I don’t think I’d ever gotten around to seeing it until now. The statue is in the front lawn of the hotel on Mason Street — a block also now known as…

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