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Not-so secret passages: San Francisco’s walkways hidden in plain sight
Like many urban environments, San Francisco has a plethora of walkways that are incredibly useful, yet for whatever reason are just off the beaten path enough to avoid large crowds. Many of them are hidden due to unclear signage, others are quite obvious yet are widely overlooked. Now there are many I could place on…
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Scenes from Rainbow Grocery Co-op’s 50th anniversary block party
Started in 1975 as an offshoot of a “food conspiracy,” San Francisco’s preeminent worker-owned vegetarian grocery store began at a small storefront on 16th Street. After several moves — the original store is now the home of German beer bar Gestalt — Rainbow acquired their Folsom Street location in the 90’s and has been selling…
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Keys to the city
Not far from downtown San Francisco in the SOMA area is an alleyway filled with giant keys and locks sticking out of the ground. Though it may give you the impression that giants walk above us, this is part of an installation called Locks and Keys for Harry Bridges by Bay Area artist Mildred Howard.…
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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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Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA
The Rene Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA, “The Fifth Season,” wraps up at the end of October. If you haven’t seen it yet now is the time. This isn’t the largest exhibit with only around 70 works, but what’s there is impressive. I finally went to see it last weekend and strongly recommend it, with some…
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This cat is fine
A flyer for an open source account breach alert service from Mozilla parodies a typical “lost pet” flyer you’d expect to see taped to a utility pole like this. You can sign up for Firefox Monitor here, and they’ll let you know if your email address appears in any new breaches reported in the Have…
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Salesforce Transit Center, opening day
After years of construction it seemed like the new Transbay Salesforce Transit Terminal Center would never open; and yet today, it finally did… sort of. It’s clearly unfinished, and construction workers were still there today (a Saturday) working on the gondola. The underground train platforms weren’t open, and no physical work has been done to…
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3D advertisement
Spotted at 12th and Folsom Oculus Rift? Microsoft HoloLens? Samsung Gear? Nah, who needs those? Old school red/blue 3D is where it’s at, as this somewhat illegally placed ad goes to show. Before you ask, yes — I put on the 3D glasses and tested it out. While the 3D effect does work on this…
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Promises of brunch at 11th and Folsom
Thought the place is still under construction, promises of brunch are already being made at the former Paradise Lounge space at 11th and Folsom. As far as I was aware they hadn’t decided on a name; none was listed on their liquor license. But the signage indicates that it will be called “Calle-11.” They don’t…
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