I hate blackouts. Also, I told you so. When I was a kid growing up in Lima, Peru, there was a couple of guerrillas that wreaked havoc on the country, el MRTA and Sendero Luminoso. Of the latter, the Shining Path, you might know that in 1992, they left two trucks loaded with explosives – […]
It’s terrible – not any social medium per se, but what social media have done to humanity. As a society, as a culture, as friends and family to one another, even, some of us, if not most of us, we have gotten used to declining calls (why?), disabling our voicemails, and allowing only for missives […]
Sheriff is this older gentleman that we’ve witnessed live a quiet, mostly solitary life at Elm and Van Ness, near the San Francisco Cooking School, for five years now. Next to the old McDonald’s – that’s been his spot this past half decade, and who really knows how long he actually has been out there, […]
Any more obvious, floral for spring. Get it together, #SanFrancisco. Keep everyone safe out there. Do your part! 👊🏽✌🏽
It is incredible, and unshakable, how a simple, yet thoroughly preventable traffic impasse can spiral out of control between two people too stubborn to let it go and too committed to keep it goin’, even when they find themselves heading in the same direction and keeping ridikolous pace with each other. And how it can […]
The San Francisco 49ers are headed to Miami to face the Kansas City Chiefs come Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, Feb. 2 – featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the halftime mark – and that means you the Faithful are, too. You’re gonna need a place to sleep in the Magic City, and you’re also gonna […]
What a great night for the cast of The King of Comedy. Robert De Niro received the 2019 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Award down in L.A., while SF Sketchfest saluted Sandra Bernard and her career in comedy, in situ at the Castro Theatre here in San Francisco, before a special screening of the 1982 Martin Scorsese film, in […]
You can get donuts and meet your neighbors and watch “Jeopardy!” on a Saturday evening here. (Or get donuts on a cold, rainy day…. But not on Tuesdays!) What is Bob’s Donuts?
The San Francisco Ballet is about to kick off its 2020 season by kicking off one the most famous shoes on the planet. Nah, not really. There will be no glass slipper in this SF Ballet production of Cinderella, which Christopher Wheeldon (An American in Paris), the English international choreographer, has updated with stunning style, charming […]
San Francisco Restaurant Week is almost here, so mark your calendars for Jan. 22-31, #SanFrancisco, and find out which of your favorite spots is among the 130 restaurants participating in this showcase this year. I see you, Absinthe…. Imma try you, Cafe Zoetrope. Presented by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, #SFRW is a great, fun, […]
