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The de Young’s latest exhibit — Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style — invites us to glimpse even more rarified creations that ladies wore and continue to show off at fancy affairs during our city’s many high society soirées. A description on the...

San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) is a cactus native to the Andean slopes of Ecuador and Peru. It is the South American cousin to peyote, and most notably contains the psychoactive alkaloid known as mescaline. It’s a plant I’ve been working with for over eighteen years by now, strictl...

I am tired, a well-earned tiredness after a sixteen kilometre hike through the jungle. Given that there was an altitude gain with an equal distance in descent, it was a lot more than 16K. From all that I’ve learned over the years, it adds up to almost one-and-a-half extra kilometres. Tw...

I moved to San Francisco just after the 1989 earthquake. I found an apartment in Noe Valley with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a backyard with blackberry bushes. My roommates were two longtime SF denizens. Susan was an aspiring romance novelist from Maryland. John taught photography at San Francisco St...

Its that time of the year again, near the end of the year is when holidays are in full force and the city has a ton of festivities to offer. San Francisco, a city known for its vibrant and diverse food and drink scene, has seen the emergence of trendy pop-up bars in the recent years. These temporary...

We met mid-pandemic and spent hours on the phone getting to know each other. I liked his deep voice and the little song clips he’d record for me. He was a whimsical, creative type who lived in an eclectic household in Oakland. Definitely the type who goes to clambake parties. We bonded...

San Francisco suffered their second straight defeat as a result, something they hadn’t done since this day a year prior, and it was clear that everything had changed after a strong 5–0 start. The NFL will constantly humble you, defensive end Nick Bosa said. “And starting 5&ndash...

San Francisco remains the vibrant city it has always been, and continues to restore a bit of the luster that was lost due to COVID-era issues. Every city has problems. But despite the stale narrative to the contrary, San Francisco remains one of the great cities in the world. This month’s Top ...

Inthe early ’90s, my friends and I used to tape flashlights to the handlebars of our bikes and go riding around in underground storm-drain tunnels. There was a whole network of these tunnels under the city that sat empty for most of the year. We would go for miles snaking up and down the sides...

On the same day Steven Welch got his driver’s license, he drove to pick up a body for his family’s funeral home, Duggan’s Funeral Service on 17th Street. He was 17. More than 40 years later, he’s the mainstay of the multigenerational business. A lot has changed since those...