When people ask me what my column is about, I tell them my agenda is always the same: to present something new that I think is interesting and worth having a public discussion about. Well, my latest column has certainly started that discussion — and then some. I wrote about a growing quandary: as more and more wealthy people live in San Francisco, should they be eligible for rent control? After ......
Dia de los Muertos, or The Day of the Dead, is upon us. The Mexican holiday pays homage to the dead through altars, offerings, and prayer. The holiday is saturated in creative displays, from ornate altars to colorful sugar skulls, and the artistic community naturally crafts events around the celebration, which takes place on November 1st and 2nd. Illuminations, SOMARTS, through Nov. 5, Free Eighty Bay Area Artists contributed to ......
Japanese Curry Cook-Off Saturday, 4-7 pm, Christ United Presbyterian Church, 1700 Sutter St, San Francisco All the world’s feuding religions take note: this weekend in Japantown, everyone is laying aside their theological differences in the interest of curry! The event is being held at a Presbyterian Church, you talk to a Konkokyo reverend to enter your curry, and you contact a Buddhist church to reserve a seat. This event, which will ......
This Thursday was the official launch of Fleet Week, marked by the drone of Blue Angels buzzing San Francisco buildings and the sudden appearance of thousands of uniformed naval serviceman —many of whom, of course, could be seen partaking in S.F.'s plentiful pub culture. And when a bartender asks the age-old question —"What do you do with a drunken sailor?" — chances are, Commander Gregory D. Byers will get the ......
In this "Twilight Zone" parody from a local comedy troupe, Killing My Lobster, a distraught man runs through the city looking for a place to enjoy a weekday off from work in peace — but finds lines and crowds everywhere. There are San Francisco locales throughout, but we're particularly amused by the scene of him running desperately past the Bi-Rite Creamery line wailing, "It's oooonly ice cream!" (Hat tip to the ......
