There are few brave enough to venture out into the Richmond district, even if it’s the Inner Richmond which is like four blocks from Upper Haight. If you’ve lived here long enough, you can hear the gasps of neighborhood-elitists when you say, “I live out in the Richmond/Sunset.” I honestly

I have always thought that the best way to discover where you call home is on foot. There is no better way to pick up the smallest details of your city streets. You will surely catch one out of every ten things from a car window but on foot you

Tonight, Thursday, September 6, from 7-11 p.m., you should stop on by Public Works for a food-truck fête. There will be awesome music courtesy of headliners the Frail and Soft White Sixties, plus DJs Richie Panic and Carnita. From 7-9 p.m., grab some FREE Sapporo Premium beer, plus FREE grub from

Fire dancing in the city?!? It’s here and it’s thriving… if you know where to find it. And you are, as of right now, invited to be part of it. If you’re a fire dancer, you can perform in a cool public location and be photographed. If you’re a photographer

The other day, I received a plain envelope in the mail.  I wasn’t expecting it, and was perplexed as to what it could possibly be.  The return address was from one “Crystal Skull” in Chicago.  “Crystal?  Who the hell is Crystal?  I don’t know any ‘Crystal’ in Chicago,” I thought

Expensive things are wasted on me. If I own something that can break or stain or develop holes, it invariably does. So my relationship with sunglasses has always been a problematic one. Thankfully I became a member of Stunner of the Month about a year ago and now my sunglasses issues

                  Ye Olde Diner sign in the Inner Sunset Everything about Art’s Cafe is like the legs of a competitive swimmer: streamlined, muscular, each sinew working in harmony towards one goal, and shaved of every superfluity that might get in the way