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Should You Get Married at Mission Dolores Basilica?
Sure, you can marry your fiancé in the Mission Dolores basilica, but should you? If you knew what really happened there, would you? Mission Dolores is a monument to the massacre of San Francisco’s true Natives. You shouldn’t want to get married there. Unfortunately, desecrating sites of unspeakable human tragedy

Growing up in San Francisco: A Middle Class, Catholic School Gal
By Adlyn South Donahan From the 1960’s to the early 2000’s, Catholic schools reigned top dog when it came to first choice education for the middle class. In San Francisco, every district had a Catholic school you could send your kid to. After K-8th grade, there were a plethora of

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

Growing Up Without a God. Diary of a Religious Tourist
By Hannah Harkness I had an unusual situation when it came to religion growing up. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents were in interfaith marriages. I had met kids in elementary school with one Christian parent and one Jewish parent before, but I still to this day haven’t met someone

Catch “Litter” This Weekend For $5 At Zeum Theater
DRAMA! Children, children everywhere. The earth may be buckling like the merry widow on an over-enthusiastic auntie post-holiday gorge, but you wouldn’t know it by the way them babies be popping out these days. Well, anyone who’s Catholic or part of some other culture that subscribes to a loaves and

Weekend in a Convent.
I decided to take a theatre workshop a couple of weeks ago which required that I go to upstate New York for four days and three nights. It just so happened that when we pulled in to where we would be staying and workshopping, my colleagues and I realized that