Ocean Beach

Sunset Dunes: An Environmental Win for Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach frequently appears in local news. The Great Highway debacle, a symptom of that American exceptionalism (really, you’re not bothered by anything else going on?). That time we got a tsunami warning and cops had to force onlookers off the beach. What about when a boat washed ashore only

The Camera Obscura: San Francisco’s Hidden Gem
The Camera Obscura at Ocean Beach is a unique and fascinating attraction that combines art, science, and nature, providing visitors with a dreamlike reflection of the outside world.

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!
It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

The Great Highway To Permanently Close To Cars This Friday
If you want to drive on the Great Highway, you only have a few days to do so because beginning on Friday, March 14th, cars will be forbidden from the picturesque road on the western edge of the City. While the change won’t effect the entirety of the Great Highway,

San Francisco’s Great Highway Could Close For Good
Letting go of the Great Highway will be subject of a ballot measure this upcoming election. What the seaside avenue means to San Franciscans changes every generation. It’s been the site of a railway track, an amusement park, a paved thoroughfare, a pedestrian promenade. The Great Highway’s future could see

How To See San Francisco Like a First Timer
So you’ve lived here long enough to develop a routine and now you want to break out of it. What if you’re strapped for cash and you forgot why you work so hard to stay here? It’s more common than you think. One possibility is that it’s time for new

On Leaving San Francisco and Pure Verb
At the end of a long run, sometimes it feels good to take a spin around the block, just to feel the muscles in my thighs move around a little more, to kick out my legs in the last vestiges of a runner’s high. I’ll do the same thing at

Your Favorite Artists’ Guide to Game Day in San Francisco
The Big Game Day is around the corner. We all want to eat, it’s a Sunday. You got your wing spot? Need a vegan option? Not all of us care about football the same way I do but I asked some of my close friends and local legends to give

Scenes From San Francisco’s Western Front
As I sit on the face of a shrub-studded dune, wind-spiraled sand in my eyes, a man and his two children approach the edge of the beach above me. Dad, I assume, has a fishing pole in his hand, the same as dozens of journeymen along Ocean Beach headed north.