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SPONSORED: How to Survive and Thrive during the Holiday Season
The holidays are right around the corner and according to Consumer Reports, the second most stressful thing for Americans during this time of year is the fear of gaining weight and getting out of...
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Our 25 Most Popular Articles of 2013
Well readers, it’s the last week of the year. In the spirit of "Auld Lange Syne" induced reflection, we looked back at everything we published over the last 12 months and put together a list of the...
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Commercial Break: A Little Adventure to Wingo, California
I'd heard about Wingo, a ghost town up near Sonoma, from a friend, and had been anxiously awaiting a time I could try to find it by car. Inspired by the Ford Fiesta Movement, I recently hopped into a...
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2013 Will Probably Be SF's Driest Year on Record
Photo by DeShaun CraddockThe National Weather Service says this will most likely be the driest year on record for San Francisco. (Take that, 1946!) According to Accuweather, SF records go back to 1927...
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Free Falling
It's after-hours at a small Mission grocery store. The green bins have just been put out and I'm sitting on a stoop psyching myself up. A seasoned dumpster diver would have waited a little longer, but...
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Operation Introspection
We’ve all had those sweetly memorable New Years Eves – each moment flowing into the next, until someone looks up just in time to start the countdown. But what about the following year, and the one...
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Fixer Upper
Buying something new can be a quick and effortless path to reinvention. It can also be a worthwhile challenge to have to hold tight to what we already own, and find other ways to evolve. Making new...
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Fantasy Island
Even though I’ve been away from Hawaii for almost as long as I lived there, I still get homesick sometimes. And not for the Hawaii 5-0, Tom Selleck, Brady Bunch Hawaiian Vacation version of the place...
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Getting Hitched
Alfred Hitchcock – or “Hitch,” as his friends called him – had a thing for San Francisco. During the latter half of his life, Hitch and his wife Alma owned a sprawling estate on the peninsula and...
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Swing Sets
I have a long-standing love-hate relationship with high places. I can’t stay away from a good view, but I have a very active imagination when I’m up off the ground. Back when the glass elevator at the...
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No Kidding Around
I've had a thing for goats for as long as I can remember. They’re smarter and have better personalities than cows, and their milk makes some of the best cheese around. When I was growing up in rural...
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The Masters and Margherita
The Margherita pizza is nothing if not a classic and requires fidelity to the old country above all else. We tasted eight of San Francisco’s most popular Neapolitan-style Margherita pizzas and found...
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The Six Drivers Lyft Needs to Hire ASAP
By Mustafa KhanFor those who chronically hop around SF, ride-hailing apps are a blessing. But for a city overflowing with imagination (think crazy start-ups, wild street festivals, and Batkid), SF...
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Who Serves the Most Authentic Poutine in SF?
By Lauren Sloss Poutine, Montreal’s questionably named “drunk food to end all drunk foods,” has been making steady inroads on San Francisco menus, from downtown restaurants to crowded bars in the...
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My Favorite Mall Santa Photos from Flickr
Mall Santas. They get a bad rap in movies, but I think they should be applauded for what they do, for dealing with screaming babies, the bratty kids, brattier parents, and the occupational hazards that...
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George Zimmerman: A Terrible Person Won Again
A terrible person in the public eye can become so cartoonishly awful that further piling on feels gratuitous, because the point has already been hammered home so many times before. In the case of...
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John Dwyer Moving to LA, Thee Oh Sees on Hiatus
For those lamenting the fact that San Francisco's too easily losing its arts community to other cities, here's another reason to shed a tear: John Dwyer, frontman for Thee Oh Sees and countless other...
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SPONSORED: Holiday Shopping with Art.com
Need some last-minute holiday shopping inspiration? Be sure to stop by Art.com's pop up store in Union Square, located on the corner of Kearny and Post. Our friends from the East Bay recently opened...
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A Neighborhood Guide to the Holidays
By Tony BravoIn some places the first snowfall is a harbinger of the holidays, but growing up in San Francisco, I found it was always the first taste of an amaretti cookie from North Beach’s Victoria...
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Jesus, It's Hard Having a Christmas Birthday
I was born on December 25 – yes, that’s right, Christmas Day. The nurses who were there at the momentous occasion even brought my naked, slimy body to my mom in a stocking. For the past 24 years, my...
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