Alas, San Francisco’s greasiest spoon has closed down. Golden Coffee Shop was not a destination by any means, but if you lived in the Tenderloin/Nob Hill/Tendernob region, you definitely had at least one hungover meal there. And that meal was so greasy, it probably ran right through you. When I

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Happy Birthday, Grandma by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor My Grandma June’s birthday is March 17th. Every year, in celebration of her and everything wonderful she was to me, I make her potato stew and curl up with classic movies (“Singin’ in the Rain”, “Lovely to Look At”), and

When I first figured out that San Francisco wasn’t for me, I didn’t know where I was going to end up. I had initially hoped that I would return to The Laurel, a neighborhood that straddles the line between East Oakland and the Lower Hills where I spent a long

When the United States carpet bombed Northern Cambodia, an area Henry Kissinger determined was wise to hit so as to destabilize shipping routs for Vietnamese militants, the country inadvertently gave birth to the Khmer Rouge. Historian Greg Grandin, as documented in The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, writes that

The Barbary Coast Trail is hard to miss if you’ve ever walked around The FiDi, Chinatown or North Beach. You’ve probably seen one of the 150 bronze placards embedded in the sidewalks while you’re boppin’ around. Stretching across 4 miles of San Francisco, this walk is mostly on flat ground

It’s always nice to hear that a community-run arts non-profit has come alive in our city.  And for you artsy creative types who don’t have room for a big workbench or the coin to buy nice art-making machinery, this is a great development.