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17 Jul 2023

This Pop-Up Heralds The Bay’s Jewish Food Revolution

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK If good things are worth waiting for, Hadeem is destined for greatness. This Jewish food pop-up has had outstanding responses recently at Buddy, proving so with an all-time record high in a single night of highest sales. On June 4, Hadeem’s chef Spencer Horovitz

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10 Jul 2023

Longtime San Francisco Skater Cites Police for Dolores Hill Bomb Fallout

BY JOE SCIARRILLO Saturday’s Dolores Hill Bomb, in my experience as someone at the event, boiled down to SFPD and prominent city officials co-opting a grass-roots skater gathering. Over 60 SFPD officers, dozens in riot gear brandishing batons and guns, blocked Dolores Street in the afternoon to prevent youth from

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05 Jul 2023

Safeguarding San Francisco’s Trees: The Urgent Need for City-Wide Reforms

by Josh Klipp A walk down 17th Street between Potrero and Byrant sums up how San Francisco protects and grows its tree canopy. Seven new saplings, planted in December by volunteers with Friends of the Urban Forest (but without screens to protect them) dangle from arbor ties, hacked to pieces.

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03 Jul 2023

One Big Night At This Bernal Heights Fine Dining Restaurant

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK I have been noticing the growing trend toward tasting menus some restaurants are taking. At Marlena, my companions and I indulged in an exceptionally lavish encounter with the restaurant’s current prix fixe menu. My friends were from out-of-town but had once lived here a

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29 Jun 2023

SF’s Backyard Pilgrimage: Walking a Circle Around Mt. Tam

The circumambulation of Mt. Tam. A backyard pilgrimage and hang-out for the Beats since 1956. A student of Zen Buddhism, Snyder had heard of a ceremonial walking practice in Kyoto and around India’s holy Mt. Kailash.

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27 Jun 2023

Life In Japan From The Perspective Of A Bay Area Native

Written by Arianna Hayes Having been a resident of Nagoya for about seven years, I was asked to write about the differences between The Bay Area and Japan. I’m sure you’re expecting to hear about how Japan supersedes America in all forms, and how anime is amazing. I mean, the

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A decorated dome.
26 Jun 2023

When Going Home And The Department of Homeland Security Collide

Welcome to The Transgender Sabbatical Blues, an ongoing series exploring Dena Rod’s experience as a transgender, non-binary, Iranian American Bay Area local who took a five-week sabbatical all over the Northern Hemisphere. I couldn’t plan something like a trip to Iran by myself. Despite her fear, Becky still helped with gathering

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Outside a bar.
26 Jun 2023

At This Literary Show, Martinis And Drag Queens Reign Supreme

What sets Martuni’s apart from your average bar is not just its magnificent martinis but the fact that it is also a piano bar. In the back room, you can sing to your heart’s content while being accompanied by the bar’s pianists or catch a drag show where the queens

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