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29 Apr 2022

Fun & Unique Bay Area Date Ideas You Probably Haven’t Thought Of

I was at the movies on a double date watching that new flick “Everything Everywhere All at Once” when I thought to myself, “this is totally that quintessential date night activity”. While you can’t really beat those tried and true date ideas, you can do better than a typical date

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28 Apr 2022

Oakland to Convert Piedmont Ave Motel into Homeless Housing

A 44-unit motel near Piedmont Avenue in Oakland will be ready to house homeless residents later this year, city officials said Wednesday. With the help of $14.8 million in state Homekey grant funds, the city plans to acquire and convert the Piedmont Place Motel, at 55 MacArthur Blvd., into housing

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28 Apr 2022

The 10 Worst & Funniest Reviews of Alcatraz

Alcatraz Island, why should you go, and is it worth it?  The truth is in the eye of the beholder my fair readers.  We read a ton of reviews to find the funniest complaints that people had about their trips to Alcatraz in San Francisco. I’ve also visited the island

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27 Apr 2022

SF’s New ‘Francisco Park’ has Incredible Views on Russian Hill

On the northern slope of Russian Hill, a new public park has been carved out.  The views from up there are pretty sensational and pretty panoramic. The construction of Francisco Park began in the summer of 2019 and it’s opening today (4/27/22). After extensive community outreach, The Francisco Park Conservancy

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27 Apr 2022

SF Officials Launch $11.4M in Grants to Help Small SF Businesses Recover

As we reopen and work to ensure an equitable recovery, we are also continuing to fund our Community Resource Hubs, which have filled essential needs for so many who have struggled so much during this pandemic.”

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27 Apr 2022

Carless JFK Drive in GG Park Now Permanent

The 1.5-mile span of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park that runs from the end of the Panhandle all the way past the De Younge Museum, was closed to cars 7 days a week during the pandemic, and it was a popular move.  Cars have been banned from JFK Drive on Sundays, since 1967, so this is not ‘revolutionary thinking’.

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26 Apr 2022

How Elon Musk Buying Twitter May Affect San Francisco

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard about Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter. If you haven’t heard, allow me to loop you in: Elon Musk, the dude who had a baby with Grimes and named it something absurd, now owns Twitter. You’re probably wondering why

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An SFO-bound BART train pulls up to a station platform.
26 Apr 2022

Why Bart Needs To Go To Sacramento And The Central Valley

The San Francisco Bay Area is a prohibitively expensive place to live. Everyone knows that. What people don’t know is that the Bay Area is no longer considered a singular region anymore. It’s now a part of the larger Northern California Mega Region. The higher the prices get the closer

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