Last week, The Chronicle profiled Dawn Miller, one of our more fashionable residents an entrepeneurs. This past June, she launched AliceandIsa.com, an online fashion boutique that specializes in local designers. Miller says “I knew there were some boutiques in the… Continue Reading
The gate at Sutro Heights Park | photo by Octoferret
[UPDATE: Just bought my tix to this; only a handful left!] Rick Prelinger is a San Francisco native who is known as a historian and “guerrilla archivist”, because he collects random bits of old video of the city and puts… Continue Reading
For several years now, the Balboa Theater has put San Francisco Food Bank collection barrels in the lobby during the holidays. They’ll do it again this year, encouraging neighbors to donate food items for those battling hunger in the city.… Continue Reading
Surfpulse posted that the SFFD Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) is looking for a few good men and women. There are thousands of trained NERT volunteers across the city, but the Outer Richmond is particulary understaffed. After an earthquake, city… Continue Reading
A reader named Michele wrote in to tell me about a SF Department of Public Works project to replace the dozens of street trees planted earlier this year that died due to lack of water. The trees were planted by… Continue Reading
There has long been speculation about how the boy king died. Egyptologist Zahi Hawass posted to his blog today the long awaited findings from his CT scan of King Tutankhamun’s mummy. One claim was that Tutankhamun had been murdered, and… Continue Reading
cbs5.com reports that an elderly woman was run over and killed by a passenger van turning from 9th Avenue onto Geary Boulevard at about 8:15 this morning. Willy Wong, the manager of the Shell gas station across the street heard… Continue Reading