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Do San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars Keep Muni Stuck in the Past?

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 15, 2009 | 24 Comments

Flickr photo: Telstar Logistics Don’t get me wrong, I love San Francisco’s historic streetcars. I have ridden them often and can appreciate the nostalgic bumpy rides, even more so if I don’t have to stand, and can grab a seat and peer outside the small windows. But when I saw Rachel Gordon’s story in the […]

Enviro, Preservation Concerns Drive Opposition to Presidio Main Post Plans

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 10, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flickr photo: 2composers Revised plans for the Main Post of San Francisco’s Presidio national park, which include construction of a contemporary art museum for the collection of billionaire businessman Donald Fisher, are still unsatisfactory, say many preservationists, environmentalists, and neighbors who attended a hearing on the new plans Tuesday night. Despite the fact that the […]

Healthy Saturdays Are Back!

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

Flickr photo: Kate McCarthy, sfbike Last Saturday, as I was pedaling through Golden Gate Park, alongside a glut of bumper-to-bumper cars, I kept thinking to myself, "Why did I come on Saturday?" It had been so long since I spent a Saturday in GG Park. The juxtaposition was disgusting to me: a gaggle of cars […]

The Slow, Beautiful Road to Community on the Streets

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Mona Caron contemplates her next stroke on her new mural at Jones and Golden Gate in San Francisco. Mona Caron is a visual troubadour of street life in San Francisco. Her murals have become increasingly famous in their gorgeous detail, portraying San Francisco’s romantic past juxtaposed to inspired visions of its future. Equally powerful is […]

Will We Ever Get Market Street Right?

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 23, 2009 | 9 Comments

“Rebuilding Market Street has become a civic obsession in San Francisco. The city’s main street has been torn up and rebuilt completely at least once in every generation since the Civil War.” —Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 1988 Apparently it’s time again. San Francisco faces another massive effort to remake Market Street, trying […]

A New Mural in the Tenderloin

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 18, 2009 | No Comments

The mural is being painted on the white building in the second square from left, as seen from the Bell Tower atop St. Boniface Church on Golden Gate. (Photo LisaRuth Elliott) A new mural is taking shape in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, at the corner of Jones and Golden Gate, diagonally across from St. Anthony’s Dining […]

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