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70 Media Organizations, Locally and Nationally, are Teaming Up This Week to...
In an unprecedented media collaboration, nearly 70 organizations have signed on — the SF Chronicle, SF Examiner, Fortune, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, Mother Jones, and KQED — to share information and...
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Friday Link Roundup: SF’s Whales are Back and Mayor Lee Stumbles on...
Have a great 4th of July weekend everyone! May the fog lift over the bay in time for fireworks, and may your children sleep through your next-door neighbor’s festivities. From around the web this...
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Here’s a Google Calendar of Every Free Day at SF Museums
San Francisco museums have a lot of free days. The big ones are free at least once a month. More popular museums (Cal Academy, Exploratorium) are free multiple times per year. The catch, of course, is...
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A Day at the New SFMOMA (It’s Surprisingly Child-Friendly)
The new SFMOMA is disorientingly beautiful. On your first visit, your eye darts to all the corners and stairwells, the world a series of stark intersecting lines. This will be triply so if you remember...
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Friday Link Roundup: Summer Watermelon and Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale Picks
Well. Here we are again. As I write, Turkey has seemingly fallen to a military coup. Just as we are still learning what happened in Nice last night. What in the world is even happening this summer? We...
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My Favorite Spots for Little Kids in San Francisco
For the past three years, San Francisco has been a wonderland for me and Bean. We’ve found so much to do, beyond the usual preschooler zoo and playground beat. 1. East Beach at Crissy Field By far...
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Endangered Mexican Wolves at the San Francisco Zoo
Heads up, San Francisco, the SF Zoo has a new exhibit and it is captivating. A few months ago, the zoo converted an enclosure that previously held Pike, the 32-year old polar bear who passed last year,...
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Friday Link Roundup: DIY Rose Gummy Bears (?!) and Parisian Airport Streetstyle
How are all of your weekends shaping up? The preschool Bean is attending this fall is putting on a family meet & greet this weekend. You guys, I can’t believe this is happening. How is she so big...
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Get into Nearly Any San Francisco Museum for Free, With a Library Card
There are a lot of perks to living in San Francisco, and the SF Public Library system is definitely one of them. In addition to providing free snacks and lunches to kids when school is out, the...
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Making Sense of San Francisco 2016: David Talbot’s Season of the Witch
Sometimes, the perfect book comes across your path at just the right time, perfectly aligned with current events (in the world or in your life) so that your entire perspective shifts, with a deeper...
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Friday Link Roundup: Olympics Fever and the Altruism of Humpback Whales
What are you all up to this weekend? Our apartment has turned into Olympics Central. Our tradition is to watch the Opening Ceremonies while gorging on local delicacies. (Let me tell you about the time...
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All Your 2016/2017 San Francisco Bay Area Fall & Winter Art, Music, and Food...
This year I’ve rounded up over 170 fall and winter festivals for you. Fall brings the enigmatic festivals, celebrating fog, the moon, fire, and light, along with the expected pumpkin, harvest, beer,...
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Heads Up, Cal Academy’s Neighborhood Free Days Are Coming Up
The best deal in San Francisco – the California Academy of Science’s fall and spring free days – are coming up! Mark your calendars. This weekend (September 16th to 18th) is free for everyone living in...
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How to Survive the Next Heat Wave: A Roundup of 15 Bay Area Sunny Adventures
We are easing out of the latest heat wave here in San Francisco, but if years past are any indication, the hottest days may be yet to come. I’ve rounded up fifteen ideas for what to do the next time...
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Friday Link Roundup: The Last San Francisco Farm and Autumn Apple Recipes
What are you all up to this week? This is our first weekend in a while with no work trips or visiting friends, so we’re looking forward to easing back into our usual weekend rituals (don’t you kind of...
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What to Do With the Kids this October
With all the nearby history, farms and countryside, the Bay Area is an awesome place to be in Autumn. (If you ignore the sometimes searing temperatures.) I’ve rounded up our favorite family activities...
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Bernal Heights’ Little Bee Bakery
A couple weeks ago on a shopping trip through Bernal, I stumbled upon Little Bee Baking. How had I never noticed it before? Tucked into a tiny storefront, with a simple display case bursting over with...
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Upcoming Bay Area Halloween Events for Kids
There’s nothing the Bay Area loves more than a festival, and Halloween is no exception. There are so many Halloween events going on the next few weekends, you’re going to have to strategize. Good luck...
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Friday Link Roundup: Good MTA/Bad MTA and Mom Jokes
How’s everyone’s weekend shaping up? This feels like the last proper fall weekend, so we’re headed down the peninsula to hit up some fall pumpkin patches and festivals. Then, we’re going to skip over...
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Let’s Make Sense of the San Francisco Ballot: Your 2016 Voting Guide
Oh hey, did you guys know there’s an election coming up? Nothing major, just a little election you probably haven’t heard much about til now. Ok ok, so, yeah, there’s the Presidential race, which has...
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