We're all just trying to get through these physically, and financially, trying times. But a pubic posting of a liquor license application...

If you get closer than six feet, his eye gets larger. And he's sporting a bit of a Mike Pence look. Pre-COVID19 my City Hall photos were...

The Chalk Fairy, leaving his props to RBG. A faded movie star. This is one of the stars at the threshold to the 4Star Theater entrance on...

Friedel Klussmann. Sweet as pie. Tough as nails. When in 1947 San Francisco City Hall announced the pending demise of the cable car, Mrs....

Local artist markets their work. Ugly wildfires make beautiful sunsets. Ocean Beach near the Cliff House. It's not only restaurants...

Roosevelt Middle School at Geary and Arguello. Built in 1930, she was 121,000-square-feet of unreinforced masonry. AKA -- brick. A...

Smoky amber skies from dozens of California wildfires diffuse the rays of the sun as it sets behind Seal Rocks. Tonight.

Pulling this rope releases the cable car platform at the Hyde Street turnaround. Then the operators can spin the turntable 180-degrees...

After a month of spare-the-air days, and the just-reopened Red & White fleet, I took advantage of the great weather this week for a...

"John Hoberman is a social and medical historian at the University of Texas at Austin who has spent thirty years researching, lecturing,...

What's the plan here -- salmon or seagulls? A rare starring role for dirt. At the northern windmill across from Ocean Beach. Great...

ON CRITICISM AND NOT GETTING A MAJORITY VOTE "I’m dejected, but only momentarily, when I can’t get the fifth vote for something I think...

I'll miss all the chalk art when the kids go back to school. Or when the rains come -- which ever happens first. Outer Cabrillo Street....

I stuck my head inside the lobby of the old Hearst Building today. Third Street & Market. As in William Randolph Hearst, media mogul and...

Outdoor dining "parklets" are popping up across SF thanks to COVID-19. This one belongs to Gaspare's, a longtime italian restuarant on...

It was going to be a summer-long celebration: The 150th Anniversary of Golden Gate Park. Now we're just happy if the sky isn't orange.

It was going off this afternoon in the Dahlia Garden, on the east side of the (closed) Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Click...

Seen today at the Chug Pub, corner of Lincoln & 20th Avenue in the Sunset.

I watched a man buy a shirt off the rack today on an inbound Geary 38R. Hey, if you can have food trucks, why not fashion buses?

Managing expectations in the COVID-19 era. Seen today at the Balboa Movie Theatre.