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The Not-A-Prius Car Shows.
A couple weeks ago there was a car show in Chinatown. The one pictured below was in Golden Gate Park near the Polo Field. I stumbled onto...

Mike Doyle
Oct 19, 20221 min read
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2nd Annual Chinatown Car Show.
I didn't see this coming: A car show on the narrow, typically clogged, Grant Avenue in Chinatown. There was something for everybody....

Mike Doyle
Sep 26, 20221 min read
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Building Barriers, Not Housing.
This stretch of South Van Ness between Market and Mission has seen repeated homeless encampments spring up, creating a community of...

Mike Doyle
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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Mike Doyle
Sep 15, 20220 min read
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Oil Paintings. Sketches. Ballet Costumes. And Of Course, Murals.
I've only known Diego Rivera through his mural work. This exhibition, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through January 2nd, is...

Mike Doyle
Sep 9, 20222 min read
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You're Supposed To Feel Proud When You Look At The Flag.
Van Ness between Market and Mission.

Mike Doyle
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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"Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs"
Some photos from the latest exhibit at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Ramses II lead a thousand years after the pyramids, and a...

Mike Doyle
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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The Cliff House. Now Serving Memories.
In a few months a new restaurant will open at the former Cliff House. In the meantime, the space is being used as a pop-up museum...

Mike Doyle
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Recent & Random.
If there was a Karl The Fog, I think he'd look like this. On outer Fulton Street. The Medical Building at 450 Sutter. A cathedral of art...

Mike Doyle
Aug 6, 20221 min read
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Bugging Out.
"Bugs," the latest exhibit at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Insects are not so easily dismissed when they are as big as...

Mike Doyle
Jul 29, 20221 min read
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Recent & Random.
On Market Street. New public transportation gets new public art. On Van Ness @ Geary. Bouquets To Art at the de Young. This floral design...

Mike Doyle
Jul 7, 20221 min read
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Hanging Out With The Obamas.
The Obama presidential portraits are on national tour; I saw them today at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. The portraits are...

Mike Doyle
Jun 25, 20221 min read
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Waxing Nostalgic. Madame Tussauds at Fisherman's Wharf.
For decades there was a wax museum at Fisherman's Wharf owned by a private family. Besides historical figures, it had a lot of...

Mike Doyle
Jun 19, 20221 min read
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Beauty Begets Beauty. The 38th Annual "Bouquets To Art."
"...a weeklong floral takeover at the de Young Museum... We are excited to welcome back more than 120 of the Bay Area's most renowned...

Mike Doyle
Jun 11, 20221 min read
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Old Flame.
San Francisco and fire have a special relationship; the City's seal features the Phoenix. This small, simple museum is attached to a...

Mike Doyle
Jun 5, 20222 min read
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Recent & Random.
A former pay-per-view binocular site outside the Cliff House. Playing with the exposure and saturation. I like what it did to the...

Mike Doyle
May 30, 20221 min read
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Cable Is NOT Dead.
The cable car museum is on the corner of Washington and Clay. It's a fine museum. But what makes it special is right beside the...

Mike Doyle
May 28, 20221 min read
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Recent & Random
Picnicking, San Francisco-style. Atop the Sutro Baths ruins at Lands End. Ocean Beach. Having fun with the Doggie Diner image on outer...

Mike Doyle
May 22, 20221 min read
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50,000 Hours of Passionate Skill. One Dress.
"The piece’s title, Da Jin (Magnificent Gold), is fitting, as the entire surface is embroidered with gold thread from India." Just one...

Mike Doyle
May 17, 20221 min read
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One Of The Few Left Turns In San Francisco Just Bit The Dust.
Don't mourn its passing; it was an existential threat to pedestrians and oncoming traffic. At 36th Avenue and Fulton.

Mike Doyle
May 4, 20221 min read
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