The Essay
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The Essay: Letters From Herb Caen
Basic Mac skills. Suggested typing speed: 50 wpm. Possibly familiar with email. Those bullet points on the job description weren’t…
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The Essay: The Trouble With Public Space Naming
The next time you’re walking through the City, pause for a minute to consider how many of the local streets…
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The Past and Future of Laurel Hill: Notes From a Neighbor
I have spent most of my life within an eight-block radius of Laurel Hill. I was born in the Children’s…
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How to Prepare for the Next Big Earthquake
My husband and I were walking back to our Lower Nob Hill home one hazy pink evening a few years…
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The Essay: Long Live the Tosca Cafe Spirit
Tosca, as a bar and neighborhood joint, was truly democratic — a place where no reservations were required for folks…
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We Met on Tinder, So What?!
Online dating still carries a stigma in 2019 — but why? When I met my boyfriend for the first time,…
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Keep Tahoe Local, Not Faux-cal
How Bay Area visitors and second-home owners can better support the community Bay Area visitors to Lake Tahoe, and its…
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The Essay: Instagram vs. Reality
Are we all just doing it for the ’gram? It’s a social media world (whether we like it or not).…
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Welcome to Paradise
Coming to terms with the new abnormal. For most of us, calamity exists in slide shows. It is the “escape…
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The Essay: This Year of Grace
How Nob Hill’s great cathedral and a tech giant offer keys for transformation in 2019 Grace Cathedral stands atop Nob…
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