Candyland… Come to Life

Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19, 2009, San Francisco’s crookedest street (Lombard Street) will be transformed into a giant Candyland board to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the board game.  The street will be closed to traffic as children from the University of California San Francisco Children’s Hospital participate in the game as colored game pieces and [...]

I <3 Puppies

A San Francisco couple set up a live video feed to watch over their dog’s six Shiba Inu puppies… and the rest is history (or rather, workplace distraction). 
If only they could pipe in puppy breath… bestill my puppy-loving heart.

Make Some Space

It’s here!… Today, September 19th is the second annual Park(ing) Day.  Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

This is obviously a “green movement” but I think it [...]

Overheard @ California & Spruce

Location: 
In the fantastically beautiful, mega-wealthy Presidio Heights district of San Francisco in front of the neighborhood Starbucks. 
Situation:
Two well-kept high school (maybe college) girls dressed in designer preppy outfits.  Girl One – has lit cigarette hanging dangling from mouth while she attempts to light Girl Two’s cigarette.  Girl Two – pulls cigarette out of her mouth [...]

Apple Bottom Jeans, Boots with the Fur…

This is a photo of Cinders, the boot wearing pig.  He suffers from a real phobia… Dirt Phobia.  I kid you not!  So her owners outfitted her with Paddington Bear doll Wellies so that this little piggy can be a… pig.  Proof this story is more than a Photoshop job:

After a little eyerolling chuckle, I [...]

Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun

I will be frank… in general, I am not crazy about old people.  With the exception of my grandpa and the Brown’s.
San Francisco is known for a lot of things… but what most outsiders don’t realize is that the Famous San Francisco Twins are as much a city landmark as the cable cars and Golden [...]

sTori Telling

So last night was the first time I have ever attended a book signing.  Who, might you ask, was thrilling enough to pull me out to the Virgin Megastore in Union Square at 7pm? 
Tori Spelling
I really just wanted to see her up-close… not actually meet her… and I could care less about her signature… but [...]

Pie in the Sky… or on your Suit!

Just when I thought it didn’t get any better than a cardboard tube battle, San Francisco hosts a Pie Fight!  This event, which took place on Friday, November 2nd, required participants to wear formal attire — this fight was for models of sophestication only — and hurl pies of shaving cream and whipped cream at one another down at the Cable Car [...]

On Guard!

SFist has brought me another “only in San Francisco” moment… man, this is a great city! 
What:  Cardboard Tube Fighting Tournament

HUH?  Show up.  Get your free cardboard tube.  Duel with (aka whack the daylights out of) everybody else there.
When: Sunday, 10/28
Where: Justin Herman Plaza, 1 Market Street (at Embarcadero Plaza)
Time: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. (rain or [...]

Waiting for Gas… in the Bike Lane

This would never happen in NYC (read: Manhattan) because there aren’t any gas stations nor would it happen in LA because nobody there cares enough about the environment to ride a bike. 
So for me this is another, “only in San Francisco” moment.