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At the end of the month a very unique festival will be opening at Yerba Buena Arts Center, it is called “Mex I AM.” To call it an event is perhaps an understatement.
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The San Francisco Bay Area's last oyster farm is not closed, not quite yet. While the Drakes Bay Oyster Co.'s retail store is scheduled to shut down Thursday, oyster farming in the historic estuary can continue for at least 30 days.
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Sunday Streets are events that encourage recreation, community activities and fun in San Francisco. Essentially, they can be thought of as large block party.
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A San Francisco political consultant jailed after authorities found alleged bomb-making materials in his home will not be transferred to a mental hospital for treatment before trial, a federal judge ruled July 22.
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A San Francisco political consultant — arrested last month after alleged chemical bomb-making materials were found in his residence in the city's tony Nob Hill district — could be released on bail to seek psychological treatment in a hospital.
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An unidentified man leapt to his death from the recently opened eastern span of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday morning at around 10 AM.
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A San Francisco police officer has become the newest Internet viral photo sensation after his photo was posted on Facebook by an admirer.
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Looking for a top-flight meal without the hassle of going out to a top-flight restaurant? Look no further than Caviar, a two-year old start-up that’s looking to cement its grip on delivering meals from only the finest metropolitan restaurants.
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For centuries beer has been the beverage of the people and it comes as little surprise that for most of the 19th and well into the 20th Century, America was one of the largest producers of beer.
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A 98-year-old woman is being evicted from the San Francisco apartment she's lived in for 50 years by real estate speculators with a reputation for expelling vulnerable residents.
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After decades of being an unfortunate magnet for people determined to kill themselves, directors of the Golden Gate Bridge voted Friday to build a suicide barrier along the length of the iconic span.
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The Freak has gone and done it again.
For the second time in his career — and the second time in less than a calender year — San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum has thrown a no-hitter.
Oh yeah, and he's done it against the same team too.
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Now in her third year at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, San Franciscan Kelsey Lauritano is honored, thrilled and just a bit anxious about her immediate future as she plans and hopes to go on to a graduate program.
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As a landmark restaurant, the Fleur de Lys closes this coming June 28, food critics are wondering "does this indicate a decline in traditional French cuisine?"
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For decades, San Francisco has been one of the premier travel destinations in the US. People from near and far flock to the city by the bay to experience one of America’s most affluent, breathtaking and eclectic metropolitan areas.
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While it has been said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," an artistic vision can expand the universe, even if viewing something seemingly ordinary. Also, the line between art and science is thin.
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Amidst the urban expanse of the City's ever-changing landscape, there are these little-known spots where it is as if an oasis of sorts has sprung up for anyone and every one to enjoy.
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San Francisco political consultant Ryan Chamberlain pleaded not guilty Monday to federal weapons charges despite new allegations that he already had assembled a bomb.
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The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival will feature eight styles of Indian classical dance, till June 29, 2014 in its 36th edition, a first in its entire history.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited San Francisco on Wednesday and stunned an audience in the famously tolerant city by comparing homosexuality to alcoholism.
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Authorities appeared no closer Friday to figuring out why a well-known San Francisco political consultant had components to build a remote-control bomb in his apartment when he was arrested last week.
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In this digital age of just about everything going on line, San Francisco-based author Joseph Sutton had his book, "Father and Son: Thirty Years of Growing Up Together," printed from eBook format to hard copy.
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It is the end of an era, especially for local thespians in the San Francisco Bay Area as the news of the death of Renaissance Pleasure Faire and The Great Dickens Christmas Fair founder Phyllis Patterson was announced this past May. She died on May 18.
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A San Francisco public relations consultant appeared in federal court Tuesday, one day after being arrested by local and FBI agents who had issued a nationwide alert for the man after allegedly finding explosive materials in his residence.
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A worker sickout delayed San Francisco's morning and evening commutes for a second day Tuesday as thousands of transit employees stayed home to protest a controversial contract provision.
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San Francisco's legions of downtown office workers faced a grindingly slow commute Monday after two-thirds of the city's transit operators called in sick in an apparent contract protest.
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When the Rite Aid store on Ocean Ave between Jules and Ashton closed in 2009, Walgreens was eager to move right in. Yet as Ocean Avenue Association Executive Director Daniel Weaver pointed out,
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A 43-year-old woman known as "Erica J," or by the nickname "Rat Girl," has been actively breeding rats in a residential hotel in Minna Street and then releasing them "into the wild," so to speak, in the local parks.
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Ah the wine country! Beautiful vineyards, charming boutiques, with fine restaurants this region is a weekend get-a-away. And, what more perfect example than in the Old Mission town of Sonoma,
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A bill has been proposed to clear-up California's somewhat confused approach to medical marijuana. This week the state Assembly will consider the new legislation.
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San Francisco Image
"The Tear Machine" by artist Vera Costa, on display at the Consulate General de Mexico in San Francisco, CA from Oct. 20, to Dec. 13, 2011.
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Aoife O' Donovan on panel discussion at the "Brain at War" conference on June 21, 2012 at Marines Memorial Club and Hotel San Francisco. She mentioned that Post Traumatic Stress has an impact upon the immune system and aging.
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The entrance to the Bali exhibit at the Asian Art Museum. No photos are allowed of the artifacts within the exhibit to help protect them from exposure to light.
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Tim Lipscomb joined in with the Alliance for Jobs & Sustainable Growth led the crowd at the July 14 rally at City Hall in a chant, "Rebuild Now!"
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Revelers got an early start on the Saturday, March 15, 2014 before Saint Patrick's Day. All of Lombard Street seen here in the City's Marina/Cow Hollow District was filled with a 'frat-party' type of atmosphere, all wearing the green to join in the fun.
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Andres Amador
Bay Area landscape artist Andreas Amador employs San Francisco's beaches as a canvas for his artistic vision
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Courtesy of Field Paoli
Interior of renovated Presidio Branch of the SF Public Library on Sacramento Street. Photo courtesy of Field Paoli Architects (2011).
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Courtesy of Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Recycling Center, SF CA
The crew and staff of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Recycling Center if evicted will be out of a job. And, all the people who go to the recycling center will have to go else where to recycle their materials.
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The Commonwealth Club's Dr. Ruth Shapiro, its first Social Entrepreneur in Residence was the moderator for that Wednesday evening. She asked him questions that were gathered from the audience. It was standing room only in the Blue Room at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Nov. 17, 2011.
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More examples of contemporary design as they were displayed in the Consulate General's home in San Francisco.
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San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept offers a series of classes on a variety of topics, cooking and baking is just one of many.
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Barbara Eden on stage at the Castro Theater in a live interview with Marc Huestis.
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John Van Benheuvel, Sander Van dijk, Frans Van Gosliga and staff from the Consul General's office of the Netherlands also joined in on the curator's tour of the Van Otterloo collection that day, Sept. 23, 2011.
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Liam O'Brien, courtesy of Nature in The City newsletter
Back in April of this year, as work was being done to Dolores Park and surrounding areas, near the old Mission of San Francisco, work crews uncovered the lagoon. Over 150 years ago it refreshed and nourished the native tribes that inhabited the land. As the Spanish settlers took over, the lagoon got filled in. And the area eventualy known as The Mission District.
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View of Lake Merced from the top floor of the new club house that was built in Harding Park that is part of the lake's recreational area for the public use.
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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
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A view of 24th Street, the main corridor of Noe Valley a little town type of place in San Francisco.
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While the mood of the Bay to Breakers event was festive and full of revelers, the presence of increased security was near. Obvious reminders of the recent incident in Boston.
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