Community Music Hangout, a weekly gathering of musicians and community members, has become a fixture on John F. Kennedy (JFK) Promenade in Golden Gate Park. On April 27, the group celebrated its 100th weekend hangout in the park.
The recent national egg shortage, spurred by the bird flu, has grocers and shoppers across the nation, and in San Francisco’s westside neighborhoods, reevaluating their egg purchasing and consumption habits.
Hamburger Haven held a memorial service on Feb. 18 to celebrate the life of Jose Cen, a longtime employee.
The United Irish Cultural Center in the Outer Sunset is celebrating 50 years this month with a jubilee mass. However, board president Liam Reidy said the real party will be a celebratory gala on Aug. 22.
Walking along Seventh Avenue at Lawton Street in the Inner Sunset, Garden for the Environment’s yellow banner appears as a beacon of the natural world among the city streets, inviting San Franciscans to “come on in” to its green space. The teaching garden is home to a “reservoir of community,” as garden staff like to call it.
A large crowd gathered at Simple Pleasures Cafe in the Outer Richmond on Nov. 14, for a celebration of life ceremony to pay tribute to Virgil Jackson, a central figure at the coffee shop who recently passed away.
The print edition of this newspaper was once the only edition available, before the internet came along. The banner was orange and black, stylized “the Richmond ReView,” and the paper featured monthly opinion columns from then-Mayor Art Agnos and Frank Jordan after him.
If you strolled by Java Beach Café in the Sunset District near Ocean Beach this summer, you might have encountered Krystle Pizzuti – an energetic woman adorned in a straw hat and colorful attire. At her table, carefully arranged with stunning crystals, gems, and rocks, Pizzuti offered both stones and their stories to curious visitors.
Few people might see a connection between a building on Clement Street and the dragon boat racers on Lake Merced. However, the paddlers on the lake may have been practicing on the roof of the new Community Youth Center (CYC) at 952 Clement St., on the corner of 11th Avenue.
They met on the dance floor of the Avenue Ballroom on Taraval Street. Etta Hallock was an instructor, Bill Lafferty a student. She liked Bill because he was not pompous like other men she had met. “He was just Bill.”
It’s no surprise that older people have a harder time taking care of their homes. Whether it is weeding, clearing clutter, cleaning hard-to-reach areas, flipping a mattress, seniors often do not have the strength, energy or stability to handle these chores.
One of many remnants of the Russian enclave on San Francisco’s west side serves sit-down meals every weekday.
The first annual Sunset Showdown Cleanup held on Saturday, Aug. 26 pitted the Inner Sunset Cleanup crew against the Central Sunset Cleanup team in a friendly, but competitive cleanup to see which team could collect the most trash bags.
As discussions continue about how St. Ignatius College Preparatory and the Outer Sunset Farmers Market and Mercantile can co-exist on a shared space, the Sunset Beacon offered each party an opportunity to share with the community their side of the issue
The flier advertising the Inner Sunset Free Fix-It Fair said it all: “We’ll try to fix anything – except electronics and relationships – for FREE. Bring your wobbly, loose, broken, frayed, splintered, torn, ripped, cracked severed item. If we can’t fix it, we’ll give you twice your money back.”
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