From across the street, The Bitter End looks like the type of dive bar you go to when you lose your job, or better yet, when you lose your marriage, and “Dear Doctor” by The Rolling Stones doesn’t quite cure the pain anymore.
As I write this column, the first half of 2023 is just about over. Each year has its own challenges and this year we have been dealing with rising inflation, higher interest rates, a volatile stock market and the seemingly never-ending battle with crime, homelessness and drugs in San Francisco. So where is the real estate market at?
Things to do on San Francisco’s west side. July, 2023.
One of Murphy Windmill’s more eccentric stories is that of local daredevil Velma Tilden, whose prior stunts included making a mock-ermine coat out of Himalayan rabbit fur and riding a water walker across the San Francisco Bay.
On Thursday, June 22, at approximately 2:39 a.m., San Francisco police officers from Richmond Station were dispatched to a residence on the 700 block of 31st Avenue for a report of an aggravated assault in progress.
Comparison photos of Clement Street and Sixth Avenue 114 years apart.
In the clustered streets of Singapore, a teenage Madeleine Lim runs an illegal LGBTQ+ rights organization. Her underground community organizing constantly places her in danger with the government which censors her films that depict the lives of individuals in the LGBTQ+ spectrum. So, when she begins her life in the United States, her mission becomes clear – calling for queer communities to gain full voice in the realm of film.
When taking Muni’s 38-Geary bus to downtown, it becomes increasingly clear the changes occurring around homelessness due to the recent injunction by U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu.
They look like two huge monsters with four arms each. The Dutch and Murphy windmills stand more than 100 feet tall and look like they are guarding the western end of Golden Gate Park.
The man whose Sunset District house blew up in February, after butane vapors from an allegedly illegal hash oil lab exploded and killed his wife, now faces a murder charge for her death.
It was Oscar Wilde who observed: “Hear no evil, speak no evil and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.” That underpins Mahatma Gandhi’s judgment: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Her friends and admirers call Nancy Wuerfel a formidable advocate, master of the spreadsheets, a supernatural force, a secret weapon, the Sherlock Holmes of city bureaucracy and a fiercely independent woman dedicated to good city government.
Hate can happen while grocery shopping, commuting to work or walking around a park. Discrimination, bullying, harassment and assaults based on race, religion, sexual orientation and other acts of bias have been on the rise.
Cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Recent police activity in the Richmond District.
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