The Sweeny Observatory once graced the top of Strawberry Hill at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park.
Historical Photo: Sweeny/Sweeney Observatory
At the de Young: Fashion Designer Patrick Kelly’s Brief but Influential Career
For fashion designer Patrick Kelly, it was all about the buttons – the mismatched ones adorning his signature body-conscious knit dresses and the metaphorical buttons he pushed addressing race, class and sexuality.
Press Release: City College Journalism Students Reel in 18 Awards
City College’s journalism students captured 18 honors in the 44th Annual San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area Awards night.
Announcements: November 2021
Things to do and subjects of note on San Francisco’s west side.
Cartoon: ‘Holy Zuck!!’ by Ralph Lane
Cartoon by Ralph Lane.
Letter to the Editor: Response to Quentin L. Kopp’s November 2021 Column
You obviously did not read my precise reasoning about why government needs to invest where private investment cannot.
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Oct. 29-31, 2021.
Link to photos from Outstde Lands 2019. TOP
City Hall: Connie Chan
San Francisco continues to face an unprecedented housing affordability crisis. With the exception of the brief dip in the rental housing market during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s harder and harder for working families to afford to live in San Francisco.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Professor William Shughart of Utah State University described accurately the inaccuracy of “characterizing government spending as investment.” He reminded us public entities don’t “undertake projects based on expected rates of return, payback or any other sound financial criteria.”
Commentary: ‘The Best of the Richmond’
I am excited to introduce a new project we will be starting in December: “The Best of the Richmond.”
Sponsored: The SF Public Utilities Commission, a Civic Disaster – From Corruption to Conflagration – How They are ‘MOC-ing’ the Richmond and Sea Cliff
Four years ago, in the November 2017 issue of the Richmond Review, there appeared an article entitled “Plan to Protect Neighborhoods Abandoned: Lack of water to fight fires in southern and western neighborhoods after a major quake could result in a firestorm, like the 1906 disaster.”
School Board Appeals Court’s GWHS Murals Decision
The San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Board of Education will appeal a San Francisco Superior Court ruling regarding the way the Board decided to cover murals at George Washington High School was illegal.
‘Looking Back’: The Cider Press
How did a statue “that may be too strong for the prudes” wind up in Golden Gate Park? Here is the story of The Cider Press statue across from the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
George Washington H.S. Football Starts a Winning Streak
Following two straight seasons without a win, and after more than a year of city lockdowns, the George Washington High School football team – the Eagles – scored a victory over Galileo High School, 19-14 at their first home game.
Clement St. Walgreens to Close This Month
The Walgreens at 745 Clement St. will close on Nov. 15, joining four other stores that the company recently announced it was closing, and adding to the 17 stores the company has shuttered throughout the last five years.
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