Photojournalist Jeremy Word’s photos of two Taraval Street record stores.
‘Photos of the Sunset District’: A Tale of Two Taraval Record Stores
‘Then and Now’: Surf’s Up!
In November 1952, folks at Busy Bee Market on the northwest corner of 46th Avenue and Irving Street watched the neighborhood flood. Hard to believe as the Bay Area continues to endure an “exceptional” drought.
City Hall: Supervisor Gordon Mar
Last month, voters decisively chose a different direction for the school board, recalling all three Board of Education Commissioners on the ballot by large margins.
Huge Crowd at Outer Sunset Lunar New Year Celebration
Lunar New Year Celebration at the Outer Sunset Farmers Market and Mercantile event attracts a crowd.
Real Estate: John M. Lee
2022 is here and like in any other year, people are preparing for the big push in the spring real estate market. It seems like the COVID effect is behind us, and this year will turn out to be a normal real estate market.
New Housing Proposed on Sloat Blvd. Between 45th, 46th Aves.
A proposal to replace the Sloat Garden Center at 2700 Sloat Blvd. with a 12-story, 400-condo, mixed-use residential building is now under review by the San Francisco Planning Department and starting to get public attention.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
“So, let us not be blind to our differences – let us also direct attention to our common interest and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
Police Blotter: Sunset District
Police Activity in the Sunset District, February 2022.
Cartoon: ‘Dog Baby Talk’ by Paul Kilduff
‘Dog Baby Talk’ cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Letter to the Editor: Improved Shuttle Service Along JFK Drive
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has just released a plan for improved shuttle service along JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.
Cartoon: ‘Jack’s Raccoon’ by Hazel O’Neil
‘Jack’s Raccoon’ by Hazel O’Neil.
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz
The closure of the eastern end of John F. Kennedy (JFK) Drive in Golden Gate Park has created a dangerous situation for couriers, delivery people and employees at the de Young Museum.
‘Looking Back’: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Thomas (or “Tomáš”) Garrigue Masaryk (March 7, 1850 – Sept. 14, 1937) is honored with a monument in Golden Gate Park. Masaryk was an important leader in the establishment of Czechoslovakia and became its first president in 1918. He was re-elected president of Czechoslovakia three more times consecutively.
Reshaping San Francisco’s Districts for the Next Decade
San Francisco will redraw its supervisorial district lines this spring, adjusting the face of its district map based on population data gathered and released from the federal census conducted in 2020.
GG Park’s Garden Attractions to Merge Operations
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved combining the operation of Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden, Conservatory of Flowers and the Japanese Tea Garden last month, then placing them under management of the Botanical Garden Society.
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