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The Prelinger Library is like no library you’ve visited before. For one thing, it’s only open to the public on Wednesdays, plus the occasional Sunday afternoon. And it’s tucked away in a warehouse space in SoMa, on the second floor of a building inhabited by art galleries and photo studios. But the biggest difference is [...]
You may have noticed the tall square-rigged sailing ship, like a floating prop left over from a pirate movie, moored at the Hyde Street Pier near Ghirardelli Square. But most San Franciscans don’t know its name, or that it’s part of a larger collection of genuine treasures, just steps away from the chintzy gift shops [...]
House of Air, the trampoline park in the Presidio, is a reminder that being a kid is pretty fun. The design geniuses behind this space divided it into several mini arenas, each made up of interconnected trampolines, which allows for a lot of people doing a lot of jumping. There’s not much that hasn’t been [...]
Sure, neighborhood street festivals can be quaint and folksy and block off streets that you might want to drive on, but come early spring, one of the best times in San Francisco, there’s something invigorating and wonderful about a street fair. The Glen Park Festival turns thirteen this Sunday, celebrating one the city’s great neighborhoods [...]
Holly Park may well seem an average park, a patch of green you might not even know exists. It’s on the south end of Bernal Heights, just south of Cortland, which is the neighborhood’s main drag. But this park is special, in part, because it’s so high up. It’s not quite as high as Bernal [...]
Briones Regional Park, about an hour northeast of the city, is the kind of place you’ve seen on the map countless times but rarely think to check out. It’s not quite as sexy as Point Reyes or Mt. Tam, but the rolling green hills in this 6,000 acre park are sublime. There’s hiking, horseback riding [...]
It’s been said a lot, but that doesn’t make it any less true: Big Sur is beautiful. Really beautiful. The kind of beautiful where you pull the car over lookout point after lookout point until finally the sun sets, and you’re still a half hour from the Big Sur Bakery, where dinner is. It’s the [...]
For the first few minutes, you’d be forgiven for thinking your directions were wrong. Park in a gravel lot off the main road, walk past a row of houses and down a wooded trail, and descend through switchbacks deeper into the forest. This couldn’t possibly be the right path, could it? Your patience during the [...]
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