The Bay Quackers tours were a big duck in a small pond until a bigger flock showed up.
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Two massive electronic music events, one small spotlight
If Haight Street is wall-to-wall people, it must be tourist season. How do you really feel about all those outsiders who swell the city's population?
Ghosts love Haight
Ghosts love Haight
Ghosts love Haight
Ghosts love Haight
Ghosts love Haight
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Set sail with the whales
Truly old-school art at Fort Mason
Truly old-school art at Fort Mason
Truly old-school art at Fort Mason
At Safari West, you get oryxes with your chardonnay
At Safari West, you get oryxes with your chardonnay
Coit Tower
The Buena Vista
City Guides
City Guides
At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.
Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists, and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation
Why a drop in tourism could mean unexpected trouble for local arts groups
You can learn a lot about the city's history with a comedian as your tour guide
"made in usa: Angel Island Shhh"
Mike's Political Walking Tour of Old San Francisco
Randall Museum
Randall Museum
From San Francisco Conventions & Visitors BureauOne barometer of tourism in San Francisco is its hotel occupancy rate, which is tracked each month by PFK Consulting and provided to the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB). The most recent figures, as you'l ... More >>
Turns out that wouldn't have been a bad idea after all Funny how being broke changes your perspective on things. Not so long ago, a goodly number of Californians still seemed to believe that marijuana made you behave like flesh-eating zombies as depicted in the now-laughable film Reefer Madness. Yet ... More >>
Even he's spending more than $23.33 a day in S.F.We were befuddled by one statistic in the Examiner's article on how tourism to the city grew in 2008: "About 131,000 people visited The City daily last year, spending an average of $23.33 a day."Huh -- $23.33 a day?! Who are these frugal travelers? An ... More >>
Is 'No gay tourism' the 11th plague?With fiscal and economic plagues already haunting California, could a Proposition 8-inspired professional brain drain -- and even a tourism boycott -- be next?During a conversation Tuesday, Rob Black, vice president for public policy of the San Francisco Chamber o ... More >>
SFSUA stinky weekend is in store...Anecdotally, your humble narrator recalls a story about a local couple who demanded their money back from an area arboretum after their wedding was ruined by an unexpected blossoming of the garden's prize corpse flower. And they don't call it a corpse flower for no ... More >>
SFSUA stinky weekend is in store...Anecdotally, your humble narrator recalls a story about a local couple who demanded their money back from an area arboretum after their wedding was ruined by an unexpected blossoming of the garden's prize corpse flower. And they don't call it a corpse flower for no ... More >>
Jim HerdYou saw it: The last two foreign tourists to be bewildered by the Culture Bus (and not get on). It turns out there are more efficient ways to rob tourists than charge them five times the going rate to ride on the bus. That's what the Municipal Transportation Agency found out via its ill-f ... More >>
San Francisco Fort LauderdaleSan Francisco and Fort Lauderdale are pretty much the two gayest cities in A ... More >>
Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... More >>
Feature: Arson Our guide in the spookiest room in City Hall-- the Board of Supervisors main chamber!City Hall is haunted. Not just by measures that have died within its chambers, but by actual spooks -- or so claimed our robed tour guide last night. The guy with the Snuggie shepherded a large g ... More >>
Is Sonoma Country a constitutional monarchy? Or do its kings still rule by divine right? You receive odd things when you work at a newspaper. A job candidate signifying he or she was ready to "hit the ground running" sent us some baby shoes (we gave them to a baby). An even more deranged candidat ... More >>
