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April 17, 2012
City College's Culinary Arts Department Hosts Street Fair Food Party
What: "Wok On The Wild Side," a City College of San Francisco's culinary arts and hospitality studies department's fundraiser When: Fri., April 20, 5:30-8 p.m. Where: Statler Wing at City College of San Francisco Cost: $75 The Rundown: Like most educational institutions in California, CCSF's c ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Moving Parts
What: "Wok On The Wild Side," a City College of San Francisco's culinary arts and hospitality studies department's fundraiser When: Fri., April 20, 5:30-8 p.m. Where: Statler Wing at City College of San Francisco Cost: $75 The Rundown: Like most educational institutions in California, CCSF's c ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2010
What's Happening at Hayes Valley Farm?
Hayes Valley Farm/FlickrMore than 2,500 volunteers have gotten dirty at Hayes Valley Farm.To those of us who lived in Hayes Valley while Octavia was transforming from prostitution alley to boulevard, the chained-off lot between Oak and Fell held a peculiar romance. After a decade of neglect, the ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Ride The Ducks Boat Tours Quacking Again In San Francisco
Like a duck back to water...Just when we were getting used to the pleasant absence of tourists quacking "Tequila" down Fourth Street, San Francisco Ride the Ducks resumed its operations. The company had grounded its tours last week following the drowning death of two Hungarian tourists in the Del ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Unusual Band of Tourists to Descend Upon Angel Island
Welcome tourists!In an example of priming the pump that has nothing to do with John Maynard Keynes, a national group of tourism professionals has arranged for hundreds of folks to take a trip to Angel Island on Friday. It's them: The tourism professionals will invade the beleaguered island in dro ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
DIY Books
Welcome tourists!In an example of priming the pump that has nothing to do with John Maynard Keynes, a national group of tourism professionals has arranged for hundreds of folks to take a trip to Angel Island on Friday. It's them: The tourism professionals will invade the beleaguered island in dro ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Dine About Town Makes Its Summer Return ― the Launch Party's Tomorrow
magerleagues/FlickrJust in time for holiday vacationers and locals looking for a reason to go out, Dine About Town is back. The Convention & Visitors Bureau's twice-yearly restaurant promo runs June 1-15. Diners at participating S.F. eateries can get a break on pricing for two-course lunches ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
There She Blows
magerleagues/FlickrJust in time for holiday vacationers and locals looking for a reason to go out, Dine About Town is back. The Convention & Visitors Bureau's twice-yearly restaurant promo runs June 1-15. Diners at participating S.F. eateries can get a break on pricing for two-course lunches ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
It Can't Be Done!
magerleagues/FlickrJust in time for holiday vacationers and locals looking for a reason to go out, Dine About Town is back. The Convention & Visitors Bureau's twice-yearly restaurant promo runs June 1-15. Diners at participating S.F. eateries can get a break on pricing for two-course lunches ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Terrifying Revelations About Hauntings in City Hall
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 >>
Blogs
August 19, 2009
New Direct Flights Between Gay Meccas San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale Dubbed 'A Rainbow Road in the Air'
San Francisco Fort LauderdaleSan Francisco and Fort Lauderdale are pretty much the two gayest cities in A ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2009
The Day Culture Rolled Into Bernal Heights: Novel Concept for Yellow City Buses -- Riders!
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 >>
Music
August 5, 2009
Rock the Bells
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 >>
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June 26, 2009
Who Wants to Get a Whiff of Flower Smelling of Rotting, Fetid Bodies? You Know You Do -- Head to SFSU This Weekend.
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 >>
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May 27, 2009
Bankruptcy, Locusts, Frogs, Blood: Could a California Gay Tourism Boycott Be Next?
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 >>
Blogs
May 13, 2009
Examiner Typo Renders San Francisco One of the World's Cheapest Tourist Destinations
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 >>
Blogs
May 12, 2009
Told You So: Newsweek Reports SF Wastewater Plant Now a Popular Tourist Destination. Imagine How Popular It'd Be If We'd Named It After George W. Bush.
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 >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
As SF Tourism Falters, Visitors Bureau Promotes City Attractions To Locals
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 >>
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April 8, 2009
Avoir Du Chien
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 >>
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April 8, 2009
Jobless professionals seek work at Alcatraz
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 >>
News
November 12, 2008
Clash of the Quackers
The Bay Quackers tours were a big duck in a small pond until a bigger flock showed up.
Blogs
October 27, 2008
SF Gov InAction: Superheroes, Stereotypes, and all of San Francisco to become One Giant Tourism District!
The Bay Quackers tours were a big duck in a small pond until a bigger flock showed up.
News
October 22, 2008
On the Waterfront
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Calendar
October 22, 2008
A Fruitful Gathering
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Calendar
September 24, 2008
Don't Forget the Motor City
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Blogs
June 25, 2008
Tourists Live It Up While Poor San Franciscans Take Stay-Cations
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
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January 2, 2008
The Great Beyond
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Blogs
November 1, 2007
SF Theater Audiences Bribed With $7.7 Million: Huge Grants To "Enhance Participation"
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
Calendar
September 12, 2007
Map Quest
Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.
News
July 26, 2006
If You're Goin' to San Francisco ...
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?
Calendar
August 31, 2005
Dead = The Dead
Ghosts love Haight
Summer Guide
June 29, 2005
Free Summer Attractions
Ghosts love Haight
Summer Guide
June 23, 2004
Free Summer Attractions
Ghosts love Haight
Calendar
February 25, 2004
Fishy Forage
Set sail with the whales
Calendar
February 4, 2004
Asia Alive
Truly old-school art at Fort Mason
News
October 29, 2003
Letters to the Editor
Week of October 29, 2003
News
July 16, 2003
It's the Economic Development, Stupid
Our lefty supervisors need to remember: In an economic downturn, it's not smart or progressive to go around killing jobs
Summer Guide
June 25, 2003
Deep in the Wine Country Bush
At Safari West, you get oryxes with your chardonnay
News
June 11, 2003
Fear Factor
SARS has barely touched S.F. Yet tourists and others are staying away from Chinatown in droves.
Best of San Francisco
May 14, 2003
Best Place to Score Free Treats for Your Pooch
Golden Gate Bridge Toll Booth
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Irish Coffee
The Buena Vista
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best San Francisco Farce
Lombard Street's Billing as the "Crookedest Street in the World"
News
April 10, 2002
What the Hell Is Copia?
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.
News
January 2, 2002
Traveling Companions
Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists, and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation
Film
November 21, 2001
Reel World
Why a drop in tourism could mean unexpected trouble for local arts groups
News
October 4, 2000
Laugh Tracks
You can learn a lot about the city's history with a comedian as your tour guide
Calendar
June 14, 2000
The Other Alcatraz
"made in usa: Angel Island Shhh"
News
June 14, 2000
Postscript
Mike's Political Walking Tour of Old San Francisco
Best of San Francisco
May 17, 2000
Best Children's Museum
Randall Museum
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