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Hayes Valley: San Francisco's Coolest Hidden Neighborhood
October 18, 2007, 2:41 pm
Mention Hayes Valley to a San Francisco tourist and you'll get a look of confusion. Ask a local, however, and you'll likely spark a grin. To San Franciscans, Hayes Valley is a treasure, all the more so because it's sandwiched between two gritty zones. The up-and-coming community is thriving... » View Article
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THE CHECKLIST FOR LIVIN' RIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO
July 30, 2007, 2:28 pm
Two perfect days of wasting time by the dock of the Bay Craig's List founder Craig Newmark is Consierge.com's personal consierge with this guide to 48 hours in San Francisco.... » View Article
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Japantown Reborn: Exploring Another Side of San Francisco
July 23, 2007, 4:59 pm
The city of San Francisco is trying to give a facelift to its Japantown neighborhood, and the folks there are nervous. A much-loved tourist destination for decades and a blessing to residents eager for Japanese restaurants and groceries, Nihon-machi (the Japanese term) is just about nine square... » View Article
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Insider's look at San Francisco
June 18, 2007, 12:29 pm
A guidebook author's tips to the city When you write a travel guidebook, friends and even casual acquaintances start asking you for recommendations. After all, you're the big travel expert; you've had to endure long, arduous weeks of staying in nice hotels and sampling great food. So, when my... » View Article
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A walking tour of the City by the Bay
June 11, 2007, 11:45 am
SAN FRANCISCO - Some people go to San Francisco for the museums, the gay culture, the restaurants, the shopping. I go to walk. Since I was a teenager, I've been an avid urban walker. It's my favorite way to see a city's buildings and people, its street life and moods. And San Francisco is one... » View Article
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Personal Journey
June 11, 2007, 11:42 am
A return to San Francisco, where she met her heart What would it be like to return to your past? To the city where you were young and fell in love? The city you haven't set foot in for 28 years? How would you feel? I wondered about that while sitting in the hotel lounge after the flight from... » View Article
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Baby Beats: Free summer performance series gives kids a taste of San Francisco
May 31, 2007, 12:21 pm
As a youngster, it was always exciting when I got to go to San Francisco. My family usually went when relatives were visiting from Japan, so I pretty much had just a tourist's perspective on that city until I was in high school. For those wanting to give children more of a taste of the city by... » View Article
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Insider's tour of San Francisco's Chinatown
April 5, 2007, 6:47 pm
Beyond the dragon gates, finding the heart of the mystery It's Chinatown. You've been there and done that, strolling vaguely under the dragon gate at Grant Avenue, dawdling past the kitschy gift shops, then strolling out again, maybe not much wiser, maybe not much merrier. Me too. But this, it... » View Article
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Tourism ahoy!
April 3, 2007, 1:43 pm
So, yesterday was our first full day in San Francisco. We started it off right by heading across the street to Dottie's True Blue Cafe, which exceeded all of the glowing reviews we'd heard of it. There was a line out the door when we got there, as there always is, but it was worth the wait--we... » View Article
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San Francisco Neighborhood Guide - Golden Gate Park
March 12, 2007, 12:14 pm
What's larger than New York's Central Park, once consisted of sand dunes, is now covered with more than one million trees and is bison-friendly? Golden Gate Park -- the ultimate haven away from urban chaos -- was deeded  to the people in 1870 out of the prescient notion that San... » View Article
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San Francisco: Vivienne Westwood, from punk to plaid
March 2, 2007, 12:10 pm
By Jane Engle, Los Angeles Times March 01, 2007 Designer Vivienne Westwood, whose zips, rips and whips had a revolutionary influence on high fashion, if we may be so understated, takes center stage in a San Francisco show, its only U.S. stop after three years touring foreign capitals. The... » View Article
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Tours give visitors an insider's take on San Francisco Chinatown
February 12, 2007, 6:04 pm
By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Behind Chinatown's gilded storefronts, dim sum joints and souvenir shops are stories — often unpleasant ones — of civil rights violations, racism and public housing struggles. These are some of the tales Wendell Lin spun on a recent... » View Article
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San Francisco's New Heights
January 29, 2007, 3:00 pm
From Travel & Leisure  September 2005 After a stratospheric rise and precipitous tumble, the City by the Bay is reclaiming its glory days with bold design, innovative chefs, stylish boutiques, and burgeoning neighborhoods fit for hippies and hipsters alike. Lynn Yaeger... » View Article
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