Month: December 2006

Conrad H. Roth’s SF Photo Essays

Conrad Roth has posted, in two parts, his impressions of the city. Although he calls his posts “photo essays,” there is also plenty of text. Part one Part…

Don’t follow leaders, and watch your parking meters

If you’re driving in San Francisco be aware that the city issues some two million parking tickets a year, contributing something like $85 million to the municipal coffers….

Frisco Pisco

I once lived for a time in Guapalo, Ecuador, and later traveled around Peru. So I know from pisco. Pisco is a brandy-like drink that Peru claims as…

Chicago-style Pizza

Robin Slomkowski blogs about Chicago-style pizzas in San Francisco: I actually got to have good Chicago Style Pizza in SF at Little Star. I tend to categorize Chicago…

Vesuvio among World’s Best Bars

Is Vesuvio really the world’s third-best bar?

Don’t Call It Frisco

There’s a laundromat in the city’s Hayes Valley called the Don’t Call It Frisco Laundromat. The name quotes an admonition you will hear often from a certain generation…

Dissing Asia

How do SF guidebooks cover the Asian Art Museum?