Tag: City Culture
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Where real people are
Stores with a corner entrance are great because anyone can walk by and peek inside without being obvious they are on the fence about going in or not. For The Tipsy Crow, it was their black and wooden-colored old style sign that persuaded me to head in. The sign had an illustration of a black crow and…
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Brunching earth and grass
Reveille Coffee Company (North Beach) The Belgian waffle sends a lush scent reminiscent of a golden grains farm. It smells wonderful but with a weird, earthy element I am alien to. The texture is light and crispy, and that weird earthy element continues as a slightly salty taste which, altogether, isn’t all that comforting. Cometh…
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Loved at Urban Air Market Hayes Valley
Nous savons: stone and metal jewelry with interesting jewel-eye-bowtie arrangement, and cashmere scarves in skin-colored hues decorated with flashes of red and pure white. Amy Rose Moore: a hard-to-come-by fantastical take on the San Francisco skyline, bringing together realistic animals sketches, quirky characters and absurd city sights. T S I Love You: sturdy handmade round…
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Oops
“Excuse me, are you guys open?” The young man lifted his head from behind the counter and blinked. “Oh yes, yes. Let me…” He ran to the back of the cafe and turned on the lights. It’s very dim and the wooden tables feels like plastic. “Sorry…” the young man mumbled politely and vanished from eyesight.…
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SF Counterculture from Past to Now
I have been studying the counterculture to draw a circle to connect the 60’s hippes, 70’s punks, 80’s PC’s with the tech startups, making and hacking and urban prototyping of the 21st century. A side question is where have the arts gone? It is so amazing. I start by looking for the raw roots of the…
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