Middle school’s field trip: 5K run to Ocean Beach
May 15, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Jack Ieong has lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown all 12 years of his life. On Friday, the Roosevelt Middle School seventh-grader saw Ocean Beach for the first time. Jack ran 3.1 miles through the park with his 700 schoolmates to get there, the first time he had gone that far on foot. Along John F. [...]
North Beach Citizens toast Tosca owner Etheredge
April 26, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Last year, director Francis Ford Coppola was surprised with a tribute at the 10th anniversary dinner in support of North Beach Citizens, the neighborhood homeless outreach program he founded. This year in the basement of SS Peter and Paul’s Church, a similar surprise was heaped upon longtime organization supporter and Tosca Cafe owner Jeannette Etheredge [...]
Academy of Sciences gala raises record $2 million
April 25, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Big brains and bucks collided in glorious combustion last week at “Illuminate,” the California Academy of Sciences’ Big Bang Gala, which raised the museum a record $2 mil and change for its youth science education programs. Led by intrepid explorers and academy board members Randi Fisher, Carrie Penner and Wendy Schmidt, this excellent evening glowed [...]
The Hot Spot for the Rising Tech Generation
March 24, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Housing prices in the San Francisco Bay area are once again soaring, thanks to an infusion of cash from the rising shares of Apple and Google and the initial public offerings by Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp and soon Facebook, expected to be the largest in Internet history. But while a previous generation of dot-com executives opted [...]
Stow Lake Boathouse Renovation Plans
February 9, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Renovation plans for the Stow Lake Boathouse in Golden Gate Park will keep many of the historic features of the Alpine Chalet-style building intact while adding a modern commercial kitchen, a bathroom and bringing it up to today’s fire, health, building and disability access codes. “Everything that was promised is being delivered,” said Nick Kinsey, [...]
Chinese New Year Parade
February 1, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
2012 is the Year of the Dragon! This year’s Chinese New Year Parade takes place on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 5:15pm-8pm Did you know that the Chinese New Year is actually a two week Spring festival celebrated for over 5,000 years in China. The San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration originated in the 1860′s [...]
SF Neighborhood Guide
January 27, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
San Francisco is not a large city in terms of population. It has nearly 800,000 residents according to the 2000 census figures. However, it is a very dense city with 16,632 residents per square mile. In the U.S. this density is second only to New York. The different cultures that formed San Francisco, now flourish [...]
Bi-Rite Market on the Web
January 24, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
The New York Times Small Business Section ran a story recently on Bi-Rite Market and the redesign of their Web Site. Bi-Rite Market is something of an institution here in San Francisco. A grocery store with a huge and faithful following, it doesn’t see itself as just a grocery store. People actually line up on [...]
49ers in NFC Championship game!
January 22, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
San Francisco 49ers, after a decade of irrelevance, are in the NFC championship game, on the brink of the Super Bowl. Welcome back, San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers will play the NY Giants today at 3:30pm PST at Candlestick park for the NFC Championship. The winner will advance to the Superbowl on Sunday, Feb. 5th. [...]
Pissarro’s People at Legion of Honor ends Jan 22
January 13, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Visit The Legion of Honor Museum this weekend – located at 100 34th Avenue at Clement Street in Lincoln Park – and see the current exhibit, Pissarro’s People, before it ends next Sunday, January 22nd. Camille Pissarro had a unique and lifelong interest in the human figure. From his earliest years in the Caribbean and [...]
