With more than 28,000 movies and TV shows on hand, Colin Hutton’s Video Wave store has survived the onslaught of Netflix and Amazon Prime

February 24, 2025 0 Comments

It was a rainy winter afternoon, and it wasn’t until Video Wave, the last standalone movie rental store in San Francisco, had been open for about 30 minutes that the first customer wandered in. A young man named Mateo looked around and quickly spied a copy of “Extras,” a collection of episodes of an obscure ...

Host of group that supports women forge new life after retirement fitting out her Dodge van to recapture the joys of childhood camping

January 22, 2025 0 Comments

It’s 11 o’clock on a Saturday morning and Janice Wallace is on Zoom hosting the Bay Area chapter of Women’s Connection, a national network that supports those looking for new life opportunities past retirement. Wallace joined in part to make new friends. Her husband wasn’t all that social, she said. His main interest was collecting ...

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