Some 200 seniors and people with disabilities and their advocates swarmed City Hall Tuesday in the second, heavily attended protest in less than a month to oppose $8.9 million in cuts to the Mayor’s budget that impact programs serving seniors and people with disabilities. They are among $124 million in reductions Mayor Daniel Lurie has ...
One day in 1993, on her daily walk from her Richmond District home to Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, Nancy DeStefanis spotted a Great Blue Heron in a nest with two gigantic chicks, standing up, beaks wide open, waiting to be fed by both father and mother. She was able to identify the wading birds ...
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not talking ”bright lights, big city” wild, he’s talking “lions and tigers and bears” wild. Although he had a typical urbanized childhood, Gershenz says he couldn’t wait to leave home at 17 for San Francisco State University, “where it ...
During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street. But on many Tuesday nights, he’s playing the standup bass at the Page Bar, a neighborhood watering hole on the edge of the Upper Haight. Drohan, 68, an attorney for more than three decades, is the director of ...
Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in two to three miles a day up and down the hills of Glen Park Canyon near her home. Afternoons, you’ll find her strolling the neighborhood with her dogs, greeting friends, and chatting up strangers. But her superpower, she ...
Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him, players sit with boards arranged and tiles upright on their racks. He begins gently — reviewing short words, simple combinations — then quickly moves deeper into board control, opening strategy, and the subtle art of rack management. Earlier, ...
