SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A...
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not...
During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street....
Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in...
Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him,...
Robert Wachter is the doctor who oversees all the other doctors at the University of California, San...
J & G Upholstery stretches back farther than it looks from the sidewalk on Balboa Street. Stacks...
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Walk through the doors of Gus’ Discount Fishing Tackle, and you’ll likely be greeted before you even...
SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A place you’ve probably never visited or even heard of. But on that day, a terrible crime was committed there. A white mob, enraged by the effrontery of two black men who dared to accuse a white man of ...
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, ...
Robert Wachter is the doctor who oversees all the other doctors at the University of California, San Francisco. He’s also one of the country’s leading voices on artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as an author and YouTube host, a sports enthusiast, and a musician who plays Elton John on the piano. He’s published two ...
