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Tuesday was the free admission day at SFMoMA (the first Tuesday of every month is no charge to get in there and see their exhibits). I’d been meaning to go check it out since I moved here but you know how it is, that first Tuesday comes around so fast every month and there’s always something else to do. So I hadn’t been there since moving here. In fact, I hadn’t been there since the very first time that I came to San Francisco back in 1998. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the city. I had a …read more

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San Fran Voice trolls the video archives on the online world to find those videos that come from San Francisco or relate to San Francisco. Shared with your every morning here … check the archives for the ones that came before today.
Explanation: Today’s SF YouTube pick takes you to the tourists where you can hear the barking of the sea lions on famous Pier 39 … but it’s got a twist. Yep, that’s a sea lion puking into the water, caught on video. EW!

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San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … Musee Mechanique, the old-time arcade at Fisherman’s Wharf.

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San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … info about The Sutro Baths.  This former bathhouse was an amazing structure which supplied leisure entertainment for the people of San Francisco long, …read more

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Pier 39.  It’s where the sea lions go to rest, the tourists go to shop and the locals …  well, the locals say that they don’t go there much but you’ll find that they flock there when they have houseguests to entertain.  Sure, it’s cheesy and pricey and totally not “San Francisco” in the way that the rest of the city is.  But it’s also part of our home here and there are good reasons to go there whether it’s those absolutely-bad-for-you-but-oh-so-good fried donuts or the need to escape your life with your own pretend-to-be-from-somewhere-else day.
And Pier 39 is making …read more

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When I first moved here, a new friend was trying to give me directions to somewhere or other in San Francisco and I was completely baffled by his instructions, so finally he laughed and said, “Just meet me at Union Square and I’ll take you over there”.  When I said, “um, okay, where’s Union Square?” he just about dropped the phone because he thought that he had given me one of the most obvious landmarks in the city to make the plan easier for me.  We laugh about that now because the idea that I didn’t know Union Square is …read more

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David Copperfield escapes from Alcatraz.  You get tidbits of interesting Alcatraz history along with the magic trick.  The footage is scratchy because it’s from 1987 but it’s good enough to watch.  Is David Copperfield creepy or what?
Part I:
Part II:

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Did you know that the fortune cookie was a food that was invented here in San Francisco?  The Bay Area happens to be the birthplace of a number of different foods including the Popsicle, Crab Louis salad, Cioppino stew and the Martini.  This clip that tells you the history of the fortune cookie is set at the Japanese Tea Garden, a beautiful retreat within Golden Gate Park.

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There is going to be some debate among people browsing through the San Fran Voice information about San Francisco neighborhoods as to whether or not Fisherman’s Wharf can really be called a “neighborhood”.  It’s a place with geographic boundaries for sure, but it’s more of a tourist attraction than a neighborhood, right?  In a sense, yes, but in terms of being a part of the city which is unique in and of itself to the area within which it is confined, I think that Fisherman’s Wharf is very much its own neighborhood.
Fisherman’s Wharf itself is the section of the city …read more

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You can’t miss San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood because it’s topped by the famous Coit Tower which you can see from most points around the city.  But when you start walking in the direction of Coit Tower, you might find that you get a bit lost because the streets of this San Francisco neighborhood are a bit curvy, with a number of dead ends and a lot of confusion.  This is a mostly residential area, which is interesting because the famous landmarks also makes it a tourist destination, so the traffic here is crowded and there’s not much thing as …read more

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