San Francisco Voice

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 … The Real World San Francisco.  I don’t even want to mention how long ago this show actually aired on MTV!  But I am …read more

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Ghosts of San Francisco is the first full-length book by your favorite SF blogger.  It’s being put together – right now, as you read this – by Schiffer Books and will be officially out in June.  It’s got stories that delve into the deep history of the area and tales of those spirits which are haunting the city today.  Here’s an excerpt to get you wet with longing for more:
Montandon Townhouse: A Cursed Home
Lombard Street is famous for being the crookedest street in the world. Daily, visitors from all across the globe traipse up to the peak of this glorious …read more

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In honor of Easter Sunday, today’s YouTube pick is of a San Francisco Easter tradition.  Only in San Francisco do you celebrate Easter with Big Wheel races down The Crookedest Street in the World.  The narrated clip is set to a Cake song.

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Lombard Street is famous as “The Crookedest Street In The World”, drawing in tourists from all around the world who huff and puff in exaggerated effort as they climb the hill west of Columbus to see the famous sight.  My apartment is located right at the bottom of this hill, so I get a regular view of the curvy street (which is surprisingly pretty) and the opportunity for regular run-ins with the travelers who are headed up to take pictures of the spot.
Who those travelers are seems to vary by day – during the week it is mostly young couples …read more

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