The Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) recently made a $5,000 grant to Dinner with Grace, an outreach ministry of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral and Episcopal Community Services (ECS). Volunteers of Dinner with Grace cook, deliver and eat meals with those less fortunate and living in places like the Mentone, a Single Room Occupancy Hotel. 

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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Thomas
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When an actor wins a coveted Oscar for a film which has it’s basis set in a specific location, everybody at said location joins in on the celebrations. San Francisco Chronicle reports that they’re going wild in the Castro, over the two Oscars that ‘Milk’ brought home for best original screenplay (Dustin Lance Black ) and […]

Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Thomas
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Would you like to know what happens in the dark corners and nooks of zoos and aquariums everywhere? Would you like to ’study’ wild animal sex? 
Seriously, if you want to know more about new animals, new positions, new kinky information, ins & out, ups & downs of animal sex, then you’re cordially invited to celebrate a […]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Thomas
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This is a ‘Believe it or Not’ post. First, there’s news going around the pueblo that Britney Spears is writing an autobiography. And she’s getting paid 10 million pounds for the publishing deal.
Apparently, the books (that’s plural, as in 3 to 5 books) will be written based on content from diaries she’s kept over the years. And […]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Thomas
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Got a spare $4.25 million? If you do, you can get yourself a fine historic mansion in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Its a three-story house, 8,777 sq ft, built in 1887 and a registered City Landmark, glass frontage, nice garden and all. Only one teeny-weeny problem. Its haunted. And it was a hotel. Photo copyrights - […]

Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Thomas
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Question time - How would a green alien in a UFO flying into San Francisco feel? Right at home. That would be because SFO has decided to go green. In a pilot experiment which, if successful, will mean that carbon credits will be selling like hot cakes, San Francisco International Airport is setting up airport […]

Posted on December 25th, 2008 by Thomas
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Let no one say that San Francisco’s street cred as an oasis for liberal and progressive tree huggers is overrated. Its not. And I have evidence to back up my claims.
Exhibit A: Dreaming of a Green Christmas - For a limited time, Friends of the Urban Forest and SF Environment are offering San Francisco residents […]

Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Thomas
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Anne Bayin, The Ottawa Citizen, has a great article on 10 ways to make the most of San Francisco vacations.
You can read the article to see in detail the 10 attractions in San Francisco, which includes, among others, a stay at one of the most in-your-face hotels in San Francisco (Hotel Diva), and a visit […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by Thomas
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Add a Zeppelin flight to the ever increasing and long list of San Francisco attractions. This latest one is courtesy a company called Airship Ventures, which shipped in a 246 foot long Zepplelin NT, one of only three remaining in the world, from Hamburg, Germany.
The blimp was then flown by pilot Kate Board from Beaumont, TX to its permanent […]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Thomas
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There’s a first for everything, and it usually takes place in San Francisco. This time, a diverse array of San Francisco Institutions have come together to offer both visitors and locals something called a CultureBus (www.sfculturebus.org/). Its a pilot project, under which passengers will be shuttled on a route strewn with Museums and cultural attractions in San Francisco.
The […]

Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Thomas
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