Wandering SF: SF Public Library

Wandering SF: SF Public Library

The best thing about living in San Francisco is that I can step out of my apartment and, without any planned route, find an art exhibition that I had no idea was happening.  At the beginning of every month, I like to walk my rent check to my property manager’s...
Wandering SF: Union Square

Wandering SF: Union Square

  Last Saturday turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year in San Francisco.  For anyone who doesn’t know, summer doesn’t arrive in this city until after Labor Day.  Cashmere scarves and knit sweaters are all the rage in July, and by...
Wandering SF: The Mission

Wandering SF: The Mission

  I recently saw the trailer for Woody Allen’s new movie Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett.  There was an exterior shot of a cafe on the block I live on in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco.  I pass that cafe almost everyday and I never...
Proximities: An Interview with Glen Helfand

Proximities: An Interview with Glen Helfand

Four years ago when I moved to San Francisco, I would have never predicted that one day I would be interviewing Glen Helfand.  In 2009, when I asked a classmate of mine at San Francisco Art Institute, “do you know Glen Helfand,” she responded, “oh...