San Francisco

SFO Opens Yoga Room

Just say ‘Om’ to the new yoga room at SFO © lyn tally Yesterday SFO opened the very first airport-based yoga room. Stressed out travelers are free to come in and practice independently. The room is open during operating hours of Terminal 2, where it is located. The new yoga room is bathed in calming blue [...]

Google Maps for Time Travelers

Google Maps ©Christine Rondeau Don’t you hate it when you travel back in time and get lost in old-timey San Francisco because the GPS on your iphone doesn’t work? Enter: Pastmapper. Pastmapper is a sort of Google Maps for historical locations (although right now it only covers San Francisco circa 1853) created by designer Brad [...]

Woman Spends 8 Days in Airport Due to Baggage Fee

Airport © indywriter Terri Weissinger, a native of Sonoma County, Calif., has suffered a new scale of airport indignity: Seeking to start a new life in Idaho, Weissinger was condemned to eight days in the limbo of the San Francisco International Airport–because she was unable to pay the fee her airline assessed for an additional [...]

San Francisco Kicks Off 5th Annual Cocktail Week

Bar Friends © glennharper Today marks the start of the 5th annual San Francisco Cocktail Week in the Bay Area of California. Cocktail Week offers an incredible array of cocktail parties, one-of-a-kind spirit, bar and cocktail classes, neighborhood cocktail crawls, culinary events, festive galas and more. One of the popular events is called Best of [...]

Undead Destinations

Bran Castle © Horia Varlan The recent pop culture obsession with vampires has led to a surge in fang tourism. Lonely Planet has compiled a list of the best places around the world to delve into the mystery of the undead. Explore ancient legends of beautiful Pontianaks– Indonesia’s version of a vampire–in their namesake city [...]

Photo of the Moment: Incredible Alcatraz, San Francisco

Snapping the Crazy Hills of San Francisco

BoingBoing points us to photographer Håkan Dahlström who snapped this interesting shot of the Russian Hill neighborhood in San Francisco: © Håkan Dahlström It’s simply a matter of perspective: Dahlström titled the camera to ensure that the cars (rather than the house) were level. Clever.

The Unseen Sea of San Francisco [Video]

Over the course of one year, photographer Simon Christen shot a series of photos around the San Francisco Bay Area. The result is this beautifully serene time-lapse video. It’s like the west coast counterpart to the Alone in New York video we recently Twittered about. Don’t miss this one in full-screen HD if possible. The [...]

Photo of the Moment: Ross Alley in Chinatown, San Francisco

© Mark Coggins “Originally home to gambling houses and brothels in the wild Barbary Coast days, Ross Alley is a very narrow throughway that has retained enough of its character to be featured in movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

36 Hours in San Francisco, California

The stores on Fisherman’s Wharf filled with shot glasses declare, “I left my heart in San Francisco.” Sadly, what many people see in the City by the Bay is little more than the trappings of tour buses and t-shirt vendors. But it doesn’t take much to venture away from the hawkers and to discover the [...]