San Francisco Exploratorium’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Fun Time Interactive  Science Museum

San Francisco Exploratorium’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Fun Time Interactive Science Museum

The Exploratorium isn’t just for tourists you know. Located in Pier 15, along the San Francisco waterfront, it’s the perfect destination combined with a stroll along the Embarcadero and a snack at the nearby Ferry Building. The Exploratorium isn’t your ordinary stand and stare museum. Most exhibits are interactive, suitable for bored children and photo-ops….

IN THE HEIGHTS: convivially  buoyant film radiating with love

IN THE HEIGHTS: convivially buoyant film radiating with love

Lin-Manuel Miranda once again shatters stereotypes with “In the Heights“, a feel-good tribute to the Latino immigrant experience in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights.The 2006 play of the same name started Miranda’s meteoric rise to fame, awards swirling in orbit. Being a scripturient, he has earned a ridiculous amount of accolades to date,…

The Dry: Film Review

The Dry: Film Review

The San Francisco Film Festival presented the North American premiere of The Dry, a genuinely entertaining mystery/drama/who-done-it set in a fictional drought-ridden Australian town, a very dry town. The film is based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, starring the eternally handsome Eric Bana as Federal Agent Aaron Falk, returning to his hometown after twenty years to…

The CULT of KRINGLE
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The CULT of KRINGLE

KRINGLE: WISCONSIN’S POORLY KEPT SECRETNo matter where you live there’s probably a favorite local food, a treat that expats wax rhapsodic about. Besides being America’s Dairyland, Wisconsinites, known as Cheese Heads, love their cheese (duh), beer, Chubs (fish), and bratwurst. Then there is the Kringle. WHAT THE HECK IS A KRINGLE?Step into the way-back machine…

San Francisco Oddball Events
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San Francisco Oddball Events

Every San Francisco tourist brochure sends visitors to Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown. Yawn. Instead, you could be marching in the Saint Stupid’s Day Parade or whacking strangers in a giant pillow fight. Highlighted here are five events mostly unknown to locals, sure to provide laughs and photo-ops galore.  VALENTINE’S DAY PILLOW FIGHT: February 14 Perhaps…