Meet Your Neighbors

San Francisco’s Columbarium – where you can truly leave your heart

Steven Short — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:55:25 +0000

Oh, how the residents of San Francisco love their city! So often they’ll say, “We never plan to leave here. Never!” That’s a great sentiment, but the reality is that nearly everyone will someday have to leave this place, because there are no public cemeteries within the city limits.

Meet Your Neighbors: Cooking up three decades of school lunch

Audrey Dilling — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:54:17 +0000

If you listen to KALW regularly, you might have noticed that every day, we announce the school lunches in the San Francisco Unified School District. What you might not know is that KALW studios are actually located inside a San Francisco High School. In this story from our archives, KALW’s Audrey Dilling followed the former head lunch lady here in the school cafeteria and brought back Gowana Keys’ reflections on nearly three decades of serving school lunch.

Inside the creative minds at the SF Writers' Grotto

Ben Trefny — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:01:46 +0000

The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto is not a grotto, really. A grotto is a cave … or, something like a cave. This is just a floor in a nondescript office building: 31 offices surrounding a conference room, where a few dozen people can sit somewhat comfortably. From the hallways, each office door looks about the same. What makes this place special, though, is what’s behind each door.

Meet Your Neighbors: Batting lessons from a pro

Ben Trefny — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:52:06 +0000

To many people in the Bay Area, the city of Burlingame is just a city straddling the 101, just south of San Francisco International Airport. As you drive by, you might see industrial warehouses and business parks- nothing too distinctive.

Temescal in a time of change

Artjoms Konohovs — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:38:34 +0000

In many ways, the Bay Area is still struggling to recover from the housing market crisis. Although some housing prices are rising, only a few neighborhoods have returned to the peaks reached in 2006. And most of them are in Silicon Valley. Richard K.