Halloween in my neighborhood
While some of the local bloggers decided to get together and do a Halloween photoshoot in the City, I elected to stay home instead and go to bed early so I could be in shape for my annual garage sale

Watson Twins
The other day, I turned on the TV and happened to catch a little extract of this song (above) on PBS. Almost instantly, I liked the sound of the band, the vocals, the lyrics. 5 minutes later, I was up from the couch and looking online for more info and to see if I could download the song on iTunes (my iPod is forever hungry for new music!). I was pleased to see that this band has recorded several albums already.A little research informed me that Sun Studio (featured above) is the very same location where artists like young Elvis, Johnny Lee and many others recorded their

Fall is here!
Nothing unusual about that, but in San Francisco, when it rains ...

Blue Angels in San Francisco
Every year, around mid-October, the Blue Angels return to San Francisco to put on a couple of air shows for Fleetweek.And like every year, as soon as people hear the planes, the huge, endless debate about whether or not the planes should be invited back resumes. One the one hand, you have those who a

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
"For the past nine years, Warren Hellman [local investment banker] has been giving the Bay Area a wonderful present: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. With fantastic musicians like Emmy Lou Harris, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Hazel Dickens, and countless more, Warren has put on concerts enjoyed by h