Mar 30
The second in our series of food reviews along San Bruno Ave in the Portola heads to the White Palace on the corner of Silver and San Bruno. It might not initially be obvious why we would choose to go to what seems to be just a plain old liquor store. But as soon as you walk …
Mar 30
Last night I attended a crime prevention meeting on San Bruno Ave. In response to some recent local incidents the San Francisco Community Empowerment Center (SFCEC) asked police officers from our Bayview station to speak to the community. We were honored with the presence of the station Captain, Paul Chignell along with five other officers. The …
Mar 30
Continuing the development of the blog we’ve now created a Twitter account where will be posting all new articles to the site and also a Facebook page. You may also have noticed we have added a calendar to keep you up to date on events. Please email us if you have an event you’d …
Mar 28
Yesterday I was complaining about the constant rain, and today the Sun blesses our neighborhood once more… If you have some great photos from around the Portola, please send them our way. Just email them to blog@portolaplanet.com. Oh and no comments about the state of my garden please, it’s a work in progress…
Mar 27
While researching a few things for the blog, I stumbled across a fantastic website that provides a map to view all the photographs that are publicly available from the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), http://www.oldsf.org/. Essentially two smart and very dedicated people (@danvdk and @ravejk) either manually or via some clever code associated each image …
Mar 27
It poured with rain last week when San Francisco Park representatives, our local supervisor David Campos and a small selection of weather faring locals came together to kick off the 21 million dollars worth of park improvements. But the weather didn’t dampen (groan) the event and there was a big round of applause as we …
Mar 26
I work a lot from home and my desk sits next to a window looking into the back yard. Sometimes it gets a little stuffy, so my wife is always telling me to “open the window!” and when I do, i’m often welcomed by the singing of the birds in the back yard. Today I …
