2019 January Archive | SAN FRANCISCO GRAPPLINGSTARS

S.F. Kimpton Hotels, Launches A Social Experiment In Human Connecting

Rich with strong family ties and friendships, if you are a person who enjoys this, you should feel blessed. In our modern world, many don’t have what you possess. At least they say that they don’t. Surveys well-researched can be very revealing. According to a January 1, 2019 NBC News article, “The average person in…

San Francisco’s Financial District, It Is Neighborly (With Residents)

San Francisco’s Financial District in many ways reminds us of a commuter college campus. During the week it is comprised primarily of one population and on the weekend a completely different one. For those of you who lived in college towns or cities that house them, during the week the majority of the population on…

San Francisco’s Izakaya Sozai Restaurant, Noodles To Live For

Comfort foods? Would we really place noodles in that category? Maybe we should. Typically when we think of comfort foods, let’s be honest, they mostly are sweet, greasy, calorie filled, artery plugging, liver sand blasting and just plain taste good as heck. Their purpose is not to make us feel healthy. Just feel good. Forget…

San Francisco’s Night Of Ideas, Free Discussion, Performances, Readings And Civic Fun

Great ideas are rare. That was a famous line in a classic movie. Fortunately for us that movie occurred well over 40 years ago and things, especially around San Francisco and the Silicon Valley have clearly changed for the better. Much better. Brilliant new ideas are constantly swirling around more often than the Pacific Coast…

San Francisco’s Twin Peaks, Unique Lifetime Memory, Twice The Fun

You don’t need a beautiful actress to highlight and showcase San Francisco’s Twin Peaks, but it sure helps. There are a number of gorgeous women who starred in the various Twin Peaks movie and television franchises, like Ms. Peggy Lipton Jones below, and we are so glad for it. The original Twin Peaks: Fire Walk…

San Francisco’s ModCloth, Vintage Success, New World Acquisition

Small town memories are filled with mom and pop store purchases, warm conversations and special offers. Not only did you see the business owners at the store, you most likely relaxed with them at town picnics, parades and casually at the park. Often those memories are short lived and in the past because two things…

For That Morning Breakfast Fix, San Francisco’s Brenda’s French Soul Food

What type of breakfast you wake up to often depends upon how you are feeling, what your taste buds are screaming to you and how much you want to consume. It can also depend upon what part of the world you live in. When we visited Japan we will concede it took a little while…