The 113th Dipsea Race Arrives on June 9th: Who Will Best the Field in One of the Most Competitive Editions of This Legendary Race?

The 113th Dipsea Race Arrives on June 9th: Who Will Best the Field in One of the Most Competitive Editions of This Legendary Race?

Paddy O’Leary, a 35-year-old oncology scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, won the 112th Annual Dipsea Race in June 2023, claiming his first career Dipsea win one year after he finished a closed second to 2022 winner Eddie Owens, who was unable to...
Zócalo Public Square: With Its Focus on Education, Health Care, and Gun Control, California Creates a Gold Standard for Longevity

Zócalo Public Square: With Its Focus on Education, Health Care, and Gun Control, California Creates a Gold Standard for Longevity

Come to California if you want to live. That’s Joe Mathews’ New Year’s suggestion for a new state slogan. “California is losing population for the first time since it became a state,” he writes. “The cause of the problem is not people...
Feel the 94941 Love: WorldAtlas Shines a Light on ‘7 Picture-Perfect Towns in Northern California’

Feel the 94941 Love: WorldAtlas Shines a Light on ‘7 Picture-Perfect Towns in Northern California’

We wake up every morning with pure joy to shout to the hills about the amazing town we get to live in and celebrate. But it’s pretty cool when someone does it for us! In a WorldAtlas piece focusing on “7 Picture-Perfect Towns In Northern California,”...
SFGate: An Insider’s Guide to Mount Tamalpais Hiking, Camping and Beyond

SFGate: An Insider’s Guide to Mount Tamalpais Hiking, Camping and Beyond

Let’s get this out of the way at the outset: if you are a lifelong Mount Tam diehard/know-it-all, knowledgable of every nook and cranny of the brilliance that is the Sleeping Lady, the watershed, trails, campgrounds, incredible hiking and biking and historic...