I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.
There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.
San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.
There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.
As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.
San Francisco is not a boutique - it's a center of commerce.
Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.
I initially moved to San Francisco to become a research associate for one of the top young heart surgeons in the country. Everything that I learned in that position is that skills, talent, and expertise are transferable.
