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The President-elect won’t give a damn. He’ll mock and insult you as sore losers. But if what you need to survive this nauseous inaugural weekend is a potent display of opposition to this lying blowhard, then join the crowds across the Bay Area. On and beyond the Golden Gate Bridge there will be a human […]

Bay seniors reveling in the current downpours will find their joys overflowing at the many waterfalls spilling down in local parks. High on the list is the 35-foot Carson Falls in Fairfax at the Pine Mountain trailhead along the Bolinas-Fairfax Road. Down the Peninsula near Pacifica,  there are 175 feet of streamlets along the Brooks […]

Bay seniors should appreciate one of the delicious results of the recent tempests – bumper crops of wild mushrooms. If you plan to go shrooming we recommend doing it with someone who knows the tasty from the toxic. ForageSF is very reliable and it has a few spaces left in their December hunts in West […]

Bay seniors, after yet another taste of Thanksgiving fowl, may think they tried every variation of turkey imaginable. I doubt, however, that many of you have ever carved a turkducken. This fabled bird sounds like something out of a Roman orgy – a duck inside a chicken inside a turkey. This year check out Drewes Brothers in […]

Bay seniors who want to avoid the tsunami of new technology are advised to move somewhere else. Did you know that they now make printers that print in three dimensions? It’s not some tech fantasy. In Montclair in Oakland the first store has opened where you can print out anything–toys, jewelry, dishware, decorations- in plastic. […]

Bay seniors with a taste for adventure – including Japanese frittatas, Ethiopian street food and bourbon and cornflake flavored ice  cream – might want to look into Edible Excursions. These walking tours of local foodie hoods offer tasting menus in the Mission (24th St. and 16th St. visits) Japantown, the Ferry Building, Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto […]

Bay seniors know real creativity is happening here, not in art or music studios or on stages, but in kitchens. The Geezer happened to be dining at State Bird Provisions the night it received the James Beard Best New Restaurant in the US award. The gimmick is inventive California cuisine served dim sum style off small […]

Bay seniors who subscribe to Isaiah Berlin’s credo to know more at the end of their lives than at the beginning, might want to consider the rich menu of classes available here. Osher Lifelong Learning operates programs in San Francisco, Marin and across the East Bay. Here’s a sampling of their limited but stimulating summer […]