Semi recent

War weighs heavily on Palestinian owner of Anaheim’s Knafeh Cafe (OC Register)

The case for saving Postmodernism (CityLab, Bloomberg)

Some OC restaurants are tacking on surcharges. Here’s what diners did about it (OC Register)

How Heritage Barbecue changed OC’s restaurant landscape—and beyond (OC Register)

Elon Musk is selling off Twitter’s cafeteria (Curbed)

Here's how the rich and famous get treated at S.F. restaurants (SF Chronicle)

Future of Berkeley’s famed communal hot tub up in steam after death of owner (Berkeleyside)

Design / urbanism

The case for saving Postmodernism (CityLab, Bloomberg)

A love letter to a Brutalist BART station (Curbed)

The ups and downs of livability rankings (Dwell)

Oakland’s newest French spot unearthed 1920s murals behind decades of wallpaper (Nosh)

Manhattanize Palo Alto (San Francisco Chronicle)

A peek inside the controversial ‘Flintstone House’ in Silicon Valley (Curbed)

An oral history of the parklet (Dwell)

These ceramists are kiln it (Curbed)

Mid-Market needs to find its heart to become a real neighborhood (Curbed)

Something’s afoot in the big city (Alta Magazine)

LGBTQ

The Stud is dead; long live the Stud (Curbed)

The rise and fall of Laguna Beach, a gay California hotspot (Curbed)

Gays in the woods (San Francisco Magazine)

25 small ways to make SF a better place (Curbed)

Heterosexuals should join police at the Pride parade—on the sidelines (SF Chronicle)

Future of Berkeley’s famed communal hot tub up in steam after death of owner (Berkeleyside)

Food

Persian pop-up Big Dill Kitchen wants to bring Iranian fare to Berkeley (Berkeleyside)

Here's how the rich and famous get treated at S.F. restaurants (SF Chronicle)

Welcome to the parklet era (Eater)

Raising a glass to an important, if unofficial, Masonic custom (California Freemason)

The Michelin diet (7x7 Magazine)

Loyal customers helped Oaklandia Cafe through the pandemic — and into a new location (Berkeleyside)

Slow streets are good for food business, and should stay put (Eater)

Humor / interviews / guides / et cetera

Elon Musk is selling off Twitter’s cafeteria (Curbed)

I miss a lot about pre-covid life, but mostly the bathroom in the Four Seasons lobby (Curbed)

A day in the life of Giants champion Hunter Pence (7x7)

Rent’s due: What to do if you get an eviction notice (Curbed)

I turned my bedroom into a minimalist cocoon—and now I can sleep (Curbed)

Should you move to San Francisco? (Curbed)

How not to freeze inside your Victorian apartment (Curbed)

Appearance

Google Pixel 6A review (in the challenging role of an Android user) (The Verge)