San Francisco, CA

You can take a look at my original post to see some of the things that were planned to be regularly featured on this site. You’ll find that they’ve all been here regularly and I’d like to hope that you’ve been enjoying them. The goal of this site is to give you some inside information about things that you might want to see whether you’re a local here or a traveler who wants to act like one.

One of the things that wasn’t listed on that original post of things that belong on this site is event listing or calendar postings. I think that you can check some of the major spots for those on a regular basis and they can do a better job of telling you what there is to see and do than I can. But I’ve been getting some requests to add event listing as a feature of the site.

Since I don’t do posts here on weekends, I decided that Fridays would be a good day for a “what to do” post, giving you some information about what’s going on over the weekend. You can get out and do some things and not be missing out on what’s not happening here on the site! So, look forward to this Friday when you’ll get the first 451 Press post about what you might want to check out on a weekend here in San Francisco.

At a very basic level, this is a blog about San Francisco from an insider who loves the city and is happy to share it. It may contain all sorts of oddities and information about the city. But here are five things that you can be sure to expect from this blog on a regular basis:

1. My favorites. One of the best ways to get to know the truth about a city (or at least its partial truth) is to ask someone who lives there about their favorite places. You’ll get info on my favorite restaurants and bars, favorite neighborhood, and favorite people who live and work in the city.

2. Blogs and books. I hardly think that I’m the only resource in the city about the city. Nor do I think I’m the best. I’m happy to share information with you on where you can go to get other information about San Francisco. There’s lots of creative people here so there’s lots of spots to find this news.

3. Insider insights. I plan to give you a weekly sneak peek into what an insider thinks about something in San Francisco. Often, these will be tourist destinations that are worth checking out as an insider, but they could be anything about the city that you know only be living here.

4. What I Saw In San Francisco. This is going to be a weekly post in which I share with you the things that I saw during the previous work during the course of living a normal life in San Francisco. It might be a great sale somewhere or it could be the rantings of a stranger on the street. If I saw it, it’s fodder. You’ll see this on Mondays, starting next Monday, July 23.

5. Lists. Finally, you’ll get lots of lists. You can probably already tell that I like them. They’re a perfect format for sharing all kinds of things that I might forget to share otherwise. Like “Ten Places To Check Out In Golden Gate Park” or “Five Ways To Get Cheaper Rent In SF”. You’ll see lots of them – if you have any requests, you’re welcome to send them.

So, that’s it, five things that you can expect from me on a regular basis. It’s a commitment in writing. That’s practically a contract … from me to you, a commitment to provide you with insider information to make San Francisco more of home to you whether you’re from here or don’t even live here (yet!).

As you might know, this site was recently searching for a new city blogger to get its pages up and running. As you can see, that blogger is now here and ready to start sharing San Francisco’s inside information with you. Over the course of the next few days, I’ll post some more information about what you can expect to find on this site and why you won’t want to miss out on the information that will be offered here. In the meantime, you can learn a little bit more about me by visiting this page.

By the way, that photo up there is me (although I don’t have the colored hair anymore) and it’s there because the focus of this blog is going to be on shrinking down San Francisco into bite-sized pieces of information for you to digest.