"The pandemic is boring as hell, but I didn't want to live like this," said @madwells22, who had seen her screen time creep up over the past year.
"I decided it was time to actually do something extreme about my smartphone addiction." sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…
According to a poll of 1000 adults in July 2020, 59% of them admitted they have been spending more time on their mobile phones since the pandemic began.
In April, another report found that the average user had an average screen time of 4.3 hours. sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…
Wells picked up “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World” by Cal Newport.
It encourages readers to focus online time on a few specific activities, "and then happily miss out on everything else.” sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…
The book also recommends kicking things off with a 30-day “digital declutter,” in which readers take a break from optional technologies.
For bird-watching enthusiasts and amateur naturalists across the Bay Area, backyard feeders have provided a sense of solace and a much-needed connection with the outdoors.
Since mid-November, scores of songbirds have died as a result of salmonellosis, a gut disease that is quickly transmitted when they gather at bird feeders or birdbaths. sfgate.com/local/article/…
The CDFW said bird rescue centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast and Sierra Nevada have been “inundated with calls” from residents who have discovered increasing numbers of sick or dead birds at their feeders. sfgate.com/local/article/…
The state of California launched a new program Friday that gives the residents the opportunity to get vaccinated by volunteering to help get others inoculated at sites across the state. sfgate.com/news/editorspi…
MyTurnVolunteer is an online tool that allows you to look for clinics and mass vaccine sites seeking help based on your zip code. sfgate.com/news/editorspi…
"If you sign up on the tool, you'll be able to register for a general support or medical positions, depending on your background," said Cristina Valdivia Aguilar, a spokesperson for California Volunteers.
Just as everyone was getting into sourdough kit starters, Agueda Ulloa was longing to create something that hit closer to home.
She quit her job at Krispy Kreme last summer to start a pop-up in Union City, where she bakes up to 100 dozen conchas a day. sfgate.com/food/article/E…
The pop-up has only been around for about seven months, but Ulloa has been making conchas ever since her childhood.
“It runs in my blood,” Ulloa said.
Ulloa developed a brioche-style recipe for the pastries she makes, though she also uses the original family recipe her grandfather employed at his bakery in Tlacuitapa, a small town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
She’s been a fervent critic of the event’s leadership’s resistance to diversity initiatives.
In 2017, she told leadership the percentage of Black people at Burning Man was embarrassing. (Black people accounted for only 1% of attendees that year). sfgate.com/subculture-eve…
“There were so many things about being at Burning Man that were beautiful." she explains, “and I had to make that space for myself in the midst of whiteness.” sfgate.com/subculture-eve…
A fatal attack on an 84-year-old Thai man in SF. A violent attack of an 91-year-old man in Oakland’s Chinatown. Another one, targeting a man at a San Leandro bank. Graffiti outside of a Chinese school in SF.
The issue has also been pushed into the national spotlight as celebrities have spoken out against the attacks.
Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu offered $25,000 for info leading to the arrest of the Oakland man who assaulted the 91-year-old man in Chinatown. sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…
Most of us have stepped off a bus or train at the wrong stop.
But what if a friendly face just told you that train stop was the right one, and all the signs were indecipherable, and cellphones didn’t exist, and you were three sheets to the wind? sfgate.com/local/article/…
In 1977, 49-year-old German brewery worker Erwin Kreuz blew his life savings on his first flight — a once-in-a-lifetime birthday trip to San Francisco.
As his flight from Frankfurt stopped to refuel in a small airport in Bangor, Maine, before continuing on to CA, a stewardess who had finished her shift told Kreuz to “have a nice time in San Francisco.”