There’s a lot of amazing food in San Francisco’s Sunset district. Supervisor Joel Engardio tours and tastes some of the best cuisines found on Irving, Noriega, Judah, and Taraval Streets.
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Meet Jasmine Vaucresson. The Sunset resident won a citywide essay-writing contest for high school students recounting their neighborhood’s history and the meaning it has today. Her essay “Sand Turned Gold: The Warmth of the Sunset” was awarded a Fracchia Prize by the San Francisco Historical Society. Jasmine tells the story of the Sunset from when it was sand dunes to the many immigrants who arrived — including her mother — to make the Sunset what it is today.
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Remembering Mark Lim on the 20th anniversary of his death.
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I didn’t have a dad growing up, but now I have a father-in-law and I can recognize good fathers when I see one.
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A personal story of Joel Engardio’s relationship with Mark Lim, who died of liver cancer at age 31 in 2001.
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A short story with personal reflections on the terrible-to-be-gay year of 1992 and what it means to see presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband on the cover of Time magazine in 2019.
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A funny short story about going to the dentist and fielding a flood of interview requests from the New York Times, AP, Reuters, Forbes, Wired, CNN, NPR, BBC, CBS radio, ABC Channel 7 News, the local papers and news outlets from Australia to Sweden.
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