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Saturday: Celebrity Neighbor Will Lead Fun Photowalk on Bernal Hill

Neighbor Markus lives in Bernal Heights and works at Flickr, the venerable and recently revitalized online photo service. Actually, Neighbor Markus played a leading role in that revitalization. That explains why Bernal Heights has made so many cameo appearances in … Continue reading

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Tonight! Special “Apocalypse Edition” Solstice Sword Dancing

It’s a new day, and the solstice, and — guess what! — the world has not come to an end. Yet. To celebrate all that, the annual solstice Sword Dance will happen tonight at 9 pm, on the plaza at the … Continue reading

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Open Studio This Weekend at Recycled Glassworks

As if Bernalwood’s Last Minute Locavore Christmas Gift Guide didn’t provide enough inspiration, Neighbor Lauren is having a last-last-minute open studio event at her Recycled Glassworks workshop on tony Bonview Street this weekend: All my products are made in Bernal, … Continue reading

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Tonight: Winter Celebration (and Jazz) at the Bernal Library

Bernal Heights Library manager Melissa Gooch apologizes for the late notice, but she invites one and all to attend the library’s Winter Celebration tonight at 6:30 pm: Come join your neighbors for holiday festivities at the Bernal Heights Library. Upstairs … Continue reading

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Tuesday: Come Celebrate Bernalwood’s Forgotten Anniversary

In the grand Bernalwood tradition, we completely flaked this blog’s anniversary, yet again. It happened on November 28, exactly two years to the day after Bernalwood published our very first, very unpropitious post. Now we are two years older, not much … Continue reading

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Thursday: Celebrate the Season During the 2012 Cortland Holiday Stroll

In Bernal Heights, the legend is handed down from generation to generation: Once upon a time, a proud race of druids lived in the Dominion of Bernalwood. Each year during late autumn, our ancient Bernal ancestors would gather on the … Continue reading

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Fabulous Raffle with Glamorous Prizes to Benefit Library Art

Miss Darcy from Heartfelt on Cortland invites all the Citizens of Bernalwood to buy  tickets in a star-studded raffle to benefit the Bernal Heights Library Art Project: We are selling tickets for the raffle that will be drawn on Thursday, … Continue reading

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Grand Opening for the New, Expanded Succulence, Saturday

Four Star Video has gone to the great disc-return slot in the sky, but shop owners Amy and Ken are having a grand opening for their new, expanded Succulence store tomorrow, November 17. Amy brings the details: We’ve been working … Continue reading

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Benefit Walkathon and Silent Auction for Paul Revere School This Weekend

Neighbor Richard is spreading the word about a benefit this weekend for Bernal’s Paul Revere School: This Saturday is the big annual fundraiser for Paul Revere School, a pre-K through 8th-grade Spanish Immersion and English public school in Bernal Heights, … Continue reading

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BOO! Haunted Garage! On Bessie Street! TONIGHT!

Neighbor Annelise is hosting a sinister event for fearless trick-or-treaters of all ages, TONIGHT on Bessie Street: We will be hosting a small but awesomely weird and beautifully homemade HAUNTED GARAGE at our house at 25 Bessie Street.  Wed. 5-9pm.  … Continue reading

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Halloween on Cortland for Your Little Monsters Starts at 4pm

Late notice on this (not my fault!), but the Bernal Business Alliance will host their annual Halloween Stroll on Cortland this evening. It’s intended to be kid-friendly, so bring your little monsters to see and be seen — and scoop … Continue reading

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SF Chronicle Discovers Rock Bar, Concludes It Rocks PLUS: Halloween Party Tomorrow

Bernalwood has long known that the glamorous and geologically-themed Rock Bar, on 29th Street at Tiffany in the La Lengua Autonomous Zone, is a rather delicious place to enjoy a cocktail. Now the San Francisco Chronicle has come to a … Continue reading

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Today! Free Pumpkin Carving at The New Wheel

The newfangled New Wheel bicycle shop is having a free pumpkin carving this afternoon, and you’re invited. Miss Karen from New Wheel says: We are having a fabulous pumpkin carving event at The New Wheel on Monday from 4-8 pm. Carving … Continue reading

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