The Telegraph Hill Gallery, at the corner of Grant and Greenwich, reopens its doors on Saturday May 20th with the exhibition ‘Retrofit 1.0’. This show features artists of the acclaimed Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto, housed in a former elementary school and boasting spacious, light-filled studios. This show, curated by Mel Day and Marianne Lettieri, explores the theme of revision in the studio process, in which the artist turns to older an older piece and rework

The plan to allow developers to pay less for affordable housing in the Divisadero Street Corridor is back at the Board of Supes Land Use Committee Monday/10. Here's the full article from 48 Hills

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park & its collaborators invite you to a CREATIVE EXCHANGE to re-imagine the visitor experience at its Maritime Museum. WHERE? SF Maritime Museum, seen by 300,000 visitors every year: 900 Beach St., SF, 94109. WHAT? • Envision how a new Museum experience can engage audiences in a current, creative and meaningful way. • Strengthen collaborative relationships between the Park the local community. WHY? Changing times remind us of ess

Start at the southwest corner of Union and Montgomery in front of Cadre, the framing shop at 301 Union (#1) (the location of the former Speedy’s market) to begin your self-guided walking tour of the Telegraph Hill Historic District. By the time you finish, you will have traversed some ten blocks and seen just about all of the Historic District’s approximately 100 buildings. Although this building is just outside the Historic District, Speedy's market was a fixture on the Hill