FROM THE EDITOR · WHAT WE'VE BEEN KEEPING

Zareen's Opens a Fourth Kitchen is mid-soft-opening at her fourth kitchen in Sunnyvale, dialing in quality and service before the official launch. Olive Branch Roasters and the Two-Lot Theory of Coffee knows both growers by name and refuses to scale past two farms. Hand & Foot Tailoring and the Cantonese Hem Rule still hems pants for $14, the same as last year and the year before. The Tutor Room at 826 Valencia That Has Been Open Since 2002 is still tutoring at 3:15 p.m. on a Tuesday, just like every weekday since 2002. Marcus the Locksmith Who Will Not Open Your Apartment Without ID still checks ID before opening a door. The cheapest and slowest locksmith on Geary, on purpose. Rose Akiyama Throws Forty Bowls a Week. She Will Not Throw Forty-One. throws exactly forty bowls a week and has a fifteen-month waitlist. The 6 a.m. tai chi circle by Lake Merritt has held the same southwest corner of the lake every morning for sixteen years. The Mission's Last Mariachi Tailor hand-stitches another traje at 4:42 a.m. His children argue about the shop. All 63 issues →