Desiree Ramirez

Michael Callahan-Dudley, 25. Customer service manager/student.

“What other form of public transportation allows you to grab a ham-and-cheese croissant if you miss breakfast, or unwind with a beer on your way home? None,” says Michael Callahan-Dudley about commuting on the Larkspur ferry. A customer-service manager at Central Payment Corporation in Larkspur, Callahan-Dudley takes the L Taraval from his Sunset neighborhood down to the Embarcadero, hops on the 7:45 a.m. ferry and spends 35 minutes riding across the waves to get to work each day, often catching the last of the sunrise—and sometimes the sunset over the Pacific on his way home.

Earth Day—what better date to acquaint yourself with SF’s most eco-conscious shopping, sipping and snacking?

While our level of greenliness might not quite rival, say, Portland’s, we’re still way ahead of the eco-friendly curve: SF abounds with fresh-and-local food, mass transit, fair-trade coffee and organic clothing and home accessories.

Actress Cybill Shepherd gets back in the saddle again.If you’re one of those people who gauge a story’s tenor based on its first few lines, we’d like to turn your attention to the title of Cybill Shepherd’s 2000 memoir, Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, which, in no uncertain terms, accurately represents the now-58-year-old’s candor in the pages that follow.

Lost in (cyber) space? Six Bay Area letterpresses are staging a pen-and-paper revival with their custom designed stationery.1. MONKEY BUSINESS
These personalized wood-type note cards by Paper Monkey Press in Berkeley are hand set in a 100-year-old antique press, and with new ink colors like Caribbean Blue (shown here) and Merlot, they’re hard to resist. $25/set of 25; papermonkeypress.com

2. GET LUCKY