Mayor Breed Honors North Beach Legend Al’s Attire I love nice clothing of all sorts, but for me there’s nothing quite like a good pair of shoes. No other single element of style makes more of a statement—or inspires the same level of loyalty among the fashion inclined—than … Read the rest
Bringing It Back: Al’s Attire Is A Godsend For Fashion Restoration For me, well-made clothing qualifies as one of the great pleasures of life. I’m not sure why that came to be, exactly. It may go back to watching my father suit up for the workday; having served in the Air … Read the rest
Green Shoes And Nostalgia: An Afternoon At Al’s Attire Clothes are a very personal matter, and it’s obvious that some are just more interested in fashion than others. But in my experience, even the most disinterested dresser typically has one or two favorite items of clothing. It might be … Read the rest
North Beach’s Al’s Attire Reopens With A Flourish After over three months under a mandated shelter-in-place order, San Franciscans are eager to get back to their normal lives. And it can’t happen quickly enough for Al Ribaya, who has operated North Beach’s Al’s Attire on Grant Avenue … Read the rest
Lockdown In SF: Protect Yourself, Protect Small Business “May you live in interesting times.” -Chinese Proverb The transformation that we’ve undergone in San Francisco in the last 13 days has been jarring, to say the least. With the exception of those few blithe souls who believe they breathe … Read the rest
My Favorite Shirt, And Other Reasons You Should Visit Al’s Attire As much as the neighborhood has changed, North Beach is still crowded with creative types. You can’t swing a dead cat in these parts without hitting a poet or a painter or a chef, or maybe knocking over someone’s guitar … Read the rest
It’s All About The Kids: Bummer & Lazarus, A Dog Musical It’s a classic San Francisco story. Nearly as celebrated as their sometime companion Emperor Norton, Bummer and Lazarus were a pair of stray dogs that wandered the streets of the city’s rough-and-tumble Barbary Coast in the early 1860’s. As the … Read the rest
The Salesian Club Crab Feed: North Beach’s Biggest Indoor Party North Beach has always been a place unto itself. San Francisco’s most storied neighborhood, today it remains a place of anomalies, of quaint anachronisms and jarring contradictions. A cloistered little village in the middle of one of America’s busiest cities, … Read the rest
Seasonal Plumage And Al’s Attire: The Suit Arrives It’s undeniable: there’s just something about the pleasure of wearing new clothes. Anyone who has ever been on an important interview (or an equally crucial date) can attest to the truth of the cliché. Clothes do make the man, and … Read the rest
Suiting Up At Al’s Attire: The Boots Arrive Clothes are a funny thing. As humans, we collectively spend an awful lot of time thinking about the various items we wear on our bodies. Clothes make the man, they say, and there is undeniably some truth to it. In … Read the rest