At a meeting held March 14, 2013, at Moscone Recreation Center, a small group of neighbors gathered to hear about plans for a Sur la Table on Union Street in Cow Hollow. The event was very pleasant; executives from the gourmet housewares chain brought sandwiches and coffee and sh... Read More
In this month’s op-ed column, the Marina Community Association (MCA) gives a detailed and informative timeline of how the Recreation and Park Department’s plans for a Woodhouse Fish Co. restaurant on the Marina Green came about, and they criticize the Marina Times for... Read More
At a meeting of the Marina Merchants Association held in October 2012, two possible new tenants for Lombard Street, a pot club and a pet store, were on the agenda. Only one had people raising their voices in opposition, asserting what a negative influence it would have on the nei... Read More
A groundbreaking ceremony on November 13, 2012, signaled the beginning of a much-needed facelift for the landmark Metro Theater, which has been a boarded up blight on Union Street for nearly a decade. In February of 2012 the Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional ... Read More
scape•goat \skāp-gōt\ 1. A person made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. 2. Chiefly biblical. A goat let loose in the wilderness after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. On Oct. 14, 2003, lifelong Chicago ... Read More
Page Street has become the bane of my existence where bicyclists behaving badly are concerned. Driving home one recent afternoon, I stopped at a four-way sign, looked all directions, and proceeded into the intersection. Out of nowhere, a bicyclist flew through the stop sign to my... Read More
On Wednesday, June 20, Chris Bucchere – the bicyclist charged with killing a pedestrian in San Francisco’s Castro District on March 29 – pleaded not guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter. The very next day, I stepped into a crosswalk on Page Street and was nea... Read More