Chill out in Catalina

If you’re out to lose the 24/7 stress, here’s a remedy: Head straight to Catalina. You’ll find this beautiful island just off the Long Beach coast at the end of an hour-long ... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Truckin’: The food truck revolution is over … and the food trucks have triumphed

By Michael Snyder

Remember when a food truck was a giant van transporting groceries to your local supermarket? Or a Meals-on-Wheels delivery service for the ill or disadvantaged? Or a Good Humor tra... Read More

Real Estate

Going green: Not just for energy saving anymore

By Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg

There is more and more talk about “off the grid,” “going green,” and “energy efficiency” these days. It applies to cars, appliances, devices, an... Read More

Real Estate Investor

Micro apartments: New but not new

Small units are one way to deal with a popular and dense city

By John Zipperer

When I moved to Chicago as a twentysomething, I knew the neighborhood I wanted to be in: the obviously titled Lakeview a few miles north of downtown. Friends of mine already lived ... Read More

Real Estate Today

Multiple offers follow summer cooling

By Carole Isaacs

Here we are in July, and there is talk of a cooling in the real estate market. San Francisco continues to be different. So what does a softening or cool-down really mean here? Firs... Read More

Home & Garden

Pest management and a healthy garden

By Julia Strzesieski

The benefits of choosing a less-toxic approach for pest control are plentiful: a more healthful home for you, your kids, and pets; an ecologically balanced garden where less pest c... Read More

The Tablehopper

Corey Lee’s latest venture, In Situ, is like culinary art

By Marcia Gagliardi

SOMA As if the reopening of SFMOMA wasn’t exciting enough, chef Corey Lee’s (Benu) ambitious concept In Situ (151 Third Street, 415-941-6050, insitu.sfmoma.org) is now ... Read More

The Best of Books

Best sellers: Marina Books Inc.

By Brian Pettus

BEST SELLER LIST: City of Thieves: A Novel, by David Benioff (paperback) 111 Places in San Francisco That You Must Not Miss, by Floriana Peterson (paperback) Barbarian Days: A Sur... Read More

Caring For Our Kids, Family Matters

Summer safety tips

By Liz Farrell

Summer is such a wonderful time for children to savor a more relaxed schedule with time to enjoy outdoor activities. With that comes a challenge for parents, especially with younge... Read More

Movie Reviews

Fording the midsummer mainstream

By Michael Snyder

The summer barrage of action-driven, special-effects-laden epics and other buckets of box office bait is as inevitable as a chilly San Francisco night in July. Meanwhile, what of t... Read More

Enter Stage Left

The bee’s knees — or my knees-érables

By Evalyn Baron

I saw an X-ray of my right knee recently, and the poor cartilage-free joint has so many bone spurs, it needs to go galloping off into the sunset, wearing a jaunty cowboy hat for em... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

Edsel Ford Fung, Zeppelin Wong, and a Chinatown jook joint

By Ernest Beyl

One of the oldest restaurants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Sam Wo, took great pride in featuring “the rudest waiter in the world.” His name was Edsel Ford Fung �... Read More

Marina-Cow Hollow Insider

Feeling good and doing good at the beer garden

By Lynette Majer

BREWS FOR THE CAUSE Have you discovered the pop-up outdoor beer garden in Ghirardelli Square (900 North Point Street)? If not, get thee hence. It’s a perfect way to spend the... Read More

Back Story

The San Francisco private eye and the Maltese falcon

By Ernest Beyl

Authors have always loved to write about San Francisco and have set the action of their novels in the city. A few that come to mind are McTeague by Frank Norris; A Girl of Forty by... Read More

A & E

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

By Sharon Anderson

All you have to do is hear the name, or read it on a page, and a whole world opens up before your eyes. A vast, mysterious world, unlike any other in the history of cinema. — Mar... Read More

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