Disaster relief for fire-affected businesses

Mayor Mark Farrell drew upon the Small Business Disaster Relief Fund in late March to help seven businesses that were affected by a four-alarm fire in North Beach. The fund allows ... Read More

City at Large

The positive approach to policing

Northside native Joseph Engler takes command of Northern Station

By John Zipperer

Everyone is complaining about crime in San Francisco, so if you’re one of the people who wears a uniform dedicating you to doing something about that crime, there is a special we... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

The sixth annual Ernesto’s: Best of North Beach awards

By Ernest Beyl

Who would have imagined it? The Ernesto’s — six years! These annual Best of North Beach awards have taken on a life of their own. When I started the Ernesto’s, I was just loo... Read More

Reynolds Rap

The mean streets of San Francisco

Even some homeless people are shocked by rampant violence and mental illness

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I’ve written extensively about the need to bring back locked facilities and court-ordered treatment for the severely mentally ill — those who can’t take care of themselves an... Read More

Art World

April: A month for art lovers

By Lynette Majer

Get your art on this month with a variety of art fairs across the city. Start with the Spring Open Studios (April 21–22) at Hunter’s Point Shipyard and Islais Creek Studios, wh... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Getting personal with public works

By Michael Snyder

Call it the time-lapse effect. I go in and out of San Francisco and Los Angeles in roughly two-to-three-month cycles, and due to that lifestyle I see things change in strange and u... Read More

Travel with your Dog

After the devastating fires, wine country is open for business

Part 2: The Mendocino Coast to Marshall

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

REJUVENATE AT THE STANFORD INN BY THE SEA Just up the road from the spectacular Little River Inn is the Stanford Inn Eco-Resort (44850 Comptche Ukiah Rd., Mendocino, 800-331-8884, ... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Delicious crab cakes and more in beautiful Bodega Bay

By Patty Burness

Once you’re off Highway 101 and headed west to Bodega Bay, the drive is through open farm and ranch land filled with orchards and vineyards. Then it’s over the hills to the coa... Read More

Real Estate Reporter

The off-market sales option

By John Zipperer

IS AN OFF-MARKET DEAL RIGHT FOR YOU? We’ve all heard the stories from recent years about homes selling within days or even hours of going on the market. That might sound like a s... Read More

Enter Stage Left

People behaving badly: Revelers go blah!

By Evalyn Baron

I’ll never forget that particular St. Patrick’s Day afternoon in New York years ago when I saw inebriated teenage boys pissing on the north wall of the Metropolitan Museum of A... Read More

Home & Garden

That leaky kitchen faucet

By Julia Strzesieski

Probably nothing in your kitchen gets as much use as your kitchen faucet — arguably the most functional and utilitarian piece of equipment in the house. A leaky faucet is probabl... Read More

MomSense

Navigating kindergarten decision time

By Liz Farrell

For many, March means the start of spring, college basketball, and this year, a few more inches of snow in Tahoe. But for parents with children hoping to enter kindergarten in the ... Read More

Wellness

Memory: The key to keeping with it

By Thalia Farshchian

It is estimated that 24 million people around the world suffer from dementia, and this number is predicted to double every 20 years until at least 2040. Brain conditions are not li... Read More

Movie Reviews

Panther power and subversion

By Michael Snyder

It’s been a few weeks since the release of the incredibly enjoyable, wildly kinetic, and unquestionably groundbreaking superhero movie Black Panther, the latest addition to what�... Read More

Art World

Asian Art Museum asks life’s biggest questions in Divine Bodies

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum’s exhibition Divine Bodies (March 9–July 29) will feature Buddhist and Hindu figurative sculpture from 1,500 years ago. Seventy large-scale historical scu... Read More

2018 March