The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

1. The Wedding Party, by Jasmine Guillory (paperback) 2. Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, by Celeste Ng (paperback) 3. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (hardcover) 4. A Wom... Read More

Weekend Traveler

El Dorado County: Gold country splendor

By Patty Burness

Nestled in the Sierra Nevada’s historic Gold Rush region, El Dorado County (Spanish for “the gilded one”) is a year-round playground — ski and snowboard in winter; enjoy be... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Anon: Fueling the burn from beach to Black Rock and beyond

By Michael Snyder

More than 30 years after Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an eight-foot-tall figure out of wood and set fire to it on San Francisco’s Baker Beach to mark the night before t... Read More

Real Estate Reporter

The housing lottery

By John Zipperer

MIDYEAR MARKET UPDATE The economy remains strong, as does housing. Sounds simple enough, right? But the interesting stuff is in the details. Leslie Appleton-Young and Jordan Levine... Read More

MomSense

Summer lessons learned

By Liz Farrell

It’s hard to believe in just a few short weeks school will be starting again. Summer always seems to come and go like the blink of an eye, and it feels like the older our kids ge... Read More

Films

Love and loss with Anton Yelchin

By Michael Snyder

Love, Antosha is a forthright, detailed documentary about the short, incandescent life of actor Anton Yelchin, and it’s a heartbreaker. Directed by Garret Price, the movie uses c... Read More

Art World

Richard Prince: ‘High Times’ at the Gagosian Gallery

By Sharon Anderson

Richard Prince’s “High Times” paintings will be on exhibit at the Gagosian through Aug. 23. These whimsical, color-saturated character studies are the end result of years of ... Read More

The Tablehopper

New openings in the Marina, and Perry’s on Union turns 50

By Marcia Gagliardi

The Marina gets a new wine bar, and get ready to celebrate Perry’s on Union’s 50th birthday for the month of August, plus happy hour news, and the Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf ... Read More

Not to Miss

Summer fun in the city: August events

There’s an ill-conceived notion that nothing happens in the city during the summer because everyone is on vacation. Even if that were true, there are still others coming to visit... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

$1,200: monthly rent for a bunk bed in a dormitory-style setting at PodShare’s San Francisco housing . . . $628.5 million: amount of a bond for earthquake safety and emergency re... Read More

News Briefs

Crime update

By John Zipperer

The auto burglary scourge continues. From Jan. 1 through July 14, there were 2,791 auto burglaries on the Northside, according to Northern Station. For the same time period last ye... Read More

News Briefs

Gig economy targeted

By John Zipperer

At the heart of San Francisco’s tremendous and controversial growth over the past decade has been tech-fueled companies that rely on cheap and on-demand employees to do much of t... Read More

News Briefs

Neighbors upset by late-night taco time

By John Zipperer

Marco Mejia saw a perfect opportunity: Late-night patrons coming out of bars around Union and Buchanan Streets. They’re a bit drunk, quite a bit hungry. His solution of parking a... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Dignity through accountability

Austin’s Community First Village knows the homeless aren’t helpless

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s 98 degrees on a June day in Austin, Tex., but the humidity makes it a balmy 118. I’m sitting on a shaded bench waiting for Alan Graham, founder of Community First Village,... Read More

Dining

Perry’s celebrates 50 fabulous years

By Julie Mitchell

Like any city, San Francisco is full of landmarks and traditions. The Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid, and even newcomer Salesforce Tower, are all icons th... Read More

2019 July