2022 May

When food and pop culture collide, the result is simply delicious! L.A. Weekly Food Editor Michele Stueven takes us on a timely tour of the iconic Top Gun House in Oceanside, CA... Read More

Dining

Phil Rosenthal Is On Fire And It’s Delicious, Writes Michele Stueven

Phil Rosenthal is a man who knows, and loves, good food. It’s an exciting time for the self-described food, as his eponymous James Beard awarding-winning series Somebody Feed Ph... Read More

Pop Culture

Hardcore King — Brett Callwood Covers The Circle Jerks Reunion

L.A. Weekly Music Editor Brett Callwood covers the Circle Jerks’ hotly anticipated reunion tour and sits down with band co-founder Keith Morris for a chat about how one of the g... Read More

A & E

AAPI Heritage Month With Good Trouble‘s Sherry Cola

The Feds arrested a family of Tenderloin drug dealers. One was building a lavish home in Honduras.

In honor of May being AAPI Heritage Month, L.A. Weekly Culture Editor Lina Lecaro hosted a Q&A-style interview with Sherry Cola. Cola ((real name Sherriña Colad) po... Read More

A Tenderloin fentanyl dealer was constructing a mansion in Honduras with marbled bathroom walls and a porch held up by Roman columns.

Reynolds Rap

The mansion that fentanyl built

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“A significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco, perhaps as many as half, are from Honduras … we need to be mindful of the impact our interventions have. So... Read More

Left to Right: Detail of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wile; Detail of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. Photo: Courtesy Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

Art World

The Obamas come to San Francisco

By Lynette Majer

When the Obama por-traits were unveiled in February 2018 at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, they attracted record-breaking crowds and made internation... Read More

The battles over abortion are shifting into high gear. Photo: flickr.com/fibonacciblue

District 2 Supervisor

A direct attack on women’s rights and safety

By Catherine Stefani

When, as a sitting senator, Vice President Kamala Harris asked Brett Kavanaugh whether he could think of any laws that specifically governed a man’s body, he couldn’t. He stut... Read More

Facts and Figures

Number 1: San Francisco became the first city in the nation to offer free diapers to all families on public benefits . . . 441: Number of felony defendants as of May 6 whose cas... Read More

Briefly Noted

The biennial “Point in Time” count of the city’s homeless population was released in mid-May, and it showed a 15 percent drop in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5 percent d... Read More

Candid Camera

District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Mayor London Breed, and the San Francisco Police Department are cooperating on a plan that would allow police to temporarily access non-city-ow... Read More

Crime Update

In an update on Northside crime year-to-date through May 8, Northern Station police report that there were increases in the categories of rape (up 66.7 percent), assault (61.5 per... Read More

Mayor London Breed and other dignitaries, including Supervisor Catherine Stefani (seated, right), announce the opening of Francisco Park. Photo: Jim Watkins/SF Rec and Park

Francisco Park Opens

They say ‘talk is cheap,’ but increasingly, it’ll cost you

For six decades, Russian Hill’s Francisco Reservoir lay dormant, unused and surrounded by fencing. That prime location at Bay and Hyde streets is now the new 4.5-acre Francisco ... Read More

Politics as Usual

Giving up on free speech