‘Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox’

Now on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) through Aug. 11 is “Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox.” The exhibition is concerned with c... Read More

Wellness

Lyme disease: Growing awareness in the Bay Area

By Thalia Farshchian

Lyme disease has gained an increased awareness over the past several years as one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States with 329,000 new cases each year. ... Read More

Reader Survey

Speak up, Northside

Take part in our inaugural survey of what matters to you and help make San Francisco the best it can be

What are the problems that are harming quality of life in San Francisco? What is being done about them? To get insight into how the Northside specifically and the city in general a... Read More

Marination

The robots are coming

San Francisco isn’t immune to automation and AI

By Kevin Frazier

Resilience. It’s arguably the most important attribute any city can possess. So it comes as no surprise that San Francisco has tried to ready itself to withstand climate change, ... Read More

News Briefs

Rose Pak Subway Station?

An attempt to bestow the name of Rose Pak on the Central Subway’s Chinatown station has hit some bumps in recent months. District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin has proposed the namin... Read More

Wellness

Eating healthfully on the go

By Catherine Benton

June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month. Dedicated in 1991 to honor the height of the summer harvest, it is the best time of year for farmers’ markets and a great time ... Read More

News Briefs

Grocer Eyeing Union Street

Union Street could soon get a new grocery. Luke’s Local, which operates a store in Cole Valley, is in talks to take over the former Osha Thai location at 2033 Union Street. Distr... Read More

News Briefs

Lyft Bike Stations

Car ride-hailing company Lyft is expanding into the shared biking business, and it has proposed putting docks for dozens of electric and nonelectric bikes in the Marina. The compan... Read More

News Briefs

Power Shopping

Plans for the city of San Francisco to purchase PG&E assets look like they took a step further with the release of a report from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (... Read More

News Briefs

Earthquake Bond Vote

Supervisors Catherine Stefani and Sandra Fewer cosponsored a push by Mayor London Breed to put before city voters a $628.5 million bond to fund earthquake safety and critical servi... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and Figures

Third: the Bay Area has the nation’s third largest homeless population in the United States . . . Second: If Silicon Valley were a country, it would be the second-richest nation ... Read More

Police Blotter

Guns and cars: Tracking the latest crimes

Another auto burglary catch May 17, 7:10 p.m. Japantown Officers were conducting auto burglary surveillance when they witnessed some subjects driving a vehicle and casing various p... Read More

District 2 Supervisor

Beautifying District 2

By Catherine Stefani

San Francisco faces many urgent challenges: the homelessness crisis, growing mental health and substance abuse issues, and housing unaffordability. These issues are often the first... Read More

News Briefs

Quid pro quo

Under a new plan unveiled last month, in return for agreeing not to demand a refund if November 2018’s Proposition C gross receipts tax is overruled by the courts, businesses wou... Read More

News Briefs

Polk streetscape project unveiled

In early April, the city celebrated the end of the Polk Streetscape project, the two-year, $26.8 million effort to improve safety on the busy street. The city reports that on aver... Read More

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