Marina Times

BACK TO THE BALLOTS FOR HOUSING VOTES

A new mayoral-supervisor disagreement will result in City Hall throwing two competing affordable housing measures on the ballot. One is Supervisor Jane Kim’s plan to increase... Read More

News Briefs

SUPER BOWL TRANSIT CHANGES

The Super Bowl will be played down in Santa Clara, but the fan gathering for Super Bowl City downtown the week before the Feb. 7 big game will be here in San Francisco at the end o... Read More

Business, Finance

Watch your mailboxes

’Tis the season — important tax documents arrive

By Jesus Guevara

If in doubt, don’t throw it out. Taxpayers should remember these words when a document shows up in their e-mail or traditional mailbox and they wonder if they will need it to... Read More

The Tablehopper

Say, ‘Qui’ at Le Marais Bakery and ‘Come to Mama!’ at Black Bark BBQ

By Marcia Gagliardi and Dana Eastland

WATERFRONT/FISHERMAN’S WHARF Love croissants? Then you should visit the new location of Le Marais Bakery (900 North Point Street) in Ghirardelli Square. The small, 500-square-foo... Read More

Calendar

Year of the Monkey arrives

One of the world’s great parades hits town

There will be little time for city workers and residents to rest after the Super Bowl hoopla dies down. Later this month, the Chinese New Year Parade takes place in downtown San Fr... Read More

Police Blotter

The latest reports of people behaving badly

If you track the incidents of crime in San Francisco, the statistics reported through the middle of 2015 won’t make you happy. From July 2014 through July 2015, citywide viol... Read More

Community

Tackling the affordability crisis in S.F.

By Aaron Peskin

Your Humble Columnist Thanks to the editors of the Marina Times for granting me a little corner of this fine periodical in my third term as District 3 supervisor. My intent is to s... Read More

Real Estate

The ‘China factor’ in American real estate

By Frederick Kuo

From Sydney to London, from luxury Manhattan condos to palatial Los Angeles mansions, the ubiquitous Chinese buyers have made their mark pushing the envelope on rising housing pric... Read More

The Best of Books

Best-selling at Books Inc.

By Brian Pettus

Books Inc. best-seller list 111 Places in San Francisco That You Must Not Miss, by Floriana Peterson (paperback) City of Thieves, by David Benioff (paperback) The Sense of an Endi... Read More

The Tablehopper

It’s a new year, which means new things to eat

By Marcia Gagliardi and Dana Eastland

MARINA Things keep percolating in the Marina. Opening in the former Yuzu in mid-January will be The Gipsy Darling (3347 Fillmore Street), a New American restaurant that is a family... Read More

Finance

Try these tax tips to save money, boost refund

By JESUS GUEVARA

Taxpayers still have time left to influence their tax future. Many taxpayers can do something to lower their tax liability with these tax tips. 1. TO SAVE MONEY, SAVE MONEY One way... Read More

Community

2016 challenges, Peskin, and more

Answers to your questions

By MARK E. FARREL

What is the status of the Lombard Street project? Lombard Street is one of the main gateways to San Francisco. A few years ago I kicked off a community process to reenvision Lombar... Read More