The vacancy preservationists: David Chiu and North Beach cartel still making it tough to do business

At a cafe in Mill Valley, Jordan Angle opens a large binder containing a business plan for Tryst, the high-end restaurant and lounge that he and his partners want to open at 493 Br... Read More

Sky’s Buys

Hear Doggy ultrasonic toys

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I must admit I was skeptical when Steve and I came upon Hear Doggy ultrasonic toys at Pet Food Express — until I squeezed one from behind my back and Skylar and Blue started cock... Read More

Political Animal

Homeless dogs of Golden Gate Park: A tragedy waiting to happen

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 at 10:40 p.m., San Francisco police responded to a 911 call about a dog attack in progress at 25th Avenue and Lincoln Way at a homeless encampment near Go... Read More

The Wild Wild Web

With extortion-style ad sales, Yelp is barking up the wrong tree

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I co-host the Cooking with Ryan Scott show on KGO Radio (810 AM) Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m., and whenever we have chefs on as guests, review website Yelp inevitably comes up, and u... Read More

Reynolds Rap

There’s no front desk at Airbnb

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A couple of years ago we were visiting Los Angeles and our usual hotel was booked solid. At the last minute, we took a room at a motel on the border of ritzy Santa Monica and eclec... Read More

Are the San Francisco 49ers a bunch of thugs?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Denise York once told me the team wouldn’t sell their soul to the devil to win games, but in the Harbaugh era, I’m not so sure. In February of 2011, I penned an editor&... Read More

Sky’s Buys

Water-friendly collars and tags

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Somewhere deep in Skylar’s DNA there must be a champion Labrador retriever, because she can’t get enough of the water. Most of her collars — some leather, some with crystals,... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 11: A bed for Little Blockhead

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Hold on, to me as we go As we roll down this unfamiliar road And although this wave is stringing us along Just know you’re not alone Cause I’m going to make this place your hom... Read More

Yapping

Sherri Franklin: Founder and Executive Director, Muttville Senior Dog Rescue

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

How long have you been involved with animal rescue? 20 years. How did you get involved with rescue? I started volunteering at the SF/SPCA in the 1990s as a dog behavior volunteer, ... Read More

La Deliziosa Vita

Have the guts (to try cooking with guts)

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

During summers spent in Rhode Island, I remember awakening to the slightly rancid smell of tripe (cow stomach) boiling on the back burner. My Sicilian grandfather was a huge believ... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Missing in action: Where were the Telegraph Hill Dwellers after Broadway bombing?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Did you hear about the North Beach strip club worker and how a bomb he set off on Broadway led San Francisco investigators and federal agents to two much bigger fish with a huge ca... Read More

Sky’s Buys

Ask the Meatman: smoked beef bones, shanks and tendons

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

If your dog loves treats with a smoky flavor like Skylar does, it won’t be able to resist these. Ask the Meatman owner Craig Meyer uses only bones, shanks, and tendons from beef ... Read More

Mews Briefs

Mews Briefs: Frankenmutts, walking dead, and throwaway dogs

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

LABRADOODLE INVENTOR REGRETS CREATING FRANKENMUTT CRAZE While working as the puppy-breeding manager at the Royal Guide Dog Association of Australia during the late 1980s, Wally Con... Read More

Pit of the Month

Adopt an angel

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Angel’s name says it all — she’s truly a sweetheart of a dog. She is 1 year, 7 months old, a mix of Staffordshire terrier and possibly border collie (which would make a lot o... Read More

Yapping

Janet Song: California Pit Bull Rescue

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

How did you get involved with rescue and how long have you been doing it? I accidentally became a pit bull guardian and realized that all of the myths I had believed were untrue. I... Read More

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