Summer in the city: Enjoy the outdoors

Let’s face it: We have frigid summers in San Francisco. But we still want to get outdoors and enjoy all that our beautiful environs have to offer. Even though the sun may shine a... 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

Art World

‘Tattoos in Japanese Prints’ at the Asian Art Museum

By Sharon Anderson

More than 60 works on loan from the museum of Fine Arts in Boston comprise the exhibition “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the Asian Art Museum, on display through Aug. 18. The ... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Uber and Lyft, Mohammed Nuru, Navigation Centers

Your letters and some updates on recent columns

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

My last three columns garnered correspondence from residents all over the city. From a formerly homeless man who wrote the most touching letter I’ve received on the topic, to ins... Read More

Films

Big-screen summer scene

By Michael Snyder

The summer movie season doesn’t care to wait until the official debut of summer later this month. The parade of midyear big-screen diversions got rolling on Memorial Day weekend,... Read More

Art World

San Francisco International Arts Festival comes to Fort Mason

By Lynette Majer

Fort Mason Center will host the San Francisco International Arts Festival for 11 days of performances from May 23 to June 2. The festival will feature 50 U.S. and 13 international ... Read More

Crime Beat

Bad reputation

San Francisco’s crime problem is making it famous

By John Zipperer

To steal from Joan Jett’s “victim of Circumstance,” San Francisco is “Just a victim of a bad reputation / I [got] no chance of shakin’.” The reputation in question is t... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Real reason to stop navigation centers: They don’t work

Success rate for permanently housing the homeless just 14 percent

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“I don’t want to obsess over one little piece of the system, because navigation centers do not exit people from homelessness, they’re a path towards that.” — Jeff Kositsk... Read More

Art World

‘Andy Warhol From A to B and Back Again’

By Sharon Anderson

From May 19 through Sept. 2, 2019, the SFMOMA will present the first retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol in 25 years. The critically acclaimed exhibition is an exclusive West ... Read More

A & E

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: ‘100 Years Without a Net’

By Anthony Torres

Rena Bransten Gallery is currently presenting “100 Years Without a Net,” a selection of paintings and works on paper in celebration of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th birthday.... Read More

Reynolds Rap

It’s time for Mayor Breed to sweep DPW boss to the curb

But does she have the guts to fire a fellow Willie Brown protégé?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!” —President Donald Trump to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter When bully in chief Donald Trum... Read More

Politics as Usual

San Francisco 2020

Life in the city after  the IPOs hit

By John Zipperer

You’ll be forgiven for rolling your eyes as I mention that the Economist Intelligence Unit recently reported on the 10 most expensive cities in the world. You already know we’r... Read More

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