The world’s best jazz festivals

In spite of pop, punk, rap, country, R&B, metal, new wave, new world, and other new sounds rattling around in our brains, jazz — still America’s unique gift to the worl... Read More

A & E

Fall Arts Preview

MUSIC CLASSICAL Celebrating Michael Tilson Thomas’s 20th season, the San Francisco Symphony celebrates throughout September and beyond with an impressive lineup of concerts, ... Read More

A & E

Fashion, fun and philanthropy: The fall fundraising season begins

By Maryann LoRusso

Summer’s over. You’re back from that final vacation, you’ve finished that last novel, and your tan is finally fading. It’s back to work, back to school, bac... Read More

Political Animal

It’s still Willie Brown’s town: Personal politics run amuck at City Hall

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Rebecca Katz was no wallflower when it came to advocating for the animals of San Francisco. During her six years as executive director of Animal Care and Control (ACC), the city... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Change and loss in the city of gloss

By Michael Snyder

A day prior to writing this piece, I posted a status update on Facebook about the demise of a favorite Thai restaurant in my neighborhood — a pleasant, increasingly upscale distr... Read More

Real Estate

Where to go from here

Exploring what can be done to deal with city growth successfully

By John Zipperer

Final of a four-part series (Part 3, Part 2) When NPR’s comedy news quiz program Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me visited San Francisco in late July, host Peter Sagal joked, ... Read More

Travel/Sports

Freezing with my father at Candlestick Park

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Some of my best recollections of my father revolve around the one thing that really connected us: sports. I have no doubt, being a tremendous athlete himself, that my dad was hopin... Read More

Real Estate

The housing gap

Home prices and evictions have spurred a resistance movement to the city’s boomtime growth

By John Zipperer

Part three of a four-part series (Part 4, Part 2) Perhaps all of San Francisco’s heated political debates about growth would be solved if people could just live in those Goog... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Despite local politics, Lombard gets a pet store

Wolf & Lion brings boutique warehouse to the Marina

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

The reason 2460 Lombard Street in the Marina has been a vacant blight for many years rather than a Pet Food Express (PFE) replete with a $2 million renovation has nothing to do wit... Read More

A & E

Summer concerts in the city

From Macklemore to McCartney, great music abounds this season

By Maryann LoRusso

I love to attend concerts year round, but there’s just something about catching a show in the summertime that feels so good. It could be the memories of all those high school... Read More

Back Story

Finnochio’s: What a drag

By Ernest Beyl

Recently I wrote a column called “Broadway Kaleidoscope,” the Back Story about what I called the Golden Years of Broadway in North Beach. I said that in the 1960s — m... Read More

The shape-shifting city

The evolving face of San Francisco brings home one message: It’s always changing

By John Zipperer

This is the second of a four-part series exploring the growth of San Francisco.... Read More

Reynolds Rap

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

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

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

Let street festival season begin

By Lynette Majer

The traditional beginning of summer in most parts of the country is Memorial Day, but in San Francisco, it’s also our unique street festivals. We may see many of the same ven... 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

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