Issue December 2019

News Briefs

Facts and Figures

10 years: local voter turnout in November’s election was the lowest in a decade . . . 35 percent: increase from 2017 to 2018 in the number of complaints about feces on city stree... Read More
News Briefs

Central Subway Relief

Small businesses impacted by construction of the Central Subway are getting a boost from the city as the result of a package of measures announced in mid-November by Mayor London B... Read More
News Briefs

Crime Update

On Nov. 15, a phone theft on the Northside resulted in reports of a possible carjacking and led to an extended police chase and an injury to the victim. The incident began when the... Read More
News Briefs

Detox Center Questioned

The Marina Harbor Detox (289 Marina Blvd.) is a drug addiction treatment center that reportedly opened without proper city certification. Neither a proper Change of Use Permit nor ... Read More
Eleanor Carpenter and Leslie Drapkin in front of Jest Jewels on Union Street. Photo: Naomi Rose
News Briefs

The end of an era

Union Street fixture Jest Jewels closes shop as its owners retire

COMMUNITY JEWEL After 34 years of selling jewelry, beautiful scarves, and hats, Jest Jewels (1869 Union St.) is closing shop. Co-owners Leslie Drapkin and Eleanor Carpenter are ret... Read More
A & E

ACT presents its 43rd annual A Christmas Carol

By Lynette Majer

The American Conservatory Theatre, affectionately known as ACT, presents its 43rd iteration of A Christmas Carol, based on Charles Dickens’s classic fable about the perils of gre... Read More
Politics as Usual

2020 vision

The year in review: Putting 2019 in the rearview mirror
By John Zipperer

A wise man once said, “You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” That was journalist Franklin P. Jones, and I’ll never forget the 12.6... Read More

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