DECEMBER 22, 2020 Street Media, the publisher of L.A. Weekly and Irvine Weekly, announced today the purchase of San Francisco’s Marina Times newspaper from its current ow... Read More
There’s no getting around it; our holidays will look different this year. Celebrations will be smaller and gatherings more intimate — if they happen at all. But regardless of ... Read More
In a recent message to Northsiders, Northern Station Captain Paul Yep addressed some of the quality-of-life matters that have been the source of complaints from many locals in rec... Read More
Slightly more than 60 percent of city voters passed Proposition H in November’s election, and on Nov. 19, Mayor London Breed issued an executive order to city departments to imp... Read More
A resurgence of Covid-19 cases led San Francisco officials to move the city into the “purple tier” of health-related restrictions in late November. One high-profile response w... Read More
94 percent: amount of all businesses in San Francisco that are small businesses . . . 8.4 percent: San Francisco’s unemployment rate . . . 49,000: number of employees in San Fra... Read More
Readers may remember our dear departed columnist Bruce Bellingham, who wrote of his ramblings around the city in Bellingham by the Bay. Every December he ended that column with th... Read More
If ever there was a year from hell or, more accurately, a year in hell, it’s 2020. Such a nice round number, too. Even if 2020 suggests the concept of clear vision, most of what... Read More
The M.H. de Young has long-standing tradition of engaging the talent of artists in the Bay Area, and in celebration of its 125th year in 2020, the museum presents “The de Young ... Read More
Like Charlie Brown being duped into trying to kick a football only to have Lucy take it away every time, I approach January with the optimism that it will herald a much better yea... Read More
In spite of all the turmoil surrounding Covid-19, the economy, and our recent election, the housing market in San Francisco remains remarkably unchanged. Indeed, housing is a brig... Read More
Who would have thought back in March that we would be heading into December with another surge of coronavirus cases and planning for a Covid Christmas? I certainly did not, and at... Read More
Hardcover Fiction 1. The Law of Innocence, by Michael Connelly 2. The Moonflower Murders: A Novel, Anthony Horowitz 3. Snow: A Novel, John Banville Hardcover Nonfictio... Read More
In Southern Italy, where my grandfather was born, they celebrate La Vigilia in anticipation of the midnight birth of the baby Jesus. It was first introduced to America in the late... Read More
An intriguing article in the online edition of the British newspaper The Guardian recently came to my attention, and it was accompanied by a sound file that was both creepy and fu... Read More