New ownership for the Marina Times

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

Modern Eating

Create a sparkling holiday table for a smaller celebration

By Julie Mitchell

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

News Briefs

Will burglaries continue to decline?

By John Zipperer

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

News Briefs

Proposition H executive order

By John Zipperer

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

News Briefs

Observation Wheel closed

By John Zipperer

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

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

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

Bellingham by the Bay

Twilight on Christmas Eve

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

Coastal Commuter

Hello to hope

Good riddance to 2020

By Michael Snyder

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

Art World

Bay Area Artists at ‘The de Young Open’

By Sharon Anderson

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

Politics as Usual

All I want for Christmas is 2021

Looking forward to a better new year

By John Zipperer

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

Holiday Happenings

Gift guide

A few suggestions for your holiday celebrations in 2020

By Lynette Majer

Some readers may recall our now-defunct sister publication, Northside San Francisco. One year we did an enormous gift guide, such a massive undertaking that not only was it our fi... Read More

Real Estate

The big surprise

By Garey De Martini

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

MomSense

Adapting holiday traditions during Covid

By Liz Farrell

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

The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Kevin McCarthy

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

La Deliziosa Vita

A scaled-down Feast of the Seven Fishes

In a year of small holiday gatherings, here are some of my favorite childhood seafood dishes

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

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

Issue December 2020