Issue February 2021

Christopher Elbow offers artful chocolate gifts. Photo: facebook.com/elbowchocolates

While some think that Valentine’s Day is a “throwaway” holiday, true romantics like to shower their sweethearts with chocolate, flowers, and intimate dinners or weekend geta... Read More

Gov. Gavin Newsom at the site of the September North Complex Fire. Photo: Office of the Governor of California

Politics as Usual

The trials of Gavin

Local boy makes good — then hits turbulence

By John Zipperer

In Nov. 2018, Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California, a liberal Democrat winning with a landslide 24-point margin in one of the bluest states in the Union. It was as if h... Read More

News Briefs

City rents drop 27 per cent

Rents in San Francisco closed out 2020 with a 2.7 percent drop in December, bringing the 12-month decline to 27 percent, according to data from Apartment List. Median rents in the... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Gratitude for mutual aid

Recovery is a team effort

By Aaron Peskin

We did it. We made it to another year. San Francisco closed out one of the worst years in modern U.S. history with another shutdown after a statewide surge in Covid-19 cases, but ... Read More

Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth star in Supernova. Photo: courtesy Bleecker Street

Films

The shades of love on screen

By Michael Snyder

Since celluloid began threading through projectors, the movie industry has banked on exploiting our love of love stories. That’s continued today as digital code translates into ... Read More

Reynolds Rap

District Attorney Chesa Boudin is a man without a plan

And San Francisco citizens are paying the price

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

This past New Year’s Eve, 45-year-old parolee Troy McAlister was evading a robbery in a stolen car. He ran a red light, striking and killing 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-y... Read More

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