Dishing with Mo Rocca: Cooking with experience

Show: My Grandmother’s Ravioli broadcast on The Cooking Channel Airs: Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time; repeats at 12:30 a.m. Thursday and throughout the week at... Read More

La Deliziosa Vita, Recipes

Hearty soups for a cold winter’s night

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When winter turns cold and blustery, my thoughts turn to hot, hearty soups. One of my favorites is stracciatella, or Italian egg drop soup. The name means “torn apart” or &... Read More

Socially Responsible

Presidio’s Fort Scott to house new leadership program

By Marilyn Damon Diamond

Fort Winfield Scott stands in one of the northernmost spots of the Presidio, where the ocean almost meets the Bay. Its buildings and grounds were once the home of the United States... Read More

Finance

Frothy coffee: Letting off steam

By Alan Silverman

The U.K. Parliament recently held hearings concerning the amount of tax paid in the U.K. by the subsidiaries of international companies. They called on Starbucks, Google and Amazon... Read More

North Beach Journal

In Banksy’s words: Writing the life of a neighborhood

By Ernest Beyl

As I scribble this column, I sift through memories, North Beach memories of course. Let’s consider the majesty of the written word. The old neighborhood has seen both flood a... Read More

On and Off Chestnut

Keeping it small in the new year

By Jim Maxwell

by jim maxwell Now that we’ve all survived the end of the Mayan calendar and the excess of the holidays, it’s time to reflect on what makes our neighborhood on and off ... Read More

Opinion

A big ‘No’ to big-box pet food

Pet Food Express on Lombard, Part II

By Susan Landry, San Francisco Pet Store Coalition

In the December 2012 Marina Times, Susan Dyer Reynolds wrote about “big-box” Equinox Fitness moving into the old Metro Theater on Union Street and compared it to the propos... Read More

Reynolds Rap

What’s more divisive – a pet store or a pot club? You’d be surprised

Pet Food Express on Lombard, Part I

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At a meeting of the Marina Merchants Association held in October 2012, two possible new tenants for Lombard Street, a pot club and a pet store, were on the agenda. Only one had peo... Read More

Crime Beat

Massive fencing ring arrests; Over 1,000 stolen items available to be reclaimed

By the SFPD

San Francisco police have arrested three suspects in a massive stolen-property fencing ring specializing in electronic items. Taken into custody on Nov. 28, 2012 were Henry Gamboa,... Read More

Captain’s View

Driving good habits home

By SFPD Northern Station Captain

It is time to act on our New Year’s resolutions and create new good habits. There are many areas where we can improve our own safety by adhering to a few good resolutions. Fo... Read More

Police Blotter

Crime on the beat

By the Officers of Northern Station

The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More

Community News

Holiday windows in Cow Hollow

By Lesley Leonhardt

The Union Street Association presented certificates of honor for outstanding holiday window and store displays this year. Best Interior Design was awarded to Betelnut restaurant, 2... Read More

Community News

Issue January 2013