Underground Utilities Push

Calling city efforts to supplant its network of overhead cables and wires with underground systems a half-finished job that leaves San Francisco with a web of aging cables and equi... Read More

News Briefs

Tutor Perini Starts Central Subway Work

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has contracted with civil and building construction company Tutor Perini Corp. for subway stations and related work. SFMTA... Read More

News Briefs

Civil Grand Jury To Sf: Do More For Biking

San Francisco has greatly expanded its network of bicycle lanes and is pursuing a Board of Supervisors-mandated goal of having 20 percent of travel in the City be by bicycle by 202... Read More

Coastal Commuter

If you’re going to San Francisco

By Michael Snyder

Ever since I began working in Los Angeles for months at a time, I’ve been noticing profound changes in San Francisco whenever I’ve returned north and settled in at my a... Read More

Reynolds Rap

The usual suspects: Hypocrisy and questionable ethics mar Small Business Commission in pet store debate

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Before the June 10 meeting of the San Francisco Small Business Commission (SBC), I overheard Commissioner William Ortiz-Cartagena say he was recusing himself from an agenda item du... Read More

Back Story

The Cliff House celebrates 150 years

By Ernest Beyl

Isn’t it exciting to live in a city that has such wonderful old restaurants? I’m thinking of places like the Old Clam House, founded in 1861; the Cliff House, 1863; Sam... Read More

On the Bay

The battle on the bay

By Jim Maxwell

The “Summer of Racing” is scheduled to kick-off on July 5, now with a time trial featuring at least three of the teams instead of the originally scheduled Fleet Race; b... Read More

@Nite

Midnight in the garden of Gose and dunkel

By Maryann LoRusso

Beer gardens are becoming increasingly popular, especially during the warmer seasons. In San Francisco, it takes a fine assortment of food and drink, as well as a strategic locatio... Read More

Home & Garden

Get your grill in order for summer barbecues

By Julia Strzesieski

Everyone enjoys a summer barbecue. Though our Mediterranean climate allows us to barbecue year-round (usually), with Independence Day, summer barbecuing kicks into season. While ba... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Endless summer in Laguna Beach

By Garrick Ramirez

My relationship with conservative Orange County is like that of someone who suspects they are dating the wrong person yet stays because the “company” is so good. Except... Read More

Issue July 2013