Issue July 2014

Caring For Our Kids

Free family fun

By Liz Farrell

The words “free” and “San Francisco” may seem like a bit of an oxymoron these days. With rents skyrocketing and the housing market red-hot, it is easy to fe... Read More
Home & Garden

Less-toxic pest management in your home and garden

By Julia Strzesieski

Many common pesticides on the market today are not only harmful to beneficial insects and birds, but also seep through our groundwater and storm drains, and eventually into our wat... Read More
Real Estate Today

Cookie butter is to Trader Joe’s as San Francisco is to real estate

By Carole Isaacs

The Trader’s Joe’s Fearless Flyer arrived in my mail, and I was captured by the “Cookie Butter” article. What on earth was cookie butter? Just think about &... Read More
Market Report

Real Estate Market Report: May 2014

By Hill & Co.

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Real Estate Investor

The whole city

By John Zipperer

November’s general election is shaping up to be another one in which voters will be confronted with multiple options for addressing the same problem: the rising cost of city ... Read More
News Briefs

Median home sales price up 12.2 percent

The median home sales price in San Francisco rose 12.2 percent to $945,000 in June, compared to June 2013, according to data from Trulia.com. The actual number of sales declined ne... Read More
News Briefs

Voters To Decide On House-Flip Tax

Don’t expect HGTV’s Tarek and Christina to be showing up in Cow Hollow any time soon. The two stars of Flip or Flop won’t want to pay the flipping tax voters migh... Read More
Sky’s Buys

Treat your pet to homemade chicken chicharrones

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I always buy chicken with the bones and the skin — first, because it’s more cost effective, and second, because the bones and skin impart so much flavor and moisture as the... Read More
Political Animal

Abused, neglected and misunderstood: pit bulls rarely get ‘golden retriever homes’

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A woman in her late 60s approached timidly one afternoon while Skylar and I were sitting in the park. “Is that a pit bull?” she asked. “Yes,” I said. “... Read More
Cathouse

Ashes, feminist icon

By John Zipperer

In 1979, 20th Century Fox unleashed a new-wave science fiction/horror film called Alien. Basically a haunted house movie set in space, it featured a cat named Jones, one of (spoile... Read More
Pets

What stinks

By Walden Majer

You know what I like best about living in San Francisco? The air! Yep, the air is so fresh and invigorating I can hardly stand it. On our roof deck, the breeze brings so many wonde... Read More
The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 14: Of Chillows, children and Chihuahuas

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Jazzy had a big, bold personality with an independent streak a mile wide. She loved children more than any dog I’ve ever known. If she saw a group of them playing in the park... Read More
News Briefs

Goodbye, San Francisco; Hello, Chicago: George Lucas Decides

The waiting is over. After an enormous outlay of time and money in an effort to build his cultural museum at Crissy Field in the Presidio, only to be rejected twice, George Lucas i... Read More
News Briefs

Minimum Wage Hike?

Employees and business owners alike will be following the progress of a measure introduced by Mayor Ed Lee and 10 members of the Board of Supervisors that would place on the Novemb... Read More
News Briefs

Global Hot Spot

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was California’s governor, he noted that his efforts to deal with climate change had more success when he worked across international borders with ... Read More

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