Issue July 2021

Sports Corner, Travel/Sports

Will the Kraken be the next expansion team to conquer the NHL?

By Vincent Velotta

203 wins. 361 losses. A winning percentage of .359%.  This is the reality for the modern-day professional sports expansion team since 1998 — the combined record of the N... Read More
Why has San Francisco’s Board of Education become the caretaker of empty classrooms? Photo: MChe Lee
Opinion

Replace our failed Board of Education

By Jen Sey

While the San Francisco Board of Education (BOE) articulates its mission as “Access and Equity” in education, their actions of the past 15 months indicate anything but a commi... Read More
Opinion

Chestnut and Divisadero: Shots fired “on campus”

Petty thieves are more violent than advertised.
By Lou Barberini

The city is not as you remember it.  The era where common sense prevailed has passed. A time when we weren’t embarrassed by a viral video of a thief bicycling out of a S... Read More
A rally launching a second campaign to unseat the district attorney took place at Portsmouth Square on May 26, photo: Anh Lê
Opinion

Confronting anti-Asian violence, hate crimes, and killings in San Francisco and the Bay Area

By Anh Lê

Editor’s note: In the wake of numerous incidents of anti-Asian assaults and increasing concern over violent crime in San Francisco, independent journalist Anh Lê shares this ex... Read More
The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers

By Kevin McCarthy

Hardcover Fiction 1. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel, byLaura Dave 2. Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty: A Novel, by Lauren Weisberger 3. The Paris... Read More
The rebound in San Francisco and California has been strong. Photo: Garey De Martini
Real Estate

San Francisco’s amazing economic surge

By Garey De Martini

The pandemic that had been so much a part of life seemed to just vanish in San Francisco on June 15. California and the city officially reopened, and it turns out, both had been e... Read More
Unstructured downtime helps kids relax and rejuvenate. Photo: monkeybusinessimages
MomSense

Slowing down summer: Fighting the urge to overplan

By Liz Farrell

This moment in time is one we worked hard for, but also one that truly feels like it would never arrive. For now, most of life has returned to pre-Covid normal with summer camps a... Read More
Dining

King of ‘cue

By Michael Snyder

This past Memorial Day was almost as good as it gets. The weather was sunny and mild with a slight breeze — perfect for the Giants game that I attended at our beloved ballpark b... Read More
Bone marrow, tiger prawns, and pork chop at Wilder. Photo: Albert Law
New & Notable

Make new friends, but keep the old

Visit updated neighborhood favorites and explore the new ones
By Julie Mitchell

Now that pandemic restrictions have ended, it’s the perfect time to check out the local restaurant scene. Along with quite a few new spots, several old favorites have remodeled ... Read More
In the early nineties, weary of crime and homelessness, frustrated New Yorkers elected a law and order mayor. Photo: Dietmar Rabich/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Politics as Usual

A Rudy awakening

San Francisco is not becoming Berkeley; it is becoming Manhattan, circa 1993
By John Zipperer

He was a homeless veteran, suffering from mental health and drug problems. And he was a danger to his neighborhood. Arrested time after time for assault and public nuisance, he he... Read More
Police Blotter

The violent streets

A roundup of recent incidents on the Northside
By Marina Times staff

Here is a sampling of recent crimes in the district covered by the San Francisco Police Department Northern Station. THE CHOICE May 19, 9 a.m. Fillmore Street and Golden ... Read More
Leonard Cohen. Photo: courtesy Old Ideas LLC
Art World

Experience Leonard Cohen at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

By Sharon Anderson

Musician, man of letters, and global icon Leonard Cohen will be remembered in four solo exhibitions of contemporary art highlighting the man and his career at the Contemporary Jew... Read More
District 2 Supervisor

Getting ghost guns off our streets

Local, regional plans could rein in out-of-control guns
By Catherine Stefani

This spring, an individual shot three people in San Francisco, killing two and severely wounding another. The month before, after receiving reports of shots fired and locating mor... Read More
Toni Collette stars as Jan Vokes in Dream Horse. Photo: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street & Topic Studios
Films

Big screens reopen for business

By Michael Snyder

What a joy it is to be back in theaters for feature films that deserve to be seen on the big screen! Any caveats about representation aside, the movie version of Lin Manual-Mirand... Read More
Drug dealers hand wads of cash to a man in an SUV while an Urban Alchemy ambassador watches.
Reynolds Rap

Two overdoses in 10 minutes

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

As long as we have people who are addicted to drugs, who are willing to destroy their own bodies and their own lives, no amount of investment on the law enforcement is going to so... Read More

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