Affordability is in the eye of the beholder

It’s no longer “location, location, location.” Now it’s “move-in ready, move-in ready, move-in ready.” Photo: Garey De Martini

San Francisco is not the most expensive place to live in the world. In fact, it doesn’t even crack the top 10. Bet you can’t even guess which city is the most expensive place ... Read More

Children can learn “if you win don’t rub it in, if you lose don’t make excuses.” Photo: monkeybusinessimages

MomSense

Life lessons in youth sports

By Liz Farrell

We spent the last several weeks mesmerized by the winter Olympics. We watched every night together as a family, each of us having a favorite sport, event, or athlete we were cheer... Read More

The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Chris Hsiang

Hardcover Fiction 1. Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr 2. The Great Circle: A Novel, by Maggie Shipstead 3. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles H... Read More

Police Blotter

Cops and robbers and burglars

By John Zipperer

Last month Northern Station welcomed its new commanding officer, Capt. Derrick Jackson. The San Francisco native and 27-year police veteran has worked on the gang task force and m... Read More

Politics as Usual

What to expect in our brave new world

Your questions answered about the next stage of the pandemic

By John Zipperer

With the delta variant on the wane at last, our elected leaders and public health officials are finally starting to relax the restrictions we’ve lived under for the past two yea... Read More

News Briefs

School board aftermath

By John Zipperer

As predicted in these pages (“A lesson plan for the school board recall,” February 2022), three members of the San Francisco school board were recalled in the Feb. 15 election... Read More

News Briefs

Briefly noted

By John Zipperer

Two state Assemblymen — Republican Vince Fong (Kern County) and Democrat Jim Cooper (Elk Grove) — teamed up to request $5 million for the California Highway Patrol specificall... Read More

District 2 Supervisor

Police staffing and public safety in San Francisco

It’s time to address the crime and policing crisis

By Catherine Stefani

In March 2020, an independent study on police staffing levels found that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) needed to hire 330 officers to meet the demand for service at t... Read More

Alice Neel's Robert Avedis Hagopian, 1971. Image courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd, 1970; Image courtesy the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ginny in Blue Shirt, 1969. Image: Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner

Art World

‘Alice Neel: People Come First’

By Sharon Anderson

“For me, people come first. I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.” — Alice Neel The first comprehensive museum survey of ... Read More

The historic Castro Theatre will soon be more music palace than film paradise. Photo: Arnaudh-French Wikipedia.

Coastal Commuter

The cinema vanishes

By Michael Snyder

From all indications, discerning San Francisco movie lovers were less than pleased by the recent news that the venerable and elegant Castro Theatre was being sold to the Bay Area ... Read More

Vau de Vire performers at The Edwardian Ball, San Francisco 2016. Photo: Marco Sanchez

News Briefs

What is our new normal?

By John Zipperer

A Change.org petition from a group of medical professionals is calling on the state’s leaders — and particularly its educational leaders — to shift to a postpandemic approac... Read More

News Briefs

Facts and figures

By John Zipperer

$2.3 million: Amount the city is investing in the African American Revolving Loan Fund to provide loan forgiveness for 51 Black-owned businesses in the city, which were disproport... Read More

Films

Mostly British Film Festival is back in vogue

By Michael Snyder

Cheerio! Pip-pip! Huzzah! Those joyous expletives may be more than a little out of date in England, but they merit revival in San Francisco this month. The Mostly British Film Fes... Read More

Congressional candidate Shahid Buttar at a rally. Photo: courtesy shahidforchange.us

Reynolds Rap

Smear campaign against Shahid Buttar smacks of racism

Far left Democrats are dying on Hypocrite Hill

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“The Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco are about to ruin the political career of a Brown Muslim man based on no evidence at all because a bunch of mediocre Karens c... Read More

Issue March 2022