San Francisco parking tips: Finding the sweet spot

There is no question that I am parking obsessed. Over five years ago, when my compact station wagon died, I bought a Mazda Miata with a major part of my decision based on the lengt... Read More

Community News

Union Street Association president honored

By Leslie Drapkin

At a recent Union Street Association meeting, Super-visor Mark Farrell covered numerous subjects, from the closure of Doyle Drive, to the renovation of Lafayette Park, to the huge ... Read More

The Mystery Housebuyer

Part II: The agent hunt

How to find your match

By Anonymous

In the late 1990s, the National Association of Realtors was faced with its worse fear: What if people didn’t need Real estate agents anymore because everyone could find house... Read More

Dollars & Sense

Should you adjust your tax withholding?

Zeroing out

By Jason Alderman

Now that tax day has passed, chances are you’re either waiting patiently for your 2011 tax refund to arrive, it’s already been spent, or you just wrote the U.S. Treasur... Read More

Finance

Bridge financing in an economically turbulent era

What we learned — and didn’t learn

By Alan Silverman

As we celebrate the Golden Gate Bridge, let us not forget the tenacity of those who raised the money against all odds during the Great Depression. Our story starts on January 13,... Read More

Travel/Sports

Unique swim and run event: Golden Gate Bridge Splash ’n’ Dash

The South End Rowing Club will be hosting an official Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary tribute with a rare athletic event on Saturday, July 14, 2012. The Golden Gate Bridge Spla... Read More

Sports Corner

Save big bucks on sports tickets

The new paradigm of seating

By Steve Hermanos

Craigslist and Stubhub did not exist back on Oct. 10, 1988, the day I showed up at Shea Stadium in Queens with extra tickets to the day’s Mets vs. Dodgers playoff game. It... Read More

On and Off Chestnut

April showers bring May flowers

By Jim Maxwell

Or so the saying goes … but as I write this, it looks like we’re getting our first taste of San Francisco summer, which means a crisp breeze off the Bay with a foghorn groa... Read More

Union Street Scoop

May dazed and delighted

A month to celebrate

By Leslie Drapkin

What exactly are we celebrating again? Oh yeah, just about anything. Here in San Francisco, we love our festivals, parades, galas, bashes, dinner parties, beer/oyster/music/whateve... Read More

Over the Hill

With a little help from your friends

By Tony Long

Getting old is for the birds, I’m told. (I wouldn’t know myself, having long ago embraced the youth-preserving properties of defiantly immature behavior.) There are the... Read More

The Wild Wild Web

The Mobile Screen Guys want you to follow them on Facebook

It’s Zuck’s world

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A billion dollars? Unless they have some faded, washed out picture of Mark Zuckerberg killing a hooker, it doesn’t make sense! – Comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Facebook’... Read More

Community

Just One Tree nominated for $10,000 Odwalla Plant a Tree grant

Did you know that if 12,000 lemon trees were planted in San Francisco, our city would be self-sufficient in this one crop? One mature lemon tree can produce 200 pounds of lemons ea... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Sunday meters: A bad idea

And on the seventh day … pay up

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

In 1973, San Francisco voters approved a “transit first” policy in connection with our long-term city infrastructure planning. While I firmly believe in a transit first pol... Read More

Crime Beat, Police Blotter

Crime on the Beat: May edition

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

Issue May 2012