Working café to café

As I write this, I am sitting in my San Francisco office — the Royal Ground coffee shop on Russian Hill. It’s evening, and I’ve got a few hours to crank out a column,... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Sonoma’s Westside Road Wineries

By Patty Burness

A weekend getaway should be easy and relaxing. A trip to Sonoma County’s Westside Road is just that. It’s a 12-mile drive between Healdsburg and River Road that is fill... Read More

A & E

Decorator Showcase Celebrates 40th Year

By Lynette Majer

The site of the 40th San Francisco Decorator Showcase, 2698 Pacific Avenue (at Scott), is a 1904 Classical Revival, although Italian Renaissance-inspired, mansion. A colonnaded tem... Read More

Enter Stage Left

In a land far too close there is a king named Harumph

By Evalyn Baron

He has a peculiar orange face and a lumpish, doughy body he tries to contain within costly suits of broadcloth and grey sharkskin, dark blue blazers, and crisp white shirts. His ac... Read More

Street Talk

What’s Your Favorite Way to Spend a Saturday in the City? Why?

By Becca Scott

Kate has lived in North Beach for 10 years. Her favorite way to spend a Saturday in the city is surrounded by food and friends. Helen has only lived in the Marina for a few week... Read More

MomSense

Celebrating Mother’s Day

By Liz Farrell

Mother’s day is right around the corner, and with a little preparation and planning, this can be an amazing day for the special mother in your life. Whether this is your firs... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Of wirehaired vizlas, TPLOs, and that certain je ne sais quoi

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

je ne sais quoi noun, French. An indefinable, elusive quality, especially a pleasing one: She has a certain je ne sais quoi that charms everybody. Just weeks before k... Read More

Real Estate Roundup

The pricey city

By John Zipperer

DROPPING PRICES? ‘WE ARE NOT SEEING IT’ Paragon Real Estate Group is throwing some cold water on expectations of a rapidly cooling residential real estate market. The f... Read More

Real Estate Today

Unlock the mysteries of HOAs

By Carole Isaacs

As condos continue to multiply and the prices of single-family homes rise, more buyers are thinking about condo living as a long-term option. For the most part, these buyers have l... Read More

Home & Garden

Garden tasks

By Julia Strzesieski

Though spring officially began in March, the month of May is when we can truly enjoy the blossoming of springtime. Gardening in the evening after work is possible now with the late... Read More

Movie Reviews

Busting out the big summer movies

By Michael Snyder

Summer is officially upon us june 20, but the summer movie season starts in early May. It’s a time of big-budget franchise films and family oriented crowd-pleasers, despite t... Read More

Neighborhood Gem

Seasonal, local Bistro Aix

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

This month we’re introducing a new column dedicated to neighborhood gems: those rare spots that have not only survived but thrived in a restaurant scene rife with high costs,... Read More

The Tablehopper

Portland’s Salt & Straw ice cream comes to Fillmore; more room at Blue Barn Gourmet in Marina

By Marcia Gagliardi

EMBARCADERO Coming to the Waterfront Plaza this spring is Norcina (50 Francisco Street), an Italian cafe and delicatessen from Kaitlynn Bauman of Levi Plaza’s Parlor 1255. B... Read More

North Beach Journal

Nostalgia all over again

By Ernest Beyl

In a recent column, i got all weepy for the good old days in North Beach and quoted a passage from a Stanton Delaplane San Francisco Chronicle column — his final one before he di... Read More

Police Blotter

All the window-shattering, flashlight-hurling crime

The crimes described below are only a small snapshot of what the police officers of Central Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit sf-police.org; under Compstat, s... Read More

Issue May 2017