Oregon has it all: Mountains, forests, rivers, spirited cities and towns and best of all, no traffic compared to the Bay Area. After a quick flight to Eugene (about an hour), my hu... Read More
There’s a classic, soulful slice of early-’70s R&B with the optimistic title “Be Thankful for What You Got,” written and first performed by a cool cat named... Read More
THE VALUE OF TIME On Oct. 11, Mayor London Breed created a new position, the director of housing delivery, to speed up the permitting time for new housing. The director will manage... Read More
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, and for many that means the frenzy of grocery shopping, recipe hunting, and hours in the kitchen. One way to ease the seasonal stress i... Read More
The setting of start-up stories may soon shift from the garage to the kitchen, thanks to a new California law. Garage-based innovation has long been a seed of entrepreneurship and ... Read More
Now on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora is Second Look, Twice: Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The exhibition features t... Read More
The cinema subgenre of foodie movies may be an acquired taste (sorry), but it’s sizeable and engaging enough that I actually wrote an entire column about it in November 2014. Now... Read More
Every month, my husband attends a luncheon (guys-only, but I digress) in various Sonoma County locales, from private homes to event spaces. Everyone brings a bottle of wine, and al... Read More
As for many Italian Americans, my childhood Thanksgiving and Christmas Eves were all about seafood. Christmas brought the traditional Sicilian Feast of the Seven Fishes, while Than... Read More
Guess what?” I asked my friend. “I’m going to take you to my favorite restaurant in the city. And I know you’re gonna love it!” I can’t remember exactly when I first ... Read More
FILLMORE Congrats to Jay Foster, Matthew Washington, and Erin Traylor for getting Isla Vida Afro-Caribbean Grill (1325 Fillmore Street) open in record time. Boom. Isla Vida is serv... Read More
San Francisco is an amazing city, and I love it. Nowhere in the world can match the character of our neighborhoods, beautiful open spaces, and cultural diversity. For almost two de... Read More
San Francisco has the highest rate of street homelessness in the country, but this reality is not an inevitable consequence of high housing prices, widening inequality, or deinstit... Read More
1,000: number of new shelter beds for homeless people Mayor London Breed announced would be opened by 2020 . . . 1045: the number of the state senate bill that Gov. Jerry Brown sig... Read More
The San Francisco area has the worst roads in the entire country, according to “Bumpy Road Ahead,” a new report on roadways by TRIP, a transportation research group based in Wa... Read More