Issue October 2018

There’s big news for the effort to build a new park on the site of the old Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill. The Francisco Park Conservancy, the group behind raising the money... Read More

Art World

Spotlight on India’s everyday Mithila art

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum presents a vibrant, traditional arts movement in Painting is My Everything founded by women of the Mithila region in India. These paintings were originally cre... Read More

Marination

A wave election in San Francisco

City voters are being asked to pass a bond measure to make a downpayment on strengthening the Embarcadero seawall

By Kevin Frazier

November will bring a wave election to San Francisco voters, but not for partisan reasons. The tidal forces facing the city’s voters instead will come through a ballot measure re... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Break out the ruby slippers and the flying monkeys

With the millions San Francisco spends on homelessness, we should be living in the Land of Oz

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When I interviewed Chris Megison, the co-founder and CEO of Solutions for Change (“Meet the man who runs a homeless program with a 93 percent success rate,” Reynolds Rap, Sept... Read More

Politics as Usual

The stakes in November

A look at the big people and props on the ballot

By John Zipperer

Political pundits are predicting a huge blue wave of Democratic voters in the midterm elections. But here in lefty San Francisco, waves of Democratic voters casting their ballots i... Read More

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Issue October 2018

Francisco Park challenge grant

Spotlight on India’s everyday Mithila art

A wave election in San Francisco

Break out the ruby slippers and the flying monkeys

The stakes in November

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