Minimize water loss with drip irrigation

The best way to water your plants is drip irrigation because it minimizes water loss through evaporation, eliminates erosion from overspray and excessive runoff, reduces weed growt... Read More

Caring For Our Kids

Back-to-school resolutions

By Liz Farrell

Heading into a new school year can be exciting and invigorating, similar to the start of a new year. There is much to look forward to, hopes for what to accomplish, and a time to w... Read More

Wellness

The skinny on supplements

By Thalia Farshchian

In the last few years, there has been a lot of controversy around the benefits and efficacy of taking supplemental vitamins. An argument is that they provide no additional health b... Read More

A & E

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

By Sharon Anderson

“If my art had nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is “art” for? “ — Ai Weiwei With Ai Weiwei’s arrest in a Beijing airport in 2... Read More

The Best of Books

Fall look forward

By Brian Pettus

In lieu of our best-seller list, here are some of the titles we are excited about for the fall. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey (Sept. 2) Over 14 years of O, The Oprah Magazi... Read More

Back Story

Oscar-winning movie kid Claude Jarman Jr.

Nashville’s loss became San Francisco’s gain

By Ernest Beyl

Claude Jarman Jr. will be 80 on Sept. 27. He doesn’t look it. He doesn’t act it. He doesn’t live it. Many years ago I saw a movie with a youngster named Claude Ja... Read More

Dining

Clam bake cioppino at The Old Clam House

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

My grandfather was a Sicilian fisherman, and I spent my summers in Rhode Island with him pulling up lobster traps and clamming along the shoreline. Every weekend we had a clambake,... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

Signature San Francisco dishes

By Ernest Beyl

I enjoy reading about food. I’m assuming you do, too. So here are a few stories about signature San Francisco dishes, a bit of history on your plate. CELERY VICTOR If there w... Read More

New & Notable

The Commissary brings new age dining to Old World mess hall

By Julie Mitchell

In keeping with its history as a former mess hall in one of the row of redbrick buildings in the Presidio known as “infantry row,” The Commissary has the wide-open feel... Read More

The Tablehopper

Bonjour to Le Marais Bakery and Bistro, Monsieur Benjamin and new lunch spots

By Marcia Gagliardi

MARINA Le Marais Bakery (2066 Chestnut Street, 415-359-9801) has added a bistro to its name and concept: It expanded into a space next door to include a kitchen and additional seat... Read More

North Beach Journal

The Beats, Upper Grant, the martini, and Live Worms

By Ernest Beyl

Not long ago I heard from Ryan Russo, a young guy who operates Walk SF Tours. He liked something I wrote for my Sketches column and invited me to tag along on one of his tours, The... Read More

Northsider

A very supportive neighborhood

By John Zipperer

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE The Mexican Museum at Fort Mason has inked an agreement with Mexico City’s Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico to bring artists and exhibits to San ... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Francisco Reservoir: A neighborhood dream becomes reality

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

Earlier this year I wrote about a vision for the Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill that has been in the works for almost 60 years. Since coming into office nearly four years ago,... Read More

Police Blotter

Kill switch bill number 2

California’s legislators made a big switch of their own in August when they reversed their previous votes against legislation requiring kill switches on new mobile phones sol... Read More

News

30 Stockton Muni station changes changed again

By John Zipperer

A change of station stops by the 30 Stockton bus appears to be short-lived, following rider reaction. Several folks complained that Muni failed to respond to their complaints, but ... Read More

Issue September 2014