Jail Staffing Shortage Costs City Millions

A San Francisco Civil Grand Jury has issued a report claiming that the Sheriff’s Department can’t meet state-mandated staffing levels without spending millions of dolla... Read More

News Briefs

Washington Square Subway Station

Hoping for a convenient and quick ride downtown when the city’s long-planned and uber-controversial Central Subway extension is completed, the Russian Hill Neighbors group is... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

Consider Calzone’s

By Ernest Beyl

Sometimes I think Calzone’s — the North Beach, high-style restorante with a lot of sidewalk action — gets a bum rap. “Too touristy,” one is apt to hear. What&... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Change and loss in the city of gloss

By Michael Snyder

A day prior to writing this piece, I posted a status update on Facebook about the demise of a favorite Thai restaurant in my neighborhood — a pleasant, increasingly upscale distr... Read More

Real Estate

Where to go from here

Exploring what can be done to deal with city growth successfully

By John Zipperer

Final of a four-part series (Part 3, Part 2) When NPR’s comedy news quiz program Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me visited San Francisco in late July, host Peter Sagal joked, ... Read More

Travel/Sports

Freezing with my father at Candlestick Park

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Some of my best recollections of my father revolve around the one thing that really connected us: sports. I have no doubt, being a tremendous athlete himself, that my dad was hopin... Read More

Weekend Traveler

The other side of Sacramento

By Patty Burness

Sacramento is known for its history, politics, and the river that runs through it. It’s also a great base from which to explore the region. This trip, a girlfriend and I stay... Read More

Coastal Commuter

Going forth on the Fourth for bombast and bomb blasts

By Michael Snyder

Allow me to get a little onomatopoeic … ka-boom! The Fourth of July is the summer’s major party in the good ol’ US of A — and the noisiest celebration of the ye... Read More

Enter Stage Left

Gilbert, Sullivan and Me: A Brief Sojourn into British Silliness

By Evalyn Baron

Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or wither! We must dance and we must sing, Roundabout our fairy ring. — from Iolanthe by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Repe... Read More

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