Books Inc. best-seller list The Girl on the Train: A Novel, by Paula Hawkins City of Thieves: A Novel, by David Benioff Cool Gray City of Love, by Gary Kamiya Boys in the Boat: Ni... Read More
Care to enjoy a revelatory and tuneful visit with a collection of enormously skilled but largely unheralded musicians who played on many of the most memorable pop records ever; or ... Read More
California wine country” usually brings to mind Napa, Sonoma, and the Central Coast. But just 85 miles northeast from San Francisco is one of the largest and oldest (since 18... Read More
A couple of evenings ago, something struck me hard while walking through my ostensibly upscale neighborhood in San Francisco — and I’m lucky it wasn’t a blunt object.... Read More
Eighty years ago, an ambitious, young knockabout with a wooden leg opened a saloon in a wooden shack on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland. The saloon and the young man both went on to be... Read More
Occasionally I like to write about people I call Unlikely Heroes or Heroines in the Gastronomic Trenches. Today I’m going to write about my mother. Amelia — everyone called... Read More
By now we all know someone who is fasting, cleansing, or has given up eating an entire category of food from meat to sugar to gluten. Eating “clean” has become the new ... Read More
COW HOLLOW/MARINA There’s a new taker for the former Café des Amis space (2000 Union Street): restaurateur Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Lolinda, Delarosa, Starbelly, El Techo,... Read More
I performed in many musicals throughout my career as an actor, on Broadway, off Broadway, off off Broadway in theaters all around the country, and the fact of the matter? I was nev... Read More
Like a jilted spouse whose significant other abandoned us for a South Bay Sugar Daddy or Sugar Momma, we sat on our stools in San Francisco bars this football season, taking a modi... Read More
This month I have some good news and I have some bad news. Let’s get right to it. Here are some of the most important things that have happened (or not happened) recently in ... Read More
It must run in the family. Chip Wilson founded Lululemon; now his wife, Shannon, and son, J.J., are jumping into the apparel business as well. The duo recently launched Kit and Ace... Read More
A company I know of recently moved into smaller office space. Through a Byzantine process of internal politics and negotiation and grandstanding, most departments ended up with les... Read More
Visitors to the neighborhoodscout.com website can check the ranking of their city against national statistics. How does San Francisco fare? On a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being t... Read More