Forget resolutions … make a plan, take action

As another year creeps to a close, schedules are busting at the seams with holiday events and time with family and friends. The end of the year is not only busy socially, but it is... Read More

A & E

Keith Haring: The Political Line

By Sharon Anderson

"Art is for everybody." — Keith Haring... Read More

The Best of Books

Holiday classics

By Brian Pettus

Books Inc. best-seller list Diary of a Wimpy Kid #9: The Long Haul, by Jeff Kinney (hardcover) Yes Please, by Amy Poehler (hardcover) Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their E... Read More

Movie Reviews

Stocking up on DVD gifts for the holidays

By Michael Snyder

It’s a video-on-demand world, or it will be soon. And yet, here’s a column about purchasing DVDs as Christmas presents in 2014. Although digital information delivered i... Read More

A & E

Yule rules: Decoding holiday etiquette

By Maryann LoRusso

When my son was a toddler, someone bought him a holiday T-shirt that said, “Dear Santa, define naughty.” Everywhere he wore that shirt, people got a kick out of it. Why... Read More

Wine World

Holiday bubbles

By Lynette Majer

There’s a lot to celebrate this month as we wind down another year. I hope your 2014 was as wonderful as mine; however, if it didn’t turn out exactly the way you may ha... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

More about crab than you may want to know

By Ernest Beyl

The other day I got to musing about crab. The Dungeness crab season opened Nov. 15. I submit to you that Nov. 15 was one of the most important dates on this year’s calendar. ... Read More

The Tablehopper

Brenda’s Meat & Three serves up tasty choices

By Marcia Gagliardi

MARINA As of early November, Le Marais Bistro and Bakery (2066 Chestnut Street, 415-359-9801) has a new chef, Max Snyder (Quince, Saison, and Coi, as well as Eleven Madison Park an... Read More

Business

Net neutrality and S.F.

By John Zipperer

On Nov. 10, President Barack Obama spoke to the nation about his plan for the federal government to institute “the strongest possible rules” to protect net neutrality. ... Read More

Sports Corner

Nice guys finish first

By Steve Hermanos

Madison Bumgarner asked a cop if he could mount a horse and ride up Market Street, where confetti canons were set to blast black, orange, white strips of paper, and all the while r... Read More

North Beach Journal

If the old neighborhood ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and several other year-end holiday suggestions

By Ernest Beyl

Here come the year-end holidays, and not a moment too soon. Winking lights have been strung up along Upper Grant Avenue in North Beach since early November. Shops like Schein &... Read More

Northsider

Union Street gets first Urban Remedy

By John Zipperer

COW HOLLOW’S NEW ORGANICS Northern California-based certified organic food company Urban Remedy opened its first San Francisco store in mid-November when it lifted the curtai... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 19: The neighbors who stole Thanksgiving (and Christmas and New Year’s Eve)

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Part one of a three-part series When my father’s dementia became too much for Kickie to deal with, we decided it was time to move him to San Francisco. He met Kickie shortly ... Read More

Yapping

Monica Hardeman: Founder and president, Equine Rescue Center & Sanctuary

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

How many years have you been involved with rescue? I have been rescuing since 1998, so nearly 20 years. How can someone contact the Equine Rescue Center & Sanctuary (ERC)? Cal... Read More

Pets

Gift Guide: You’ll get a lot of bling for the buck with artisan custom-made pet collars

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I remember buying Jazzy some dog fortune cookies and the first fortune read, “Another day, another collar.” That fortune had already come true. Jazzy was known for her ... Read More

Issue December 2014