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COMINGS AND CELEBRATIONS The successful French-inspired Le Marais Bakery & Bistro (2066 Chestnut Street) has expanded to Ghirardelli Square (900 North Point Street) and expects... Read More

Community

2016 challenges, Peskin, and more

Answers to your questions

By MARK E. FARREL

What is the status of the Lombard Street project? Lombard Street is one of the main gateways to San Francisco. A few years ago I kicked off a community process to reenvision Lombar... Read More

Police Blotter

Assaults, more auto crimes, and drug arrests

The crimes described below are only a small snapshot of what the police officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit sf-police.org; under Compstat, ... Read More

News Briefs

City Lays Out Storm Prep Plans

With expectations (and hopes) that this winter will bring an El Niño-infused deluge of rain to local drought-parched land, San Francisco is making preparations and response plans.... Read More

News Briefs

Farrell Wants Care Not Cash Changes

District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell is proposing legislative changes to the city’s Care not Cash housing assistance program for homeless people that seek to reduce evictions a... Read More

A & E

Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Forty Part Motet’ to close this month

By Sharon Anderson

The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) have presented the sound installation, The Forty Part Motet by sound artist Janet C... Read More

Bellingham by the Bay

There oughta be a law

By

With the new year comes a cascade of new laws out of Sacramento. Many of them deal with the state’s four-year-long drought. But lawmakers have yet to suggest that California ... Read More

Dining

Move over Sriracha; camera-shy chefs; farm-to-shop butchery, and more

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for journalists in the trend-predicting business, anyway. As a food writer, a restaurant critic, and a cook (I often write recipe... Read More

News Briefs

More Trees For The Northside

The deadline is rapidly approaching for property owners in the Marina, Pacific Heights, and Cow Hollow to apply to receive a street tree as part of a Friends of the Urban Forest pr... Read More

News

How to play in the Big Game: The Super Bowl is coming (almost) to town

By John Zipperer

Super Bowl 50 will take place down in Santa Clara, and the 49ers are highly unlikely to be on the field for the game, unless they’re singing and dancing during the half-time ... Read More

News Briefs

Reducing The Pain Of Towing Fees For Stolen Cars

If your car is stolen and abandoned elsewhere in the city, you not only have the frustration of the missing car and any damage it might have incurred, you often also get slapped wi... Read More

Issue January 2016