About two years ago, I had to give up my grill. The apartment building I live in started enforcing a California fire code that bans grills with a propane tank larger than one pound... Read More
San Francisco is the perfect place to be a foodie. And while there are abundant local offerings from farms, bakeries, artisan shops, and wineries, the City is also a place to explo... Read More
How did you go from “final four” and “fan favorite” on The Next Food Network Star (Season 4) to your own show? I have no idea! I think it was a lot of hard ... Read More
The hottest sports book of 2013 is Eleven Rings. It is co-written by ex-Bulls and ex-Lakers coach Phil Jackson, and Hugh Delehanty, a former editor for Sports Illustrated and Peopl... Read More
Bay Area tech companies found themselves in some unfamiliar, muddied waters when it was reported in a British newspaper that a massive U.S. government spy program was collecting da... Read More
As the 1990s unfolded, fashion designers began dumping supermodels as their human clothes hangers in favor of movie starlets, and the public, as it always does, got bored and moved on to the next big thing — a revolutionary concept called The Internet.... Read More
Gay Pride festival rainbow display at Ambiance on Union Street (photo: Ambiance) ... Read More
The death of Jonathan Winters a while back sent me slipping into a reverie of memories of when there were comic giants walking the streets of North Beach. Winters was such a giant.... Read More
Certainly some of that June gloom will linger over the Marina for a while with the loss of The Grove — a small, independent, locally owned business that was truly a unique and be... Read More
This exciting sculpture is by Joe Nasogaluak, an Inuit artist from Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Carved out of Brazilian soapstone and standing 23 inches in he... Read More
The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More
We are fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. According to the latest census, more than 800,000 San Franciscans now call this seven-x-seven square-mile... Read More
It appears many people are not enamored with Mark di Suvero’s massive steel structures dotting Crissy Field, which were recently installed by SFMOMA as a cooperative venture ... Read More
Singer Michelle Shocked, whose anti-gay rant at Yoshi’s (1330 Fillmore Street) in March ended with the staff turning off her microphone and announcing she would never perform... Read More
Stockholm has it; London has it; Milan has it; even Singapore has it. It’s congestion pricing, the charging of fees for driving in crowded districts, and it is once again bei... Read More