Issue July 2014

Walk Crooked Lombard

Lombard’s famous crooked stretch between Larkin and Leavenworth is being closed to automobiles on weekends through July 13 as part of a pilot project. The city acted in respo... Read More

News Briefs

Is Anyone Happy About AT&T’s Utility Boxes?

For years, neighborhood activists have waged a campaign against plans for hundreds of new utility boxes to be placed throughout the city, complaining they would obstruct pedestrian... Read More

Real Estate

The housing gap

Home prices and evictions have spurred a resistance movement to the city’s boomtime growth

By John Zipperer

Part three of a four-part series (Part 4, Part 2) Perhaps all of San Francisco’s heated political debates about growth would be solved if people could just live in those Goog... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Despite local politics, Lombard gets a pet store

Wolf & Lion brings boutique warehouse to the Marina

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

The reason 2460 Lombard Street in the Marina has been a vacant blight for many years rather than a Pet Food Express (PFE) replete with a $2 million renovation has nothing to do wit... Read More

A & E

Summer concerts in the city

From Macklemore to McCartney, great music abounds this season

By Maryann LoRusso

I love to attend concerts year round, but there’s just something about catching a show in the summertime that feels so good. It could be the memories of all those high school... Read More

News Briefs

Nevius on Waterfront Height Limits

“[Prop B says] that anyone who wants to build something taller than the current height limits along the waterfront … would have to take it to an election…. Electi... Read More

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