Four signs we are headed for another dot-com bomb

Their investors included Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, and Goldman Sachs. In under two years, the company raised nearly half a billion dollars with an initi... Read More

News Briefs

Coit Back Online

Locals and visitors who had to wait six months for restoration and structural work to be completed on Telegraph Hill’s Coit Tower were rewarded in mid-May with the reopening ... Read More

News Briefs

AT&T Cell Towers Draw Ire On Union

Plans by AT&T to site cell towers on Union Street are meeting stiff opposition from locals. In a statement, the Union Street Association laid out its objections. “For the... Read More

News Briefs

Laura’s Law Gets San Francisco Intro

Supervisor Mark Farrell is promoting an initiative for the November 2014 election to implement Laura’s Law in San Francisco; if he is able to pass the measure in the Board of... Read More

News Briefs

Presidio’s Vietnam Connection

Fifty years ago, U.S. President Lyndon John-son began escalating American involvement in Vietnam, an involvement that wouldn’t end until President Gerald Ford’s time in... Read More

News Briefs

The Mayor Strikes Back

Reacting to reports that Chicago was aggressively wooing filmmaker George Lucas to be the site for his new $700-million museum, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee stepped up his game in ea... Read More

Back Story

Finnochio’s: What a drag

By Ernest Beyl

Recently I wrote a column called “Broadway Kaleidoscope,” the Back Story about what I called the Golden Years of Broadway in North Beach. I said that in the 1960s — m... Read More

The shape-shifting city

The evolving face of San Francisco brings home one message: It’s always changing

By John Zipperer

This is the second of a four-part series exploring the growth of San Francisco.... Read More

Reynolds Rap

The vacancy preservationists: David Chiu and North Beach cartel still making it tough to do business

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At a cafe in Mill Valley, Jordan Angle opens a large binder containing a business plan for Tryst, the high-end restaurant and lounge that he and his partners want to open at 493 Br... Read More

Let street festival season begin

By Lynette Majer

The traditional beginning of summer in most parts of the country is Memorial Day, but in San Francisco, it’s also our unique street festivals. We may see many of the same ven... Read More

Issue June 2014