A bowl of cherries? Sour grapes? Pick your fruit

When the sky is a bright canary yellow, I forget every cloud I’ve ever seen. So they call me a cockeyed optimist, immature and incurably green!” So sings the irrepressi... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Kick back in Kenwood

By Patty Burness

The tiny hamlet of Kenwood dates to the late 1800s when it was part of a Mexican land grant. The townspeople voted to name the location Kenwood in 1895 because its original name �... Read More

Coastal Commuter

The game is afoot … or on a bus

By Michael Snyder

It’s no big surprise that car culture dominates daily life in Los Angeles, while San Francisco, where a cable car serves as one of the city’s most familiar symbols, is ... Read More

Real Estate

Gov. Brown’s Hail Mary

By John Zipperer

GOVERNOR BROWN PROPOSES BYPASSING LOCAL REVIEW TO BOOST AFFORDABLE HOUSING California Gov. Jerry Brown might just have given the state’s housing sector its biggest shake-up i... Read More

Wellness

Where ‘The Biggest Loser’ failed

By Thalia Farshchian

After the recent New York Times article discussing The Biggest Loser contestants regaining much, if not all of their weight loss, I have had many of my patients asking why. First, ... Read More

Real Estate Today

The devil is in the details

By Carole Isaacs

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but when buying a home it is not enough. Today, just about everyone’s first stop in the search for a home is the Internet. It is im... Read More

Family Matters

How to talk to your children about the presidential election

By Liz Farrell

With a 24/7 media cycle and an overload of social media, it is getting harder to shield our children from the negativity of this year’s presidential election. I used to work ... Read More

At Home, Home & Garden

June is home safety month

By Julia Strzesieski

Hazards in the home are responsible for about a third of the injuries suffered by older adults, and people with impairments may face difficulties — and barriers to independent li... Read More

Movie Reviews

New Yorkers in transit

By Michael Snyder

MAGGIE’S PLAN With her frequent presence in savvy, hip, low-budget features, Greta Gerwig is the current Queen of the Indies, starring in a run of independent movies spotligh... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

Mrs. Abby Fisher: Another unlikely heroine in the gastronomic trenches

By Ernest Beyl

As some of my readers will know, occasionally I have published essays about people I call “Unlikely Heroes or Heroines in the Gastronomic Trenches.” Some who come to mi... Read More

La Deliziosa Vita

Turn leftover rice into arancini, a comforting Sicilian snack

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Arancini (stuffed rice balls) is a beloved street food in Sicily, and it was one of my favorite childhood snacks. My grandfather made them using leftover Arborio rice from risotto,... Read More

New & Notable

Summertime and the dining is outside

By Julie Mitchell

San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to welcome food trucks into its dining community, although taco trucks had long been a part of the Mission’s street culture. No... Read More

The Tablehopper

The smell of croissants is wafting in North Beach …

By Marcia Gagliardi

Good things can take time, but David Carbonell has been waiting to open his North Beach bakery for more than a year, weaving his way through a quagmire of city permits and more. An... Read More

Supervisor's Report

What’s at stake in the June 7 election?

By Aaron Peskin

This month, San Francisco voters will help set the stage for the next decade of San Francisco politics. While most voters have been consumed by the presidential primary and the pro... Read More

North Beach Journal

The Clooney caper; an ode to the perfect bloody Mary; the osso buco episode; and Amanda, the deputy sheriff

By Ernest Beyl

POLITICALLY INCORRECT AND THE CLOONEY PROTEST This paragraph should have appeared in my May Sketches column but monthly deadlines being what they are, I missed it. However, I think... Read More

Issue June 2016