Issue June 2018

News Briefs

That’s the last straw

By John Zipperer

A lot of attention has been focused lately on the need to clean up downtown city streets, which are laden with drug paraphernalia and human waste. Looking at a different sort of cl... Read More
News Briefs

More officers

By John Zipperer

In mid-May, the city announced it would spend $34.2 million in public safety measures, including the addition of 250 new police officers. The increase will take place over the next... Read More
News Briefs

Jest Jewel honored

By John Zipperer

Fashion and fine jewelry store Jest Jewels was named as District 2’s honoree for Small Business Week in San Francisco. “Jest Jewels is more than just a store,” District 2 Sup... Read More
Art World

The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art at the de Young

By Sharon Anderson

The de Young Museum is presenting a large-scale, traveling survey of Precisionism, the first modern art movement to come out of the United States. During the early 20th century, Pr... Read More

The stopgap election

This month voters choose a short-term mayor and primary candidates for November’s general election
By John Zipperer

In 1962, only 2.63 percent of California votes were cast by mail. That percentage has grown almost every election since then, reaching more than 60 percent in 2014, before dropping... Read More
In Memoriam

Farewell, Bruce Bellingham

By Sharon Anderson

“Mind if I use you as a punchline? It won’t hurt.” Bruce Bellingham said that to me more than once in reference to his Marina Times column Bellingham by the Bay. He was ... Read More


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