Getting personal with public works

Call it the time-lapse effect. I go in and out of San Francisco and Los Angeles in roughly two-to-three-month cycles, and due to that lifestyle I see things change in strange and u... Read More

Travel with your Dog

After the devastating fires, wine country is open for business

Part 2: The Mendocino Coast to Marshall

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

REJUVENATE AT THE STANFORD INN BY THE SEA Just up the road from the spectacular Little River Inn is the Stanford Inn Eco-Resort (44850 Comptche Ukiah Rd., Mendocino, 800-331-8884, ... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Delicious crab cakes and more in beautiful Bodega Bay

By Patty Burness

Once you’re off Highway 101 and headed west to Bodega Bay, the drive is through open farm and ranch land filled with orchards and vineyards. Then it’s over the hills to the coa... Read More

Real Estate Reporter

The off-market sales option

By John Zipperer

IS AN OFF-MARKET DEAL RIGHT FOR YOU? We’ve all heard the stories from recent years about homes selling within days or even hours of going on the market. That might sound like a s... Read More

Enter Stage Left

People behaving badly: Revelers go blah!

By Evalyn Baron

I’ll never forget that particular St. Patrick’s Day afternoon in New York years ago when I saw inebriated teenage boys pissing on the north wall of the Metropolitan Museum of A... Read More

Home & Garden

That leaky kitchen faucet

By Julia Strzesieski

Probably nothing in your kitchen gets as much use as your kitchen faucet — arguably the most functional and utilitarian piece of equipment in the house. A leaky faucet is probabl... Read More

MomSense

Navigating kindergarten decision time

By Liz Farrell

For many, March means the start of spring, college basketball, and this year, a few more inches of snow in Tahoe. But for parents with children hoping to enter kindergarten in the ... Read More

Wellness

Memory: The key to keeping with it

By Thalia Farshchian

It is estimated that 24 million people around the world suffer from dementia, and this number is predicted to double every 20 years until at least 2040. Brain conditions are not li... Read More

Movie Reviews

Panther power and subversion

By Michael Snyder

It’s been a few weeks since the release of the incredibly enjoyable, wildly kinetic, and unquestionably groundbreaking superhero movie Black Panther, the latest addition to what�... Read More

Art World

Asian Art Museum asks life’s biggest questions in Divine Bodies

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum’s exhibition Divine Bodies (March 9–July 29) will feature Buddhist and Hindu figurative sculpture from 1,500 years ago. Seventy large-scale historical scu... Read More

Appetites and Afterthoughts

Debunking the bunk about food and dining

By Ernest Beyl

In case you haven’t noticed, I love writing about food. I love eating it, too. This column is about debunking the bunk about food and dining. For some time now I’ve been keepi... Read More

New & Notable

Winning wine bars whet San Franciscans’ whistles

By Julie Mitchell

Located so close to the wine country, we San Franciscans love our vino. We buy it in bulk at Costco and BevMo; we buy it at Trader Joe’s and Safeway, and we like to drink varieta... Read More

The Tablehopper

It’s smelling meaty in the Marina, and sweet at B. Patisserie

By Marcia Gagliardi

MARINA Those in the Marina will soon be able to get their lamb salad and frozen Greek yogurt on with the upcoming opening of the fourth location of Souvla in the former David’... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Empower public process, not a political economy: ethics reforms we need now

By Aaron Peskin

Campaign finance reformers and government accountability advocates have long organized under the mantle “Money Out of Politics” — and for good reason. In a world where corpor... Read More

North Beach Journal

Only in North Beach: Assets in the old neighborhood

By Ernest Beyl

Readers of these sketches columns may remember I’m bullish on San Francisco — optimistic about its future. And, while I acknowledge the city has problems, I believe they are so... Read More

Issue March 2018