Jerks on the loose

I travel a lot. No surprise there, since I write a column called “The Coastal Commuter.” One of the various things that I’ve learned on my journeys is that you’ll run int... Read More

Weekend Traveler

The Scottsdale scene

By Patty Burness

When it’s warm desert air you crave, there’s no better place than Scottsdale. Formerly citrus groves and cotton fields, now it’s a mix of modern and Old West adjacent to Phoe... Read More

Arts & Culture

Andy Warhol inspirations at S.F. Art Institute

This month SFAI will exhibit a curated selection of original Andy Warhol Polaroid photographs, gelatin silver prints, and screen prints gifted by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Lawmakers still largely ignoring Uber and Lyft traffic nightmare

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“Shared scooters/bikes are an exciting part of the future of urban mobility . . . If we’re serious about reducing congestion, as we should be, we need to make it easy for peopl... Read More

Crime Beat

Criminal intent

Where does San Francisco really land in the crime rankings?

By John Zipperer

Standing in line at the Walgreens checkout, you see a slumping, somewhat disheveled man who has been loitering in one of the nearby aisles suddenly quickly head toward the exit, us... Read More

Back Story

Corned beef and cabbage and green beer for Saint Paddy’s Day? Not so much in Ireland …

By Julie Mitchell

San Francisco has a large Irish-American community, so large in fact, that its annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade and festival at City Hall is the West Coast’s largest Irish cel... Read More

District 2 Supervisor

Fire safety: Precautions and preparedness

By Catherine Stefani

Last month, I stood a few hundred feet from the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Parker Avenue staring at a spot that had been engulfed in a 50-foot high fireball a couple of h... Read More

Supervisor's Report

How the Board of Supervisors did right by the voters with windfall budget plan

By Aaron Peskin

One of the reasons I voted to elect my colleague Supervisor Norman Yee president of the Board of Supervisors two months ago was his experience and ability to cobble together a coa... Read More

Art World

SFMOMA presents ‘Snap & Share: Transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks’

By Sharon Anderson

The year was 1997. a French software engineer, Philippe Kahn, had become a father. Using a cobbled-together device consisting of his mobile phone, a digital camera, and a linked o... Read More

Television

Dark passage, dark night

By Michael Snyder

It’s fair to assume that most wired-in people have at least one or two favorite primetime television shows that demand a weekly watch. I’ve heard the phrase “appointment TV�... Read More

Wellness

What is nutrition and why should you care?

By Catherine Benton

March is National Nutrition Month — a great time to assess your personal nutrition plan and gain an understanding of the importance of nutrition in your life. Hippocrates said, �... Read More

News Briefs

Real Estate Reporter

Numerology

By John Zipperer

This month, let’s dig back into the numbers and see what about the local real estate market makes us smile, makes us worry, or makes us want to lose our lunch. BIGLY “In 2018, ... Read More

Issue March 2019