San Francisco, D.C. part ways on police reform

San Francisco leaders chastised the U.S. Department of Justice after DOJ announced plans to refocus involvement in local policing away from reform and community trust toward fighti... Read More

News Briefs

Valentino Market’s second century

By John Zipperer

Nearly 210 residents of Cow Hollow and the Marina recently gathered to celebrate the 100-years-and-counting of Valentino Market (Buchanan and Filbert Streets). Owner Elie Chahwan w... Read More

News Briefs

Union Street Merchants upset with Van Ness BRT project

By John Zipperer

The ongoing Van Ness Transit Corridor Improvement Project has a clumsy name only a bureaucrat could love, and many merchants on Union Street definitely don’t love one of the proj... Read More

A & E

Sixty festive years of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and a backward glance at an American art form

By Ernest Beyl

I admit reluctantly i prefer to hear small jazz groups — trios, quartets, sextets — in what we once called smoky nightclubs. That’s the way Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quar... Read More

Bellingham by the Bay

The art of the dull

By

There’s something to be said for dullness. Something to be said for things that are quiet, still, and safe. Recollected in tranquility. You know the old Chinese curse: “May you... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Angela Alioto on the 25th anniversary of the smoking ban

Years of fighting Big Tobacco led to a law that swept the nation — and the world

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When you ask politicians if they’re running for office, you expect coy deflection or a flat-out no, even if that no really means yes, but that’s not how Angela Alioto rolls. �... Read More

Art World

Klimt & Rodin: An exhibition takes us on a journey when two artists met

By Sharon Anderson

This month, Oct. 14, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will present the first major Gustav Klimt exhibition on the West Coast through Jan. 28, 2018. A leader of the symbolist ... Read More

Issue October 2017