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Megan Shaw Prelinger is proud that her private library — tucked into a former warehouse at 301 Eighth St. (at Folsom) and open to the public on Wednesdays — is a...
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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen.
Mystery stories are generally concerned with who did what, when, and how.
But in this one, about the way government officials have for...
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Listen closely to the rhetoric of the 2011 political season. President Barack Obama — a conservative Democrat with a keen ear to Wall Street — is a fearsome...
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In July I received a call from Don Casper, the former chairman of the San Francisco County GOP, vice president of the Civil Service Commission, and prominent local...
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Last year San Franciscans were outraged when Laguna Honda Hospital administrators took money from a gift fund meant to provide simple pleasures to patients and instead spent it...
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For the first time in history, San Francisco police officers can hand a crime witness a business card and say, "If you hear or think of anything else, please send me an...
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Photo courtesy www.lelandyee.com. Photo illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen
Leland Yee — the state senator who, according to some polls, is the current mayoral...
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Fleshy, dark-haired, stuttering Paul Noe II sits at a document-laden table with an elderly veteran. Noe asks the man about his military years, about what life has been like...
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After years in the economic wilderness following the 2001 dot-com crash, designers, artists, webmasters, and all sorts of multimedia, networking, and software experts are...
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In some cities, police departments fire cops who break the law. In San Francisco, they're attempting to fire one for trying not to break the law.
Homicide inspector Frank Lee,...
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Cover design by Andrew J. Nilsen.
Jan Sako gives a tour of the warehouse headquarters of Campus California, a Richmond charity responsible for the more than 1,000 used...
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On April 29, the University of San Francisco hosted a debate that seemed to promise the first shots fired in the 2011 mayoral campaign. But in three hours of questions,...
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Bags the size of throw pillows have been slung over Americans' shoulders since Pony Express days. But they became a fashion statement during the early 1980s, when enterprising...
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On April 21, Richmond District landscape architect Kathy Howard warned members of the Board of Supervisors about a new kind of urban blight: Out-of-towners, she wrote in a...
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The lawyers wanted to prove Matt Foist was dumb. He recalls attorneys questioning him for hours about his decision to enroll in the California Culinary Academy, a for-profit...
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This story has been corrected since it was first published. We incorrectly stated that there were "800 or so species of birds worldwide" when we meant to say "nationwide."Just...
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On Monday, April 11, a speeding motorist blew through a red light at Masonic Avenue on Grove Street. The car slammed into a jogger in the crosswalk, breaking her leg, and came...
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In January 2009, after Bay Area journalism dean David Weir was laid off from the soon-to-be-defunct web startup Predictify, he gave SF Weekly writer Peter Jamison a big-picture...
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Illustration by Dale Stephanos
It's 7 o'clock on a dewy Friday morning as Paula Kotakis pushes through the brush just west of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. She's...
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After more than a decade of torturing readers with depressing news and turgid prose, today I'm begging you to torture yourselves — for the children's sake.
Please, do it...
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