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I'm in the front passenger's seat of a yellow Ford SUV taxicab that rocks from side to side, repeatedly switching lanes at 80 miles per hour on U.S. 101 north toward downtown...
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Donald Casper seems an unlikely leader for a social protest. He's a former chairman of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, a former member of the state Republican...
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Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom and a dozen bureaucrats, politicians, and other notables grasped gold-painted spades, then simultaneously lifted them and lowered them into the...
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Biology instructor Dirk VandePol puts a satirical face on the concurrent fame and misfortune that have accompanied his role as leader of a group of scrappy do-it-yourself...
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Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom, still fresh off his abandoned governor campaign, held a press conference at the upscale hot-dog restaurant Show Dogs, packed it with press and...
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A half-century ago, when Don Cameron was growing up in the San Francisco neighborhood of St. Francis Wood, his family would summer at Yosemite National Park in cabins near the...
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Jan. 12 was an ordinary morning on Haight Street, the legendary hippie-themed retail district that also happens to be a hangout for the down-and-out. Ordinary, that is, but...
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During his Jan. 13 State of the City speech, Mayor Gavin Newsom depicted a city that would defy economic catastrophe and brush aside a projected $522 million deficit in order...
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For Californians dismayed by our state's dysfunctional politics, I offer a sign of hope: Last week it was possible to buy copies of the DVD Blond Cougar from Down the Street...
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Three months ago, over coffee at the cafe in City Hall's basement, Supervisor David Campos explained how he was trying to figure out whether a private contractor doing work...
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Heron's Head Park in Hunters Point is one of San Francisco's secret treasures. On what was once a dumping ground, people now stroll one-third of a mile onto the bay on an...
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As with any San Francisco dogfight, myriad organizations have piled on to the civic battle to pressure Sutter Health to rebuild St. Luke's Hospital at César...
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Back in the days when Gavin Newsom aspired to become governor, his every move seemed tailored toward succeeding Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's...
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One year ago, a successful measure creating a new Historic Preservation Commission threatened to freeze San Francisco in time. Now, it's the preservationists who seem to have...
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On the night of Aug. 5, inspectors at San Francisco's homicide detail got a call about a Pontiac Aztek abandoned on Terry Francois Boulevard, a two-lane street that runs along...
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In July 1993, lifelong amateur sailor Herbert Meyer, then 62, was crewing on a Rhodes 50 sailboat berthed at Pier 39.
"It was a nice July afternoon at about 4 p.m., and the...
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Real estate investor David Addington, 42, walks down the part of Market Street that intersects San Francisco's Skid Row, motioning at run-down century-old buildings and...
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It's an hour before dawn, and Espanola Jackson, a 76-year-old activist known for her leading role in antidevelopment battles, is awoken by a clunk coming from the kitchen of...
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Hugues de la Plaza, a 36-year-old French sound engineer living in San Francisco, began the evening of June 1, 2007, in pursuit of what writers for Paris Match deemed his...
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Martine Leveque moved to the U.S. from Haiti in 1983 and eventually established a Hollywood career writing subtitles in Italian and French for English-language movies. When...
