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The regular Saturday concert at Caffe Trieste in North Beach was already under way when the cafe's founder, Giovanni Giotta — known to regular customers simply as Papa...
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Ex-supervisor Dan White's former campaign manager, Ray Sloan, was the first person to take his seat at the Castro Theatre last week for a matinee showing of Milk. When the...
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On Jan. 9, 2001, a ragtag group of neighborhood activists arrived in San Francisco's historic, oak-paneled Legislative Chamber to be sworn in as the newest members of the Board...
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Not too long ago, the San Francisco Coalition for Responsible Growth announced its plans to "put an end to the ideological approach that exists in City Hall" by defeating...
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San Francisco may be the spiritual homeland of the gay-rights movement, but that doesn't mean all its residents are of the same mind when it comes to Proposition 8, the...
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Free speech has always been a cherished aspect of San Francisco's political and cultural life, but apparently speaking your mind goes only so far at a local bastion of...
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Sometime past midnight on Labor Day of last year, 22-year-old John "Daniel" Schirra was running nude along an Ingleside District street, yelling for help. He was in the grips...
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Looking down the barrel of a $338 million budget shortfall, the mayor and board of supervisors moved last month to double the permit fees from $30 to $60 on publications using...
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In September, rental agent Lynne Hubbard sat in a cafe across from Dr. John Getzow, whom she was considering as a potential tenant for a room above O'Reilly's Holy Grail...
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There's more trouble on the tracks for the city's proposed $1.3 billion Central Subway project. BART officials are hopping mad because San Francisco Municipal Transportation...
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As the city looks down the barrel of a $338 million budget deficit that will cost hundreds of city jobs and make bone-deep cuts to city services, Mayor Gavin Newsom has...
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When feral kittens are put up for adoption at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, it's usually the health-check technician who gives each one a...
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The San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commission has declared war, but the field of battle is not on foreign shores. Rather, the commission is engaged in full-scale combat with...
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San Francisco politicians harp on about the need to stop big business from spoiling the city's character, and they have enacted some of the toughest restrictions on chain...
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Independent vice-presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez sits attentively in the front row of UC Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium, waiting for an introduction to 400 political...
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Over the past 15 months, administrators for San Francisco's Taxicab Commission have made longtime cabbie Jacob Brettholz public enemy number one. He has had his cab permit...
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Leave it to the cost-cutters at MediaNews to try to sell their East Bay readerships a newspaper makeover that will improve the quality of journalism with fewer...
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Aaron Peskin walks into North Beach's legendary Caffe Trieste, wearing a natty olive suit and acting like he owns the place. Seven years after the neighborhood preservationist...
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After an outcry by gay activists and a pointed editorial in the Bay Area Reporter, a queer weekly newspaper, UCSF apologized for a recent press release about a new study...
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Political consultant Ray Sloan took a deep drink of white wine, returned his glass to the bar, and began to reminisce about the political campaign 30 years ago in which he...
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