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Even in an era when top hats and monocles have given way to blazers with jeans and loafers, it's still swell to be a swell. The trappings of wealth may change, but the access...
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Earlier this month, the Examiner revealed that the city outfitted its prisoners in jail pants manufactured in a Dominican plant purportedly guilty of a bevy of sweatshop...
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In 2005, San Francisco 49ers fans Daniel and Kathleen Sheehan objected to the team forcing patrons into a game of two-hand touch. Claiming mandatory pat-downs of their person...
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For a boxer who is undefeated in 16 pro bouts, San Francisco's own Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield has grown remarkably adept at searching out silver linings. For example, his...
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You know that deposed San Francisco sheriff whose life and career were immolated following a sordid accusation from his wife? You sure? Because this isn't a story about Ross...
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In the most overtly political of Bernard Zakheim's Depression-era Coit Tower murals, a man reaches for a copy of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. How funny, then, that a dozen swells...
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Illustration by MEAR ONE.
June, 1970: an interesting time. Behind the scenes at the Grateful Dead Festival Express tour: an interesting place. But if you want to see...
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Ranters: Two thirtysomething women buying, respectively, diet soda and laundry detergent; an entitled young man eating cake and leafing through a magazine while sitting...
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Illustration by Jesse Lefkowitz.
Not so long ago, a San Francisco tax lawyer and habitual hot chocolate drinker named William Weissman was puzzled as to why he paid sales...
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The 30-odd folks who filed into the Main Library's Koret Auditorium for a recent "Muni Town Hall" looked exactly like you'd expect the crowd at a Muni Town Hall to look....
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After working with Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom, Mayor Ed Lee should know moral turpitude when he sees it.
The same goes for "official misconduct," which Lee claims Ross...
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Ross Mirkarimi dealt himself a bad hand, and he played it even worse.
While it's hard to conceive of any scenario in which the suspended sheriff could have retained his home...
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Sometimes it seems Ed Lee is not just the mayor but the official greeter of a city that relies, to an alarming extent, on tourist dollars. Last week, the city and America's...
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Due to this week's decimation of the America's Cup deal, it's uncertain when the Board of Supervisors will be voting on the ever-shifting plan to transform San Francisco's...
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There's a world of difference between standing in the cold desiring a streetcar and A Streetcar Named Desire. But, thanks to San Francisco's ongoing drive to ensure those...
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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen, based on The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
A century ago, Daniel Burnham, the preeminent architect of his day, presented San...
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Speaking to the press after a superlative game, 49ers punter Andy Lee tends to credit God for his on-field mastery. If the Lord does intervene in kicks, it's happening across...
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Charles Schulz's Peanuts featured Linus Van Pelt quoting Victorian scholar and critic John Ruskin ("The best grace is the consciousness we have earned our dinner.") and also...
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Illustration by David Flaherty.
Copper thieves are pilfering copper. Carjackers are jacking cars. Home burglars, however, are not making off with homes. The plot of the...
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If the ingredients of comedy are tragedy plus time, the formula for nostalgia must be time plus banality. Given ample years, everyday items morph from detritus to...
