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It's fitting that our Best of San Francisco issue hits newsstands in the days following the year's best weekend -- Northern California's Weekend du Sport. The Bay to Breakers...
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While "the sound of San Francisco" means many different things to many different people, it was synonymous during the mid-'90s with acid jazz, a commingling of jazz...
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Most of the advertised great views only provide, well, one great view. Ferryboats, on the other hand, offer an ever-changing selection of photo ops and panoramas that you...
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When three members of Congress write a letter, asking the executive branch of the U.S. government to answer questions raised by the press, it usually makes the news. When...
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On a rainy night in late January three mostly female bands held a "Women in Salsa" summit at a packed La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. Headlined by Texas transplant...
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For several years I indulged in a hobby both personally enriching and fiscally exorbitant: the creation of elaborate, sit-down ethnic meals. I had gotten hold of the Time-Life...
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Ever since Quentin Tarantino came along, it's been hard to predict what you'll find playing at the art-house theater. Why, many of these so-called highbrow cinemas have the...
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Richard Nixon's ruthless special counsel, Charles Colson, had a sign above his desk with the mantra, "If you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."...
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Living in San Francisco today -- when the Board of Supervisors has approved insurance coverage for city workers who want to have sex-change operations -- you have to ask...
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On a quiet stretch of Chestnut, where North Beach's brio accedes to Russian Hill's bankbook, you'll find the San Francisco Art Institute. Step through the portal, stop to...
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Former schools Superintendent Bill Rojas made a blustery return to San Francisco last week to appear before an obscure supervisors' committee, and though the meeting was only...
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On his first two records, 1998's Thrills and 1999's Oh! The Grandeur, Andrew Bird presented himself as an exceedingly bright and talented musician who had very little new to...
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For a while, I thought Clement was the best restaurant street in San Francisco, but now I'm pretty sure it's either Mission (it would take months to eat your way from...
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In the movies, dead husbands and dearly departed boyfriends have an irksome habit of revisiting the women who once loved them -- usually at inconvenient moments. Consider Demi...
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Not one to mince words, Kristin Hersh lets life speak for itself -- brutally and honestly. She describes her songwriting process as a beast of which she's hardly the master, a...
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In 1999, six women accused the then-87-year-old Rev. Bill Pruitt of molesting them at a school for missionary children in Africa in the 1960s and '70s (Pruitt died before the...
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Hidden amid high-rise senior centers a short walk from Moscone Center lies a tiny, green oasis. Alice Street Community Gardens -- nestled at the end of the one-block Lapu-Lapu...
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If you've grown up along the California coastline, it's a safe bet that you've had some sort of psychic interlude: Someone's read your aura, your chart, your palm, your cards,...
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There's something about good Southern bands that fans the flames of rock 'n' roll like gasoline on a campfire. Think ZZ Top's "La Grange," think Lynyrd Skynyrd, think slow,...
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Dear Social Grace,
Like many people, I work in an office building. I've always been awkward in social situations. Two situations that arise when going to work have bothered me...
