Cole Valley

Bouncer’s Christmas Carol

Jay Bennett breaks a heart

Renaissance men at the Nag's Head

Meet the Man Who Shot Everyone in His Neighborhood … Not That That’s a Bad Thing

Profits for Developers Initiative

Take a closer look at this truly awful measure funded by Don Fisher before signing on

Craig$list.com

The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

Thinking Big

Tenor saxophonist Mitch Marcus starts with the concept of the big band, then goes further

The Kids All Write

A new anthology argues that reading and writing still matter

Lookers

Why the big, gorgeous Cartographica Extraordinaire shouldn't sit unopened

And a Teen Shall Lead Them

How 15-year-old Ben Casnocha brought e-government to Cupertino, Menlo Park, Burbank, and other cities across California

Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

The enormous costs -- human and financial -- of bad drivers and lax discipline at the San Francisco Municipal Railway

Outfield

From the dugout, you could see small tents rising like goose bumps from the grass

Take Ral of Me

Tracking down the mysteries behind Ral Partha Vogelbacher's cinematic break-up album

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

The Man Who Came to Dinner

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Bluesman's Blues

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Ordinary People

Blessed comfort marks historic lesbian union

Murder at the Pink Tarantula

Carmel Sanger's death -- a walk-in shooting at a SOMA hair salon called the Pink Tarantula -- was professionally brutal. Her life was a wondrous combination of the drag queens and musicians and druggies and gays and bikers and lesbians and tattooists and

Dollars Without Sense

For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture