Loma Prieta

Ding-Dong! Who Is It? EARTHQUAKE! ... Could Alarm's Ring Reveal Quakes?

Guardian Angels Want a Piece of the Action in the Tenderloin

Drugs? Violence? Crime? We're there. Following an announcement last week that the Tenderloin plans to step up a neighborhood program of citizen patrols, the Guardian Angels -- a national outfit that sends its members into the streets to deter crime -- is now trying to establish a beachhead in the ne ... More >>

Carey Nation

As ACT returns to its home at the restored Geary, Artistic Director Carey Perloff stages a coup de theatre for her fourth season

The Jolt Patrol

QuakeProof profits from the coming apocalypse

Night+Day

QuakeProof profits from the coming apocalypse

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Where There's Smoke

Yet more allegations of racism and mismanagement reveal smoldering tensions within the Fire Department

A Step Forward

Whether it's Agnos or Gonzalez, one of them needs to jump into the race

Toxic Acres

The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

Ready to Rumble

It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

Art in the Balance

A sneak peek at the new de Young reveals a rethinking of museum ideas

The Streets of San Francisco:

A History

Five Best Pre-Quake Structures

A History

City Lights

Capturing the Embarcadero at night and the 22 Fillmore all day long

A Bridge Too Far

Is it your fault that the seismic retrofit of the Bay Bridge will be years late, billions over budget, and uglier than ever? Maybe.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Is it your fault that the seismic retrofit of the Bay Bridge will be years late, billions over budget, and uglier than ever? Maybe.

Terminator or Bloviator?

Social moderate? Republican firemouth? Who is Arnold, really?

Best Bed & Breakfast

Chateau Tivoli

A Bridge Too Weak?

A UC Berkeley professor believes the unique new Bay Bridge design is fatally flawed

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

Urban Explorer

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Organ Failure

An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

Reel World

Why a drop in tourism could mean unexpected trouble for local arts groups

Rubble With a Mortgage

What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

Postscript

Mint Conditions

Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! (Yawn.)

Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

Riff Raff

Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

Ticket to Ride

Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

Night + Day

Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

Splendor in the Court

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Night+Day

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

History of the Dead

A photographer's view of the unwanted graveyard under the Palace of the Legion of Honor

Night+Day

A photographer's view of the unwanted graveyard under the Palace of the Legion of Honor

Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Dish

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Night+Day

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Letters

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Clockers

Residents of a downtown loft tell you where to get off

Pending Bay Bridge Closure Will Be Longest Not Caused By Act of God

The four days and change the Bay Bridge will be closed from 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3 to 5 a.m. on Tuesday Sept. 8 will be the longest period the span was shut down -- intentionally. Longtime Bay Area residents may well recall the one month and one day marathon rebuilding session between Oct. 17 ... More >>

SF Weekly Bugs Library To House Giants-Related Exhibit. Good News! It Was Already On Its Way.

Jon Leonoudakis prior to 'The Earthquake Game' in 1989​Earlier this month, SF Weekly noticed a sports-centric exhibit commemorating the Giants-Dodgers rivalry being shown in enemy territory at the Burbank Public Library. We vowed to hit up the San Francisco Public and wheedle them into hosting thi ... More >>

Rebecca Solnit argues that disasters bring out the best in humanity in A Paradise Built in Hell

Jon Leonoudakis prior to 'The Earthquake Game' in 1989​Earlier this month, SF Weekly noticed a sports-centric exhibit commemorating the Giants-Dodgers rivalry being shown in enemy territory at the Burbank Public Library. We vowed to hit up the San Francisco Public and wheedle them into hosting thi ... More >>

Shakedown 20: Day of the Flying Goldfish

Living on the edge -- of the San Andreas Fault​The afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, is marked for me by one of those brief and intense visual recollections that tend to define childhood memories: A pair of goldfish hovering in the air above their bowl.I was nine years old when the Quake of '89 hit. I g ... More >>

Rees' Pieces

Living on the edge -- of the San Andreas Fault​The afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, is marked for me by one of those brief and intense visual recollections that tend to define childhood memories: A pair of goldfish hovering in the air above their bowl.I was nine years old when the Quake of '89 hit. I g ... More >>

Screwed

A lawsuit against the city highlights an affordable-housing program's decades of mismanagement — and the middle-class homeowners who lost out as a result.

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Elizabeth Falkner's Iron Chef Run and Ice Cream Making, and a Moving Farm

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>

Disaster Drills Promise Pre-Halloween Blood and Gore

No pulse! No pulse!​Saturday morning, you will find screaming victims writhing on the ground throughout city parks. Throngs of trained rescue workers will be on hand to carry them off on stretchers. Be not alarmed, dear San Franciscans. This is not a zombie flash mob, and no, you didn't miss Hallo ... More >>