South of Market (San Francisco)

Paper Trails

The Daly Deal

How the sordid extraction of $50 million from Rincon Hill developers helps Chris Daly, city bureaucrats, and Gavin Newsom -- and hurts everyone else in San Francisco

Best New Downtown Public Space

JP Morgan Chase Building

The Migden Chronicles

One of the last standing Democrats writes the treatment for a flick in which a befuddled sci-fi hero helps California to a better future

Industrial Nightmare

How San Francisco planners, in trying to save S.F.'s dwindling industrial base, would hamstring the city's economic future

Palookaville

In S.F.'s political fight game, all the contestants are ignoring a national biotech debate that could put the local economy down for the count

Can you stop the bots?

Given that cyberspace is swarming with bots looking to snatch or destroy your data, does it make sense to install a firewall?

Comrades of the People's Republic

While traveling in China, our writer explores that country's increasing sexual freedom

Manifest Destiny

The Fire Department finds the easiest way to park in SOMA -- a land grab

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

Queen of Sixth Street

Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.

Signs of Progress

San Francisco politics were dysfunctional in the 2000s,but recent changes suggest there's reason for hope.

Watch S.F. Beatmaker Shlohmo Talk About Living and Creating in SOMA

The eyes of Shlohmo​Local video wizards Yours Truly recently dropped a cool new video of Shlohmo, the up-and-coming S.F. beatmaker born Henry Laufer, talking about living in the South of Market neighborhood. It's for a new Yours Truly series called the Neighborhood, which presumably will feature a ... More >>