The day before Halloween in 2012, Donnie Fowler, a lobbyist from a little-known tech start-up called PredPol, e-mailed a confidential login and password to…
Cover photo of Aretha Sack and Janine Lee of Floss Gloss by Mike Koozmin. When she was a kid, Aretha Sack hated the color…
Cover photo by Kimberly Sandie. Maurice Caldwell looked out the door of the San Francisco County Jail toward Bryant Street, to a city he…
Through its many incarnations, the Strand Theatre has become a near-perfect symbol of transitions on Market Street. It hosted stage productions from 1917 until…
Cover illustration by Tin Salamunic. It's not quite 11 a.m. on the Emirates Team New Zealand hospitality boat, and the bartender is already working…
Vicente Fox is losing daylight. And as the sun slips away over the dome of San Francisco City Hall, the former president of Mexico…
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Twenty-eight miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, a strange, two-faced figure patrolled the outermost scrap of land in San…
Photograph and direction by Mike Koozmin. Design by Audrey Fukuman. Billy Sell was not, by any means, a sympathetic character. He'd earned a double…
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Only a few hours ago, the strawberry was sitting on a vine at a family-owned farm in Watsonville, about 90…
Photo by JP Dobrin . Sri Louise Coles was determined to hold the picket line. She remembered seeing a picket outside the A&P as…