On election night, politicians and Muni officials backing the massive transit infrastructure bond were waiting for their political bus to arrive. But, | Continue reading
Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. Well, okay then. In reality, he’s actually ripping off a line from | Continue reading
Here was the plan being described to him, as far as Supervisor Matt Haney could parse it: In late 2018, San Francisco had embarked on a quest to design | Continue reading
In depositions, Rodrigo Santos did, notably, admit to having employed not one but two of former DBI director Tom Hui’s children. We are informed these are Hui’s only children, and that makes sense — if there were more, Santos probably would’ve hired them, too. | Continue reading
Many years ago, my Aunt Rita decided to return to her childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn. Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again — but, | Continue reading
After losing his restaurant job over a year ago due to a pandemic closure, Manuel Montejano came across a Craigslist ad for a job that offered to pay | Continue reading
Gradually then suddenly, the San Francisco-based co-living rental platform HubHaus has foundered and fallen into insolvency. The company, established in | Continue reading
The loquat, a phonetic translation from the Cantonese lou4 gwat1, originated in Southern China¹ — as did my ancestors. | Continue reading
Glitches plaguing CalREDIE, the California disease registry system, have led to crippling delays in information filtering back to counties | Continue reading
SF turned down a deal from Clear Channel that could’ve garnered some $40.5 million — in 10 years. With more toilets provided. | Continue reading
As San Francisco continues to make progress with reopening the city, one alarming trend has stood out: The number of people undergoing COVID-19 testing | Continue reading
Workers at Tartine Bakery this morning delivered letters to management at four Bay Area locations, formally stating they plan to unionize. The letters | Continue reading
Mission Pie, the 12-year-old restaurant and bakery at Mission and 25th, deploys the clever slogan, “Eat Pie. Live Forever.” If only. And, alas, no one | Continue reading
aking pie isn’t like operating an app-based business in San Francisco. There are rules. If you don’t follow the rules, you don’t make good pie. Karen | Continue reading
hen you wander into Manny’s at 16th and Valencia, everything is chill. It’s a big space. And it’s crowded. People are working on projects, sipping $1.75 | Continue reading
ou see that guy over there?” James points with his chin, not his finger, at a paletero wheeling his ice cream trolley through the Mission. “He could fix | Continue reading
An intractable system meets an intransigent developer and the result is lots of nothing and everybody lawyering up things first, here it is. Here’s the 137-page historical study of a laundromat, underwritten to the tune of $23,000 by Robert Tillman, who hopes to build an eight-st … | Continue reading
Protesting what they called the “techsploitation” of the city’s public space, about 50 protesters descended on a eight large white commuter buses Thursday morning, blocking their departure with scooters. | Continue reading