2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (616+ words) If you follow local politics, you may have heard about: In the background of this is the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, a city commission empaneled since the 1990s to discuss local public records, and to find violations. I served on this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1802+ words) San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1399+ words) There is a specific kind of San Francisco day that only ramen can fix; the kind of foggy cold that calls for a bowl of pork-bone broth the temperature of a hot tub. I have had that day roughly four…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (234+ words) This week is Passover, a holiday I’ve almost never observed except in my own home in San Francisco. (And I have stories about that.) Passover runs eight days this year, from the evening of April 1 through April 9. You eat matzah....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (189+ words) North Beach is the neighborhood where you go to sit outside, watch people walk by, and eat something good without making a whole production out of it. The sidewalks are wider than they have any right to be, the side…...