This is the question I get asked almost every day: “Is this the right time to buy real estate?” People ask this for several reasons depending on who they are.
Real Estate: John M. Lee
SF Bay Area Pro-Am Basketball League Returns to GG Park’s Kezar Pavilion
The San Francisco Bay Area Pro-Am Basketball League Returns to Legendary Kezar Pavilion For One Last Season
‘Tiger’s Eye,’ Sunset District’s Newest Beauty Bar, Opens on Judah at 31st
Riding the N-Judah streetcar past 31st Avenue, one can see the seeds of a new beauty salon beginning to bloom where the former Sunset Strip Cafe once stood.
Living Beyond Labels: Navigating the Medical Needs of a Family With Disabilities
A gram scale sat with its stainless-steel face open on Marni Rosen’s kitchen counter. Numbers flashed, calibrating the small spoonsful of high-fat cooking oil, butter and heavy whipping cream that Rosen prepared. She eyed the ticking digits to their precise tenth decimal, remembering the strict instructions from the Epilepsy Center in a local San Francisco children’s hospital. After a debilitating series of Electrical Status Epilepticus in Sleep (ESES) seizures nine years ago, Zeke, Rosen’s then 4-year-old son, began a meticulous, medically managed ketogenic diet.
Lou’s Cafe Uses Word-of-Mouth Advertising to Grow Its Bay Area Businesses
In 2010, Mark Brodeth and his family started a family-run establishment on Geary Boulevard in the Richmond District called Lou’s Cafe. For five years, the cafe grew in popularity through word of mouth. Eventually, Brodeth and his family were able to open branch locations in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay Area.
City Hall: Joel Engardio
This November, San Franciscans will decide whether a section of the Upper Great Highway becomes an oceanside park or remains a road for cars. It’s important to note we’re only talking about the section between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard, which does not have any on or off ramps for cars.
Nothing Up His Sleeve: Joe Pon’s Inner Sunset Misdirections Magic Shop Perseveres
Many passersby walking along Ninth Avenue in the Inner Sunset find it hard to resist popping their faces into the cardboard cutout of a magician pulling a bunny out of a hat just outside of Misdirections Magic Shop.
‘About Place’ Exhibit at de Young Explores Notions of Place and Identity
The new show “About Place,” opening on Aug. 10 at the de Young Museum, carries an adaptable theme, which could mean any number of things to the 10 Bay Area artists being exhibited.
Police Blotter: Sunset District
Recent police activity in the Sunset District.
Golden Gate Park’s Middle Lake Reopens After Five-Year Rehabilitation Project
A great blue heron glides just above the water at Middle Lake in Golden Gate Park, then gracefully spreads its wings, feet rippling the surface as it lands with a splash and gentle wake.
Announcements: August 2024
Things to do on San Francisco’s west side in August 2024.
Classic Parkside Diner Harkens Back to the 1950s
A Parkside neighborhood staple, the Tennessee Grill, has remained at its original location for more than 70 years, serving American and Asian-inspired food.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Over five years ago, I opined in these pages about then U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and her dishonesty in securing $97,000 from California taxpayers as a member of the California Unemployment Insurance Board to which she was appointed in 1993 by her boyfriend Willie Brown, then-Assembly Speaker, while simultaneously paid by Alameda County taxpayers as an Alameda County deputy district attorney, supposedly a full-time endeavor. The following year (1994), she was named to the California Medical Commission at an even higher tax-paid salary which was increased in 1998 to $99,000 per year. Somehow, she evaded a state law prohibiting payment for two jobs which might result in conflicting responsibilities.
Letter to the Editor: Keep Dogs on Leash
The parking lot is not an off-leash area. Most of the people who bring their dogs keep them on-leash until they are inside the gate. It’s the only considerate thing to do but it seems some owners have no consideration.
Assembly: Phil Ting
School is starting up again in a few short weeks, and many parents are concerned about a teacher shortage that many states are experiencing. Here in California, we have taken another step to attract more people into the profession – thanks to recently enacted legislation.
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