Market Street Archives

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Why 2023 is looking so tasty

Tamara Palmer - January 3, 2023

Promising restaurant openings, psychoactive edibles, and landmark shake-ups that may take effect this year

Homelessness

Lawsuit challenges SF’s homeless policies and seeks to stop sweeps

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2022

Data shows how the city repeatedly violates its own policies and federal Constitutional rights.

Art

Beyond the garden’s borders: A walk-through with installation artist Cathy Lu

Emily Wilson - August 11, 2022

Resilience and grief, in ceramic.

Music

Under the Stars: Must-hear Kokoroko, free beats at Laurel StreetFair, more

John-Paul Shiver - August 8, 2022

John Cale returns, Midlife comes to Independent, 'Bolsa Chica Calm' at Luggage Store Gallery—new music news!

Art

Life’s a grand circus—art is, too—for painter Michael Brennan

Mary Corbin - March 31, 2022

The artist-designer magically transforms pandemic into pandemonium and art-world portraits into carnivalesque celebration

Housing

Ten percent of SF housing is vacant, a new report shows

Tim Redmond - January 31, 2022

The number of condos that are sold but never occupied has soared in the past five years, suggesting that letting developers build freely doesn't really help the crisis.

Elections

School Board recall election set; Assembly candidates could run four times

Tim Redmond - October 18, 2021

Plus: Some very sketchy moves by signature gatherers for Boudin recall effort.

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Open Studios 2021, Colson Whitehead, The Residents return…

Marke B. - September 14, 2021

Plus: Cocteaufest, Leather Walk, Judy Collins, Tea Lautrec opening, and more choice events

Culture

Win a pass to How Weird Street Faire!

48 Hills - September 3, 2021

The 22nd annual phenomenon is celebrating Sun/12 with eight music stages, and tons of art and entertainment.

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