July 2008

      By Kristi A. Smith

Omega Boys Club Offers a Cure for Violence

Teenagers from around the Bay Area come to Dogpatch-based Omega Boys Club to get a second chance at an education.  But while the nonprofit is housed in a San Francisco Unified School District building, Omega is not your typical school.   “What happens in here does not look like what happens in another classroom,” said Deborah Estell, Omega’s Coordinator.  “What happens here is magic.” (more...)

        May 2008                                 By Jim Van Buskirk   

Contemporary Jewish Museum

  Opening next month, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is a dramatic addition to South-of-Market, and one of the last pieces of the City’s decades-long redevelopment of Yerba Buena.  The museum, which was designed by internationally-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, imaginatively incorporates... (more...) 

December 1 , 2007
By Kerry Fleisher

Mariposa Hunter’s Point Yacht Club Celebrates 75th Birthday

    Before a horizon composed of parked cargo ships and scattered tug-docks, members of the Mariposa Hunter’s Point Yacht Club members celebrated the 75th birthday of their club last month with tales of the southeastern seafront, camaraderie forged amongst sailing aficionados and dilettantes, and a poetry readings by the open waterfront... (more...)

February 28, 2007
By Julie Mitchell

Golden Gate Railroad Museum Seeks New Location to House Historic Steam Engine

The U.S. Navy and City and County of San Francisco have purged more than environmental toxins from the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which was contaminated with radioactive wastes. In addition to the unwelcome pollution, a number of long-term tenants, including various artists, have been evicted from the shipyard. Some have nowhere else to go... (more...)

January 2, 2007
By Allyse Heartwell

Local Theater Companies Provide Artistic Excellence, Diversity

“It’s sad but true that in the Bay Area you’re generally in an extremely diverse part of the country – except when you’re in a big theater,” Tony Kelly of Thick Description observed recently... (more...)

October 26, 2005
By Jonathan Farrell

San Francisco Green Patrol

Tired of seeing litter and graffiti in his Mission Dolores neighborhood, Gideon Kramer decided to do something about it... (more...)

August 26, 2005
By Daniel Porras

Artists to Leave Work Spaces at Navy Toxic Waste Site

Artists and others enjoying cheap rent at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard were reminded recently that the site contains toxic and radioactive waste... (more...)

August 15, 2005
By Erica Gies

Artists Sculpt What the Oceans Can't Swallow

Milk containers, a toothbrush, a flip-flop, plastic cutlery, bottlecaps, shotgun wadding, prescription bottles: the flotsam and jetsam of our daily lives dance their way down a 70-foot-long cord... (more...)

August 9, 2005
By Daniel Porras

Struggling for Space in the Visual Environment

In a run-down bar in the Mission District, seven young professionals sit around a table plotting their next attack on the advertising world... (more...)

June 16, 2005
By Lorraine Sanders

Residents Hit the Streets to Clean their Neighborhoods

San Francisco may have been ranked the fifth cleanest city in the nation by a recent Reader’s Digest poll, but residents still see the need for improvement in their neighborhoods... (more...)

May 19, 2005
By Matt Isaacs

Moore’s Law of Philanthropy

Former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan likes to say he’s proof of life after politics, and you can see the change in his demeanor from the days when he ran the city... (more...)

March 1, 2005
By Daniel Porras

Fighting the Powers That Be With Free Food

To interview the Bay Area’s most active activist, you have to get in line with him at the San Francisco Department of Motor Vehicles... (more...)