North Beach News

San Francisco police are investigating the death of a young transgender woman whose body was found last week in her North Beach residential hotel room.

Pop up shops are scattered around the City. One of the most pleasing of the bunch, and well worth the effort it might take to pop in, is a combination of SF Gallery 143 & Local Patron .

Change is good, they say -- but Muni's service cuts are the exception to the rule.

The parking management company that runs four city-owned parking garages owes the Municipal Transportation Agency $146,000 in revenue from missing tickets and uncharged parking fees, a new city controller's audit found.

Wen, 82, has not left her house for almost a year, even though her home is just a block away from the prosperous and busy Columbus Avenue of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.

Pop-up shops touting everything from special edition surfboards to deeply discounted designer apparel and handmade goods by local artists and designers have descended upon The City just in time for the holiday shopping season.

A San Francisco theft has dampened spirits for a soon-to-be-married couple, but the wedding will go on.

It was a mix of the sliver-haired and the sliver-tongued. Last night was the 90th birthday party for North Beach institution Tosca Cafe .

If you find yourself on the wrong side of relaxation, SeeTed might have a prescription for you.

If in need of a noirish fix with your next cocktail, duck under the red neon that blares "Tosca" onto Columbus Avenue, push through the double doors of inlaid glass and let your eyes adjust to the dim light of ceiling sconces.

It seems that chophouses could be on the endangered list. Last week Chronicle Restaurant Critic Michael Bauer reported in his Between Meals blog that Acme Chop House at AT&T Park will close by Dec.

It was a slice of Bohemia in a city of commerce, a gathering of intellectuals striking out against what they see as mindless and saccharin art.

San Francisco has been a drinking town going back to the days of the Gold Rush and the infamous Barbary Coast.

When it comes to building new developments in the Bay Area, especially in San Francisco, the battle over limiting the construction of new parking spaces is pitched.

When I moved to San Francisco's Mission neighborhood in 1979, its predominately Latino residents appeared largely unorganized, if not disenfranchised.

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A visit to San Francisco is incomplete without visiting some of the most famous San Francisco tourist attractions.

Category: Italian Fior d' Italia, America's Oldest Italian Restaurant, has proudly served the citizens of and visitors to San Francisco since 1886.

A lookout was chosen to hold open the door. An invasion song was selected. "OK, when I say go, we go! No hesitation, or the maitre d' has time to throw us out," said ringleader Paul Rogers.

Add this to Lawrence Halprin's legacy: The work he did in San Francisco left us a life-size seminar on what makes urban spaces flourish or fail.