North Beach News

These are excerpts from the San Francisco Police Department 's daily log of activities.

Albert Hoffman Not only was the CIA operating secret LSD experimental labs in New York, and Stanford, they had a place in San Francisco in North Beach on Chestnut Street with wonderful views of the Bay.

As a native-born son, I enjoy walking around the different neighborhoods of San Francisco with 40 hills and bay views.

An American in Paris muses about a "parfait sundae" of art, antiques, culture, poetry and politics.

A lackluster second quarter for office building sales ended with a nice little deal on the north waterfront.

First it was a 16-story green blob. Now it's a 14-story box in tailored blinds. And the dispute over the design of City College of San Francisco's Chinatown campus is down to punched windows in the wall of an ...

KBS Realty Advisors has acquired the 250,867-sf, two-building Dupont Centre office complex for $80.1 million in one of three recent acquisitions for the Newport Beach-based investment firm.

Mike DeNunzio wants to meet at "the shrine." You know where that is, don't you, Debra? Well, no, actually.

"Everyone knows that the best evening one can have in San Francisco is to have two rounds of cocktails at Caf Tosca on Columbus Avenue and then jaywalk over to City Lights Books for tipsy book shopping.

If the middle class is being run out of town by an influx of outside money , where does that leave the artists? In the best of times, the creatives who give this neighborhood so much of its soul live largely by ...

You can usually figure out how old a longtime San Franciscan is. Talk to him about the city for a while and you'll find that the points of reference are usually fixed pretty firmly in a certain decade.

Child is doing summer classes at San Francisco Art Institute , Mon-Fri, 9-4. It's impractical for Mom to go home and come back between drop-off and pick-up, so she needs a place to study near the Institute.

Maurizio Bruschi started making his thin-crust pizzas at Pazzia, which I blogged about last year, but a dozen years ago, he sold out and opened a Rome-inspired trattoria in the heart of North Beach.

Besides the boozy eyes late-night revelers have when they exit Broadway Street clubs and bars, they also may soon leave with distinctive handstamps to help police track where they have been.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is advising residents and visitors of several events this weekend that will prompt street closures in the city.

Whether you're a San Francisco native or first-timer sporting a fanny pack, there's really no better way - ' or cheaper way - ' to experience The City than by attending a good ol' neighborhood festival.

The 20-Columbus. Remember? That new trolley line, along with a rerouting of the 9x, was North Beach's consolation prize for losing the 15-Third, eliminated when the T-Third light rail line deep-sixed it last ...

Jun 9, 2008 6:21 PM by Staff , The Examiner The North Beach Festival features chalk art and animal blessings.

San Francisco is an Art Deco Lover's dream city. This year's Art Deco weekend is Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8, 2008.

Like any great city, San Francisco can show off more splashy landmarks than tourists could ever hope to see.