Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

Three years after the stay-at-home order came down, North Beach and the Castro could not look more different.

An episode involving a family-owned donut shop reveals how capricious a Peskin Administration could be.


Lawmakers are scrambling to address a surge in converter theft, but it’s a stubborn problem to solve in San Francisco and statewide. 

While many live performance venues have made it through the worst of Covid, the ‘after-pandemic’ is proving just as difficult to navigate.

A tale of two neighborhoods show different approaches to exiting San Francisco’s doom loop. 
