Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

Republicans reelected Ronna McDaniel to a fourth term as party chair.


The South of Market area teemed with Japanese businesses from the 1880s to the great earthquake of 1906. 



Full service restaurant named in honor of the famous firewoman will open in shuttered Washington Square Bar & Grill.

If the vice president became the Democratic nominee, she would be the first-ever politico from the Bay Area to serve as a major party's candidate.

Grande Crêperie and Beach’n SF also make this month’s list of 5 relatively new local restaurants we sampled this month.