The Portfolio: Winner, August 2026
PV Staff Created by Dashel Lu-Pearson, age 11, "Under the Sea," is a two-piece, interactive artwork. The underwater scene is drawn using color markers on a transparency. The transparency is then mounted…
July 2026
Large Ship Repair Fades into San Francisco History
Jessica Zimmer The Port of San Francisco has directed global engineering firm GHD to draft a demolition plan for two prominent ship repair structures – Eureka Drydock and Drydock Number Two –…
Protestors at Lowe’s Call for Flock to be Herded Away
In May, roughly two dozen protestors spent about an hour outside Lowe’s Bayshore Boulevard outlet calling for the store to terminate its use of Flock Safety’s license plate surveillance technology…
Keith Goldstein Reflects on 25 Years with the Merchants Association
Rebekah Moan In the span of his 25 years affiliated with the Potrero Dogpatch Merchants Association (PDMA) – first as a member, then as president – Keith Goldstein can’t remember one contentious…
Publisher’s View: Worst of Times, Best of Times
Steven J. Moss In one of his bits, comedian Alex Edelman recounts talking to a family member who laments the state of current affairs, anxiously declaring, “This is the most challenging, worst time…
Short Cuts
Ouch According to The San Francisco Standard, between December 2025 and May 2026 the total number of parking tickets issued in the City rose by 21 percent. The biggest jump…
District 10 Supervisor Q&A
The View asked three top contenders running for District 10 Supervisor to respond to a series of questions. Their answers are published in the April, May, and July issues. DJ…
Community Calendar: July 2026
7/2 ThursdayArt: SF Museum of Craft and DesignThe Museum of Craft and Design is free on the first Thursday of every month. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Museum of…
The Black Magic Murders
Mark Steensland started writing for the View after picking up a copy of the paper while in the neighborhood conducting research for The Black Magic Murders, his fictional true crime…
Neighborly Kindness
It was a windy day, and I was trying to stuff too many birthday balloons into the back of an SUV. It was like cramming an octopus into a suitcase:…
One Lucky Day
Benjamin Lee One day, I happened to find myself in the right place at the right time. Little did I know that this would be the luckiest day of my life (so…
The Crows, The Crows, Oh the Crows
Paul McDonald Never a big birderYet arrested by a murderOf Crows…Rows and rows of Crows The arrival is brusqueCoalescing at duskWith shock and aweThey scream and caw The amassing is harassingAlerting and…
Art Dances to Seismic Activity
S Anne Steinberg A tiny piece of the Venice Biennale, an international art exhibition taking place in Italy through November, is on view at the California College of the Art’s Wattis Institute. The…
