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Steven J. Moss The Center Won’t Hold By well before Thanksgiving, Mission Bay Development, with support from the California Department of Transportation, plans to rip-out the driveway in front of Center Hardware &…
Steven J. Moss
Fiction: Gold
This is chapter three of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. “Mr.…
Publisher’s View: Grand Canyon
An elementary school cliché is the oft-mocked “what I did this summer” essay. It’s an attempt to link the unstructured chasm between one grade and the next, a chance for…
Short Cuts
Death The San Francisco Police Department is investigating the death of 23-year-old Melanie Olivieri as a possible homicide. Olivieri’s body was found at her home on the 1300 block of…
Fiction: Gold
This is chapter two of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. Chester…
Fiction: Gold
This is chapter one of a serialized tale of politics, capitalism, and corruption in San Francisco. Look for the next fiction installment in each new issue of the View. “I…
Publisher’s View: Jump Ball
Tussles over land use changes are nothing new in San Francisco. Protests erupt over removing a diseased street tree, or building a backyard deck. Larger projects are periodically blocked. The…
Film Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which opens in Los Angeles and New York on August 7, is about sex. More specifically, it’s about a feverish waking sex dream: that…
Publisher’s View: Democracy
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to wrestle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, San Francisco is in the middle of an internecine battle between three candidates for the…
Hill Collector Curates Provocative Art
You never know what might be behind a front door or garden gate in Potrero Hill. Indoor swimming pools, high-tech lighting arrays, lavish tropical gardens, elevators, dungeons, and hand-hewn homes…
Publisher’s View: Cuba
President Barack Obama’s plan to normalize relations with Cuba, announced late last year, sparked memories of a family trip I took to the island more than a decade ago. My…