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A murder mystery in Pacific Heights

FIRST PERSON | SUSAN McCORMICK The first book in a planned San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery series, The Fog Ladies features a group of spunky older women and one overworked, overtired, overstressed medical intern who live in an elegant apartment building in San Francisco — and then the older ladies start to die.  The story…

An opera star on the fast track

CULTURE BEAT | PAMELA FEINSILBER At only 25, opera singer and neighborhood resident Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen has already had a head-spinning career.  Cohen graduated from Princeton in 2015. Just two years later, he was one of 12 artists to join S.F. Opera’s prestigious two-year, performance-oriented Adler Fellowship Program, which is what brought him to San…

Yet Another Hole in the Head

FILM | ANDREA CHASE The 16th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, brought to you by the fine people at SFIndieFest, gathers a scintillating collection of the best of the genres of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and just plain odd films currently out there, along with the now traditional rescoring of a classic. The…

Bidding wars and other myths

REAL ESTATE | NINA HATVANY There are many myths about the San Francisco real estate market — many of them not true. MYTH #1: Homes are still going for 10 to 15 percent above asking in bidding wars. The truth is, the competition for San Francisco condominiums and homes has drastically slowed down as inventory…

Fillmore Street: Retail Mecca?

FILLMORE BEAT | CHRIS BARNETT Despite the fierce turnover among well-heeled retailers, is Fillmore Street still Mecca for merchants? Jon Levy, an exec with Leap — a New York-based firm that creates and launches traditional retail stores for web-based digital brands — is convinced of it. He just snapped up a second storefront on the…

More than a few of her favorite things

CHANDLER TANG is living her dream — curating and stocking what she describes as “very fun things” for Post Script, a new shop she’s just opened in a neighborhood she knows and loves.  Tang describes her new endeavor at 2413 California Street, near Fillmore — most recently habited by the women’s clothing boutique De Novo…

New life for an old library

By CHRIS BARNETT  One of the neighborhood’s enduring architectural treasures has been resurrected and a mystery is solved — almost.  The 107-year-old Beaux Arts four-story Health Sciences Library on the corner of Webster and Sacramento — which gave refuge to the smart and studious for decades, but has stood empty collecting cobwebs in recent years…

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