Science you want to know: Epigenetic research actually explains what makes us human

So much of science promises a lot…and then never delivers. It’s enough to make you sigh and roll your eyes every time you see a screaming headline about a new type of research. That’s why so many of us don’t really want to dig in and try to understand some of the newer developments in […]

Ed, Christine, Ralph, and Alma are home and healing: 9 approaches to homelessness that work and why

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]

Mary, Melodie and the Mission district: women brutalized on our sidewalks

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]

Steve, Tori and the Western Addition: raising children without a stable bed

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]

The Sixth and Mission death corridor: assaults, brain trauma and homicide

If you are sent to live on the streets, it is for most people the same as being sent, without a mouth guard or helmet, into a boxing ring. A ring where the gong never sounds and there’s no rope to mark the place where someone could take a swing and blow out your eye […]

Restaurant review: Forget Iron Chef. Try Titanium Chef – behind the scenes at St. Anthony’s

Restaurant reviewer? Who, ME? The whole restaurant “evaluation” (yes, I did in fact just make air quotes with my fingers) is overwhelming to me – the analyzing, assessing, comparing, deciphering flavors, and parsing panache – that’s way outside my job description. Heck, I can scan a lab report faster than a menu. In fact, the […]