OCEAN BEACH AFTER THE STORM
After a bird was nearly slaughtered by our house cat, I walk to the beach and reconsider a beautiful Richard Wilbur poem.
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Lamb’s Quarters
Last night the owner of this establishment informed me that this weekend he and his girlfriend are going to go to Napa to acquire a lamb. This is not just …
Read MoreGood-bye To The Story, Hello To The City
Right about now, all over San Francisco, my magazine piece about the Lembi family is being taken off the shelves and the next issue of San Francisco Magazine is filling …
Read MoreMore Press on My SF Magazine Piece
Yesterday ProPublica, the independently funded investigative reporting organization featured my SF magazine story on its front page as the editor’s pick of the day.
Read MoreSF Magazine: The Slumlord Bubble
Eight months in the making, War of Values reveals how the city’s dominant landlords, the Lembi family of CitiApartments fame, bought up every building they could get their hands on, from the Tenderloin’s rattiest dumps to Nob Hill’s ritziest penthouses…
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