Nob Hill News

Tony Bennett, who famously sang about leaving his heart in San Francisco, is being honored by the city at a ceremony in City Hall on Valentine's Day.

San Francisco and its infamous dome, which has endured quakes, assassinations, weddings, and controversy, most recently surrounding the gay marriage ban known as Proposition 8. The latter of which the Ninth District Court ruled Tuesday was unconstitutional.

I can't think of a better way to come off the weekend than at this sister restaurant to Boulevard.

San Franciscan singles were more than three times as likely to suggest sushi as a first date as singles in other areas, a dating site said.

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A Driving over the Bay Bridge in the 1950s, before downtown was taken over by high-rises, my dad used to say that San Francisco was "The City of Light."A Hill after hill covered in bright buildings and roofs, created a visual quilt of colored squares on the ridge tops, a Cubist cityscape.A He'd been an art major at Cal after the War in the 1940s ... (more)

While culinary revivalism of 19th century San Francisco typically focuses on the Barbary Coast, the Big 4 looks elsewhere: to an 1870s-era city dominated by Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Collis Huntington - and the powerful Central Pacific Railroad.