Pacific Heights News

We have a rare campaign trail appearance in San Francisco by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein - yes, she IS running for re-election. Alas, she is campaigning for others.

Included in the itinerary is a $50,000 per plate founder's dinner at a 65,000-square-foot chateau in Hillsborough, a San Francisco suburb and one of the wealthiest communities in the country.

To think that there was once a time when the only way to get across the bay was by boat or a long journey over land.

With a facade and size that's mostly hidden from the street, the very quiet sale of 2845 Fillmore closed escrow last month with a recorded contract price of $11,000,000, generating $275,000 in transfer tax in a deal that was mostly hidden as well.

Sitting on a sunlit stoop near his lower Pacific Heights studios, the genial Scott Wells looks more like a regular guy out for a cup of coffee than the freewheeling choreographer whose works have sent dancers swooping on skateboards, pitted balletic Baryshnikovs in a boxing match with Rocky Balboa, and melded the physicality of contact improv with ... (more)

It's never too early to start planning a celebration and the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge on May 27th promises to be a big one.

Have we discussed the price adjustments in both buying and renting in San Francisco due to the Facebook IPO? Not enough! Let's see what happens when CNN lets one of its bloggers write a tl;dr post that makes our zip code pieces look like tweets by comparison.

It's never too early to start planning a celebration and the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge on May 27th promises to be a big one.

It's never too early to start planning a celebration and the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge on May 27th promises to be a big one.

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data.

On Saturday, May 19th, invite your girlfriends to Fillmore Street in San Francisco for a day of sales, wine, and raffles.

On a Sunday night in San Francisco's tony Pacific Heights neighborhood in 1996 while working for KPFA Radio, I observed hundreds of liberal activists, confined to a 'protest zone' of sorts, rallying in anger at President Clinton, who was a couple of hundred yards away at a fundraiser being hosted for him by California Senator Diane Feinstein.

A wave of independent, high-end clothing boutiques is washing over Pacific Heights' slice of Fillmore Street, putting San Francisco on the map as the next destination after Los Angeles and New York for fast-growing national and international brands.