Features

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  Building Overtime

  Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

  By Joe Eskenazi

  Wednesday, October 08

  Six hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents. This is a figure virtually every builder toiling within San Francisco city limits has... More >>
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  The Rise and Fall of the Monster

  Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

  By Ashley Harrell

  Wednesday, October 01

  When the careworn, emaciated man in the powder-blue long-sleeved button-down shirt drifted in through the courtroom doors, not many took note.... More >>
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  Bougie Nights

  Gangstas. Thugs. Knuckleheads. Baki Lepolo's bouncers have handled them all. But can they handle the VIP crowd?

  By Lauren Smiley

  Wednesday, September 24

  At the previously troubled corner of 11th and Folsom streets on a recent Sunday night, Baki Lepolo, patriarch of San Francisco nightclub... More >>
• Bouncers Gone Wild

  Despite increasing regulation, clubs don't always check their bouncers' backgrounds.

  By Lauren Smiley

  Wednesday, September 24

  The bouncer industry has become a bit more regulated since the days of the Barbary Coast, where legend has it that unwitting patrons who wandered... More >>
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  Homeless SF State students struggle to stay in school and stay loaded

  By Trey Bundy

  Wednesday, September 17

  Rex reaches over a chain-link fence and sticks a gyro sandwich, a two-liter bottle of Coke, and his skateboard between the branches of a tree.... More >>