Looking out at Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz early one morning last year, a pair of silhouetted...
September 1, 2026
Arthur Persyko loves to make trouble. The good kind, that is. As a young man, he protested...
August 24, 2026
It’s game night at San Francisco’s Chase Center and the Golden State Warriors are not the only...
August 10, 2026
A tarnished silver coin from 1964, likely worth only $10 to any dealer, reminds Richard Lyons Corriea...
August 2, 2026
You probably stream most of your movies. But if you happen to rent a film on old-style...
July 15, 2026
Invite Klara Lux somewhere, and she’ll always show up early – except on the rare occasion when...
July 6, 2026
The day after Lynne Kaufman retired in 2005, she woke up in tears. “What had I done?”...
June 29, 2026
A months-long campaign by advocates for seniors, the disabled and other vulnerable populations has convinced San Francisco's...
SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A...
June 4, 2026
“I'm Chiquita Banana, and I'm here to say, bananas have to ripen in a certain way,” Margot...
May 28, 2026
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not...
April 14, 2026
EDITOR'S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply...
The day after Lynne Kaufman retired in 2005, she woke up in tears. “What had I done?” she remembers thinking. “I lost my purpose in life, my direction, my identity.” For decades, Kaufman had balanced two successful careers. She was a prolific playwright and author, while also serving as director of travel and study at ...
A months-long campaign by advocates for seniors, the disabled and other vulnerable populations has convinced San Francisco’s mayor and supervisors to restore millions of dollars in cuts to critical services. In an agreement reached in late June, officials decided to restore more than $28.5 million in cuts over the two-year life of the new budget. ...
SF SENIORBEAT COLUMN – March 17, 1886. A date you probably never considered. Carroll County, Mississippi. A place you’ve probably never visited or even heard of. But on that day, a terrible crime was committed there. A white mob, enraged by the effrontery of two black men who dared to accuse a white man of ...
“I’m Chiquita Banana, and I’m here to say, bananas have to ripen in a certain way,” Margot Breier sings, tossing her chin-length auburn locks then a sly smile at her audience. It’s the beginning of a riff she performed recently at Gen Blend Open Mic, a monthly salon at Ruth’s Table in the Mission District ...
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not talking ”bright lights, big city” wild, he’s talking “lions and tigers and bears” wild. Although he had a typical urbanized childhood, Gershenz says he couldn’t wait to leave home at 17 for San Francisco State University, “where it ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply of health issues, including slow-moving Parkinson’s, and kidney disease, prompted Jody Reiss, a retired therapist and AIDS educator, to move into an assisted living facility – at the relatively young age of 68. Most residents are 75 or ...
