Joe Eskenazi
SanFrancisco Magazine
New York, NY, United States
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Sad, Shocking, and Predictable: The Kate Steinle Murder Trial You Didn't See
Sad, Shocking, and Predictable: The Kate Steinle Murder Trial You Didn't See → Read More
Piccolo Pete & the fading glory days of Candlestick Park
The Giants left Candlestick Park in 1999. The 49ers decamped in 2013. Piccolo Pete, however, is still here. The sign boasting 200,000 sandwiches remains, but it's now a cracked and chipping anachronism. → Read More
Is this Bud tasting room for you?
Greeting visitors to the Budweiser brewery and tasting room in Fairfield as they stagger from their cars in the searing heat of a Solano County summer is a hulking statue of a draft horse. Yes, the notion of traveling to experience Budweiser et al. in a tasting-room environment comes off as absurd — one could argue that all of America has become a de facto AB-InBev tasting room. [...] your… → Read More
Can San Francisco Remake Its Worst Public Space?
Civic Center Plaza has long been viewed as a design failure. Help is on the way. → Read More
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Geary Street?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Geary Street? → Read More
The Gangs of City Hall
After a few years of relative quiet, San Francisco’s progressives and moderates are at war again. May the sharpest elbows win. → Read More
Klay Thompson’s Fortune Cookie Foresees a 73-Win Warriors Season. (Eat It, Bulls.)
A record-shattering prediction inside a delicious dessert! → Read More
‘Let’s Stop the Politics of Rich and Powerful Developers Dictating How Everything Works’
Back in the political catbird seat, District 3 supervisor Aaron Peskin talks about retaking the city’s legislative agenda. → Read More
San Francisco General Hospital Staff Are Being Told to Flush Drugs Down the Toilet
San Francisco General Hospital Staff Are Being Told to Flush Drugs Down the Toilet → Read More
Two Public Officials, Political Consultant Face Felony Corruption Charges
The dragnet that ensnared Leland Yee, Shrimp Boy continues to dredge up behind-the-scenes wrongdoing. → Read More
San Francisco General Hospital Staff Are Being Told to Flush Drugs Down the Toilet
San Francisco General Hospital Staff Are Being Told to Flush Drugs Down the Toilet → Read More
Super Bowl Spending: Why We Can't Count on Tourists to Make the City Whole
An influx of free-spending visitors are supposed to more than make up for San Francisco's financial outlay. Anybody remember the America's Cup? → Read More
Ed Lee: Slouching Toward City Hall
The mayor is booed heartily at his inauguration. And now the fun begins. → Read More
Ed Lee: Slouching Toward City Hall
The mayor is booed heartily at his inauguration. And now the fun begins. → Read More
‘When I First Started, They Didn’t Even Have Uniforms for Women’
Vicki Hennessy, the new sheriff in town, is also a department lifer, and much has changed since the ’70s. → Read More
Flax Art & Design, Like the Artists It Serves, Is Decamping to Oakland
Planned condo tower dooms 78-year-old San Francisco business's headquarters—but Oakland reels it in with $100K (or more) to sweeten the deal. → Read More
The Housing Wars Hit the Beach
In a quest to densify San Francisco's west side, the city is kicking sand on some angry neighbors. → Read More
Scott Wiener Is Robbed, Lowballs Thieves, Gets Phone Back
Supervisor victim of "not very well-thought-out crime." → Read More
'You're Gonna Cry, Mother'
Mario Woods is laid to rest as a community roils. → Read More
The SFPD Institutes New Policy on Drawing Guns—and Police Union Objects
Police Officers Association not buying new ruling that pointing a gun at someone constitutes “use of force.” → Read More