Smoke Signals on Polk Street has become a neighborhood anchor over 30 years, with its owner working the counter seven days a week.

Between the hours of 9 and 10 a.m. on a recent Monday morning at Smoke Signals on Polk Street, a revolving door of customers drop in to pick up copies of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Economist, ...

Macbeth and Macduff weren’t just three stories above me. They were dashing back and forth on a railing-free, catwalk-wide roof, swords clanging. As the characters vied for Scotland’s throne, it looked ...