This Pacific Heights penthouse is one of only 12 half-floor residences in the building. "The building was built in 1927 so it has very lovely details in the ornate plaster," says listing agent Dona Crowder with Pacific Union Real Estate. "It has recently been refurbished with new hardwood floors and a remodeled kitchen and bath. It was just really, really nicely redone." The building is on a corner and has elaborate entryway details with a vaulted ceiling. Read More

Bay Area Episcopalians will vote Saturday for a new bishop of the California Diocese in an election that could create controversy if one of three gay candidates wins.The vote comes three years after the first openly gay Anglicanbishop, Gene Robinson, was elected in New Hampshire. Conservative elements within the church threatened to split off after that election, and have made the same threat again. Read More

For the first time since 2002, a new Academic Athletic Association singles boys’ tennis champion will be crowned today.A year after Kenzo Hirakawa-Wong won his fourth straight AAA championship, Lowell freshman Antony Bogodist will try to begin his own reign at the top of The City tennis ranks. The top-seeded Bogodist overcame a first-set loss to beat Washington’s Benson Chau 3-6,6-2, 6-1 in one semifinal. He will face Wallenberg’s Javan Gardinier. The second-seeded Gardinier beat Lowell junior Max Zidorov in straight sets Read More

Michael Fields has a very patient wife. Sandra Fields is originally from the Virgin Islands and has been waiting 38 years to move back to her warm-weathered isles. But it looks like she’ll just have to keep waiting. The family has followed Fields’ career from Long Island to New York City to Massachusetts to the Bay Area, where they have been since the late 1980s. "We came out to California and my wife saw that she didn’t have to wear a coat," said Fields. "She loved it and after that she informed me that she and the kids were moving back to California." Read More

Higher fares, increases in parking permit fees and a passenger fuel surcharge could all be on the table next month, as Caltrain looks to close a $4 million budget gap, officials said Thursday.A 12.8 percent growth in average weekday ridership that drove revenues up $5 million helped to narrow the projected 2006-07 gap from $13 million a year earlier. But having raised rates twice — by a total of about 52 cents a ticket — in 2005, board members said they feared driving riders away with another increase. Read More

Here in the little town on the edge of the world things seem to be getting back to normal. Which of course means that nothing normal is going on at all. Don’t worry, my editor will untangle that sentence. The SF Weekly is doing their annual Best Of The Bay poll, which means every weird, funny and uniquely San Francisco institution will get their moment in the sun. Who am I gonna vote for? Well, I always have a soft spot in my heart for the Institute for Unpopular Culture, the traveling art caravan of craziness that has had a no-commission policy in place from the get-go. Read More