After Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom used San Francisco to get to Sacramento, he has since ditched us for highfalutin Ross. (Yes, technically he is still a resident of Baghdad by the Bay, but...come on.) His Ashbury Heights home is now on the market, and you can buy it a little over a couple million, reports SF Weekly. more ›

"Escape From San Francisco" by Plug1/What I'm Seeing. more ›

A Glen Park home recently received an award for being so stunning, as well as its own article in the Wall Street Journal. The American Institute of Architects Housing Award, which is handed out annual to outstanding residential designs, bestowed local architect James Zack and Lisa de Vito with one of this year's big prize. The house, located on Laidley Street, was described by WSJ as such: "From the street, its four light-gray cubes, neon-green door and huge, perfectly square front window all look as if they could have been assembled from massive pieces of Lego. Inside, a three-story translucent staircase made of acrylic filters sun from the skylight up top to the basement below ground. Virtually every room of the 3,000-square-foot home has large windows displaying views of the city so vast they're sometimes harrowing." Gorgeous. more ›

Several rallies in Northern California happened today calling for lawmakers to help on a moratorium of foreclosures. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) helped spark the protests, calling on all "mortgage lenders and servicers to implement a 90-day foreclosure moratorium and to use this time to modify loans to affordable terms for homeowners." more ›