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The Brett Carson Quartet Is Bringing Live Jazz Back to SF — And We're Here For It

In a city that seems to spend more time debating bike lanes and supervisorial turf wars than celebrating its own…

April 21, 2026

Toronado Saved by a Regular — Exactly How It Should Be

In a city where beloved institutions get swallowed by corporate landlords and replaced with something involving açaí…

Lower HaightApril 21, 2026

Smuin Ballet's Future Forward Reminds Us Why SF's Arts Scene Still Matters

Smuin Ballet is bringing its Future Forward program to the Bay Area, and if you haven't been paying attention to one of…

April 21, 2026

Philz Caved on the Flags. Nobody's Clapping.

So the Philz Coffee pride flag saga has reached its predictable conclusion: the new corporate ownership tried to strip…

April 21, 2026

Want to Actually Build Community? Pick Up a Paintbrush.

In a city that spends millions on "community engagement" consultants and bureaucratic outreach programs that produce…

April 21, 2026

Sean Dorsey Keeps Showing Up — And That's the Point

Sean Dorsey has been a fixture in San Francisco's dance community for years, and his philosophy is pretty…

April 21, 2026

Your Mom Deserves Flowers, Not Another Overpriced Candle

Mother's Day is this Sunday, and if your current plan involves a last-minute Walgreens card and a vague promise to "do…

April 21, 2026

Japantown's Karaoke Scene Loses Another Venue — And It's Not By Choice

Another small business in San Francisco is getting shown the door — not because it failed, but because the building…

JapantownApril 21, 2026

The Tenderloin: San Francisco's Most Misunderstood Neighborhood

Love it or hate it, the Tenderloin is one of the most fascinating, complicated, and honestly exhausting neighborhoods…

TenderloinApril 21, 2026

Oklou Turned the Warfield Into a Cathedral — And We're Converts

There's a moment at certain shows where the room shifts — where an artist stops being someone you've heard about and…

TenderloinApril 21, 2026

A Tourist's SF Itinerary Goes Viral for Being Absolutely Unhinged — And We Respect the Hustle

There's a certain breed of traveler who treats vacation like a military operation.

April 21, 2026

Sunrise at the Rusty Porthole: SF's Most Accidentally Poetic Photo Op

Sometimes San Francisco doesn't need a policy debate or a budget scandal to remind you why people put up with the rent…

April 21, 2026

Rise Over Run Proves SF Still Has Room for Small Makers Who Actually Make Things

In a city where "maker culture" has mostly devolved into people selling AI-generated sticker packs on Etsy, it's…

April 21, 2026

An Alameda Brewery Wants You to Drink Carbon Capture Beer. We Have Questions.

There's a brewery in Alameda offering tours where you can taste what they claim is the world's first beer made with…

April 21, 2026

The Bay Area's Loneliness Problem Isn't a Bug — It's a Feature of How We Built This Place

Here's a question that shouldn't be hard but somehow is: How do you make friends in the Bay Area?

April 20, 2026

Your Brain Is Fried. Here Are SF's Best Free Reset Buttons.

Here's something that costs the city zero dollars, requires no ballot measure, and actually improves quality of life…

April 20, 2026

Reminder: You Live in One of the Most Beautiful Cities on Earth

Sometimes you need to stop doomscrolling the budget deficit, the latest SFMTA fare hike, or whatever fresh bureaucratic…

April 20, 2026

Bernal Heights Has a Friendliness Problem — But It's Not Just Bernal

A newcomer to Bernal Heights recently raised a question that a lot of San Franciscans have quietly asked themselves…

Bernal HeightsApril 20, 2026

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Decent Gym in San Francisco?

Here's a fun exercise — no pun intended — in San Francisco economics: Pay more, get less.

SoMaApril 20, 2026

A Black Professional Asked Where to Go Out in SF. The Honest Answer Is Devastating.

A Black professional woman in her 40s recently asked a simple question ahead of a trip to San Francisco: where can she…

April 20, 2026

Your Guide to Evening Dates That Don't Require a Bar Tab

Here's a radical concept for San Francisco's dating scene: you don't need a $19 craft cocktail or a $7 oat milk latte…

April 20, 2026

Hippie Hill vs. Dolores Park: The Annual 4/20 Turf War

Every year on April 20th, San Francisco faces its most pressing resource allocation question — no, not the budget…

Golden Gate ParkApril 20, 2026

The New York Times Discovered Vacaville and Nobody Knows Why

The New York Times, America's paper of record, recently turned its journalistic gaze upon...

April 20, 2026

In a City That Moves Fast, Some Moments Ask You to Slow Down

We spend a lot of time in this column talking about what's broken — the budget holes, the bureaucratic bloat, the…

April 20, 2026