The Dissent

Look, Alcatraz is great. It's a crumbling federal prison on a rock in the middle of the Bay, and somehow we've turned…

There's something about West Portal that just works.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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