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Your Library Card Is the Best Deal in San Francisco — And Manga Fans Are Proving It
PublishedHere's a radical fiscal concept for you: a government service that's actually worth every penny.
Blooming Wisdom Wants You to Dance Your Way to Enlightenment This Weekend
PublishedLook, we're generally skeptical of events that combine the words "wisdom" and "dance party" — that combination usually…
Fifty Years of Punk in SF: The City That Taught America to Spit at Authority
PublishedSan Francisco is marking 50 years of punk rock — and if there's one thing a liberty-minded publication can get behind…
Your Lunch Break Around Montgomery Station Is Criminally Underused
PublishedHere's a confession most FiDi workers won't make: you eat at your desk, stare at Slack, and take the same route from…
When Your Entire Social Life Becomes a Performance Review
PublishedHere's a question that cuts to something real about San Francisco in 2025: Can you make a friend in this city without…
Your Dog Does Not Need a Booth Seat at In-N-Out
PublishedWe need to talk about the dogs. Not the ones on patios, leashed under a table at a brewery, minding their business…
Free Museum Day at MoAD: Your Wallet Gets a Break, Your Mind Gets to Work
PublishedThe Museum of the African Diaspora — MoAD, for those in the know — is offering a free museum day, and honestly, there's…
Skip the Couch: Mission Open Studios Is Free, Local, and Actually Worth Your Weekend
PublishedIf you're looking for an excuse to get off your phone and into something real this weekend, here's one that won't cost…
SF's Over-40 Crowd Wants to Dance — And Be Home by Midnight
PublishedThere's a quiet revolution happening in San Francisco nightlife, and it doesn't involve bottle service, velvet ropes…
The Mystery of Linda Street's Weird Little Zigzag, Solved
PublishedIf you've ever wandered through the Inner Mission and stumbled onto Linda Street, you've probably had the same reaction…
One Desert Rescue, One SF Happy Ending: Why Muttville Gets It Right
PublishedWe don't usually do feel-good animal stories around here.
The Tenderloin's Ha-Ra Club: 70 Years of Refusing to Change, and God Bless Them for It
PublishedIn a city that can't stop reinventing itself — where a perfectly good laundromat becomes a $4 million micro-unit, and…
The Brutalist Fountain Is Dead. Long Live the Brutalist Fountain.
PublishedA judge has ruled that San Francisco can proceed with removing its embattled Brutalist fountain — and depending on…
Art Explosion's Spring Open Studios Is Back — And It's One of the Few Things SF Gets Right
PublishedSometimes San Francisco reminds you why people fell in love with this city in the first place.
Electric Ex Drops 'Analog Therapy' — And Yeah, You Should Probably Go
PublishedIn a city where half the live music venues have been swallowed by rising rents and the other half are drowning in…
SF's Art Scene Is Thriving — And It's Not Costing You a Dime
PublishedSay what you will about San Francisco's struggles with budget deficits and questionable municipal spending, but the…
This 10-Year-Old Chihuahua Has More Energy Than City Hall — And She's Looking for a Home
PublishedLook, we spend a lot of time in this space talking about bloated budgets, crumbling infrastructure, and politicians who…
A Stranger's Mother's Day Offer Reminds Us What Community Actually Looks Like
PublishedNo government program built this. No nonprofit grant funded it. No city supervisor held a press conference about it. A…
No, '49er' Is Not Bay Area Slang — And We're Tired of Influencers Making Stuff Up
PublishedSomewhere on the internet, an influencer — whose name we mercifully cannot recall — apparently went viral claiming that…
Why Is It So Hard for New Moms to Find Community in San Francisco?
PublishedHere's a question that shouldn't be hard to answer in a city of 800,000 people: Where can a new mom meet other new moms?
Philz Coffee Pulls Pride Flags, Discovers San Francisco Has Opinions
PublishedPhilz Coffee — the once-beloved, unmistakably San Francisco coffee chain — just made one of the dumbest business…
Palo Alto Dad Uses ChatGPT to Sue 16 Colleges — But His Kid Already Works at Google
PublishedA Palo Alto father is using AI tools to file racial discrimination lawsuits against 16 universities that rejected his…
A Bar Is Doing More for SF Artists Than City Hall. That Should Tell You Something.
PublishedWhile San Francisco spends billions on bureaucratic programs that somehow never quite solve the problems they're meant…
In the Sunset, One Bar Owner Bets on Pints Over Prompts
PublishedWhile half of San Francisco is busy pivoting to AI, launching AI startups, or slapping "AI-powered" on their lunch…