The Dissent

Look, we love a good fiscal responsibility sermon around here, but sometimes you just need to treat your mom.

In a city where seemingly everything beautiful requires a $4.7 million feasibility study, a community advisory board…

Here's something you don't hear often enough in a city famous for burning through taxpayer dollars: San Francisco's…

At 6:30 on a recent morning, while most of San Francisco was still asleep — and City Hall was presumably dreaming up…

In a city where the political circus never takes a day off, it's nice to report on an actual wildlife spectacle for…

San Francisco's Embarcadero waterfront is one of the most photographed stretches of real estate on the West Coast.

Here's a refreshing thought: San Francisco's nightlife scene is thriving, and nobody had to write a grant proposal to…

San Francisco has long been a pilgrimage destination for LGBTQ+ travelers from around the world, and that hasn't…

Here's something nobody in San Francisco talks about enough: it's actually kind of hard to meet people here.

While San Francisco's elected officials continue their usual circus of spending your money on programs that don't work…

Here's something you won't find in a budget report or a Board of Supervisors meeting: San Francisco is still…

Here's a fun exercise in government transparency: try figuring out whether you can bring a portable pizza oven to Ocean…

There's something about this seven-by-seven-mile peninsula that makes people want to sing about it.

Here's a question more Bay Area gym-goers are asking: Where can I work out without ending up as background content in…

Here's something we see all the time: people who've lived in the Bay Area for years, dropped thousands on rent, and…

For years, the Mount Tam pancake breakfast was one of those quietly perfect Bay Area traditions — the kind of thing…

San Francisco's tech layoffs aren't slowing down, and neither are the people affected by them.

Every San Franciscan has one. That store you walk past three times a week, never see a single customer inside, and…

In an age where your entire photo library lives on a server farm in Iowa and can be wiped with a forgotten password…

The City's Attic: Why SF's Forgotten Memorabilia Matters More Than You Think San Francisco has layers.

There's something quietly radical about sitting in the bushes of Buena Vista Park with a set of pastels and drawing the…

San Francisco has a $14 billion annual budget, much of which gets swallowed by bureaucratic bloat and questionable…

If you've spent any time on the internet in the last few years, you've probably stumbled across the Backrooms — that…

There's something oddly refreshing about a tradesperson posting from a job site with nothing more than a grin emoji and…