The Dissent

In a city where a single craft cocktail runs you $19 and a parking ticket costs more than a Broadway matinee, the SF…

Here's something San Francisco still gets right: world-class arts that don't require a government subsidy the size of a…

If you grew up in the Bay Area, there's a decent chance some of your best childhood memories involve sunburns…

Here's something refreshing: a private business doing what city-funded arts programs spend millions trying to…

Artist Isabel Servantez recently shared a gorgeous charcoal drawing of San Francisco at night — a moody, intimate…

Graduation season is here, and with it comes one of the best tests of whether San Francisco is still worth the…

There's a photograph from 1947 — a bridge painter perched on the Golden Gate, captured by the legendary Fred Lyon —…

It's Friday, and if you're anything like us, you're already mentally checked out of whatever Zoom call you're…

In a city that routinely spends millions on programs nobody asked for and events that underdeliver, the Yerba Buena…

Here's a question that quietly haunts every ambitious person in San Francisco: How is this city so alive when everyone…

Every great city has its characters — the people who aren't famous, aren't powerful, but are known.

While city hall keeps throwing millions at "activating" public spaces through committees and consultants, the Mission…

Here's a question that shouldn't be hard but somehow is: where do you go clothes shopping in San Francisco?

In a city drowning in tech meetups, silent disco yoga, and AI networking happy hours, one San Franciscan is on a…

San Francisco has no shortage of things that cost too much — rent, parking tickets, that mysterious "city fee" on your…

San Francisco is a city famous for its Victorians, its painted ladies, its pastel rowhouses climbing impossible hills.

Here's a truth that doesn't make it into the tourism brochures or the tech recruiting pitches: San Francisco can be one…

Sometimes the best perspective on your own city comes from someone who doesn't live in it.

We spend a lot of time in this space talking about what's broken — the budget, the bureaucracy, the general dysfunction…

There's a version of San Francisco that doesn't show up in budget reports or Board of Supervisors meetings — the…

San Francisco is throwing itself an all-star centennial celebration for Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet who first…

There's something deeply charming about the way San Francisco lodges itself in people's brains — especially when you…

West Portal — home to charming storefronts, neighborhood vibes, and apparently, sign writers who could really use a…

In a city obsessed with optimizing everything — your commute, your morning routine, your dopamine hits — there's…