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The Palace of Fine Arts: SF's Most Underappreciated Free Attraction
In a city that charges you $18 for avocado toast and wants to tax you for breathing, the Palace of Fine Arts remains…
Treasure Island Gets a Giant Art Installation While Basic Infrastructure Remains a Work in Progress
If you've driven out to Treasure Island lately — past the construction zones, the half-finished developments, and the…
Dolores Park: San Francisco's Beautiful, Lawless Playground
There's no place in San Francisco quite like Dolores Park.
The Best Free Amenity in the Bay Area Isn't an App — It's the Mountain Next Door
Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what's broken in the Bay Area — the spending, the bureaucracy…
Tired of Waiting for the City? These San Franciscans Are Building Their Own Benches
Here's a sentence you shouldn't have to read in a major American city in 2025: residents are so fed up with the lack of…
SF's Wild Parrots: The City's Best Free Entertainment
In a city where a mediocre lunch runs you $22 and a one-bedroom apartment costs more than a mortgage in most of…
The Happy Tree on Sanchez: A Small Reminder That Not Everything Needs a Budget Line Item
Sometimes the best things in San Francisco don't cost $1.2 billion, don't require a decade-long environmental review…
BATS Improv Turns 40, and a Twice‑Weekly Comedy Show Keeps Selling
Two bright spots in SF comedy deserve your attention this weekend.
The Bay Lights Are Back On, and Yes, the Towers Too
If you glanced toward the Bay Bridge recently and thought the skyline looked a little extra, you weren't imagining…
The Quest for Chinatown's Mystery Dive Bar Is Peak San Francisco
Somewhere in the winding streets of Chinatown, there's a dive bar with a single pool table and a bartender named Sunny.
San Francisco Is Quietly One of the Best Urban Birding Cities on the Coast
Birdwatching. In San Francisco. And before you roll your eyes, hear us out — because this city is quietly one of the…
North Beach Reminded Us Why We Live Here Last Night
Sometimes the best thing San Francisco can do for you is just get out of the way.
La Doña Brings the Heat Back to UC Theater
La Doña is back, and if you weren't at the UC Theater for her return, you missed out.
Radical Transparency Meets Radical Hypocrisy: Everlane Sells Out to Shein
If irony were a fabric, this one would be 100% polyester.
Oakland Loses a Legend: Bay Area Rapper Killed in Crash
The Bay Area hip-hop community is mourning this week after an Oakland rapper described as a local "legend" was killed…
The Case for Late Night Run Clubs (And Against 11pm Work Calls)
Here's a question nobody asked but everybody needs answered: where do SF's overworked, overscheduled, chronically…
Ayelet Waldman Drops New Book in SF — And It Won't Cost You a Dime
Say what you will about San Francisco's cultural scene — when it delivers, it delivers.
Jasmine Ross at MoAD: Black Beauty as Art, Commerce, and Cultural Archive
The Museum of the African Diaspora is currently hosting an exhibition by artist Jasmine Ross that turns the everyday…
The SF Dating Paradox: Everyone's Coupled Up and Nobody Knows How
Walk through Dolores Park on any Saturday, stroll the Mission on a Friday night, or just try to get a two-top at any…
Look Up: SF's Night Sky Is the Free Show Nobody's Talking About
Here's a radical thought for a city obsessed with screens, stock tickers, and the next AI fundraising round: look up.
Vikings, Rabbits, and Lucha Libre: The Wonderfully Weird SF Event We Actually Need
There's a running complaint about San Francisco that goes something like this: the city used to be weird, and now it's…
The One Thing SF Gets Right Every Single Day — And It's Free
Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what San Francisco gets wrong.
1015 Folsom Bouncer Tried to Confiscate a Patron's EpiPen. Yes, Really.
Here's a fun hypothetical: you have a life-threatening nut allergy, you carry an EpiPen everywhere like a responsible…
The Best Deal in SF Entertainment Costs Less Than Your Last Cocktail
In a city where a mediocre dinner for two can run you $150 and a Giants ticket costs more than some people's hourly…