The Dissent

In a city that charges you $18 for avocado toast and wants to tax you for breathing, the Palace of Fine Arts remains…

If you've driven out to Treasure Island lately — past the construction zones, the half-finished developments, and the…

There's no place in San Francisco quite like Dolores Park.

Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what's broken in the Bay Area — the spending, the bureaucracy…

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…

In a city where a mediocre lunch runs you $22 and a one-bedroom apartment costs more than a mortgage in most of…

Sometimes the best things in San Francisco don't cost $1.2 billion, don't require a decade-long environmental review…

While city hall continues to pour millions into "activating" downtown with questionable grants and consultant-driven…

If you glanced toward the Bay Bridge recently and thought the skyline looked a little extra, you weren't imagining…

Somewhere in the winding streets of Chinatown, there's a dive bar with a single pool table and a bartender named Sunny.

In a city where every public amenity seems to come with a waitlist, a permit, or a neighborhood turf war, there's one…

Sometimes the best thing San Francisco can do for you is just get out of the way.

La Doña is back, and if you weren't at the UC Theater for her return, you missed out.

If irony were a fabric, this one would be 100% polyester.

The Bay Area hip-hop community is mourning this week after an Oakland rapper described as a local "legend" was killed…

Here's a question nobody asked but everybody needs answered: where do SF's overworked, overscheduled, chronically…

Say what you will about San Francisco's cultural scene — when it delivers, it delivers.

The Museum of the African Diaspora is currently hosting an exhibition by artist Jasmine Ross that turns the everyday…

Walk through Dolores Park on any Saturday, stroll the Mission on a Friday night, or just try to get a two-top at any…

Here's a radical thought for a city obsessed with screens, stock tickers, and the next AI fundraising round: look up.

There's a running complaint about San Francisco that goes something like this: the city used to be weird, and now it's…

Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what San Francisco gets wrong.

Here's a fun hypothetical: you have a life-threatening nut allergy, you carry an EpiPen everywhere like a responsible…

In a city where a mediocre dinner for two can run you $150 and a Giants ticket costs more than some people's hourly…