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Ninety‑Eight Years in the Walls: The Deluxe Opens Tonight on Haight Street
After a two-year restoration that uncovered artifacts from its previous lives as a creamery, tailor shop, and gay…
At 750 Florida, a Cat Named Mustache Is the Last Stop Before a Senior Dog Gets Adopted
Muttville Senior Dog Rescue uses a resident cat named Mustache to run live cat-compatibility assessments on adoptable…
In the Mission and Bayview, a Soccer Club Where the Fee Is Zero
Independent FC, operated by America SCORES Bay Area, has fielded 25 teams in San Francisco's Mission and Bayview with…
Funktown Has Almost No Tree Cover. Oakland Is Taking More.
City workers have been pulling sidewalk trees in Funktown, an East Oakland neighborhood that already sits in the city's…
At Clark Kerr's Southwest Lot, Berkeley's Annual Couch Season Has a Structured Answer
UC Berkeley's Cal Move Out and Cooperative Reuse program ran May 22–31 at Clark Kerr Campus, diverting an average of…
WriterCoach Connection, 26‑Year East Bay Fixture, Folds. Former Coaches Want It Back.
The nonprofit, which launched at Berkeley High in 2000 and sent volunteer writing coaches into classrooms across the…
At Finnish Hall, the Lavender Legend Goes for 1,682
On June 14, 64-year-old health coach Holly Reese completed 1,682 military-style pushups in one hour at West Berkeley's…
A History of SF's Tech Era, Told Through Its Buildings
Jonathan Weber's new Simon & Schuster history of San Francisco tech politics starts in South Park and buries its…
Santa Clara's Nuevo Dog Park Reopens After 10‑Month Illness Investigation
Chains came off the gate at Nuevo Dog Park on Monday after a third-party environmental consultant found no harmful…
The Block on El Camino Where Pong Overflowed the Coin Box
The Sunnyvale community is looking again at 157 W.
At Low Tide, the Bay Trail Past Colma Creek Reveals Dozens of Shopping Carts
Apparent shopping carts — dozens of them — have been spotted submerged in the Colma Creek marsh in South San Francisco…
Mix, Badlands, and Toad Hall Are Scanning Patrons' Faces. SF's Privacy Law Doesn't Cover Them.
At least three Castro bars have installed Patronscan Guard+ facial recognition kiosks that collect biometric data…
The Small Crew That Keeps Sutro Tower Running
A new SFGate feature draws attention to what most San Franciscans never think about: the five full-time staff and…
Into the Ditch: Volunteers Haul 16,000 Pounds From a Corner of the Lake Merritt Channel the City Can't Reach
Sixty-three Urban Compassion Project volunteers cleared 16,000 pounds of illegally dumped material from the Lake…
H Mart on Alemany Is Growing by More Than Half — the Former Gym Bay Is Now a Housewares Wing
H Mart at 3995 Alemany Blvd in SF's Ocean View neighborhood launches a grand-opening celebration June 19 after…
Carl Nolte, Who Covered SF From Potrero Hill to Pier 45, Retires at 92 After 65 Years to the Day
Carl Nolte, the San Francisco Chronicle's "Native Son" columnist, retired June 13 at age 92 — exactly 65 years after…
Pacifica Ranked Dead Last for Small Business. Local Owners Responded With Lemons.
WalletHub's 2026 study placed Pacifica at No.
The Converted Bank on the Mission Strip Is Still SF's Last Big Independent Brokerage
Frank Nolan runs Vanguard Real Estate out of a former Mission bank building — 445 agents, a Wednesday neighborhood…
Volunteers Now Tend 137 of SF's Street Parks. The City Just Taught Them How.
SF Public Works held its first-ever Street Parks Summit in April, recognizing a parallel maintenance system of 137…
At Lakeside Park, the Oaks Are Losing Ground
A Coast Live Oak near the Edoff Bandstand is gone.
Sign Hill Goes Tricolor — and "San Francisco" Disappears
South San Francisco repainted its century-old hillside sign red, blue, and white for the America 250 commemoration —…
In Uptown, a Bookstore Opened in January. In Montclair, One Closed Today.
A Great Good Place for Books shut its Montclair doors for good on Sunday, June 14, after 29 years.
In the Grasses Off Swan Way, Endangered Rails Are Still Calling
Along Oakland's San Leandro Bay, the Golden Gate Bird Alliance's Bay Birding Challenge documented a black rail at…
At Jack London Square, Plank Sets Its Last Frame for August 2
The 50,000-square-foot entertainment complex at 98 Broadway in Oakland closes August 2 after nearly 12 years, the…