The Dissent

Here's a fun little snapshot of life in San Francisco in 2025: asking for an affordable haircut recommendation online…

So you're moving to San Francisco. Congratulations — and condolences to your savings account. Before you get here and…

There's a comedy show called The Ritual popping up in the Mission, and honestly, it's exactly the kind of thing that…

Remember when the LA 2028 Olympics organizers made that feel-good promise?

Oakland's own Boots Riley — rapper, filmmaker, activist, and professional agitator — is making the rounds in San…

Most of us can barely survive a Monday morning commute on Muni.

This isn't our usual beat. We typically spend our time here poking at budgets, questioning City Hall, and wondering why…

If you've got a toddler and a vague plan to "do more stuff this year," you've probably stared at an annual pass signup…

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…