The Dissent

While San Francisco debates how to spend its next billion on a homelessness crisis that never seems to shrink, a casino…

Here's a travel tip that has nothing to do with TSA PreCheck or lounge hacking: show up to SFO Terminal 2 a little…

In a city where a 500-square-foot apartment will run you $3,500 a month and a basic burrito costs more than a steak…

In an era when San Francisco storefronts cycle through tenants faster than City Hall cycles through budget promises, an…

Another week, another small business in San Francisco preparing to close its doors.

There's a moment in every San Franciscan's life when they realize the city has completely recalibrated their sense of…

Here's a radical idea for your weekend: instead of dropping $18 on a cocktail you can't pronounce, spend a fraction of…

While San Francisco's city government continues to spend millions trying to figure out how to make the city "vibrant"…

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.