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The Golden Gate's Best Unpaid Marketing Team: Wildflowers
PublishedThere are exactly two things San Francisco does effortlessly well: charging you too much for a one-bedroom and looking…
Sutro Heights Gets a Fairy Hole and Honestly, We're Not Mad About It
PublishedSomewhere along the Sutro Heights trail, someone — or something — has installed a tiny fairy hole, and it's the kind of…
The Best Thing About SF Is Free — Just Look West
PublishedIn a city where a one-bedroom apartment will run you $3,200 a month and a burrito somehow costs $18, it's worth…
Puzzle Night in Emeryville: The Low-Key Social Scene That Doesn't Cost You $18 for a Cocktail
PublishedIn a Bay Area where a night out typically means dropping a small fortune on overpriced drinks and Uber surges…
Glen Park Gets SF's First Tiled Pedestrian Bridge, and It's Actually Charming
PublishedA Small Win for a City That Could Use More of Them Somewhere between the endless budget debates and the infrastructure…
The Exploratorium's Human Clock Is Still the Best Thing in San Francisco
PublishedIf you haven't visited the Exploratorium in a while — or ever — let this serve as your nudge.
CAAMFest Returns: Where Silicon Valley Power Brokers Meet the Big Screen
PublishedCAAMFest is back in San Francisco, and this year's lineup is bringing some genuinely intriguing stories to the screen —…
Two Willies, One Bridge: SF's Legends Get Their Due on the Bay Bridge
PublishedSan Francisco has never been shy about honoring its baseball royalty, and now two of the city's most legendary figures…
The Best Bar in San Francisco Is One You're Probably Not Allowed to Visit
PublishedSomewhere near the top of the Transamerica Pyramid — San Francisco's most iconic skyscraper — there's a bar with…
It's Time to Have an Honest Conversation About Chonkers
PublishedSan Francisco has a housing crisis, a budget crisis, and a fentanyl crisis.
The Bakery Line Is San Francisco's Last Honest Institution
PublishedIn a city that has automated grocery checkout, algorithmized your commute, and let an app decide where you eat dinner…
This Is What Community Looks Like (No Tax Dollars Required)
PublishedSometimes the best things in San Francisco don't cost taxpayers a dime.
The City in Oil: A Local Artist Reminds Us What's Worth Celebrating
PublishedIn a town where the discourse is dominated by budget deficits, transit meltdowns, and the eternal housing crisis…
The Bay Area Will Not Give Up on Mochi the Bird
PublishedIn a city where people can't agree on whether to build a duplex, the Bay Area has found something approaching…
Chonkito Has Arrived: Pier 39's Second Celebrity Sea Lion Is Making Waves
PublishedIn a city where the Board of Supervisors can't agree on how to fill a pothole, at least the sea lions at Pier 39…
Hardcore Shows, Zero Bureaucracy: How Nonprofit Punk Is Keeping SF's DIY Soul Alive
PublishedIn a city where a permit to breathe probably costs $400 and requires three hearings, the Bay Area's nonprofit hardcore…
An SF Baker Just Made the Most Extra Cake on Television
PublishedSomewhere between the emotional chaos and questionable life choices that define Euphoria, Season 3 managed to sneak in…
Get In, Loser, We're Going to the Theater
PublishedLook, we know SF has a reputation for a lot of things — sourdough bread, fog discourse, and arguing about housing on…
The Bay Area Punk Scene Isn't Dead — You're Just Eating Takeout in a Hyatt
PublishedThere's a certain kind of person who moves through the Bay Area on business, eats sad pad thai alone in a hotel room…
San Francisco Has a Million Dollar Skyline and Zero Organized Photographers — What Gives?
PublishedSan Francisco might be the most photographed city on the West Coast.
The Pyramid Goes Rainbow — And Yes, Someone Had Notes
PublishedThe Transamerica Pyramid lit up in rainbow colors last night, painting one of San Francisco's most iconic landmarks in…
Ex-Google Designer Wants to Work for Free — And Honestly, We Respect the Hustle
PublishedThe Anti-Hustle Culture Hustle In a city where a junior product designer commands six figures before their first…
A Field Guide to Drinking Away Your Therapy Session (Without Overhearing Someone's Series A Pitch)
PublishedThere's a question floating around San Francisco right now that might be the most perfectly distilled encapsulation of…
Want to Paint and Journal With Strangers? The Bay Area DIY Crafts Scene Is Alive and Well
PublishedHere's something you don't see every day on the internet: someone proposing an activity that doesn't cost taxpayers a…