The Dissent

Here's a small but telling sign of the times: someone in San Francisco recently went looking for a cobbler — an actual…

There's something quietly great about a city where people still want to go out on a random weeknight — alone, if they…

In a region where the news cycle is dominated by budget deficits, housing crises, and transit meltdowns, sometimes the…

Every week, someone from the Midwest visits the Bay Area, sees the Pacific coastline for the first time, and starts…

There's a great blue heron working the ponds of Golden Gate Park right now, and we're pleased to report it requires…

Here's something you don't hear often about San Francisco entertainment: it's actually affordable.

Here's something San Francisco gets right without a single committee hearing, budget overrun, or environmental impact…

Here's a confession that resonated with a lot of people this week: a 45-year-old SF dad — married, two kids, doing fine…

There's a certain magic to living in San Francisco long enough that you lose all perspective on what's normal.

Every spring, the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour opens up private gardens across the Bay Area to show what…

When Art Actually Has Something to Say In a city where "art" can mean anything from a $200,000 government-funded mural…

There's a question that pops up with almost comical regularity from visitors to San Francisco: Where is everyone?

Here's a piece of Bay Area history that deserves more attention: the best-selling PC game franchise of all time was…

Whatever your thoughts on crystals, cauldrons, or cosmic energy, there's something undeniably San Francisco about a…

If you've wandered the streets of Potrero Hill near 19th and Connecticut, you may have noticed something quietly…

There's a new documentary streaming on Apple TV and Amazon called San Francisco Rising, and it's worth your time — not…

In what might be the most unexpected development in San Francisco real estate since someone actually wanted to move…

There's a meme going around — an SF-specific version of one of those cultural stereotype templates — and honestly, it's…

San Francisco has a buried treasure problem — and for once, it's the good kind.

Turning 40 is a big deal. You deserve to belt out "Don't Stop Believin'" in front of your closest friends without…

Look, we talk a lot about the cost of living in San Francisco — the $3,500 studios, the $7 lattes, the parking tickets…

There's something deeply refreshing about a couple who just wants to get married without the $40,000 production, the…

It's another week in the Bay Area cultural scene, which means another round of headlines that sound like they were…

Here's a rare case of a government-funded institution actually giving something back to the people who fund it: the…