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Want to Actually Build Community? Pick Up a Paintbrush.
PublishedIn a city that spends millions on "community engagement" consultants and bureaucratic outreach programs that produce…
Sean Dorsey Keeps Showing Up — And That's the Point
PublishedSean Dorsey has been a fixture in San Francisco's dance community for years, and his philosophy is pretty…
Your Mom Deserves Flowers, Not Another Overpriced Candle
PublishedMother's Day is this Sunday, and if your current plan involves a last-minute Walgreens card and a vague promise to "do…
Japantown's Karaoke Scene Loses Another Venue — And It's Not By Choice
PublishedAnother small business in San Francisco is getting shown the door — not because it failed, but because the building…
The Tenderloin: San Francisco's Most Misunderstood Neighborhood
PublishedLove it or hate it, the Tenderloin is one of the most fascinating, complicated, and honestly exhausting neighborhoods…
Oklou Turned the Warfield Into a Cathedral — And We're Converts
PublishedThere's a moment at certain shows where the room shifts — where an artist stops being someone you've heard about and…
A Tourist's SF Itinerary Goes Viral for Being Absolutely Unhinged — And We Respect the Hustle
PublishedThere's a certain breed of traveler who treats vacation like a military operation.
Sunrise at the Rusty Porthole: SF's Most Accidentally Poetic Photo Op
PublishedSometimes San Francisco doesn't need a policy debate or a budget scandal to remind you why people put up with the rent…
Rise Over Run Proves SF Still Has Room for Small Makers Who Actually Make Things
PublishedIn a city where "maker culture" has mostly devolved into people selling AI-generated sticker packs on Etsy, it's…
An Alameda Brewery Wants You to Drink Carbon Capture Beer. We Have Questions.
PublishedThere's a brewery in Alameda offering tours where you can taste what they claim is the world's first beer made with…
The Bay Area's Loneliness Problem Isn't a Bug — It's a Feature of How We Built This Place
PublishedHere's a question that shouldn't be hard but somehow is: How do you make friends in the Bay Area?
Your Brain Is Fried. Here Are SF's Best Free Reset Buttons.
PublishedHere's something that costs the city zero dollars, requires no ballot measure, and actually improves quality of life…
Reminder: You Live in One of the Most Beautiful Cities on Earth
PublishedSometimes you need to stop doomscrolling the budget deficit, the latest SFMTA fare hike, or whatever fresh bureaucratic…
Bernal Heights Has a Friendliness Problem — But It's Not Just Bernal
PublishedA newcomer to Bernal Heights recently raised a question that a lot of San Franciscans have quietly asked themselves…
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Decent Gym in San Francisco?
PublishedHere's a fun exercise — no pun intended — in San Francisco economics: Pay more, get less.
A Black Professional Asked Where to Go Out in SF. The Honest Answer Is Devastating.
PublishedA Black professional woman in her 40s recently asked a simple question ahead of a trip to San Francisco: where can she…
Your Guide to Evening Dates That Don't Require a Bar Tab
PublishedHere's a radical concept for San Francisco's dating scene: you don't need a $19 craft cocktail or a $7 oat milk latte…
Hippie Hill vs. Dolores Park: The Annual 4/20 Turf War
PublishedEvery year on April 20th, San Francisco faces its most pressing resource allocation question — no, not the budget…
The New York Times Discovered Vacaville and Nobody Knows Why
PublishedThe New York Times, America's paper of record, recently turned its journalistic gaze upon...
In a City That Moves Fast, Some Moments Ask You to Slow Down
PublishedWe spend a lot of time in this column talking about what's broken — the budget holes, the bureaucratic bloat, the…
The Best Free Real Estate in San Francisco Is Run by the Federal Government (And It's Actually Good)
PublishedWe don't say this often, but here's a case where the federal government got something right: the Golden Gate National…
Golden Mimosa Season Is Here — And So Are Your Allergies
PublishedIt's that time of year again. The Golden Mimosa trees — formally Acacia baileyana — are lighting up neighborhoods…
The Devil's in the Details: SF's Infamous Black House and the City's Vanishing Weird History
PublishedSan Francisco has always prided itself on being a city of freaks, misfits, and iconoclasts.
You Live Here and You've Never Been to Alcatraz? You're Not Alone.
PublishedHere's a dirty little secret about San Franciscans: most of us have never actually done San Francisco.