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Vol. IIINo. 184
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Want to Actually Build Community? Pick Up a Paintbrush.

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In a city that spends millions on "community engagement" consultants and bureaucratic outreach programs that produce…

April 21, 2026

Sean Dorsey Keeps Showing Up — And That's the Point

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Sean Dorsey has been a fixture in San Francisco's dance community for years, and his philosophy is pretty…

April 21, 2026

Your Mom Deserves Flowers, Not Another Overpriced Candle

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Mother's Day is this Sunday, and if your current plan involves a last-minute Walgreens card and a vague promise to "do…

April 21, 2026

Japantown's Karaoke Scene Loses Another Venue — And It's Not By Choice

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Another small business in San Francisco is getting shown the door — not because it failed, but because the building…

JapantownApril 21, 2026

The Tenderloin: San Francisco's Most Misunderstood Neighborhood

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Love it or hate it, the Tenderloin is one of the most fascinating, complicated, and honestly exhausting neighborhoods…

TenderloinApril 21, 2026

Oklou Turned the Warfield Into a Cathedral — And We're Converts

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There's a moment at certain shows where the room shifts — where an artist stops being someone you've heard about and…

TenderloinApril 21, 2026

A Tourist's SF Itinerary Goes Viral for Being Absolutely Unhinged — And We Respect the Hustle

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There's a certain breed of traveler who treats vacation like a military operation.

April 21, 2026

Sunrise at the Rusty Porthole: SF's Most Accidentally Poetic Photo Op

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Sometimes San Francisco doesn't need a policy debate or a budget scandal to remind you why people put up with the rent…

April 21, 2026

Rise Over Run Proves SF Still Has Room for Small Makers Who Actually Make Things

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In a city where "maker culture" has mostly devolved into people selling AI-generated sticker packs on Etsy, it's…

April 21, 2026

An Alameda Brewery Wants You to Drink Carbon Capture Beer. We Have Questions.

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There's a brewery in Alameda offering tours where you can taste what they claim is the world's first beer made with…

April 21, 2026

The Bay Area's Loneliness Problem Isn't a Bug — It's a Feature of How We Built This Place

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Here's a question that shouldn't be hard but somehow is: How do you make friends in the Bay Area?

April 20, 2026

Your Brain Is Fried. Here Are SF's Best Free Reset Buttons.

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Here's something that costs the city zero dollars, requires no ballot measure, and actually improves quality of life…

April 20, 2026

Reminder: You Live in One of the Most Beautiful Cities on Earth

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Sometimes you need to stop doomscrolling the budget deficit, the latest SFMTA fare hike, or whatever fresh bureaucratic…

April 20, 2026

Bernal Heights Has a Friendliness Problem — But It's Not Just Bernal

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A newcomer to Bernal Heights recently raised a question that a lot of San Franciscans have quietly asked themselves…

Bernal HeightsApril 20, 2026

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Decent Gym in San Francisco?

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Here's a fun exercise — no pun intended — in San Francisco economics: Pay more, get less.

SoMaApril 20, 2026

A Black Professional Asked Where to Go Out in SF. The Honest Answer Is Devastating.

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A Black professional woman in her 40s recently asked a simple question ahead of a trip to San Francisco: where can she…

April 20, 2026

Your Guide to Evening Dates That Don't Require a Bar Tab

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Here's a radical concept for San Francisco's dating scene: you don't need a $19 craft cocktail or a $7 oat milk latte…

April 20, 2026

Hippie Hill vs. Dolores Park: The Annual 4/20 Turf War

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Every year on April 20th, San Francisco faces its most pressing resource allocation question — no, not the budget…

Golden Gate ParkApril 20, 2026

The New York Times Discovered Vacaville and Nobody Knows Why

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The New York Times, America's paper of record, recently turned its journalistic gaze upon...

April 20, 2026

In a City That Moves Fast, Some Moments Ask You to Slow Down

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We spend a lot of time in this column talking about what's broken — the budget holes, the bureaucratic bloat, the…

April 20, 2026

The Best Free Real Estate in San Francisco Is Run by the Federal Government (And It's Actually Good)

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We don't say this often, but here's a case where the federal government got something right: the Golden Gate National…

April 20, 2026

Golden Mimosa Season Is Here — And So Are Your Allergies

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It's that time of year again. The Golden Mimosa trees — formally Acacia baileyana — are lighting up neighborhoods…

April 20, 2026

The Devil's in the Details: SF's Infamous Black House and the City's Vanishing Weird History

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San Francisco has always prided itself on being a city of freaks, misfits, and iconoclasts.

Richmond DistrictApril 20, 2026

You Live Here and You've Never Been to Alcatraz? You're Not Alone.

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Here's a dirty little secret about San Franciscans: most of us have never actually done San Francisco.

April 20, 2026