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Formal Plans Filed for 379 Units Atop the Bernal Heights Safeway at 3350 Mission
PublishedAlign Real Estate filed a formal planning application this week to redevelop the Bernal Heights Safeway at 3350 Mission…
On Innes Avenue, the Park Is Moving and the Housing Isn't
PublishedAlong the Bayview's Innes Avenue, the city is building a delayed waterfront park while the 1,575-unit housing project…
On 24th Street, Bone Broth Took the Spot Boba Used to Hold
PublishedA new SF Standard portrait of Noe Valley's commercial strip catches the neighborhood mid-shift — and the tell…
At 311 Divisadero, the Pizza Oven Cools and a Bistro Named "Beloved" Moves In
PublishedAfter fifteen years, the Ragazza pizzeria at 311 Divisadero closed in March 2025.
On the Wall at North Studio, Pam Grier Holds Court
PublishedOn the exterior wall at North Studio, somewhere in the blocks where the neighborhood folds into itself and the foot…
Inside the Academy: Golden Gate Park's Science Museum Is Having a Rough Few Years
PublishedIn the east end of Golden Gate Park, behind the living roof that has become something of a landmark in its own right…
Sutro Tower Is Getting a New Coat of Paint for the First Time Since the Reagan Administration
PublishedFrom Twin Peaks to the Sunset, from the top of Bernal to the back windows of apartments in the Haight, the…
We Are Bruce Lee Exhibit Goes Free — One Day Only
PublishedCheck the current schedule at the Chinese Historical Society of America (965 Clay St, Chinatown) for the free admission…
At the Bayview Pool, Kids Who Never Swam Are Learning Not to Fear the Water
PublishedAt the Rossi Pool on Arguello the lanes fill with lap swimmers by 7am, but in Bayview, getting a kid into the water at…
The Woman Who Knows Every Weird Plant on Your Block
PublishedOn the stretch of Irving where the N-Judah rattles past the produce stands, Martha Ehrenfeld has the kind of local…
Two Free Museums, One Tuesday: de Young and Legion of Honor Drop Admission the First of Every Month
PublishedThe first Tuesday of every month, both the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park…
Bay Beats Wants Your Music — Submission Window Closing
PublishedThe Bay Beats submission portal is in its final stretch, and if you're a local musician or booker who's been sitting on…
The Jeremiah O'Brien's Engine Room Had a Hollywood Double Life
PublishedDown at Pier 45, past the fishing boats and the morning fog that still clings to the Embarcadero railings well into…
Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble Brings the Spring Concert to SF
PublishedThe Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble is performing their spring concert in San Francisco — exact venue and time to…
Exit Through The Box Shop Is Closing — The Final Party Has DJs
PublishedThe Box Shop, the SF creative-retail-event hybrid that's been doing its thing in the city's maker-adjacent scene, is…
Bay Area Book Festival: What the Reddit Thread Couldn't Tell You
PublishedThe Bay Area Book Festival is running this weekend in Downtown Berkeley, centered around Civic Center Park and MLK Jr.
That Smell Off the 101 Has a Name
PublishedSomewhere between the 280 split and the first glimpse of the bay, a driver coming up from the peninsula rolls down the…
The Hawk on the Rock at Corona Heights
PublishedAt the top of Corona Heights Park, where the chert outcropping goes orange in the late afternoon and the wind comes…
Gamelan in the Garden Returns for Its Fourth Year at Strybing Arboretum
PublishedThe 4th Annual Gamelan in the Garden brings live Balinese and Javanese percussion to the San Francisco Botanical Garden…
Pick Up a Block, Get a Beer: The New Calculus of the Neighborhood Cleanup
PublishedAt Manny's on Valencia, the deal is straightforward: show up Saturday morning with gloves, spend an hour moving through…
Best of PlayGround 2026: A Free Weekend of Short Plays in the Tenderloin
PublishedThis weekend, the Rueff at American Conservatory Theater — 30 Grant Ave, one block from Powell BART — hosts…
Next Level Out, Dice and Cards Back In: A Castro Street Storefront Gets a Second Life
PublishedOn Castro Street in Mountain View, the storefront that housed Next Level Games is getting a new set of regulars — the…
Asian Art Museum Is Hosting a Community Meetup — No Agenda, Just Show Up
PublishedSunday at 11:30am, the Asian Art Museum at 200 Larkin Street hosts its monthly community meetup — walk-in casual, no…
Someone Carved a Heart and Sent It Into the Bay. Someone Else Picked It Up.
PublishedAt Baker Beach, on a Tuesday morning in March of last year, a carved heart-shaped stone washed up near the waterline…