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Wanted: People Who Actually Read Books and Want to Talk About Them
PublishedIn a city drowning in tech meetups, silent disco yoga, and AI networking happy hours, one San Franciscan is on a…
Your Tax Dollars Didn't Build These Views: The Best Free Sunset Spots in SF
PublishedSan Francisco has no shortage of things that cost too much — rent, parking tickets, that mysterious "city fee" on your…
One Homeowner's Heat Pump Win Doesn't Mean the Mandate Makes Sense
PublishedA San Mateo homeowner recently shared a pretty compelling DIY story: swapped out a gas water heater for a heat pump…
Jenny the Chihuahua Goes on an Unauthorized Adventure — SF Brings Her Home
PublishedSometimes the best San Francisco stories aren't about budget deficits or bureaucratic bloat.
In Defense of SF's Brutalist Buildings: Concrete Never Looked So Good
PublishedSan Francisco is a city famous for its Victorians, its painted ladies, its pastel rowhouses climbing impossible hills.
San Francisco's Two-Layer Weather: A City That Can't Pick a Season
PublishedIf you stepped outside today and couldn't decide whether you needed a jacket or sunglasses — congratulations, you're…
Millionaire Marxists and Disco Balls: The Chakrabarti Rally Was Exactly What You Think It Was
PublishedSaikat Chakrabarti — the tech millionaire and former chief of staff to AOC — wants Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat.
The SF Friendship Problem Nobody Talks About
PublishedHere's a truth that doesn't make it into the tourism brochures or the tech recruiting pitches: San Francisco can be one…
The Valkyries Are Worth $1 Billion — On Paper, Anyway
PublishedThe Bay Area's newest professional sports franchise just hit a milestone that sounds incredible on the surface: the…
I-80: Where Lane Lines Are Merely Suggestions and Turn Signals Are Optional
PublishedIf you've driven I-80 through the Bay Area at any point in the last — oh, let's say ever — you already know what we're…
BART and Muni Are Growing Fast — Now Can They Actually Collect the Fares?
PublishedHere's something you don't hear every day: Bay Area transit is winning.
A UK Artist Made a Linocut of San Francisco and Honestly, We Needed This
PublishedSometimes the best perspective on your own city comes from someone who doesn't live in it.
The Internet Did Something Nice For Once: An SF Photo Mystery, Solved
PublishedWe spend a lot of time in this space talking about what's broken — the budget, the bureaucracy, the general dysfunction…
The Real San Francisco Is Still Worth Finding
PublishedThere's a version of San Francisco that doesn't show up in budget reports or Board of Supervisors meetings — the…
Lurie's Developer Tax Cuts Face a Brutal Hearing — And Deserve Every Minute of It
PublishedMayor Daniel Lurie's proposed tax cuts for developers hit a wall this week, and honestly, it wasn't a pretty sight.
New Coordinator, New Look: What Raheem Morris Means for the 49ers Defense
PublishedThe 49ers defense is getting a facelift, and it's about time we talked about it.
AI Is Doing What City Hall Couldn't: Making SF a Destination Again
PublishedHere's a sentence you probably didn't expect to read: San Francisco tourism spending is trending a half-billion dollars…
First You Learn to Code, Then the Code Learns to Code — So Now We Hike
PublishedThere's a weekday hiking group in the Bay Area that's become something of a phenomenon.
Saurabh Chakrabarti Wants to Buy an SF Congressional Seat — And He's Not Even Hiding It
PublishedSaurabh Chakrabarti wants San Francisco's congressional seat, and he's made one thing abundantly clear: money is no…
Oakland's Taste of Temescal Food Crawl Leaves Restaurants With a Bad Taste
PublishedHere's a fun recipe for community betrayal: take a beloved neighborhood food crawl, add opaque finances, and watch…
The Fillmore's Cruelest Irony: A Co-Op Built to Prevent Displacement Is Now Displacing People
PublishedIf you wanted to write a parable about how San Francisco manages to betray its own good intentions, you couldn't do…
SF Finally Sues a Tenderloin Corner Store for Slinging Meth — Yes, Really
PublishedSan Francisco is suing a Tenderloin corner store for allegedly selling meth and weed out of its storefront.
The Giants Finally Did What Everyone's Been Screaming About
PublishedSometimes the most obvious move is the hardest one to make.
$1.1 Million Per Unit: Bernal Heights Gets New 'Affordable' Housing at a Very Unaffordable Price
PublishedNew affordable housing is going up at 3300 Mission Street in Bernal Heights, and on the surface, that sounds like good…