The Dissent

San Francisco's housing market continues to be the kind of fever dream that makes you question whether you're reading…

There's a special kind of irony when the same people who disrupted taxis, bookstores, and your entire attention span…

Here's a small thing that says a lot: San Francisco's transit agency hasn't updated its paper transit map since 2023.

If you've spent more than five minutes on any major San Francisco corridor lately, you already know: our streets are a…

In a city where beloved small businesses seem to vanish weekly — replaced by either vacancy or another boba shop —…

Here's a story that should make every San Francisco taxpayer's blood pressure spike a few points.

Welcome to San Francisco, where the Pacific Ocean is literally right there and yet somehow people still default to…

San Francisco has never been a hockey town in the traditional sense.

Here's a question that keeps coming up in conversations around the Bay Area: Why does it feel like nobody here would…

San Francisco just opened its much-hyped RESET Center — the city's answer to the open-air drug crisis that has plagued…

Look, we're a fiscally conservative outlet that covers local politics and government accountability.

There's something beautifully simple about wanting to send a friend a birthday cake.

Here's a dirty little secret about San Francisco that visitors discover the hard way: this city rolls up its sidewalks…

There was a time — not that long ago — when you could walk into Golden Boy Pizza in North Beach, grab a slab of that…

Here's a fun piece of trivia that most San Franciscans have absolutely no idea about: Vice President J.D.

Here's a take that might get you yelled at in Washington Square Park: North Beach isn't necessarily where you'll find…

San Francisco Unified School District has officially adopted a new ethnic studies curriculum — and if you've been…

April 30th, 1975. Saigon was falling. A father came home from work, looked at his family, and said: let's go. No…

Here's a story that perfectly distills the San Francisco governing experience into a single, infuriating anecdote.

Thursday morning on the N Judah, somewhere between the Sunset and Embarcadero, a woman started harassing an older Asian…

If you've never had the pleasure of walking up the Vallejo Stairway in Telegraph Hill and being loudly heckled by a…

Here's something you don't hear often enough in San Francisco: it's free.

If you've been doom-scrolling job boards and wondering when the San Francisco economy is going to throw you a bone…

San Francisco loves a good workshop. We especially love ones with vague, aspirational names that sound like they were…