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Vol. IIINo. 184
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Millionaire Marxists and Disco Balls: The Chakrabarti Rally Was Exactly What You Think It Was

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Saikat Chakrabarti — the tech millionaire and former chief of staff to AOC — wants Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat.

PoliticsSoMaMay 8, 2026

The SF Friendship Problem Nobody Talks About

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Here's a truth that doesn't make it into the tourism brochures or the tech recruiting pitches: San Francisco can be one…

CultureMay 7, 2026

The Valkyries Are Worth $1 Billion — On Paper, Anyway

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The Bay Area's newest professional sports franchise just hit a milestone that sounds incredible on the surface: the…

SportsMay 7, 2026

I-80: Where Lane Lines Are Merely Suggestions and Turn Signals Are Optional

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If 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…

TransitMay 7, 2026

BART and Muni Are Growing Fast — Now Can They Actually Collect the Fares?

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Here's something you don't hear every day: Bay Area transit is winning.

TransitMay 7, 2026

A UK Artist Made a Linocut of San Francisco and Honestly, We Needed This

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Sometimes the best perspective on your own city comes from someone who doesn't live in it.

CultureMay 7, 2026

The Internet Did Something Nice For Once: An SF Photo Mystery, Solved

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We spend a lot of time in this space talking about what's broken — the budget, the bureaucracy, the general dysfunction…

CulturePacific HeightsMay 7, 2026

The Real San Francisco Is Still Worth Finding

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There's a version of San Francisco that doesn't show up in budget reports or Board of Supervisors meetings — the…

CultureMay 7, 2026

Lurie's Developer Tax Cuts Face a Brutal Hearing — And Deserve Every Minute of It

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Mayor Daniel Lurie's proposed tax cuts for developers hit a wall this week, and honestly, it wasn't a pretty sight.

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

New Coordinator, New Look: What Raheem Morris Means for the 49ers Defense

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The 49ers defense is getting a facelift, and it's about time we talked about it.

SportsMay 7, 2026

AI Is Doing What City Hall Couldn't: Making SF a Destination Again

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Here's a sentence you probably didn't expect to read: San Francisco tourism spending is trending a half-billion dollars…

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

First You Learn to Code, Then the Code Learns to Code — So Now We Hike

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There's a weekday hiking group in the Bay Area that's become something of a phenomenon.

TechMay 7, 2026

Saurabh Chakrabarti Wants to Buy an SF Congressional Seat — And He's Not Even Hiding It

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Saurabh Chakrabarti wants San Francisco's congressional seat, and he's made one thing abundantly clear: money is no…

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

Oakland's Taste of Temescal Food Crawl Leaves Restaurants With a Bad Taste

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Here's a fun recipe for community betrayal: take a beloved neighborhood food crawl, add opaque finances, and watch…

FoodMay 7, 2026

The Fillmore's Cruelest Irony: A Co-Op Built to Prevent Displacement Is Now Displacing People

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If you wanted to write a parable about how San Francisco manages to betray its own good intentions, you couldn't do…

HousingFillmoreMay 7, 2026

SF Finally Sues a Tenderloin Corner Store for Slinging Meth — Yes, Really

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San Francisco is suing a Tenderloin corner store for allegedly selling meth and weed out of its storefront.

PoliticsTenderloinMay 7, 2026

The Giants Finally Did What Everyone's Been Screaming About

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Sometimes the most obvious move is the hardest one to make.

SportsMay 7, 2026

$1.1 Million Per Unit: Bernal Heights Gets New 'Affordable' Housing at a Very Unaffordable Price

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New affordable housing is going up at 3300 Mission Street in Bernal Heights, and on the surface, that sounds like good…

HousingBernal HeightsMay 7, 2026

District 4 Candidates Get the Green Questionnaire Treatment — But Where's the Fiscal One?

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The District 4 supervisor race is heating up, and candidates are already being asked to lay out their environmental…

PoliticsSunset DistrictMay 7, 2026

San Francisco's Litter Problem: A City That Fines Victims and Coddles Vandals

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Walk through any neighborhood in San Francisco — the Tenderloin, SoMa, even the supposedly pristine Marina — and you'll…

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

Canvas Goes Down Across the Bay Area, Reminding Us How Fragile Our EdTech Infrastructure Really Is

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If your kid came home yesterday saying they couldn't do their homework because the internet was broken, they might have…

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

Firefighter Attacks Sheriff at Original Joe's, Gets the VIP Justice Package

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Here's a fun thought experiment: imagine you, a regular San Francisco resident, walked into Original Joe's and…

PoliticsMay 7, 2026

San Francisco Still Howling for Ginsberg — But Who's Actually Listening?

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San Francisco is throwing itself an all-star centennial celebration for Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet who first…

CultureNorth BeachMay 7, 2026

Go Outside: SF's Got a Stacked Events Week and Zero Excuses

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Look, we spend a lot of time in this space talking about what's broken in San Francisco — the budget bloat, the…

EventsMay 7, 2026