The latest from The Dissent on culture.
If you've been doom-scrolling through headlines about budget deficits and broken MUNI escalators, here's your reminder that San Francisco still does some things...
San Francisco's film scene is rolling out the red carpet for three trailblazing women filmmakers this season, with tributes celebrating their contributions to c...
## Hoops, Wands, and Fans — Oh My San Francisco's live performance scene just got a shot of pure, unfiltered creativity. *The Flow Show* hit town recently, and...
In a city where a one-bedroom apartment can run you $3,200 a month and a mediocre burrito somehow costs $18, San Franciscans have quietly been doing what smart...
Mondays are objectively the worst day of the week. Your inbox is a war zone, your weekend optimism has evaporated, and the couch is calling. But here's the thin...
Let's be honest — most Mondays in San Francisco are a slog. You're dodging aggressive e-scooters on your way to a job that's probably hybrid anyway, wondering w...
Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what's broken in this city — the budget gaps, the empty storefronts, the Muni delays. But San Francisco h...
In a city that loves to talk about innovation, disruption, and the future of the human mind, it's refreshing when something actually shows up on screen worth di...
If your last name is Snider and you grew up inside the legendary Pickle Family Circus, you were never really going to end up in accounting. Gypsy Snider — chore...
Let's be honest — most art fairs feel like a homework assignment. You wander through white-walled booths, nod at things you don't fully understand, and leave fe...
If you think art is just something rich people hang above their fireplaces, Shiva Ahmadi is here to complicate that notion — and in the best possible way. The...
If you know Lynn Breedlove, you know she doesn't do anything quietly. The SF punk legend — frontperson of Tribe 8, novelist, general cultural force of nature —...
The Bay has been quietly running hip-hop for decades — from the hyphy era to the underground scene that never really went underground — and now 1Umbrella is mak...
## Doll Fest Is the All-Women Rock Festival SF Didn't Know It Needed San Francisco has no shortage of festivals claiming to be culturally essential while deliv...
Before algorithmic feeds told you what to care about, before rainbow capitalism turned rebellion into a branding exercise, there was *Homocore* — a scrappy, pho...
Look, San Francisco doesn't always make it easy to enjoy yourself without dropping a small fortune — between $18 cocktails and the sheer audacity of Ticketmaste...
In a city that loves to talk about disruption, Rachel Simon Marino is actually doing it — just with paint instead of a pitch deck. Marino's latest exhibition i...
Before San Francisco became a city that loves to congratulate itself on progressivism, it actually did something progressive — and the ruins sitting out at Land...
Look, we know your cookbook shelf is mostly decorative at this point. That dog-eared copy of *Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat* hasn't moved since 2019. But hear us out —...
Every few months, someone publishes a eulogy for San Francisco's music scene. A beloved venue closes, Twitter mourns for 48 hours, and suddenly the whole city s...
North Beach has seen its share of characters over the years — beatnik poets, tourist-trap cannoli shops, guys who definitely aren't in the mob — but this week t...
San Francisco has always had its social climbers — the type who collect powerful friends like business cards, haunt the right private clubs, and somehow always...
San Francisco has always had its social strivers — the guys who collect powerful friends the way others collect sneakers, who always seem to be at the right tab...
There's a particular kind of predator that thrives in San Francisco's arts scene: the smooth-talking visionary with a nonprofit letterhead, a Rolodex full of do...
In a city that will charge you $18 for a kombucha and $3,000 a month to sleep in a converted closet, something genuinely free and genuinely pointless happened a...
Here's a rare sentence you don't often get to write about San Francisco: you can do something genuinely beautiful here, for free, without a waitlist or a city-i...
San Francisco has always had a complicated, passionate, and occasionally transcendent relationship with cannabis — and right now, that relationship is blooming....
Let's be honest — San Francisco's nightlife has taken a beating. Venues shuttered, rents exploded, crowds thinned. But if this week's party circuit is any indic...
If you've been sleeping on San Francisco's theater scene, these two productions are a decent reason to wake up. First up: a show that puts kings front and cent...
If your emo-adjacent playlist has been getting a workout lately, here's some news that'll make your week: **The Maine** are heading to San Francisco's **Regency...