Dispatches filed from Excelsior, in reverse chronological order.
Current lead
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By Drew Bennett, Things to Do · May 30, 2026
On Geneva Avenue, between the pupuserías and the nail salons, a new storefront is starting to look like something — long tables going in, boxes being…
On Geneva Avenue, on Ocean, on the residential blocks that slope away from both, Jeff Murray has been pointing a camera at the Excelsior for years —…
San Francisco can put a $4 billion roof on a transit center and still not figure out how to make a proper chicken wing.
The Excelsior Branch Library is hosting karaoke night, and before you roll your eyes at another quirky San Francisco public programming decision…
While San Francisco spends millions on consultants, committees, and "community engagement" processes that somehow never engage actual communities…
Students at Balboa High School got an unscheduled — and unwelcome — break from class this morning after a bomb threat forced a full evacuation around…
Let's get something straight: a $16 meal is not "cheap eats." That's just...
Drive down the Mission-Excelsior corridor and you can't miss it — one of the taller new buildings in the neighborhood, sitting there like a monument…
If you want a perfect microcosm of how San Francisco governs — or fails to — look no further than the battle over who gets to use the fields at…
A new cannabis dispensary called Green Field is set to open at 4687 Mission St.
There's a version of San Francisco that doesn't make it into the tech press releases or the tourism brochures — and honestly, it's the better version.