Dispatches filed from Haight-Ashbury, in reverse chronological order.
Current lead
Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay Area plans to close its existing retail locations and replace them with a smaller number of large-format superstores, a shift attributed to the organization's new chief…
By Bex Connolly, City Hall · May 31, 2026
On the 1500 block of Haight, the racks are moving toward the door.
On the 1500 block of Haight, the racks at Held Over were stripped nearly bare by Saturday afternoon, the wooden hangers clicking together like a slow…
Fridays and Saturdays, two shows worth knowing about are running regular weekends at SF venues.
If you're tracking down Peking duck in the Bay Area, two names keep coming up: Beijing Duck House on Haight Street in San Francisco, and Boiling…
At the eastern end of the Panhandle, where the strip of park narrows toward Oak Street and the eucalyptus canopy thins enough to let a sight line…
On the 1500 block of Haight, the windows of Club Deluxe have gone opaque with construction paper, the kind of beige-tan barrier that turns a familiar…
Take an evening walk down Haight Street and do something radical: stop scrolling, look up, and actually look at the storefront windows.
If you've mourned the loss of Club DeLuxe — the Haight's beloved cocktail lounge and jazz den that felt like stepping into a time machine set to…
Picture this: you catch a show near the Haight, you're feeling good, you step out around 10:30 and think, "I'll just grab a bite." Simple enough…
Remember Golden City FC? A year ago, the splashy soccer venture rolled into town promising a $10 million facelift for Kezar Stadium — new turf…
If you've walked down Haight Street recently, you've probably noticed it: the Red Victorian, once a beloved hotel and café, sitting there like a…
Look, nobody wants to end up in the hospital overnight.
Permission Granted: You Don't Need to Be Fast to Use a Public Track Somewhere in San Francisco right now, a nervous new runner is Googling whether…
Here's a fun exercise in San Francisco priorities: the city is rolling out the red carpet for a potential professional soccer franchise while the…
We don't usually run lost pet posts, but sometimes community matters more than commentary — and right now, someone in the Haight is having the worst…
Buena Vista Park — the city's oldest park, perched above the Haight — remains one of those quietly spectacular places that justifies the absurd cost…
The Diggers were the radical anarchists of 1960s Haight-Ashbury — the ones who gave away free food, free clothes, and free ideology.
While San Francisco spends billions on bureaucratic programs that somehow never quite solve the problems they're meant to address, a bar in the Upper…
The Page Street Slow Street is hosting yet another block party, this time complete with free food and art.
Here's a sentence we didn't expect to write today: a popular Haight-Ashbury bar allegedly has a camera recording inside the men's restroom.
There's something quietly radical about sitting in the bushes of Buena Vista Park with a set of pastels and drawing the Victorian houses at Haight…
A Neighborhood Bet on Community Over Bureaucracy Haight Street is getting its own First Friday event — Grateful First Fridays — and honestly, it's…