Dispatches filed from Inner Sunset, in reverse chronological order.
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On the stretch of Irving where the N-Judah rattles past the produce stands, Martha Ehrenfeld has the kind of local knowledge that takes decades to accumulate and a particular personality to bother with in the…
By Casey Wong, Neighborhoods · May 31, 2026
The 4th Annual Gamelan in the Garden brings live Balinese and Javanese percussion to the San Francisco Botanical Garden at 1199 9th Ave in Golden…
Game 7 tip-off is Sunday — check local listings for exact time — and you don't need a watch party reservation to catch it.
Workers at the California Academy of Sciences have organized under the banner Cal Academy Workers United and are circulating an open letter calling…
At the corner of 19th and Irving on a Wednesday afternoon, a man was standing on the sidewalk holding a placard, and nobody passing him — not the…
On Clement Street and on the back blocks of the Sunset, the nail salon is as common a storefront as the bubble tea shop or the insurance office —…
Thursdays starting at 6pm, the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park runs its adults-only Nightlife series — 21+, general admission…
Two Lowell High School baseball coaches have been placed on administrative leave following allegations that players engaged in racial misconduct…
Here's a question no one should have to agonize over at 11 PM while watching a loved one's post-surgery vitals: Which emergency room is the lesser of…
UCSF's campuses — particularly Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay — offer some of the most stunning, underappreciated vistas in the entire city.
The Inner Sunset Flea Market is back doing its thing — and if you haven't swung by yet, it's worth the trip for the vintage finds, local vendors, and…
UCSF is one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country.
In a city where "art" often means a $50 million public installation that looks like a rusty paperclip or a tech bro's AI-generated NFT collection…
If you want a snapshot of San Francisco's housing dysfunction, here it is: a renter showed up to an Inner Sunset apartment open house ten minutes…
If you tried to catch the N-Judah westbound yesterday afternoon, congratulations — you got to experience San Francisco's infrastructure priorities in…
Here's a situation that should make anyone with an aging parent or vulnerable family member pay attention.
The Inner Sunset Flea Market is kicking off its 2025 season in partnership with Sunset Mercantile, and honestly, this is the kind of economic…
While the city struggles to fill potholes and keep escalators running at BART stations, a group of San Francisco volunteers is quietly doing what…
Cal Academy's NightLife events are one of the few things San Francisco does that actually justifies the cost of living here — cocktails, penguins…
Before San Francisco became a city that loves to congratulate itself on progressivism, it actually did something progressive — and the ruins sitting…
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…