Dispatches filed from Sunset, in reverse chronological order.
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No date yet, no ticket link, no bamboo on order — but Mayor Lurie wants the city's zoo donors to know he hasn't forgotten about the pandas.
By Drew Bennett, Things to Do · May 30, 2026
Mayor Daniel Lurie joined Supervisor Alan Wong for door-to-door canvassing in the Sunset District this week, making an early and visible bet on…
A growing chorus of San Francisco residents is calling for increased housing density in the Sunset District, with online discussions surfacing broad…
On the western edge of the Sunset, where Sloat Boulevard dead-ends into the eucalyptus shade of Stern Grove, the annual ritual of trying to get a…
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has begun the second phase of its multiyear 29 Sunset Improvement Project, the agency announced…
How many people have to die on San Francisco streets before Sacramento treats vehicular manslaughter like what it actually is — the killing of a…
A man has been shot and killed in the Sunset District, identified as Eric Bigone.
Every summer, San Francisco does something almost unbelievable: it hosts a world-class concert series in a stunning eucalyptus grove and charges…
The Sunset District is famous for two things: gorgeous skies and rows of pastel-colored homes that regular people once actually bought.
District 4 voters are gearing up for another election cycle, and if the early returns on candidate quality are any indication, it's going to be a…
The District 4 supervisor race is heating up in the Sunset, and so far the discourse is split between two equally unserious poles: candidates whose…
In a city that spends billions on infrastructure and somehow still manages to make your car feel like it's navigating a warzone, the bar for…
If you live in District 4 and just now got around to cracking open your voter information pamphlet, you might have experienced a bit of whiplash.
The District 4 supervisor race has been one of the more entertaining — and revealing — contests in San Francisco this cycle.
There's a certain kind of political figure who becomes more useful the less you agree with them.
While the rest of San Francisco argues about whether to spend another $4 billion on a problem that somehow never gets solved, the Sunset District is…
The District 4 supervisor race is heating up, and candidates are already being asked to lay out their environmental bona fides.
In a city where a one-bedroom apartment will run you $3,200 a month and a burrito somehow costs $18, it's worth reminding ourselves that San…
Stern Grove on a Sunday morning is one of those things San Francisco quietly gets right.
Walk down Irving Street in the Sunset and you'll notice something peculiar: grand opening banners that have been hanging so long they've faded in the…
Say what you will about San Francisco — the budget deficits, the bureaucratic bloat, the $1.7 million public toilets — but this city's mornings…
If you've followed District 4 politics for the past couple of years, you'd be forgiven for thinking the entire Sunset revolves around one road.
District 4 candidates are gearing up for a familiar San Francisco fight: is there a "war on cars" in the Sunset?
The great 19th Avenue repaving project wrapped its first weekend phase, and the Sunset District has emerged, blinking, into the sunlight of smooth…
District 4 — the Sunset, for the uninitiated — is gearing up for what promises to be San Francisco's most theatrical supervisorial race this cycle.
There's a running joke that San Francisco spends millions on public art installations when the city already has one of the greatest light shows on…
Another day in San Francisco, another near-miss involving kids on e-bikes blowing through stop signs like the rules of physics don't apply to them.
The Sunset District picked up a couple of small wins this week, and for once, we're not being entirely sarcastic.
If you drove anywhere near 19th Avenue this weekend, you probably noticed something unusual: the city actually getting road work done at an…
The District 4 supervisor race should be about policy.
San Francisco loves a good panic, and the latest trigger is a weekend lane closure on 19th Avenue.
There's a post making the rounds from a Sunset stay-at-home parent with an 18-month-old, asking for help building a toddler bucket list before…
If you've been following the race for San Francisco's congressional seat, you may have noticed something peculiar: candidates are being asked — and…
The race for District 4 supervisor is heating up, and the candidates want you to know one thing: the Sunset has been neglected.
There's something poetically brutal about professional sports: the city that raised you doesn't get a loyalty discount.
There's something perfectly San Francisco about a painting titled "Lost Cat" that features a coyote.
Ranked-choice voting was sold to San Franciscans as a way to ensure majority support for elected officials and reduce negative campaigning.
Samantha Emge was 22 years old. She had just moved into her boyfriend's one-bedroom Sunset District apartment. Her parents had helped her unpack…
While half of San Francisco is busy pivoting to AI, launching AI startups, or slapping "AI-powered" on their lunch menus, Jay Pham is doing something…
In a move that sounds like it was cooked up during a Silicon Valley brainstorm session — because it literally was — Dirt Alley in the Sunset is being…
Summer in San Francisco means exactly two things: pretending 58 degrees is warm and arguing about which free outdoor music lineup is better.
If you thought 19th Avenue couldn't get any worse, congratulations — the city is about to prove you wrong.
The Stern Grove Festival just announced its 2026 lineup, and once again, San Francisco's favorite outdoor concert series is proving that not…
If you know, you know: Stern Grove season is the best free thing San Francisco has going, and the annual lineup speculation is practically a sport…
There's a familiar script in San Francisco politics: neighborhood group opposes new thing, protests ensue, bureaucrats cave or push forward anyway…
Here's a sentence you don't hear often in California: a government agency is finishing a road project ahead of schedule.
Samantha Emge, a 25-year-old SF State graduate, was taking a shower in her Sunset District home when a bullet came through the wall and killed her.
Two beloved Sunset District staples — You See Sushi and Yumma's — are shutting their doors as their owners hang up their aprons and head into…