At a Queer Democratic Breakfast, Lurie Finally Spelled It Out for the Giants
When you put the uniform on one of our teams in San Francisco, you represent something bigger than yourself....
Responding to comments on the recent SF Giants controversy
We celebrate straight love in nearly every song on the radio and at all 2,430 ballgames a year. After the Giants' Pride Night, the comments still wanted to know when heterosexuals get their parade....
The Sunset's hottest new cafe is called Jandii
The business model focuses on three things: coffee, matcha, and scones. The scones arrive warm and split, spread with housemade jam and cream....
Let's talk about the $6 croissant at Arsicault Bakery
Arsicault Bakery went from an unassuming neighborhood storefront to a national sensation overnight, and they sold me the best croissant I've ever eaten....
SF Oasis to reopen on July 17th
In a move that's timed perfectly for Pride Month, and on the heels of D'Arcy Drollinger's SF film premiere: Oasis just announced it will reopen July 17th....
When Did Karl the Fog Become a Thing?
We love our mercurial weather pattern but apparently loathe its name. This wasn't always....
I spent Friday night watching Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center
C-SPAN and maybe a dozen others decided to livestream the whole thing, so I saw a lot of foot-dragging, and name calling, and of course the live chat kept everything super mature....
North Beach Is Losing Park Tavern, This Time for Good
For longtime San Franciscans, the goodbye of Park Tavern carries the weight of everything that came before it....
The Cocktail Map of San Francisco
San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. If a drink made this list, somebody who actually sat on the stool swears by it....
The Sunset District Was Built By An Aggressive YIMBY
The neighborhood that feels so permanent today was, in its moment, one of the most aggressive building sprees the city had ever seen....
An SF Pride guide from someone who actually goes
Here's my extensive experience with Pride that began as an insecure 30-something with a severe case of FOMO....
I love you, roommates of San Francisco!
The cool part is, we lived with a total fucking stranger and made memories....
What to Actually Check Before Renting in SF
The listing photos are lying to you. Here's what San Franciscans actually check in those nine frantic minutes before signing, from the trash chute to the rent-control loophole that decides whether you get to stay....
The Ice Cream Map of San Francisco
An exhaustive, possibly unhinged guide to every ice cream shop, cart, pop-up, and restaurant extra I could find in San Francisco....
Here's Where Celebrities Drink at San Francisco Bars
Sam Smith ended a 20-night residency by walking Kim Petras to a Castro bar for one more round. That's the kind of night this map is made of....
Where to Get Stoned in San Francisco
We asked San Francisco where it likes to get stoned. The city refused to pick just one, so we mapped all of them....
How to Do San Francisco Without a Car
San Francisco is seven miles by seven miles, which sounds adorable until you remember that many miles go straight up. You need shoes that won't betray you and the willingness to get gently lost....
Where Famous People Eat in San Francisco
Kesha at a piano bar. Adele in a brunch line. Zendaya at a worker-owned co-op. The most San Francisco thing about celebrity dining is how un-fancy it gets....
All the Ramen I Could Find in San Francisco
From Japantown's lined-up classics to a beef-bone bowl out in the Sunset, a map of San Francisco ramen that's actually open....
Here Are Amazing San Francisco Views You Don't Have to Pay For
A field guide to ten free San Francisco views, with addresses, directions, and which ones win at sunset....
A Daniel Lurie Porn Casting Call Has Appeared on Poles in SF
The mayor's slogan is "Let's go San Francisco." Someone built the X-rated remix called "Let's Blow San Francisco." The casting call is real, and we have the receipts....
The San Francisco Dinner Map for Under $50 Meals
From Mission taquerias to Richmond dim sum, a citywide map of where to eat well without blowing past $50....
The Store Cats of San Francisco
A 2026 guide to the cats working San Francisco's corner stores, wine shops, and flower markets. Updated, mapped, and sorted by how sure we are they're still there....
Trump Cost Us Margaret Cho on 'Heated Rivalry'
She would have been Shane's mother, the one role in the whole series that made me weep. Then ICE fears and a second Trump term got in the way....
In San Francisco, Women Now Run the Symphony, the Opera, and the Ballet
Elim Chan is coming to Davies in 2027, and the house she's inheriting at San Francisco Symphony is gorgeous, world-class, and a little bruised....
Anyone Else Remember the Mr. Marina Competition?
The charity bro pageant raised nearly $1 million for cancer research before disappearing into the pandemic. Also it was bonkers....
Bay to Breakers Was Massive This Year. I Was Also Glad to Miss It
Yes, Bay to Breakers is a frat party. It is also, sometimes, the most San Francisco day of the year....
My layered emotions about the recent Halston-themed show in Union Square
Long before any student paid tribute to Halston, he had already sold his name. He watched his legacy turn to addiction, mass-market deals, and a brand he no longer controlled....
Doris Fisher, Co-Founder of Gap, Dies at 94
Doris Fisher, who co-founded Gap Inc. with her late husband Donald in a single small store on Ocean Avenue in 1969, died Saturday....
Fashion from 'Art Bash' 2026
'Art Bash' is less about the art and more about what people are wearing at a very prominent party....
Every San Francisco fashion designer and seamstress I can vouch for
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say there's no fashion in San Francisco, I could commission a new ballgown. Or five....
Tosca Musk made a movie about sex in San Francisco. It's exactly as weird as it sounds.
'Wallbanger' reeks heavily of 'The Wedding Planner' without budget, charisma, or a single believable San Francisco apartment. And it’s directed by a Musk....
Nothing Good Happens in the Woods at the Ballet.
La Sylphide is an ethereal gut punch wrapped in tartan....
I Never Liked Philz Anyway
The San Francisco-born chain, with branding like the queerest coffee shop in town, is pulling Pride flags from its stores. But I never liked you anyway, Philz....
San Francisco Keeps Losing Pool Tables. These 32 Bars Still Rack 'Em Up.
You can still find a table on a Tuesday night. You just have to look sideways into the back rooms of dives, behind the jukebox, past the dartboard, occasionally under a chandelier....
My thoughts on the San Francisco dance party scene
San Francisco's dance party scene has splintered into parallel worlds: some sober, some chemically enhanced, some queer, some aggressively not, and most of them happening somewhere you have to know someone to find....
Here's Why You Should See 'Mere Mortals' at SF Ballet
Buying your ticket and sitting in that seat is you saying: I'm choosing to be in a room full of people who believe art still matters....
Bars With Live Music in San Francisco
These are the spots where you can walk in on a Tuesday, order a drink, and find a jazz trio or a blues band playing ten feet away from you....
Every Oyster Happy Hour and Deal I Could Find in San Francisco
Your complete guide to cheap bivalves across the city, from $1 holdouts to splurge-worthy shucks....
Hunky Jesus Saved Me Again. Just Like Renewable Energy.
Hunky Jesus is queer church without the guilt. It is what Pride would be if corporations hadn't found it. And it is San Francisco’s most sacred act of nonsense....
My Favorite Places to Eat Outside in San Francisco's North Beach and Nearby
North Beach is the neighborhood where you go to sit outside, watch people walk by, and eat something good without making a whole production out of it....
My Favorite Places to Eat Outside in the Mission and Castro, San Francisco
To eat outside in SF, we sit outside in 54-degree fog and call it "refreshing." We wrap ourselves in restaurant blankets like it's totally normal behavior....
The SF Secret Cave Rave That Almost Wasn't
By 11 p.m., throngs of Gen Z swayed to vibrating bass, clutching large cans of NÜTRL and Bud Light, while the stench of weed wafted overhead....
I Ate Some $5,000 Cake and Met a Mars Scientist at the de Young. The Flowers Were Also Nice.
Great parties for me need conversation that goes somewhere unexpected, and they need to feel like you're both the audience and the show. Bouquets to Art was a great party....
The Boba District of San Francisco
Irving Street has more boba shops per block than some cities have total. It is a boba street that also has other things....
The Community Music Center Gala Raised a Record $425,000, and I Met Katya's Mom
Now at the Ritz Carlton, the party intimidated me enough to park my Subaru down the street instead of using the valet....
My weekend with ODC/Dance Downtown
The truth is that I go to these things for the people. The art is what sneaks up on me while I'm busy having a good time....
The Bay Bridge Lights Are Back and We Need to Talk About Our Feelings
It is a meaningful moment for San Francisco's waterfront, which is a sentence I apparently mean without irony....
San Francisco Doesn't Have Air Conditioning. Here's How We Survive.
Half of SF metro area homes still don't have AC. The rest of us have developed coping mechanisms....
Brides of March Is the SantaCon You Actually Wanted
The Brides of March is what happens when you take the same anarchic DNA of SantaCon, but you let joy be the point....
The Year of the Fire Horse Came to Davies Symphony Hall
SF Symphony's Lunar New Year gala was the most San Francisco thing you could do on the last Saturday of February....
Loveski Deli Just Replaced the 'Erewhon of SF' — but make it bagels
Jackson Square somehow got even more expensive. We're going anyway....
The one-of-a-kind coffee shops of San Francisco
These single-location coffee shops in San Francisco have poured their hearts into one space, one counter, one community....
SF Ballet finally went clubbing. It's called 'The Blake Works'
If you walked into the War Memorial Opera House expecting ballet to stay quiet and pretty and out of the conversation, you weren't paying attention to this art form....
A note to our readers.
I want to keep this publication going because I think it meant something to the young generation of San Franciscans at the time. And maybe it can for the current one, or the next one. This is a bit tl;dr - apologies....
San Francisco's Favorite Quiet Spots, According to the People Who Live Here
Hunter Pence asked SF locals for their favorite quiet spots. The answers were a love letter to the city....
My favorite coffee shops in San Francisco
We drank our way through San Francisco so you'd know exactly where to get your fix....
Finding our resonance at the Grace Cathedral Gala
Looking down the long rows of tables, Grace Cathedral cathedral was awash in the vibrant, shifting colors of the Year of Resonance....
Love, Lust, and the Tuesday Morning Tow
I had been dating Caleb for six months, and the honeymoon phase was officially over. We had entered the Parking Phase....
SF’s Erewhon is dead. Long live the Michelin-star bagel
Postscript was a bougie café in Jackson Square that people often referred to as San Francisco's Erewhon — the Los Angeles grocery store that built an empire on $19 smoothies, raw sea moss gel, and unapologetic luxury-as-a-lifestyle aesthetics. But it is no more....
My favorite Inner Sunset eats
On rainy days like today, warm up with hot pots from Nabe or iPot. Or play a boardgame with a waffle sandwich in hand at Game Parlour. There's so much to love about Inner Sunset....
How to party like it’s the Met Gala in San Francisco
People tell me all the time how drab San Francisco is, as they might put it: no one dresses up, and where are the good parties? Glamour does exist in ye olde city of denim, hoodies, and Crocs — you just have to look a little harder....
My belated rant on 'Heated Rivalry'
This show is not based in reality. There’s nothing said about gender-nonconforming people, trans culture, or gay culture generally. And these are all men who pass as straight. (Well, maybe not Kip.)...
Who shot these 1960s San Francisco photos? AI could provide clues
One man’s call for help uncovering a great mystery of 20th-century photography....
Inside a Painted Lady
The blue Victorian on 712 Steiner is steeped in history, not just ‘Full House’ fame....
How I felt as the only man in a dress at the Kentucky Derby
Coming from San Francisco, the stares and comments only fueled my sense of pride in breaking the mold at this historic event....
Bars with killer food in San Francisco
As one of the world’s best food cities, many San Francisco bars also serve killer food. Three newcomers to this scene are Movida, Bar Gemini, and Stoa....
Is there any late-night food in San Francisco?
While there are scant midnight offerings here, they are by no means gone entirely....
So I visited the last Blockbuster on the planet, and all I got was this t-shirt
If you didn’t know: There is only one Blockbuster Video left on planet Earth. It is in Bend, Oregon, and it’s a relic of a bygone era when the country had more than 9,000 locations....
Why now is the best time to live in San Francisco
Does anyone in mainstream media have anything nice to say about San Francisco?...
The real crime in San Francisco: Fashion
Suits with backpacks, ugly shoes, and skinny jeans. Derek Guy spills the tea on everything we get wrong....
Why I’m breaking up with Burning Man
Adriana Roberts is a well-known burner who has gone for 30 years and needs to quit the playa. This is why....
Why I’m not leaving San Francisco
People often talk about why they’ve decided to depart our City by the Bay. But I’m staying right here, and this is why....
San Francisco fashion in the 1950s
Joseph Selle was an unheralded photographer and chronicler of San Francisco’s sidewalk culture in the 1950s....
I live in a van in San Francisco
The urban van lifestyle is definitely not for everyone, but it suits me well....
The best places to poop in San Francisco
These are some primo spots to drop a deuce if you can’t wait to get home to do it....
These San Francisco streets were named after sex workers
Sex workers from the 1800s inspired some names for San Francisco’s walkable alleys and scenic drives....
Here’s what happened when I skipped Muni fare
When he got to me I accepted my fate, morbidly curious to experience the process, I thought, “If I can survive this I won’t be nervous about it again.”...
My sexual awakening happened inside The Armory
My good girl sensibilities finally discovered kink one sunny afternoon in the Mission....
Why Do Women Have the Upper Hand on Tinder?
Explaining the two worlds of the dating app....
How 42 Hours Locked on a Carnival Cruise Changed Me
A story of chaos, censorship, and cigarette rationing....
San Francisco Fashion From the 1920s
San Francisco’s style in the 1920s looked a lot more dapper than today. The Bay Area has fully embraced lounge chic, or maybe not so chic....
I Am an Additional 400 Square Feet of an SF Apartment, and You Want Me So Bad
You wouldn’t even know what to do with me if you had me....
Confessions: The Worst Thing You’ve Done to Get Out of a Date
After hearing these, it’s going to be hard to believe anyone ever again...
Yoga Poses for People Who’ve Been Single a While
A slow flow practice to align with your inner self-critic....
Why I’m Polyamorous
Learning to care for and support the people I love, not control them....
I Said Yes to Every Tech Perk for a Week
How I got a dozen free meals—and a big fat privileged wake-up call....
I Invited Every Resident in My Building to My Apartment
What happens when you get tipsy and decide to invite a building full of strangers to a party in your apartment? I recently drank a huge glass of wine and found out....
Acid, Dance, Unity: What Happened to the ’90s Bay Area Rave Scene?
Remembering a different time in San Francisco....
What It’s Really like Driving a Muni Bus in San Francisco
Telesia Telsee, more commonly known as Lisa, closes her eyes and nods silently. She’s been working as a Muni operator since 2001—and she’s witnessed it all....
The Most Secretive Club in America
Atomic bombs, giant owls and the president’s pissing tree, deep in a forest north of San Francisco....
The Best Hot Chocolate in San Francisco
Given San Francisco's iconic chocolate “scene,” many cafes and bakeries add their own spin on this winter drink to make it one of a kind....
My Hellish Stint at a Tourist-Trap Restaurant
My interview for the position of food runner (a.k.a. all-purpose kitchen bitch) was quite brief. It was clear they were in need of any warm body possible to fill the role, because the restaurant was dangerously understaffed. I was also desperate for a job....
I Tried Tantra Speed Dating, and Things Got Weird Real Quick
At one point, I found myself in the arms of a stranger while he apologized to me on behalf of all men....
San Francisco’s Sex-Story Underground
Dixie has devoted her entire life to a subject that is usually talked about only in hushed tones: detailed sex stories....
My Polyamorous Nightmare
Polyamory is one of those things that always sounded like a beautiful idea to me. But reality can be a real bitch, and any relationship can turn into somebody bleeding to death on the ground....
Witches Reveal How to Cast Spells on The Trump Administration
Witches across the world came together to set a spell on President Trump. Since then, some dedicated resistance witches have been casting spells every month....
Which Tastes Better—Blue Bottle or Coffee S**t Out by a Small Marsupial?
Sure, Blue Bottle is good, but can it compete with the Asian palm civet, renowned for its ability to improve the taste of coffee beans that pass through its digestive system?...
An Oakland Eye-Contact Party Is More Intimate Than an Orgy
What I saw when I stared into a complete stranger’s eyes....
I Used LinkedIn as a Dating Site, and It Worked Better Than Real Dating Sites
If you’re into having some dirty fun with partnered professionals and are willing to play the long game, LinkedIn is your next great dating app....
The Best Wine Weekend Is One Hour North of San Francisco
Santa Rosa, the capital of wine country, can’t be beat when it comes to a grape-cation....
Are Bagels to NYC as Burritos Are to SF?
While I don’t want to say I would die without good Mexican food, I’m also not convinced that life would still be worth living....
It’s Time We Set Aside Our Differences and Transformed Lombard Street into the World’s Curviest Slip ’N’ Slide
Historically, when the going gets tough, civilizations have pulled together to accomplish incredible feats....
What Non-Burners Think Happens at Burning Man
“They rip clothing off of men and … they burn it. Because Burning Man.”...
Nine Pokémon with Inexplicably Sexual Attributes
Maybe Pokémon Go was made by a bunch of horny dude-bros, or maybe the original designers back in the ’90s were naïve about the potential for innuendo in their creations....
A Completely True Account* of an Apartment Viewing in San Francisco
Does this unit get much natural light? There’s just the one small window, and it seems pretty dark in here....
What Happens When a Stripper Falls in Love with a Customer?
A popular myth states that you never see a stripper outside a club; yet the dancers at the Condor are different: most met their long-term loves right here....
The Nine Frattiest Bars in San Francisco
Where the gym-shorts crowd drinks nowadays. Our guide to the Marina's frattiest bars....
The Most Commonly Used Drugs in San Francisco
A rundown of how people are getting high in the city....
Five California Winemaking Regions You Probably Haven’t Been To
When California wine is mentioned, it’s natural to immediately think of Napa and Sonoma. But these household names aren’t the only areas in the state burgeoning with vines....
Lights Out: The Best Places to Stargaze in San Francisco
San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area are home to a variety of places to experience all-star constellations (and even to discover a few new ones)....
I Went on an Online-Dating Bender. Here’s How It All Went Down.
After I showed up with a mysterious lump in my neck, my date recommended that I go to the hospital....
Five Fashion Innovations Created in San Francisco
With the current tech boom, you can be excited again about all the inventions sprouting up right here in the city. Despite the newness of it all, San Francisco has always been a hotbed of innovation....
How Tech Is Ruining Dating
In my generation, it’s easier to find people who have longer relationships with their Lyft drivers than with their dates, let alone engage in this foreign concept of marriage....
What Our Office Learned Working Naked for One Month (Ironically NSFW)
Clothes: the last obstruction to the truly perfected working environment....
My Weirdly Strong Feelings about People Who Don’t Sleep with a Top Sheet
There is a moment (for some, that moment may be now) when it comes to your attention that some people don’t use a top sheet — the flat sheet that goes between your body and your blankets. For some, the realization is revolutionary and freeing. Those people are definitively gross....
This Is What a Quarter-Life Crisis Feels Like
I was recently hit with a twofer on the eve of my 27th birthday: my boyfriend broke up with me, and soon after, I was unexpectedly laid off from my job....
The Best Mac and Cheese Spots in the Bay Area
When you’re homesick, or tired, or cozy and happy, you don’t crave fancy foie gras or squid tentacles. You want something simple and familiar....
Men’s Facial Hair Options, Ranked from Worst to Best
Here is my exhaustive ranking of the best uses of facial hair, from worst to first....
12 Ways Growing Up in San Francisco Has Ruined Me for Other Cities
There are a few drawbacks to growing up and living in the City by the Bay that would make it difficult to live as successfully in any other city in the world....
What Your Beer Choice Says About You
IPA says, "Heyyy, this person is cool! Take your weeny beers somewhere else; my friend here wants a mouth explosion, STAT!"...
What I Learned from Sharing a Studio Apartment
It can be a little demeaning, explaining that two working adults nearing our 30s share a 200-square-foot apartment....
The 11 Best Bowls of Pho in San Francisco
It’s slightly chilly in SF. What better way to cure the cool-weather blues than with hot, chunky noodle soups?...
A 4 Year Old Reviews Chez Panisse
She insisted that only girls could be food reviewers because boys “would just punch everything and kick the food.”...
Meter Maid Tips on Avoiding Parking Tickets in San Francisco
I met an SFMTA Parking Control Officer randomly at a bar earlier this year, and I was excited that he agreed to get buzzed over a couple beers, and let me pick his brain about parking in San Francisco....
How Not to Treat Your Friends with Cars
The offer of gas money shows positive intent, but the money doesn’t automatically justify a ride at any time....
Moving from Texas to San Francisco
I’m conservative in the most liberal city....
Why Try to Fall in Love When Everyone Breaks Up?
Does it ever seem like all long term relationships are doomed in one way or another? My parents are divorced. My friends’ parents are divorced. Everyone is divorced....
Photos of North Beach in the ’70s & ’80s
Forged by the Gold Rush and Barbary Coast, San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood has played host to a variety of cultures and subcultures over the decades....
What It’s Like Being Lonely in SF
I’ve been living in San Francisco for almost two years now and I’ve made almost no friends. I’ve found that I can trick myself into feeling like I’m talking with a friend while I listen to a podcast....
The Year I Went Without Sex
Being single means having unattached sex with multiple partners whenever available, right? To varying degrees, yes, it does, but for me it meant being celibate — for an entire year....
I Came Out to My Homophobic Parents
Faced with the choice of having to accept my sexual orientation or disown me, my parents made the harder choice. They’re certainly never going to wave flags at the Pride parade, but they’ll also stand up for me if one of their friends or family members says something disparaging....
A Four-Year-Old Reviews the French Laundry
She is the youngest person to eat a full tasting menu....
What It’s Like to Live in the Presidio
The Presidio of San Francisco is 1,491 acres with 21 distinct neighborhoods, all converted buildings left over from its days as a military post. Each of these areas has its own unique look....
Photo of Hayes Valley in the ’90s
Hayes Valley is definitely a neighborhood that you can say, “I remember when …” about and be referencing vastly different phases of its history....
How to Survive Living with Your Burner Roommate
As many of us know, the fervor with which Burners talk about the festival rivals any religious fanaticism out there....
Illustrated Guide to Dressing for SF Summer
I’m pretty confident that 40ish percent of SF’s economy rides on selling embroidered fleece sweaters to tourists deceived by our palm trees. Even with the recent slightly-hot-spell, we all know that drastic temperature change can happen in mere blocks, and certainly once the sun goes down....
An Open Rant Against Birthday Dinners
As a kid, you probably thought birthday parties were awesome. Too bad we all had to grow up because somehow, the default plan became the dreaded birthday dinner....
Photos of Previous SF Pride Parade-Goers (NSFW)
Nothing quite like a Pride parade through San Francisco! We sent Akshay Sawhney out to take portraits of Sunday’s Pride-goers, and as expected, they are so fun, and so gay!...
Pride Photos from the ’70s and ’80s Are Awesome (Duh)
I spent some time at the San Francisco Public Library going through historical photo collections and found some fantastic prints from Pride parades over the last 40 years....
5 Times San Francisco Was Almost Destroyed
San Francisco is prone to disasters, but it’s also a place that knows how to bounce back like nowhere else. This city has been almost completely obliterated several times, from both natural disasters and bizarro development scenarios....
The Do’s and Don’ts of Applying to Rooms on Craigslist
Somehow Craigslist has been good to me. And having spent the past few years in the lucky, slightly-drunk-with-power position as a master tenant, I always insist on putting any open rooms in our house back into the Craigslist pool....
Why Does San Francisco Love Fernet?
Allegedly, upwards of 70 percent of all Fernet consumed in the US is drunk in San Francisco. To that end, I found current or former Bay Area residents who had a strong opinion on this inimitable elixir....
Everything You Wanna Know About San Francisco’s Foghorns
For those who live within earshot of the Golden Gate Bridge, that familiar moan of the foghorn is either a nice bit of ambiance or a reason to sleep with earplugs....
Why I Like to Steal
Let me be clear: I’m not a kleptomaniac and it’s not a compulsion. You can have me over without worrying that something will be missing after I’m gone....
A Rare Look at the Tunnels Under San Francisco
I felt like one of the Goonies on my way to find One-Eyed Willy, albeit with fewer booby traps....
A Fashion Lesson for SF With Special Guest Menswear Dog
Here, we present a roundup of looks that are ideal for SF situations, because there’s really nothing like being schooled by a Shiba Inu....
I Love You, Ex-Boyfriend!
We had a good thing, and we’re good people; but we weren’t good for each other....
I love you, Fisherman's Wharf
You were cold at first, but then you offered me some of your delicious clam chowder, and we warmed up to each other....
Oh, Muni, I Love You So Much!
We’ve come a long way together, baby. From the days when you used to run me from the Mission to the FiDi and back, through our brief estrangement while I experimented with your younger brother, BART....
Don’t Call It ‘Frisco’: The History of San Francisco’s Nicknames
No single nickname has ever really stuck for Saint Frank....
Dating in Your 30s
But when I first hit the market again, the teeth of my gears were spinning aimlessly. I had pizza four meals in a row. I wore my underwear inside out to avoid laundry....
Craigslist Housing Horror Stories
It should surprise no one that SF-level apartment desperation + Internet strangers = inevitable housing nightmares, quietly marinating under that dial-up era homepage....
Telling Your Friends You’re Sober
By the time my decades-long chemical spree had ended, I had published a memoir about my exploits that a sober friend called a “drunkalogue” — a reference to AA disclosures that painstakingly detail every gutter puked in, stranger punched and bedsheet peed upon....
Eight Ways to Deal with Your Neighbors’ Loud Sex
Is your apartment “historically charming” — as in it’s too old to have proper soundproofing? Is your residential building incredibly close to the ones next to it? The answer to both questions is yes because you live in San Francisco....
Radical Faeries: SF’s Fabulously Weird Progressive Queers
It turns out the Radical Faeries are more than just a handful of beautiful weirdos living in San Francisco. They’re a part of a politically radical movement of gay men who’ve been around since the 1970s, and include millions of members around the world....
If you didn’t join a cult, did you even live in San Francisco
Since its days as a bawdy port city built on gold dust and dungarees, San Francisco has always been a town where open-mindedness reigns and people live whatever life they see fit....
Moving to San Francisco
Breaking down neighborhood stereotypes for apartment hunters....
Tilted SF: Flat Streets, Tipsy Houses
It’s hard enough to park a car or even just walk on the especially crazy-steep SF streets, to imagine building a house on them would seem impossible if they weren’t already there....
Tears for Queers: A History of Polk Gulch in SF
Before the Castro, there was Polk. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, Polk was the gay center of San Francisco....
The Lez Look Book
Still sporting looks from the early ’90s, we’ve been known for our “comfortable” shoes, white backwards baseball hats, unflattering flowy dresses, and too-small ironic boy T-shirts paired with too-big man jeans....
At a Queer Democratic Breakfast, Lurie Finally Spelled It Out for the Giants
When you put the uniform on one of our teams in San Francisco, you represent something bigger than yourself....
The Mill is closed indefinitely after a fire
The Mill opened in 2012 as a joint venture between Four Barrel Coffee and Josey Baker Bread. Then it accidentally became famous....
Responding to comments on the recent SF Giants controversy
We celebrate straight love in nearly every song on the radio and at all 2,430 ballgames a year. After the Giants' Pride Night, the comments still wanted to know when heterosexuals get their parade....
The Sunset's hottest new cafe is called Jandii
The business model focuses on three things: coffee, matcha, and scones. The scones arrive warm and split, spread with housemade jam and cream....
Let's talk about the $6 croissant at Arsicault Bakery
Arsicault Bakery went from an unassuming neighborhood storefront to a national sensation overnight, and they sold me the best croissant I've ever eaten....
SF Oasis to reopen on July 17th
In a move that's timed perfectly for Pride Month, and on the heels of D'Arcy Drollinger's SF film premiere: Oasis just announced it will reopen July 17th....
The Bold Italic & SF Symphony this Thursday, June 18th
I put $500 toward free cocktails, or bubbly, or something. I actually haven't determined what. But it'll be fun....
When Did Karl the Fog Become a Thing?
We love our mercurial weather pattern but apparently loathe its name. This wasn't always....
I spent Friday night watching Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center
C-SPAN and maybe a dozen others decided to livestream the whole thing, so I saw a lot of foot-dragging, and name calling, and of course the live chat kept everything super mature....
North Beach Is Losing Park Tavern, This Time for Good
For longtime San Franciscans, the goodbye of Park Tavern carries the weight of everything that came before it....
The Cocktail Map of San Francisco
San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. If a drink made this list, somebody who actually sat on the stool swears by it....
The Sunset District Was Built By An Aggressive YIMBY
The neighborhood that feels so permanent today was, in its moment, one of the most aggressive building sprees the city had ever seen....