High Dive
I LOVE THE SMELL OF CHLORINE IN THE MORNING. DON’T BE FOOLED BY NAYSAYERS WHO INSIST that San Francisco isn’t warm enough for outdoor swimming, or that it’s just not that flavor of a city....
San FranciscoA collection of 2148 posts
Off the Leash
I buy it. For every friend with a kid, I have about 20 with a dog....
Making Porn with Pantheon Productions
I wasn’t staring into the Castro Pottery Barn store window. It was a staged living room set at Pantheon Productions in Potrero Hill, a notable niche porn company founded in 2002, specializing in intergenerational and bear films....
“A Field Guide To Bears” Poster Available Now
Now you can purchase a poster for “A Field Guide To Bears: Your Guide to the Wild Life of San Francisco.” Built from the graphics for one of our most popular recent stories, “Grizzly Man,” this original poster was designed by Volume Inc. for The Bold Italic....
Longtime Companions
The sound of a sneezing rat was keeping me up at night. All would be silent, and then from across the room I’d hear it: a tiny “pff!” followed by two paws furiously wiping a fuzzy face....
The Jean Genies
By Emily Goligoski....
The Cutting Edge
It used to be that you could go to a barber, get a haircut, shave, and a tooth pulled....
America’s Cupping
Ritual Coffee Roasters on Valencia Street is the epicenter of San Francisco hipster life....
Party of One
Census Bureau, 56% of San Franciscans either live alone or with roommates in unrelated households....
Visiting SF’s Creepier Neighborhood Haunts
San Francisco is known for many things — organic food, fog, sandals-with-socks, tech companies, dive bars....
Beautiful Dead Things
The walls and shelves of Paxton Gate on Valencia are laden with dead things: rows of mounted heads, cases of skulls, hundreds of exotic insects behind glass....
The Unseen City
San Francisco is about as far west as you can go in the continental United States....