Editors' Picks
What If We Got Rid of All the Parking Lots in the SF Bay Area?
For one: There would be enough space left to create 60 public greenspaces the size of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
It’s been over a month since my Prius was stripped of its catalytic converter. The part is *at least* a few months out because people are assholes and stealing...
Feature Articles
BART Debuts Its Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign. Then One of Its Board Members Was Racially Harassed on Public Transit.
Leaving the launch of BART's "Let's Talk About Us" campaign at Powell Station, its board president had both racial names and gummy candies thrown at her taking an SFMTA line home.
BART passengers — myself included — have become all too acclimated to problematic behaviors conduct...
News to Know
San Francisco Rents Really Are Becoming More Affordable, IRL
The number of sub-$1,500 studios to rent in San Franciso on the market right now is truly refreshing to see.
Converse with any San Franciscan for more than seven minutes, and the state of housing will inevitably come up — particularly as it pertains to current rents. Some will ...
Personal Essays
An Ode to Winter Fog in San Francisco
March 20th is officially the last day of the astronomical winter for 2023. So let’s take some time to wax poetic about San Francisco’s omnipresent atmospheric anomaly.
On what’s the last day of winter, there’s a sense of nostalgia that wraps around San Francisco’s fog this time...
Food + Drink Kikis
This San Francisco Restaurant Is Having an Artisanal Garage Sale
Opened in 2019, SF’s Palette restaurant served as a nexus of creativity and cuisine in SoMa — but its hasty closure last month saw that connection fray into thin air.
Palette, the San Francisco eater once located at 816 Folsom Street, was beloved for its New American fare and go...
Mother Nature Upvotes
This Is Such a *Wild* Weather Radar Picture of San Francisco
An intact tropical storm system descended on the SF Bay Area on March 21st, bringing with it textbook behavior and astonishing satellite imagery.
San Francisco saw nearly hurricane-level winds this week that blew windows off buildings, sofas off porches, and cause more trees tha...
Arts and Wanderlust
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Has Hella Secrets
Spoiler alert: There may be a Nessie in SF's Stow Lake. And bison numbered in the hundreds at Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco is a bastion of weird-ass shit, a cornucopia of Muni missteps and quirky, out-of-sight gems. But one of the city’s most well-known and Instagrammed loc...
Queer Stuff
Drag Has Always Been in My Life
'With all the glitz and glamor I was subjected to growing up, you'd think it would have unwillingly forced me to become a drag queen.'
I was just a kid when one of my cousins took me to see John Water's film Pink Flamingos at the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles. We smoked a joint b...
