Dancing at the Stud. Helping my mom trim back the mint in her garden. Getting a bear hug from a pal during my Saturday movie nights. These are things I miss while most businesses remain closed and ...
An estimated 70 tents popped up in Civic Center last week, a city-sanctioned encampment aimed at housing the shelterless population while keeping them safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Located on ...
Tech titans declaring Silicon Valley “over” and threatening to pack up their Duplo blocks and leave is nothing new. But Elon Musk’s recent anti-California proclamations, spurred by the reopening of ...
Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, emailed his employees Tuesday to tell them that they can work from home permanently, even after the pandemic’s shelter-in-place order ends. “If our employees are in a role ...
Those who push for more housing development in San Francisco—from politicians and developers to economists and academics—present a simple, time-tested argument: If you want to lower housing prices, ...
On the afternoon of January 14, 2020, a red tin-foil heart balloon bobbed sadly in the breeze. The balloon was tied to the top of a hastily erected chain-link fence around the house at 2928 Magnolia ...
The crowd has cleared out—most people are already onboard—but a few stragglers rush to the boat. The ferry idles for a few more minutes before pulling away. It’s sunny and warm, the kind of ...
The site of the city’s homeless navigation center for teenagers and other young people in January. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As San Francisco grapples with how to protect thousands of ...
Ask anyone to describe what makes San Francisco special and Victorian architecture would land near the top of the list, somewhere between sourdough bread and tech money. Here now is a crash course in ...
The Sausalito houseboat that once belonged to Shel Silverstein, the late author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, made headlines when it hit the market in 2017. Four years and one gentle ...
The caricature of a NIMBY is someone with a screw-you-I’ve-got-mine attitude, either a wealthy, white homeowner who thinks renters lower property values or a nostalgic progressive opposed to ...
One of Alamo Square’s famous and frequently photographed Painted Ladies is up for sale, an event akin to a singular astronomical alignment or the visit of a foreign dignitary—not unheard of, but still ...