Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on what is today the United States. He never visited California or sailed the Pacific Ocean. And he didn’t discover America in 1492. But that hasn’t stopped ...
It was a splendid, fitting farewell for the Stud, San Francisco’s iconic gay bar: a virtual 12-hour drag show that swung from festival to funeral and back again. S.F. native Honey Mahogany, wearing a ...
On Thursday, a handful of skaters climbed Twin Peaks — the second-highest hill in S.F., with a curvy street perfect for skating — and plunged, from its apex, down Market Street and then onward toward ...
In response to persistent police brutality, highlighted most recently by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, San Francisco mayor London Breed announced an effort to funnel ...
After years of people bemoaning the state of San Francisco, a city stifled by skyrocketing rent prices and overrun by tech-worker drones decked out in matching Patagonia vests, new data suggests that ...
In light of social-distancing orders, and in preparation for Memorial Day weekend, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department placed social-distancing circles, measuring roughly six feet in ...
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 ...
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 ...
A staple of Victorian architecture, the bay window—an often-cantilevered series of windows that form an alcove—deserves far better than its common, uninspired fate as a home for an oversize flatscreen ...
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 April 7, local resident Jack Dorsey—the cofounder and CEO of publicly traded Twitter and Square, and a billionaire several times over—announced he was devoting more than a quarter of his fortune to ...
Gates at the West Portal station are blocked with caution tape following the temporary closure of stations. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...