Hilary Hahn was flawless, the floral arrangements beautiful, and the French 75 cocktails were custom made. But the SF ...

There’s a great little kitschy dive bar in Lower Nob Hill in San Francisco called the Owl Tree. From the window seat, you can sip a dirty martini and look across the intersection of Post and Taylor at ...

Berkeley has a reputation for weird. It’s also known for political activism, great food, and those smarty-pants at Cal, but the city’s inherent quirkiness pervades its past and present. For the most ...

You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you ...

My mom has this Craigslist printout from 2002 that she’s kept framed in the bathroom since I was a kid. The title reads: “SF I love you. Unrequitedly.” In it, the author details their love for the ...

A sunny day we’ve seldom seen this year, but Bay to Breakers still brought us joy and silly outfits. Halloween for spring? Groundbreaking. The annual race is actually a 12K, but it’s just a party for ...

This week in The Bold Italic, we are publishing A Californian’s Dilemma, a series that goes beyond the headlines about the “California Exodus,” featuring essays from San Franciscans about why they’re ...

The Mill, the Divisadero Street café and bakery that somehow came to stand for an entire era of San Francisco, is closed indefinitely after a fire ripped through the back of the building early Monday ...

The open-office trend began in Silicon Valley and caught on like a greyish-fabric-thirsty wildfire, burning down cubicle walls worldwide. At one point, given the trend’s loudly touted benefits, such ...

The iPhone has changed so much about how we live and interact with one another that it’s hard to believe that the original iPhone went on sale just over 10 years ago, popularizing the concept of the ...

Whether you’re going out with your own kids, friends with kids or taking out local niece and nephews as I do, you don’t want to compromise what you eat. And you shouldn’t ever have to in San Francisco ...

Elim Chan is 39, she trains with a boxing coach, and as of this morning she is the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony, beginning in 2027. She is the 13th person to hold the job in the ...