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 ...

San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat in February and ...

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 ...

Here's the thing about oyster happy hours in San Francisco right now: most of them got more expensive. The $1 oyster used to be a reliable weekday fixture, the kind of deal you could count on at a ...

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 ...

San Francisco has always been a live music city. But if you're looking for something smaller than a concert hall and more interesting than a Spotify playlist, the bar scene is where it's at. These are ...

While walking through the Castro, I spy two naked men outside of Peet’s on Market Street. I stop and ask if I can take their photo. Sure, they reply, before inviting me to join them. The two are part ...

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 ...

In early November 1971, the USS Coral Sea sat in the San Francisco Bay. The 45,000-ton aircraft carrier was slated to return to Vietnam that month, but at least 1,000 of the 4,500-man crew had formed ...

This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells historic stories of San Francisco to teach us all more about our city’s past. Everyone knows the shortest alley in San Francisco is ...

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 ...

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 ...