When I started showing up on San Francisco's black-tie circuit several years ago, I was told the golden rule of covering these things is to never be negative. "Don't say if the fish is too fishy," is ...

Dolly Parton, the songwriter, performer and businesswoman who turned a Smoky Mountain childhood into one of the most durable careers in American popular music, has died in her home in Nashville. She ...

Tartine is opening in the Financial District. The bakery has leased the former CVS at 351 California Street at Sansome, a 4,000-square-foot corner space at the base of the J. Harold Dollar Building.

For nearly twenty years, the little castle clinging to the side of Telegraph Hill has been one of San Francisco's most beautiful empty buildings. This September, Julius' Castle is coming back. The ...

San Francisco just got a new trail: a roughly 13-mile route that starts at Crissy Field, hugs the bay, bends south along the entire oceanfront, and finishes out at Fort Funston, collecting a dozen ...

"There is no San Francisco without the LGBTQ+ community." The speech was, by most accounts, a polite one. Daniel Lurie had come to the Hyatt Regency on the Embarcadero for the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ ...

San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. The pisco punch was born here. The martini, depending on which barstool historian you trust, was born ...

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 ...

I have a party trick: Someone mentions a restaurant, and I tell them which celebrity loves it. "You know Adele likes Zazie!" I will say whenever brings up the Cole Valley spot. It is not a good party ...

Fifty dollars doesn't go far in San Francisco. It's one cocktail at the wrong bar, four-fifths of a parking ticket, or a single entrée at a place where the chairs cost more than my rent did in 2014.

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 ...

Somewhere between the Hallmark channel and soft-core Skinemax is a movie called Wallbanger. It is set in San Francisco, and it’s directed by a Musk—Elon's younger sister, Tosca—on a streaming platform ...