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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is part of I Love San Francisco, a feature series of essays that highlight what makes San Francisco iconic and irreplaceable. *In fairness: Adriana has since moved out of The Tenderloin.

It was a month ago when I first noticed the tigers. Grindr was leaving me feeling ground down, and OkCupid had been just, well, OK. So I thought about plumbing the untapped well of dating potential ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

At some point in the last decade, Irving Street stopped being a street that had boba shops on it, and became a boba street that also has other things. There are at least six dedicated boba and tea ...

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 ...

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 ...