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 ...

Every day at sundown I head to South Park, my neighborhood park, and sit in the spot where Cate Blanchett had a mental breakdown in Blue Jasmine. It’s fitting because, like Cate’s character ...

Tech titans declaring Silicon Valley “over” and threatening to pack up their Duplo blocks and leave is nothing new. But Elon Musk’s recent anti-California proclamations, spurred by the ...

On the afternoon of January 14, 2020, a red tin-foil heart balloon bobbed sadly in the breeze. The balloon was tied to the top of a hastily erected chain-link fence around the house at 2928 ...

The crowd has cleared out—most people are already onboard—but a few stragglers rush to the boat. The ferry idles for a few more minutes before pulling away. It’s sunny and warm, the kind of ...

With San Francisco, including most of the country, under a broad shelter-in-place order and the number of detected COVID-19 infections on the rise, people have turned to Google to answer questions ...

The Sausalito houseboat that once belonged to Shel Silverstein, the late author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, made headlines when it hit the market in 2017. Four years and one ...

With locals taking drastic steps to secure homes during the housing crisis, like refusing to pay rent en masse or moving into empty houses sans lease, the fact that every day tens of thousands of ...

The caricature of a NIMBY is someone with a screw-you-I’ve-got-mine attitude, either a wealthy, white homeowner who thinks renters lower property values or a nostalgic progressive opposed to ...

In a very real way, the story of San Francisco in the 21st century is the story of the Bayview. It’s one of the city’s most vital, most diverse, and most historically important neighborhoods.

During the recent NFC Championship that put the 49ers into the Super Bowl—and then subsequently broke Bay Area hearts—the broadcast seemed allergic to mentioning the Niners’ hometown of ...

If it seems like nothing is the same in the Bay Area anymore, technically you’re wrong. In many neighborhoods, you’re likely to have the same neighbors in the same homes as you did back at the ...