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 ...

I never met Clint Reilly, but knew him vaguely as that person who fired me. It was 2021, and he had just acquired the SF Examiner and SF Weekly. Through his proxies, Reilly shuttered the Weekly, then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saturday night, instead of doing literally anything else, I saw several posts online of a flyer on poles in Castro, and perhaps elsewhere in SF: a casting call for a Daniel Lurie impersonator to star ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...