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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As I drive my Honda Civic up the winding two-lane road into the Berkeley Hills, as I’ve done hundreds of times before, the fog wraps itself around the eucalyptus trees and road signs on either side of ...

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 ...

I'd like to tell you I spent Friday night doing something cultured. Instead I spent it watching a livestream of a dozen men in hard hats assemble scaffolding, very slowly, in front of a building ...