Tens of thousands of people will pay four figures and drive six hours to a place with no shade in order to be somewhere hot ...

Dolly's legacy in SF was small in comparison to her international fame and influence. But she did leave a mark here.

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 ...

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 ...

The iPhone has changed so much about how we live and interact with one another that it’s hard to believe that the original iPhone went on sale just over 10 years ago, popularizing the concept of the ...

Editor's note in 2026: The Bold Italic is not-for-profit and teeny tiny. We need a budget before we can pay freelancers. And we don't like doling out assignments that pay nothing. Thank you for your ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...