To open a business in San Francisco, you need two things: balls of steel and a delusional level of confidence. And don’t even get me started on what it takes to be a successful business in a city filled with so much red tape that it feels less like government

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival 2025 will feature 85 films from around the world, including documentaries on feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, disability issues, drag culture, and social justice, as well as a feature on Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader who played a key role in ending The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

As the years go by, the world looks more and more like a science fiction dystopia than what we all know, or at least used to know as real life. We have all the ingredients to create whatever kind of society we want, and it seems that the well-financed elite

The Bay Area is arguably the most economically unique region in the United States. Most metropolitan areas only have one city center and suburbs that sprawl somewhere between 20 and 50 miles in every direction of it. The San Francisco Bay Area has three city centers: San Francisco, Oakland and

Last year was San Francisco’s deadliest for pedestrians since 2007. 24 people died in roadway incidents throughout the city, including a family of four struck and killed near West Portal. Now, not yet six months into 2025, six pedestrians have lost their lives on San Francisco streets. Will this year’s

BART is praising the efficiency of its hulking new fare gates, part of the agency’s effort to recoup lost revenue. The $90 million project, initiated in early 2024, takes credit for dramatic reductions in fare evasion where gates are installed. Last February, BART announced a 17% drop in crime at

I imagine when cops drive drunk, they probably think to themselves, “who’s going to pull me over? The police? I am the police!” precisely as their car gets permanently pulled over by a light pole.   This is precisely what happened in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset on Saturday morning. Except the

San Francisco has been fighting on the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis for nearly a decade now, and while there has been some success in recent years curbing its fatality, all of that progress has seemed to disappear as drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 50% since Daniel Lurie has taken