Much ink has been spilled on the history of Chinatown and Grant Avenue, billed as San Francisco’s oldest street, which runs north to south starting at Market Street and ending at Francisco ...

Bolinas wanted to stay hidden—then came the internet Short-term rentals and a dearth of housing have helped push working families out of this coastal enclave ...

The Westerfeld House: San Francisco's most storied Victorian The story of how Jim Siegel bought the landmark Victorian is a long, strange trip ...

Man versus nature versus man: 50 or so years of the Albany Bulb “It has been—often all at once—a landfill, an encampment, a community, an art installation, a museum, a music venue, a ...

Susan Kelk Cervantes is one of San Francisco's longest-practicing muralists. She is the founder and director of the famed Precita Eyes. These are two of her earliest murals, painted on the side of ...

It's now been five years since the arrival of San Francisco's first official permanent parklet, in 2010, though spontaneous takeovers of parking spots began back in 2005, when Rebar Group converted ...

Now that the first season of HBO's Looking has wrapped, Let's take a backward glance at the various locations spotted in this season's eight episodes. From the beginning, Looking wasn't running on ...

Aristotle said that the best cities are composed mostly of middle-class people, but what exactly does a term like “middle class” mean in the Bay Area today? According to the personal finance ...

Almost half of toxic cleanup at Hunters Point Shipyard is questionable or faked, according to initial review City’s goals for housing, affordable housing in doubt after fraud at city’s biggest ...

While the famed romance writer’s massive foliage has won the hearts/ire of many, it’s time to take a look at the structure hiding behind it.

Originally home to the Miwok people, Angel Island was acquired by a cattle rancher in the 1800s. During the American Civil War, it was used as a military fort and camp by the U.S. Army to ward off ...

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department announced last week that, in honor of Coit Tower’s 85th birthday, the Art Deco concrete tower of note has been singled out as a “nationally ...