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Tick Tock, Steph: The Clock Is Running Out on Golden State's Season

Let's be honest — the Warriors without Steph Curry aren't really the Warriors. They're just a group of guys in blue and gold burning through a playoff race with no engine under the hood. Curry is set to miss his **25th straight game** this Sunday in Denver, and at this point the...

1h ago
Politics

Sheriff Miyamoto to Supervisor Fielder: See For Yourself Before You Audit Me

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto is not having it. After Supervisor Jackie Fielder pushed for an audit of the Sheriff's Department — following reports that...

1h ago
Tech

SF Startup Raises $28.5M to Make Your Oscilloscope Obsolete

If you've ever watched an electrical engineer wrestle with a cart full of expensive, single-purpose test equipment — oscilloscopes, signal generators, network a...

1h ago
Culture

9 Books That Actually Get San Francisco Right

Look, we spend a lot of time around here talking about what's broken in this city — the budget gaps, the empty storefronts, the Muni delays. But San Francisco h...

1h ago
Tech

The Rumors of SF's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated

For the past few years, the hot take industrial complex has been churning out the same story on a loop: San Francisco is over, startups are fleeing to Miami, Au...

1h ago
Tech

SF Hackathon Baby 'Agency' Wants to Show You What Your AI Is Actually Doing

Somewhere between the cold brew and the 2am debugging sessions, a useful company was born. Agency, a startup that grew out of San Francisco's increasingly crow...

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Housing

Only in SF: A Burned-Out Shell Just Hit the Auction Block — and Someone Will Probably Pay a Fortune for It

Only in San Francisco can a fire-damaged, uninhabitable wreck of a building become a hot commodity. A burned-out property is currently up for auction in the cit...

1h ago
Politics

Lyft Says SF Overtaxed It by $100 Million — And Honestly, We Believe Them

## Lyft Says SF Overtaxed It by $100 Million — And Honestly, We Believe Them Lyft is coming after San Francisco with a $100 million tax dispute, claiming the c...

1h ago
Food

Skip the Networking Event, Hit the Arcade: Emporium's Monday Night Deal Is Actually Worth It

Look, we know your Monday nights have options. You could attend another soul-crushing happy hour where someone hands you a business card and tells you they're '...

1h ago·Western Addition
Culture

A Film Worth Your Friday Night: BrainStorm Hits SF

In a city that loves to talk about innovation, disruption, and the future of the human mind, it's refreshing when something actually shows up on screen worth di...

1h ago
Events

Free Laughs, No Catch: Sunday Night Comedy Hits Downtown SF

In a city where a cocktail costs fourteen dollars and a movie ticket might as well require a co-signer, something refreshing is happening Downtown — free comedy...

1h ago·Downtown
Events

Your Sunday Just Got a Whole Lot Better: Free Reggae Is Back in Golden Gate Park

Look, San Francisco has a habit of charging you an arm and a leg for the privilege of existing here. So when something genuinely free and genuinely good shows u...

1h ago·Golden Gate Park
Culture

Circus Is in Her Blood: Gypsy Snider Brings the Big Top to ODC's Dance Downtown

If your last name is Snider and you grew up inside the legendary Pickle Family Circus, you were never really going to end up in accounting. Gypsy Snider — chore...

1h ago·Mission
General

Peter Duesberg Is Dead, and So Is His Dangerous Legacy — Or It Should Be

Peter Duesberg, the UC Berkeley molecular biologist who spent decades insisting that HIV didn't cause AIDS, is dead. We're not going to pretend that's a complic...

1h ago
Politics

Could San Francisco Lure the UN Back Home?

Here's a fun bit of civic trivia that tends to get lost in the fog of San Francisco's daily dysfunction: this city is the birthplace of the United Nations. The...

1h ago·Civic Center
Politics

Super Bowl Sunday or Deportation Day? The Fine Line Between a Sting and a Sweep

Every year around the Super Bowl, federal agencies roll out the same press release playbook: massive crackdown on sex trafficking, dozens arrested, children sav...

1h ago
Housing

The Marina Safeway Makeover Is a Distraction, Not a Solution

San Francisco loves a good ribbon-cutting moment. And now, the Marina Safeway — that beloved, slightly chaotic grocery store where Lululemon-clad locals have pu...

1h ago·Marina
Culture

Superfair Is the Art Show SF Actually Deserves

Let's be honest — most art fairs feel like a homework assignment. You wander through white-walled booths, nod at things you don't fully understand, and leave fe...

1h ago
Culture

Art as Protest: Iranian Artist Shiva Ahmadi Brings Her Resistance to SF

If you think art is just something rich people hang above their fireplaces, Shiva Ahmadi is here to complicate that notion — and in the best possible way. The...

1h ago
Tech

Who's Actually Making Games? SF Devs Push to Rewrite the Industry's Origin Story

The video game industry generates more revenue than Hollywood and the NFL combined. So why does its creative pipeline still look like a 2003 college computer sc...

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