The Disco Ball Is How You Know She Won’t Give You a Parking Ticket

“When a meter maid car is out overnight, it’s people’s time to vent their frustrations,” one longtime San Francisco owner said. So owners break out the paint to stand out.

San Francisco Gets Its Own Institute of Contemporary Art

Ali Gass, formerly of the ICA San Jose and the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, has raised $2.5 million to start the new institution, with a planned opening in fall 2022.

Patricia Maginnis, Pioneering Abortion-Rights Activist, Dies at 93

In the years before Roe v. Wade, she helped shift the debate away from the rules governing abortion providers to women’s right to control their bodies.

Ellen Havre Weis, Whose Museum Put Pop Into Mythology, Dies at 64

The Museum of Modern Mythology, in San Francisco, which she helped found, posited that advertising figures have emerged as the pre-eminent mythical figures of our time.

‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats

Yes, the comfy chair. The War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco put in roomier seats just in time to try to lure audiences back from the couches they got used to during the shutdown.

Murals at San Francisco School Should Stay for Now, Judge Says

In response to a lawsuit, a judge says an environmental review must take place before any action is taken to remove or hide the Depression-era murals that some consider offensive.

$2 Million Homes in California

A storybook cottage in Los Angeles, a contemporary home in Long Beach and a Victorian in San Francisco.

This Butterfly Was the First in North America That People Made Extinct

New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species.

This Butterfly Was the First in North America That People Made Extinct

New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species.

Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back

Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley. But tech can’t seem to quit its gravitational center.

$800,000 Homes in Rhode Island, Oklahoma and California

A 1737 house in Providence, a 2013 home with a swimming pool in Oklahoma City and a one-bedroom condominium in San Francisco.

Where Are the Million-Dollar Homes?

A new report reveals which U.S. metropolitan areas have the highest percentage of homes valued at $1 million or more.

Upended by the Pandemic, Haute Chefs Move Into Hotels

Hotels not necessarily known for fine dining are drawing award-winning chefs seeking opportunities for reinvention.

The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café

The restaurant is a culinary landmark in San Francisco, but its history as a space for gay visibility is little known.

San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge

Friday: The mundane crime of shoplifting has spun out of control in San Francisco, forcing some chain stores to close.