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🌳 San Francisco’s backyard is officially in the running for America’s best city park — and honestly, that tracks.For mos...
03/16/2026

🌳 San Francisco’s backyard is officially in the running for America’s best city park — and honestly, that tracks.

For most San Franciscans, Golden Gate Park is where we picnic, run, roller skate... or just sit in the fog with a coffee and contemplate life.

Now, the 1,000+ acre park has been shortlisted in USA Today’s 10Best awards and it’s up against some heavy hitters. But does New York’s Central Park even have bison?!

Voting is open now until April 6. But frankly, we already know who’s won...

👇 Sound off in the comments: What’s your favorite corner of GGP?

03/12/2026

☕️ A cup of coffee that started a riot...

FLASHBACK: In 1966, three years before Stonewall, a group of trans women and their allies sparked a riot that erupted through the streets of San Francisco.

follows the story of the night that sparked an LGBTQ movement. It’s an immersive show set in a diner where you watch history unfold – from the activists calling for protest to the arrest that pushed a community over the edge.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: “Trans people telling their own stories is us taking back our history,” performer Jaylyn Abergast, told Axios. “We’re telling the next generation what our ancestors went through.”

This is a must-see show from the and a chance to relive a piece of S.F. history that’s often forgotten.

COMPTON’S CAFETERIA RIOT
📍 835 Larkin St, San Francisco
🎟️ $75 (includes breakfast for dinner)
⏰ Shows every Friday & Saturday @ 7:00 PM
📆 Season extended through Pride Month until June 30, 2026.

🎥: / Axios

📸: NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images; Clay Geerdes/Getty Images.

🎉 You know you’re a local icon when the whole city celebrates your birthday.Dorothy “Polka Dot” Quock stepped onto her o...
03/10/2026

🎉 You know you’re a local icon when the whole city celebrates your birthday.

Dorothy “Polka Dot” Quock stepped onto her own private cable car in full Lunar New Year regalia Monday afternoon, marking her 92nd birthday in style.

FLASHBACK: Born in Chinatown in 1934, her father delivered rice around the city and her mother worked at Levi’s sewing factory, where Quock first learned how to trim hems. She went on to become a fashion icon, hosting walking tours around Chinatown, often in her signature polka dots.

ZOOM IN: She’s spent years reminding people Chinatown isn’t just a backdrop for tourists, but a living, breathing community built on resilience. From Gold Rush-era segregation to today’s mahjong games in Portsmouth Square, she’s seen it all.

Read more about this living legend the 🔗 in our bio.

✍️: Shawna Chen/Axios

03/08/2026

🌅 There’s a reason San Francisco named an entire neighborhood after our amazing sunsets.

Daylight saving time has arrived, the days are getting longer and our early/pretend summer is finally here.

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03/06/2026

✨ Take a trinket, leave a trinket... ✨

Across San Francisco, colorful boxes stuffed with trinkets are popping up on street corners, turning ordinary blocks into miniature trading posts.

🦄 The trinket trade boxes are stocked with everything from rings and rubber ducks to keychains and custom pins. It’s part of a global movement and the rules are simple: take a tiny treasure and leave one behind.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: “These are love letters from the person who makes them to their community and the way they’re treated is a love letter back,” said Rachael Harms Mahlandt (), a Bay Area native and Portland-based artist who created a global map tracking these exchanges.

For more, head to the 🔗 in our bio.
🎥: Nadia Lopez & / Axios


📍 Pine Street & Orben Place, Pacific Heights
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📍 Hayes Street at Baker Street, NOPA
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📍 Irving Street & 3rd Avenue, Inner Sunset
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📍 Sanchez Street & Alvarado Street, Noe Valley
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📍 Moraga Street & 48th Avenue, Outer Sunset


📍 16th Street & Sanchez Street, Castro

🎶 The Outside Lands 2026 lineup is here!This year’s three-day festival in Golden Gate park is set to be a banger with ac...
03/03/2026

🎶 The Outside Lands 2026 lineup is here!

This year’s three-day festival in Golden Gate park is set to be a banger with acts like Charli xcx, Rüfüs Du Sol, The XX and Baby Keem.

And if you’re like us and your knees hurt when you wake up every morning, don’t worry: The Strokes and Death Cab for Cutie will be repping for the elder millennials.

Begin your lineup arguing: Who are you excited to see?

OUTSIDE LANDS
📍 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
📆 Aug 7-9
🔒 Loyalty & Chase Cardholder Presales: Tues, 3/3 at 12pm PT
🤠 Ranger Presale: Wed, 3/4 at 12pm PT
🎟️ General On Sale: Thu, 3/5 at 12pm PT

🐲 Did you know San Francisco’s Lunar New Year celebrations is the largest of its kind in the world?This weekend, SF will...
03/02/2026

🐲 Did you know San Francisco’s Lunar New Year celebrations is the largest of its kind in the world?

This weekend, SF will light up for the annual Lunar New Year Parade and two-day Community Street Fair. Expect lion dancers, drummers, fireworks and an explosion of color taking over Chinatown.

👀 But the most important question: Where are we doing dinner afterwards?

LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE
📆 Sat, March 7
🕘 5.15pm
👉 Starts at 2nd & Market

COMMUNITY STREET FAIR
📆 Sat-Sun, March 7-8
🕘 9am - 5pm
👉 Grant St (betw. California & Broadway)

For more, head to the 🔗 in bio.

🎥: / Axios
📸: Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images; SF MTA; Liu Yilin/Xinhua/Getty Images.

02/27/2026

🚋 Do you know the Black history behind San Francisco’s famous streetcars?

Long before she was a renowned writer, Maya Angelou was a teenager working as a “conductorette” for the Market Street Railway Company (which later folded into Muni).

✍🏾 While we don’t have any photos of her time on the streetcars, we do have a great record from her memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which also paints a vivid picture of San Francisco in the 1940s.

Angelou was one of the first Black women to work in San Francisco’s transit system, helping to pave the way for others who would shape the future of and San Francisco.

Read more from at the 🔗 in our bio.

🎥: / Axios

Additional streetcar film: Getty Images
Mara Angelou photos: Dudley M. Brooks/The Washington Post/Getty Images; FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images.
Archival Muni photo: Taken in 1947 by Marshall Moxom, SFMTA Photo Archive.

02/24/2026

✊🏾 For Honey Mahogany, the fight for trans rights is personal.

The activist, organizer and drag performer founded the Transgender Cultural District in San Francisco as a way to “stem the tide of displacement” from a historic neighborhood that has long housed trans people and trans people of color.

But for Mahogany, this activism doesn’t stand alone. She sees her work as part of a much broader history of q***r activism in the city.

🎥 / Axios

02/23/2026

An estimated 40,000 people descended upon the Marina on Saturday to watch the Formula 1. But the fallout from the massive event has ignited concerns over public safety, traffic gridlock and crowding.

👀 CATCH UP QUICK: Because there were no bleachers, visibility was limited beyond the front row. Videos from the event show people climbing trees, traffic lights, utility poles, private balconies and even roofs to get a good view of the action.

“The event’s infrastructure just wasn’t built to handle the volume of people who showed up,” S.F. resident Taylor Yamada told Axios. “The crowding was intense... the overall atmosphere felt extremely chaotic — very ‘every person for themselves.’”

Read more at the link in our bio.

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