Moving to New York, what a San Franciscan thing to do. Because San Franciscans are perpetually from somewhere else, they are stuck referencing said place…
I think I’m gonna go do some work in a coffee shop. Nothing big, just somewhere local. You know, the place with the extra-hot coffee….
As far as San Franciscans are concerned, there is no place like the Sundance Kabuki Theater. It’s comfy, has an awesome balcony, serves food, and…
I was at a restaurant in the middle of the day yesterday (very San Francisco), and when I ordered my broccoli soup the waitress immediately…
Early January is always the saddest time for me, not only because I gained 1 pound over the holidays and have to tell anyone who…
We were glad we weren’t there, but we didn’t like being left out of the action. We tried saying things like, “The Eastern seaboard is…
If there is one thing that basically equals love for San Franciscans that thing is Nopa the restaurant. Nopa has a bunch of things going…
There’s nothing that gets a San Franciscan going like a good old-fashioned art walk. People in other cities are probably under the mistaken impression that…
There’s not much that is more satisfying for an SFian than a fresh hairdo, and we know this because of how much they are willing…
There is only one type of weather San Franciscans like, and it isn’t bone-chilling-kill-yourself-50-degrees-or-below-mean-weather. Now, we all know that there are some places like Nebraska…
I’m not sure that working at Google means much outside the Bay Area, but from the way San Franciscans brag about their friends and significant…
There is not much that the San Franciscan finds more frightening then the half-second between when they start looking for their phone and when they…
There is literally nothing in San Francisco that is worse than parking. It’s the kind of place where if you won a free Maserati on…
If there is one things that San Franciscans never cared about before and now care about a whole bunch that thing is their baseball team,…
Nowhere is it more obvious that pita chips and hummus have become the tortilla chips and salsa of the new millennium than in San Francisco,…
Like doing floor drugs at French Laundry, you never had a better or worse idea than heading down to the Marina to watch The Blue…
I was there on a full-ride scholarship (free tickets) last weekend to see Vampire Weekend, which for some reason both me and my male companion…
There is almost no person who lives in San Francisco who will call themselves a San Franciscan in mixed company. This is for a few…
From the tone of the comments sections on local news sites, to Burning Man, to neighborhood differentiation, “I finally figured out where Upper Haight ends…
“[San Franciscans] have clothes, but they wear them in private.” — Miguel Lopez, owner of “default outfitter to the Castro tribe” Sui Generis, quoted in…
There is almost nothing a San Franciscan appreciates like a well-timed observation about themselves. For those of us actually making the observations about San Franciscans…
Since the beginning of time everyone has known that San Francisco is a bad place for earthquakes. The only people who don’t seem to realize…
It’s kind of a chicken/egg scenario when considering which came first: the asshole motorist or the asshole bike rider, but it’s pretty safe to say…
Never will you hear so much local pride in shitty weather as you will coming out of the mouth of a San Franciscan in the…
If there is one thing that is more important to a San Franciscan than trying to get a boyfriend, or finding out if NOPA is…
People in San Francisco talk about getting a tattoo like they’re just doing their job. “(sigh) Well I think I’m getting a tattoo this weekend.”…
There are probably some places where the idea of living with roommates well into your 30s is thought of as a failure on the same…
Luckily for truth we have entered the age of the memoir. Marriage, divorce, prostitution, copious drug use, doing any of those things in a foreign…
Pretty much the first thing you learn when you move to, or even visit San Francisco is that there are a lot of things on…
Bike messengers are like the firemen of San Francisco. Not because they are buff or rescue kittens from trees, but because they are universally thought…
It’s not the heat so much as the dry heat. It’s just too much. — 7:00 a.m. Saturday June 12, 2010, Inner Richmond Now I…
“World Fare, America’s first official bustaurant, opened its doors in Los Angeles this past March. “- Salon.com Like Brangelina and the maltipoo, a Bustaurant is…
Karen Elson is one of those rare people who can be a model, marry Jack White on the Amazon River, and make a crowd wait…
Okay, I know we don’t like Karen Elson, because she’s a model and she married Jack White in a canoe on the Amazon River. However,…
Is there anything more depressing than the low melancholy that rolls in at 5 o’clock on a dreary Sunday afternoon? Probably some things yes, but…
There are not many things that get San Franciscans more excited than the annual release of the Best of Lists. This is probably because there…
If you’ve never been to Bay To Breakers you’ve probably never had to set an alarm on a Sunday so you could make sure to…
There is nothing that appears to confuse San Francisco drivers more than a pedestrian in the crosswalk. They will look at you with this particular…
The word ’boutique,’ like the letter ‘i’ can be put in front of any other word (hotel, winery, law firm) to make it instantly desirable…
If there is one thing that unites the women of San Francisco it is their unabashed love for the ‘Intyce’ boot by Steven by Steve…