Inside a historic building — and a major San Francisco corridor — at a crossroads. Here's the story of how a landmark once poised for a comeback has become mired in lawsuits sfstandard.com/2025/12/01/1...

More changes on the horizon for Ikea's Saluhall, Market Street's struggling food hall sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...

San Francisco police ramp up late-night drug raids to appease Trump and feds sfstandard.com/2025/11/24/s...

This SF couple made a maaajor alley-oops sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/s...

Union Square's "boom loop" continues sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/u...

Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their names sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/b...

"The beach lovers’ initiative is part of a pattern: If the feds can’t get their act together, San Franciscans will just do it themselves." sfstandard.com/2025/11/06/s...

!!! A new bookstore is coming to Union Square — and right on Powell Street no less sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/e...

Scoop from @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social and myself: Ikea's parent company is ending its partnership with the British firm that had been overseeing its struggling dining complex, Saluhall, since its launch sfstandard.com/2025/11/05/i...

Some exciting news for San Francisco's Union Square sfstandard.com/2025/11/04/b...

The Bay Area pumpkin carver who wows people with her wild designs (sfstandard.com/2024/10/27/p...) was featured on "Halloween Wars" this year! 🎃

The latest teenage craze is causing headaches at In-N-Out 🙃 www.sfgate.com/food/article...

"But seeing the police tape outside 930 Monterey Blvd. left me with a different feeling: eerie familiarity. I’d been welcomed into that same home just months before by the family whose lives were soon to end there." sfstandard.com/2025/10/31/s...

Condos are still a great way into homeownership, but natural + human disasters have set off a chain reaction that has essentially iced out buyers in recent years. Follow me into the Oakland Hills, where a dark cloud hangs over this beautiful complex. sfstandard.com/2025/10/30/o...

Some 10/10 neighborhood name suggestions on this post... Lowest Haight! Zuni-Martuni Triangle! Castration! Mastrobaight! Tendermish! www.instagram.com/p/DQaF2mLk7w...

'tis the season 🧙‍♀️💀🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHk3...

A lovely tribute to a Mission restaurant staple that's closing after 40 years to make way for affordable housing sfstandard.com/2025/10/29/m...

There are a few adjectives that come to mind when describing San Francisco’s office market... “Beleaguered” is a favorite of journalists. “Empty” resonates with small business owners. But “red-hot” might be the most accurate descriptor, according to a new report. sfstandard.com/2025/10/29/s...

An 8-year-old Bay Area spice company has become a cult favorite among chefs. But sky-high fees on imports have threatened everything. sfstandard.com/2025/10/27/d...

San Francisco’s newest megaproject opened at the worst time sfstandard.com/2025/10/27/s...

BREAKING: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke to Trump last night and National Guard is *not* going to come to SF "...the president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco." sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/l...

NEW: A century-old Fisherman's Wharf restaurant plans to reopen after several years of legal wrangling between its owners and the Port of SF sfstandard.com/2025/10/22/c...

Uhhhh... Kumail Nanjiani and Illana Glazer just dropped out of their scheduled Dreamforce performances, reports @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/10/16/k...

TIL: ~300,000 pounds of Candy Corn are made in the Bay Area every year www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

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Days after Marc Benioff sparked a firestorm by calling for the deployment of the National Guard to SF, the Salesforce CEO completely avoided politics during a Q&A at Dreamforce. That stance lasted less than three hours. sfstandard.com/2025/10/14/m...

"Hotelmaggedon" is in full swing for Dreamforce sfstandard.com/2025/10/09/d...

Reopening could *finally* be on the horizon for the beleaguered Hotel Whitcomb, which been plaguing Mid-Market for several years sfstandard.com/2025/10/02/h...

BIG NEWS, sports fans! ⚾️🏈🏀 @sfstandard.com is launching a new podcast called Section 415 that builds on the sports team's incisive reporting & brings you exclusive interviews with the people shaping games. Check it out: sfstandard.com/2025/10/01/i...

morning commute on Muni: short woman asks tall man standing behind her if her latest dye covered all her grey hairs. “Yes, m’am, not a single silver strand showing” 🥲

Gutting story about SFPD’s longest-serving detective and the city’s struggles to staff its SVU sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/s...

Tech Bro 2.0: The new Silicon Valley archetype dominating the AI age sfstandard.com/2025/09/29/t...

"...The other essential component of being a local: You have to look people in the eye. You have to take out your headphones and remove your sunglasses. You have to be present in your life, and in the lives of those around you." - Garrett Schlichte sf.eater.com/dining-out/2...

Popular shop Baggu is celebrating its new Mission store opening today with BART merch. This was surprising news to the transit agency 🙃 sfstandard.com/2025/09/25/b...

Scooplet: A hotel right near the cablecar turnaround on Powell Street just sold at auction, meaning that guests will yet again be able to hang with Lilllian Hellman's ghost sfstandard.com/2025/09/26/s...

Great scoop by The Chron: Uniqlo is considering returning to downtown SF www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/u...

Love this from tonight’s Power Play newsletter re: Manny’s supervisor campaign fundraising haul: “‘Right now, I’m just trying to be gracious,’ said Yekutiel, adding that he asked three of his exes to donate. New T-shirt idea: Exes for Manny!” sfstandard.com/newsletters/...

New closures will leave just three chain restaurants in the food concourse of San Francisco’s largest mall.

A group of office brokers kicked off a lively debate last week by trying to rebrand Mid-Market to "Lower Hayes." Here's what small businesses and other neighborhood stakeholders think ➡️ sfstandard.com/2025/09/24/m... co-reported with @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social

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San Francisco is getting a bunny cafe www.instagram.com/bunnycafesan...

"I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

That was by far the biggest earthquake I’ve ever personally felt in the Bay Area. Wild! bsky.app/profile/eart...

Today in audacious neighborhood rebrands... www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

I’m obSESSed with all the entries to the @sfstandard.com dance contest — vote for your favorite!! sfstandard.com/2025/09/18/v...

Compared to folks in SF, "Sunnyvale developers have a much simpler axiom: We have built it, and they have come." sfstandard.com/2025/09/18/s... @kevinvnguyen.bsky.social reporting on the Silicon Valley city that's both boring and booming:

Omg just had to miss not one but *two* BART trains in a row at Embarcadero because they were packed to the gills 😭 We’re so back (at least on Tuesdays sfstandard.com/2025/03/25/i...)

"Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters is crawling with stuffed albino alligators. You’ll find them on desks, at reception and inside a vending machine." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...