Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

Buddy’s death was tragic — and all too familiar. But I could not have predicted what would come next.

The price of fentanyl can be three times more expensive in other cities than in San Francisco—why?

Using labor union tactics, renters are demanding long overdue fixes and clawing back money they shouldn’t have paid.


Monroe Lace could be the first trans woman to win Miss California in the conservative-leaning city of Visalia. 

San Francisco made hundreds more arrests for illegal lodging. Did it make a meaningful difference? 