Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

A New York design firm took a famous foodie website on as a client, creating an app for users nationwide—all without telling them first.


A trailblazer in weed research forged a path for the cannabis genetics industry well before pot became legal. 


Cruise has been told to stop taxi services in San Francisco by the DMV—effective immediately as of Tuesday morning.

Those poll numbers did not dissuade civic and business leaders from painting a slightly dissonant picture of a city amid a comeback. 


The Castro Merchants Association replaces the iconic flag every few months, but that doesn’t mean everybody in the neighborhood loves it. 