Editor-at-Large

Sara Deseran

Food Editor 

Lauren Saria

Ranking the 20 greatest meals of 2024

Food & Drink

Sara Deseran and Lauren Saria look back at the San Francisco dining moments that made them hunger for more. 

Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

Downtown San Francisco is full of secret spaces. Here are the best, worst and weirdest

Culture

The city’s core has dozens of privately owned, public open spaces, ranging from beautifully maintained terraces to subterranean urban crevasses. 

Susan Freinkel

Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary

To watch park ranger Amanda Barrows is to be faced with a disturbing question: If this is what it takes to help one unhoused person, how can we manage thousands?

Matthew Kupfer

Investigations Editor

Matt Smith

How a mega-rich oligarch linked to Putin derailed a Bay Area homeless shelter

Business

News

The site was supposed to be the first homeless center in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. Instead, it became part of a network of secret assets controlled by one of Russia’s richest men.

Tech & Government Reporter

Margaux MacColl

She left Salesforce for a hot defense-tech startup — then faced a culture of  drugs, guns, and abuse

Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a company that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the military and combined them.

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Ranking the 20 greatest meals of 2024

Downtown San Francisco is full of secret spaces. Here are the best, worst and weirdest

Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary

How a mega-rich oligarch linked to Putin derailed a Bay Area homeless shelter

She left Salesforce for a hot defense-tech startup — then faced a culture of drugs, guns, and abuse