San Francisco has 33 park spots where you can legally grill. Most of the pits need a reservation, and for a group up to 50 you are looking at 52 dollars for a standard site or 98 for a premium one.

A Map of All the Parks Where You Can Grill in SF

Have you looked outside San Francisco? Another gorgeous, beautiful, sun-filled weekend is upon us and it’s time to celebrate that with a classic outdoor BBQ.

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San Francisco red flags: he won't date anyone who lives more than one Muni transfer away, and he has genuinely done the math.

Why does everyone in this city say yes to plans and then bail the day before? Is it FOMO, exhaustion, or the fact that we all moved here to be busy and now we are?

What’s Up with the San Francisco Yes?

It’s not easy being flaked on, but most likely if you’re living in San Francisco it’s happened to you once or twice before.

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Is it morbid to journal at a columbarium? Yes. Hear me out anyway. The Columbarium in the Inner Richmond is one of the last resting places in San Francisco with space available, the little niches go for real money, and it is a short walk from Cinderella Bakery if you need to eat your feelings afterw

5 Places to Journal in San Francisco

Because who doesn’t like penning down their melancholic feels in a sublime setting.

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My most San Francisco trait is checking the forecast for a neighborhood two miles away, because over there it is a completely different country.

Would your dating profile survive a faith-based filter? Mine picked the entire Old Testament as my favorite Bible passage and listed Christmas as the meaning of Christianity.

I Spent a Month On Religious Dating Websites, and I Did Not Get #Blessed

I usually describe my religion as “Jewish, heavy on the –ish.” (Read: I will not go to services or fast on Yom Kippur, but I will swing by your breaking-the-fast party and bring some schmear.)

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In San Francisco it's 63 degrees, and a guy at Ocean Beach is surfing in a wetsuit while a guy in the Mission is in shorts.

Between 1849 and 1851, San Francisco burned to the ground almost entirely seven times. We rebuilt one-fifth of the city in ten days, just in time for the next fire to take it.

5 Times San Francisco Was Almost Destroyed

San Francisco is prone to disasters, but it’s also a place that knows how to bounce back like nowhere else. This city has been almost completely obliterated several times, from both natural disasters and bizarro development scenarios.

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Is a road trip to the world's last Blockbuster worth it for someone in the Bay Area? We made the drive and have thoughts.

So I visited the last Blockbuster on the planet, and all I got was this t-shirt

If you didn’t know: There is only one Blockbuster Video left on planet Earth. It is in Bend, Oregon, and it’s a relic of a bygone era when the country had more than 9,000 locations.

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I once spent a full hour staring at a toothpick sculpture of SF landmarks at the Exploratorium. In my defense, I was very high and it was very good. A field guide to museums in an altered state.

The Best (and Worst) Museums to Visit While Stoned

Countless San Francisco museum guides exist. In fact, we’ve probably written a few ourselves.

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In a city obsessed with moving fast, Chinatown is the one neighborhood that dares you to slow down. Get lost in an alley, sip tea for hours, and let Sunday on Stockton Street stay as chaotic as it wants to be.

What I love about Chinatown, San Francisco

Come for dim sum, get lost in an alley, or sip tea for hours. In a city that moves fast, SF’s Chinatown invites you to take your time.

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That word you use when a pigeon steals your garlic fries has nothing to do with malice toward Chinese people. The kidnapping practice behind shanghai-ed actually had a stronghold right here in 19th-century San Francisco.

The crazy SF history behind the term Shanghai-ed

While “shanghai” brings to mind China, the practice of kidnapping sailors actually had a stronghold in 19th-century San Francisco.

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The Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio cost the family an estimated $110 million to build, remodeling an old army barracks. It opened in 2009, it is a nonprofit, and here is the twist: it has no legal affiliation with the Walt Disney Company at all.

How Did the Disney Family Museum End Up in San Francisco?

Walt Disney may have built his empire in Southern California, but his story lives on in the Bay

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If you have spent any real time single in the Bay Area, these stories will read like your own group chat handed back to you, the ceremonies that were not ceremonies, the fires, the fade-outs.

How to Survive Dating in the Bay Area

From people who have been there

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A Brony is an adult man who loves My Little Pony, and the women in the fandom go by Pegasisters. We photographed the Bay Area community, ages 6 to 40, and asked each of them what it means to them.

Photos: Bay Area Bronies

With all the positive things to be said about Bronies, it’s one of the few fandoms that has yet to be accepted by the masses.

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Apparently Don Henley wrote 'Hotel California' while taking a dump, a fact you can absorb half-asleep during the Eagles documentary. This is a real guide to the most gloriously boring Netflix docs, ranked by how fast they knock you out.

Netflix Documentaries to Fall Asleep to: An Illustrated Guide

I would advise not to watch documentaries that are too riveting, because then you’ll just stay up all night watching them; hence, documentaries to avoid include crime docs (Making a Murderer) or ones about government conspiracies and UFOs.

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In a city this obsessed with food, admitting the pizza is disappointing. Somebody at The Bold Italic said it out loud.

Why Pizza Sucks in San Francisco

A case against this city’s pizza, argued in pictures.

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You could use a day off. I do not even know you and I am fairly sure of it. If you have been careful with your sick days all year, consider this your official permission to call out tomorrow and live all your Ferris Bueller dreams.

6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go Into Work Tomorrow

We don’t know each other, but I’m guessing you could use a day off. Some of you are gonna read this and think, “I can’t afford to take a day off!” and I understand that and am sorry and in case no one says this to you, good on you for working as hard as you do.

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If you want to understand the weird, glittery, anti-consumerist heart of queer SF, start here. The Faeries are the biggest thing you have probably never heard of, and that's partly on purpose.

Radical Faeries: SF’s Fabulously Weird Progressive Queers

It turns out the Radical Faeries are more than just a handful of beautiful weirdos living in San Francisco. They’re a part of a politically radical movement of gay men who’ve been around since the 1970s, and include millions of members around the world.

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Polk Gulch was the gay heart of the city before the Castro took the crown. Margaret Cho grew up in the middle of it, racks of Drummer and Honcho and all.

Trump Cost Us Margaret Cho on 'Heated Rivalry'

She would have been Shane's mother, the one role in the whole series that made me weep. Then ICE fears and a second Trump term got in the way.

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Everyone moves to the Richmond for the fog and the cheap-ish rent, then forgets to actually walk it. This one's a love letter to California Street, Angelina's Deli, sand-dune-era houses, and the steps at the very top.

My Favorite Corner of San Francisco: The Lincoln Park Steps

The mosaic staircase at 32nd and California always gives me renewed appreciation for our neighborhood

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Picture the wedding photos on the church steps at 666 Filbert, the happy couple framed under an address that spells out the number of the beast. That is the kind of quiet San Francisco absurdity I think about way too often.

666 San Francisco

Whenever I see a building with a 666 address I think, “Whoa!” Then I wonder, “Do the people who live/work there like or hate that their address is the number of the beast?” In honor of Halloween, I decided to Google-map a few streets in SF, hoping to come up with an awesome collection of them.

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Why is it San Franciscans say 'let's get coffee soon' with the full knowledge that neither party will commit to a time, a place, or a calendar year?

Ride a cable car exactly once, with someone you love or are trying to impress, then never again. The line is full of people who flew here to stand in it. The locals' move is the F-line. Why:

How to Do San Francisco Without a Car

San Francisco is seven miles by seven miles, which sounds adorable until you remember that many miles go straight up. You need shoes that won't betray you and the willingness to get gently lost.

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San Francisco had amusement parks for roughly 80 years straight, from Woodward's Gardens in the 1890s to Playland-at-the-Beach closing in 1972. Since then, nothing. We have gone nearly half a century without a single coaster on the skyline, and somehow we act like this is normal.

Whatever Happened to San Francisco’s Amusement Parks?

This ‘millennial playground’ seems to be missing quite a few attractions

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Peak San Francisco is bragging that your rent-controlled studio is a steal while you sleep four feet from your own stove.

The oldest public Japanese garden in the entire U.S. is sitting in Golden Gate Park, and most of us have walked past it chasing a parking spot. It's been here since the 1894 Midwinter Fair. Older than your apartment, older than your problems.

San Francisco’s Japanese Tea Garden is the oldest public one in the U.S.

Once a fairground attraction, the Japanese Tea Garden has become a symbol of cultural persistence in San Francisco.

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Before it was the Roxie, it was The Poppy, the New 16th Street, the Rex, the Gem, and the Gaiety. This theater has had more aliases than a guy avoiding his creditors. Which, fittingly, is exactly how its founder left town.

San Francisco’s oldest movie theater: The Roxie

The art house cinema screens a diverse range of independent, foreign, and cult films, operating since 1909.

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In San Francisco, a normal Tuesday includes a perfectly good couch on the sidewalk with a handwritten sign reading 'FREE, only slightly haunted.'

I have been eating sushi for years and only recently learned how many quiet, humiliating little mistakes I have been making the entire time. Turns out sushi is an art with actual rules, and I have been fully winging it.

The Do’s, the Don’ts, and the Oh God, Please Don’ts of Eating Sushi

If you’re new to sushi, you probably have a lot of questions, like:

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