Haight News

Weekends are for amateurs. Weeknights are for pros. That's why each week Stuart Schuffman will be exploring a different San Francisco bar, giving you the lowdown on how and where to do your weeknight right.

Hippie alert! Next month will be the 45th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival , which drew tens of thousands of people to the California seaside and cast a long shadow across the rest of '60s music.

We were in San Francisco this weekend and did and saw a lot of things. We started by hiking Muir Woods than making our way to the Marin Headlands Point Bonita Lighthouse and found our way to Haight-Ashbury, where we listened to music and tripped around the Gold Gate Park and ended up playing in one of the Drum Circles.

When Janis Joplin returned to San Francisco in the summer of 1966 she was indeed a much different girl than when she arrived to the city three years earlier with a head full of amphetamines, Southern Comfort, beat poetry and Ma Rainey records, evidenced from an unreleased and widely bootlegged 1964 recording session with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen ... (more)

Curous about the market in the Haight Ashbury? Want to visit some open houses there? Here's a hand-picked selection that will give you a good overview of prices and housing styles.

Sean, a four year old child living with his parents in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in 1969 was the star of a short film about his life.

The term "San Francisco incubator" readily conjures up images of hipsters hunkered over laptops in achingly modern spaces rather than hippies hauling vegetables in a balky 1966 Dodge van named Juliet.

Before 2007, San Francisco was blissfully going to the dogs. Gavin Newsom, arguably the worst mayor in the city's history, was still trying to heal all the world's injustices, from discrimination against same-sex couples to climate change, while cheerfully neglecting the problems immediately beneath his nose: a Muni without clocks, a pox of ... (more)

We're in the middle of Bike To Work Day , and I stopped by a few energizer stations during today's morning commute.

Less than two years after the court allowed San Francisco to implement its ambitious bicycle plan, the city has striped more than 20 miles of new bike lanes, added hundreds more bike racks and made it more difficult to drive down Market Street.