Jesse Rogala

The Great Highway will cease to be a road and become a park - at some point. That's because last week San Francisco voters narrowly passed Proposition K, a measure to extend the ban on vehicles from the section between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way. The only problem? Prop. K didn't offer a plan for how to transform the four-lane divided road into open space, or specify where funding for it might come from. This was a major reason why many voters opposed the measure.

The city's "Gay Beach," as it's called, was thrumming Saturday afternoon with revelers-their outfits daring and dazzling-who picnicked on colorful blankets under oversized umbrellas. Here are just some of the portraits The Standard took of participants who caught our photographer's eye.

Published May 26, 2024 • 2:00pm On Friday, beloved video game company Nintendo announced it would be opening its second-ever retail store in the United States in San Francisco. (Doom loop? More like a kaboom loop!) Like many of you, we’re pretty excited. So excited, in fact, we started thinking about which San Francisco icons could play which Nintendo characters. Here, we present our scientifically unimpeachable results. Obviously, the Splash Bros.