It’s Time For SF to Get Over Its San Jose Complex
I’m Jody Amable, and I’m a local.“But Jody,” you, a fairly new citizen of San Francisco or Oakland, lured to the region by New York Times trend pieces and anecdotal accounts telling you that the Bay...
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Happy 25th Birthday, Photoshop! A Collection of Our Best 'Shopped Stories
25 years ago, the world was a fantastic place: Tim Berners-Lee created the first website, Dave Grohl joined Nirvana, and on February 19th, 1990, Adobe Photoshop was born. The first few versions worked...
View ArticleGet Ready for Everything in San Francisco to Be Named after the Rich
San Franciscans have traditionally been wary of the wealthy and certainly hesitant to let rich donors buy their way onto the marquees of our prized public facilities. But that attitude is being largely...
View ArticleFree Lunch Alert: Chairman Food Truck Celebrates Lunar New Year
Get out of your office, take a break, you're worth it, damn it! It's officially time for lunch. In honor of the Lunar New Year, The Chairman food truck will be offering free lunches starting at 11:30...
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Charts that Sum-Up the Truth about the Oscars
It's that time of year again when Jennifer Lawrence may or may not fall on her face and may or may not do or say something zany. In other words, it's Oscars season. Because we know it can be difficult...
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San Francisco is Making Its Homeless Problem Worse
There’s been a lot of chatter this week about homelessness and whether it can be fixed. Mother Jones’ current cover story, for example, examines Utah’s “shockingly simple, surprisingly cost-effective...
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New Service Will Clone Your Pet for Under $200
Whether you’re a cat or a dog person, you probably agree that having pets makes life better. But if you've had to pawn off your furry friend or leave them behind at your parents' house, a new service...
View Article7 Reasons Why We Go Out on Thursday Nights
As I sit at my desk on this perfectly average Pre-Friday, I can't help but wonder about why I am going out to consume alcohol this evening. Sure, it's my friend's birthday, but why have I gone out on...
View ArticleOne of NYC's Most Beloved Restaurants is Coming to SF
San Francisco, get ready to stand in yet another line that's definitely worth the wait — the Halal Guys are coming to the Bay Area.If you don’t know, the Halal Guys are infamous in New York City for...
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Awesome Things You Should Do in San Luis Obispo
California is the Gwyneth Paltrow of the US: beautiful, blonde, and so easy to mock. Unlike Paltrow, however, California is genuinely versatile, boasting beaches, mountains, and yearlong sunshine – at...
View ArticleWould You Go on This Sleepover to Get a Job?
We all remember our first sleepover, whether it was in a rec room, a tree house, or under the stars. We played games, ate junk food, and gossiped into the night. And in the morning we felt close to our...
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This Oakland Woman is Competing for a One-Way Ticket to Mars
Mars One, the Dutch mission to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet, got one step closer this week by whittling down its pool of candidates to 50 men and 50 women. Among them is...
View ArticleThe Bay Area Comes Together to Remember Rapper Kodyack (RIP at 32)
December was a hard month for the family of champion battle rapper Marcos Murcia, a.k.a. Kodyack, an original member of the legendary hip-hop community known as Fresh Coast, a collection of rappers and...
View ArticleYears of Real Estate Violations Finally Catch up to Academy of Art
Across the city, Academy of Art's fiery red logo seems to multiply overnight, emblazoning itself on converted buildings in SOMA, the Tenderloin, Bayview, North Beach, and other neighborhoods. For many...
View Article6 Places To Watch The Oscars If You Like Them You Really Like Them
I'll just come out and say it, I love the Oscars. There's something about the pageantry, the glitz, and the music that never fails to excite and inspire me. I like to get a bunch of champagne, lots of...
View ArticleOakland's Mayor Has a Solution for SF's Housing Crisis
With talk about a moratorium on market-rate construction in the Mission — and Emeryville's recent flirtation with a ban of its own — it seems the prospect of building more affordable housing in the Bay...
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This is What the Bay Area Spent Money on in 2014
Money site site Mint.com examined transaction records from 16 million users to see how people in America's 10 largest cities spent money in 2014. The Bay Area outspent every other city in five...
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This American Life Parody Visits Oakland Cat Cafe
Good news for fans of cats and Ira Glass impressions: a YouTube series called This American Cat exists. In the first and only episode so far, the writer and creator of this "paw cast," Daniel Wolfe,...
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A Very San Francisco Bedtime Story
I once had two neighbors quiet as mice, Living was easy. Living was nice. One was a soldier who played the guitar The other a bachelor who sang in the shower. Though sometimes they’d make noise, they...
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