Will Zoning Laws Kill SF's Tiny House Movement?
Micro-living is having a moment — as evidenced by a recent Portlandia sketch — and the Bay Area is jumping on the bandwagon.San Francisco already has micro-apartments (with more in the pipeline), but...
View ArticleBFD's Awesome Lineup Blowing Up on Twitter
I used to hate on Live 105's BFD fest and would just chalk it up to being mainstream radio fodder bands. But over the past few years, I’ve stopped being such a damn hipster and realized that the good...
View ArticleSan Francisco's Recycling Theft Problem
We've all seen them, the people who hustle around the city collecting recyclables. They go from bin to bin filling bags, buckets, and sometimes flatbed trucks with cans, cardboard, and bottles that...
View ArticleHate Crowds? Stay the F Away From These Places this Weekend
I hate crowds, and I know I'm not alone. Here are some places to avoid this weekend if you hear the word "crowd" and immediately think, "fuck that shit."1. ChinatownChinatown is going to lose its...
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These 3D GIFs of SF Are Trippy And Strangely Beautiful
We’ve all seen beautiful photos and GIFs of San Francisco, but nothing is quite like Doctor Popular’s 3D GIF series “3D City.” The GIFs are hauntingly beautiful and make every day in San Francisco look...
View ArticleHarrison Ford Crashes Plane In Southern California And Is Injured
Numerous media outlets are reporting that a small plane piloted by actor Harrison Ford crashed at a Los Angeles golf course early Thursday afternoon.First reported by TMZ and confirmed by the...
View ArticleNine Ways to Get Rid of Debt Without Cramping Your Style
You’re in debt, but guess what: Most people you know are too. In fact, average credit card debt per household in the US is around $15K, while average student loan debt is around $32K. So don’t despair...
View ArticleEpic Sing-A-Long Party For All You '90s Kids
Nineties kids, stop taking those retro quizzes. We get it, you had the Princess Diana Beanie Baby. Sorry to say it's worth jack shit these days even if you kept the tag on. The good news is you can put...
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SF's Boomtime is Leaving African Americans Behind
The U.S. economy has been on a tear lately, consistently adding more jobs than economists expect. California's unemployment rate is better than the national average, and San Francisco has more jobs...
View ArticleWhere You Can Catch the Hello Kitty Food Truck in SF
It’s a dream come true, and one I’ve waited for for a very long time — the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is coming to San Francisco in April.Yes, there is such a thing as a Hello Kitty Cafe Truck, and it...
View Article6 Events To Get Your Ass Outside For This Weekend
San Francisco weather is very bipolar. One day it's cool and foggy and the next it's sunny as balls! This weekend the skies swing to the balls end of the spectrum ... um, I mean it'll be sunny. Seventy...
View ArticleHere's Something San Francisco Doesn't Do Well
We’ve all been there — we joke about how broke we are, how we're eating pasta every night, how we dream of a happy hour that serves $1 Tecate. Turns out, our bitching is justified: San Francisco was...
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The Ballet Just got A lot Cooler
Tuesdays may not seem like a the big night to go out, but next week San Francisco Ballet has an entire evening planned for you—from early cocktails to a raging after party and of course... great...
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Gavin Newsom’s Ascent to Gubernatorial Candidate, as Told through His Hair
Former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom recently announced his candidacy for California governor in 2018 and is now the really, really early front-runner for the job. Now that the Gavinator has a very...
View ArticleJohn Stamos was Outside the Full House Home and Everyone Missed It
If you were at Alamo Square Park this weekend, everywhere you looked, there was a hand to hold onto were about a million other people picnicking-it-up on blankets, Full House credits-style. Most San...
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Video: Gentrification is Eradicating San Francisco's Arts Community
Local artist Truong Tran's current show Framed Targetscasts a spotlight on the ways San Francisco's rapid gentrification is affecting artists and people of color. According to Tran, "San Francisco was...
View ArticlePlanters in Castro Parklet Are Magnets for Bad Behavior
Jane Warner Plaza — the parklet at the intersection of 17th, Castro, and Market Streets — has gotten a lot of bad press since opening in 2009. First, people complained about the nudists who congregated...
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The Mission is Bringing Us Down, LCD Soundsystem-Style
LCD Soundsystem's ode to a cleaned up and gentrified Manhattan, the grand "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," was one of the group's great ballads. The song lamented a city that had...
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Map Shows SF is a Hotbed of One Kinky-Creepy-Cute Subculture
It’s probably no surprise that the Bay Area, proudly home to every kink, fetish, and subculture imaginable, also boasts one of the country’s densest concentrations of furries. How do we know? Because a...
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