Looking to Buy a Home in San Francisco? Um, Good Luck.
Raise your hand if you’ve been dumped on by the Bay Area housing market. San Francisco has been hailed as a modern-day Constantinople, given that it’s become a deep-rooted hub for e-commerce and...
View ArticleDon't Study STEM. Study the Arts.
When did studying the arts become a joke? Telling arts majors that they have no future is a long, clichéd Internet tradition. Indeed, belittling the arts has become something of a common narrative in...
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Who Needs the Hamptons when You Have Mendocino?
Located just three hours north of San Francisco is a small town with the biggest heart—Mendocino. Situated on a wind-swept, rocky coastline, this small town of 824 permanent residents offers visitors a...
View ArticleA Response to an Auto-Mailed Questionnaire Sent as a Response to My Job Inquiry
RE: **YOU FOUND IT!! Slam Dunk Candidate for Bicycle-Tour-Guide Position**To whom it may concern,I received your auto-generated response asking to disclose my “schedule and availability.”However, were...
View ArticleI Was a Homeless Worker at a Tech Company
Elevator doors opened up to the fifth floor of my workplace in SOMA, and I stepped around a collection of people with phones in front of their faces. The key card attached to my hip opened the door to...
View ArticleRanking San Franscisco's Top Psychics
You’ve probably seen those neon-lit nooks throughout the city where gypsy psychics are offering spiritual readings for as low as $10–$15 and scare you into paying way more than what you bargained for....
View ArticleRanking San Francisco's Top Psychics
You’ve probably seen those neon-lit nooks throughout the city where gypsy psychics are offering spiritual readings for as low as $10–$15 and scare you into paying way more than what you bargained for....
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The Ever-Inspirational Big Sur
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson all knew it: Big Sur is one of the most beautiful and inspirational spots on earth. Here the Santa Lucia Mountains meet the Pacific with high drama. If...
View ArticleEleven Not-to-Miss Concerts in 2016
From Taylor Swift’s and Kendrick Lamar’s “Bad Blood” to Major Lazer’s and MØ’s “Lean On,” 2015 was the year of musical collaboration. There were so many joint features and mergers that it’s become...
View ArticleHow Life in San Francisco Will Change after the Tech Bubble Bursts
Sunday evening, 6:00 p.m. Lands End. Drones buzz through the air like armored mosquitos, trolling the dying embers of the Pacific sunset and scaring birds. I count at least four of them lingering...
View ArticleLights Out: The Best Places to Stargaze in San Francisco
Many of us in San Francisco are transplants from more suburban locales, with childhood memories that include summer nights at the local drive-in, ice cream pit stops and glimpses of the Big Dipper in...
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The Weirdest Places to Take a Date in San Francisco
San Francisco is ripe with opportunities for adventure. It’s a city where boundaries are deconstructed, diversity is celebrated and almost anything goes. So why should the dating scene be anything but...
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Five California Winemaking Regions You Probably Haven’t Been To
When California wine is mentioned, it’s natural to immediately think of Napa and Sonoma. But these household names aren’t the only areas in the state burgeoning with vines. California is snaked over...
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Rainy San Francisco, Finally
Now that El Niño is finally here—and here to stay—San Franciscans are acclimating to their wet city. Let it rain!
View ArticleThe Most Important Organizations and Figures in San Francisco Politics Today
There was a moment in 2011 when progressives thought that all hope was lost in San Francisco. That was the day when the Board of Supervisors “turned.” “There has been a significant change in City Hall...
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Seven Affordable Office-Space Options for Freelancers and Small Businesses
Working from home can suck. Spending days holed away in a bedroom or a living room without anyone to socialize with or a reason to leave the house is enough to make anyone feel like a shut-in. But for...
View ArticleSubcultures in San Francisco
The most beautiful part about living in San Francisco is being surrounded by all its diversity. It doesn’t matter what you’re into: BDSM, polyamory, coding, coffee or avocados. You name it, and you’ll...
View ArticleLonely in San Francisco
Late on the night after Thanksgiving, I had a conversation with an uncle I love dearly but see rarely. The conversation was about loneliness, some form of which we’d both confessed to having struggled...
View ArticleFour Standout Bay Area Innovators Who Aren't in Technology
No matter what you regard as the jewels of the San Francisco Bay Area, more and more people are seeing our home as merely the headquarters for fast-growing, world-changing and (at times) over-hyped...
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The Breathtaking Forests of the Bay Area
As if we aren’t spoiled enough in the Bay Area, we get to wake up each day to the many beautiful forests throughout the region. Now that El Niño has made its much anticipated mark and the streams and...
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