San Francisco is Third Most Hungover City in the US
According to the "voice of Generation-Y" Elite Daily, San Francisco takes the honor of being the third most hungover city in the country, beat only by Milwaukee and Fargo. The site claims the average...
View ArticleA Plane Full of Single Ladies is Coming to SFO
Move over Y-Combinator, here comes an XX-XY Combinator. A startup app called the Dating Ring wants to correct a major disturbance in the Force: the burgeoning gender imbalance between the East and West...
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Beautiful Photos of SF That Look Like Impressionist Paintings
San Francisco photographer Christopher Dydyk is interested in capturing San Francisco's multidimensional nature, including its stillness, its frenetic energy, and the sensations of joy that people get...
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When Dog Co-Parents Go Separate Ways
By Amber SchadewaldI’ve been separated from my baby not once, but twice: first due to a breakup, and then because of my apartment’s no-pet policy. Yes, my baby is a dog, but that doesn’t mean my heart...
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Stop Telling Women to Smile Hits Oakland
I used to think I was the only one who was stopped by random men and told to smile. But recently, I found out it's a common thing that women deal with, and there's an art series and street campaign...
View ArticleOakland Mayor Wants 10K More Residents
In 1999, when Jerry Brown was mayor of Oakland, he created the 10K Plan, a controversial urban planning project that brought 10,000 residents to Uptown and downtown Oakland, an area that is now booming...
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These Yummy Cookies Were Made With Bugs
You know that whole “the population is exploding and soon we won’t have enough food to feed everyone” thing? No? Well, it’s a big issue. We need to figure out more sustainable, widely-available meal...
View ArticleClass Action Suits Have Fewer Victims: Real World Ep. 8
We’re five episodes away from the end, and The Real World: Ex-Plosion isn’t wasting any time before digging into the meaty drama – reminding us that relatively hot people are just as terrible as you...
View ArticleWill New Urinals Help the Dolores Park Pee Problem?
It’s hardly a secret that when the weather’s nice, you can find a lot of San Franciscans at Dolores Park. And if you’ve been drinking and sunning yourself all day, you’ll most likely find yourself...
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Vintage Photos of Vacations in San Francisco
Looking through old photo albums, I came across these pics of my family visiting San Francisco in the early '80s, when I was about four or five years old. Judging from my expressions, the toddler me...
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These Photos Of SF's Gay Community in the '80s Are Amazing
Photographer Thomas Alleman moved to San Francisco from Michigan in 1985. A year later, he began working for the San Francisco Sentinel, a "scrappy, very design-y, very political" gay weekly. During...
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Free Lunchtime Dance Party with Janelle Monáe
If the fact that tomorrow's Friday, and it's supposed to be kinda sunny, isn't enough to get you to take a long lunch, this free Janelle Monáe show at Justin Herman Plaza is an excellent reason to skip...
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Rare Photos from Abandoned SF Pool House
Unlike the better-known ruins of Sutro Baths, the abandoned Fleishhacker Pool lay in relative obscurity at the other end of the Great Highway, off to the side of the San Francisco Zoo parking lot. What...
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Ferme à Papier Will Make You Want to Visit Paris
To all my fellow paper lovers out there, San Francisco has a new spot for you to swoon over cards and printed goods – Ferme à Papier in Russian Hill. Cat Seto has re-opened what once was just a studio...
View ArticleDaylight Savings Time is this Weekend (The Sucky One)
In case you've forgotten or are blocking it out, Daylight Savings Time is this Sunday. No, not the fun "extra hour" one, the miserable one. The one where it suddenly becomes 3 a.m. at 2 a.m., and you...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time is this Weekend (The Sucky One)
In case you've forgotten or are blocking it out, Daylight Saving Time is this Sunday. No, not the fun "extra hour" one, the miserable one. The one where it suddenly becomes 3 a.m. at 2 a.m., and you...
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Barbie's Phone Hacked, Leaked Photos NSFW
When Barbie's tiny phone was hacked earlier this week, we all braced ourselves for the inevitable scandalous photos to hit the internet, and here they are! Damn, Barbie and friends are into some kinky...
View ArticleWe Don't Need Speed Reading Apps
I’m scared. More than when e-books became a thing and the publishing industry was suddenly in jeopardy. More than when my parents bought me a Kindle for Hanukkah and I had to politely say I couldn’t...
View Article10 Facts You Might Not Know About Coffee
Right now there are countless espresso shots being pulled and drip coffees being poured in San Francisco's 49 mile radius. We are a city of coffee fanatics, but most of us don't know that much about...
View ArticleWho Gets to Live in San Francisco?
Earlier this week, The Examiner reported that the SFMTA is widening its ban on oversized vehicles in the city, adding 61 new locations to the list of areas where people aren't allowed to park vans and...
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