World's Fair Buildings Open for One Day Only
The impressive futuristic New York State Pavilion was built in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in 1964 for the World's Fair. After the fair, the structures were left to decay, and were officially closed...
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Your Friends Are Tired of Your Dog Photos
Dog people, this might come as a total shock to you, but your friends don't think your hound is as awesome as you do. Especially if you're active on Facebook or Instagram and indulge your personal feed...
View ArticleBrainless New Tech Mag Alienates Women
Oh, patriarchy, you’ve failed us again. Today’s launch of Hot Tech Today aimed to bring a new, sexy twist to tech news as we know it. Instead, it reinforced all the accusations that the tech industry...
View ArticleMale Plastic Surgery Is a Thing Now in Silicon Valley
As if Silicon Valley’s rampaging whiteness and maleness weren’t enough, the tech world is also full of another regrettable form of meritocracy-fail: its ageism. Valleywag reveals how the Bay Area is...
View ArticleYou Won't Need Acid to Enjoy This Psychedelic Light Show
You can have your chocolate and peanut butter. My favorite combo in the world? Lasers and music. It probably has something to do with growing up going to Laser Zep, Laser Floyd, and, um Laser Duran...
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The Do's and Don'ts of Applying to Rooms on Craigslist
By Jessica SaiaI don’t want to beat a nearly skeletal, maggot-ridden horse or anything, but in a nutshell: SF+HOUSING=INSANITY. And if you don’t have $2,000+ a month to “bid” on a studio, or the...
View ArticleCan You Fix a Relationship If the Other Person Stops Trying?
When it comes to good advice, Jessica Lanyadoo has it in spades. The Mission’s resident psychic/astrologer/badass gets booked months in advance by San Franciscans seeking help with everything from...
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New Oakland Restaurant Owner Dies, But Her Dream Doesn't
Allison Chen was two months away from opening her first restaurant. Local media and foodwriters were already writing about the upcoming Pi Dan Noodle House. Allison's restaurant would specialize in...
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Sponsored Video: Favorite Western Addition Haunts
To help you get further excited about our Divisadero Microhood & Art Walk tomorrow night from 6-8 p.m., we have a short tour of the 'hood lead by our buddy Erin Fong of Western Editions letterpress...
View ArticleThere's a Journalism Class on Google Glass
Think Google Glass is only for high-paid techies willing to drop $1500 on a piece of (let’s call a spade a spade) dorky eyewear? Think again. When the new school year rolls around at the University of...
View ArticleThis Lazy Nipple Has So Much Sexual Potential
Sex-tracking app Nipple made quite the stir at SXSW this year with its misogynist, rape-y advertisements depicting a beer bottle pointed at a drawing of a woman’s genitals. Unfortunately, those ads had...
View ArticleTech's Concrete Solutions for Helping San Francisco
The extent of goodwill that the tech industry has extended to San Francisco has been a matter of heated debate for the past year, and it was refreshing to sit in a room and hear people in that industry...
View ArticleThere's a Lime Shortage: Get a Margarita While You Can
Better run to Chevy’s for that Cabo Wabo Rock 'N Rita now, because there’s about to be a major lime shortage.“Citrus greening,” a disease spread by jumping lice called psyllids that decimated Florida’s...
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Why Is Telegraph Avenue In Berkeley So Uncool?
By Lexi PandellWhen I returned home to the East Bay after college, I found that a handful of my go-to spots had closed and the flood of new transplants had discovered some of my favorite places. But...
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Go to This Messy and Beautiful Color Fight!
This Sunday, March 30, from noon to 3 p.m., nonprofit Asha San Francisco presents its annual Holi celebration. Holi is the Indian spring festival of colors, but as you'll see from these photos, it's...
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Join FlaskMob For a SF Photo Adventure
I recently heard rumors about a group of photographers and friends that call themselves Flaskmob and go on photo explorations all over the city. (Ok, I actually got an email from the people who started...
View ArticleDivorce, Rehab, and Other Bright Futures for Real World SF Members
This week’s episode of the Real World: Ex-Plosion was so unbelievably boring that I actually fell asleep while the cast was wine tasting. My significantly more interesting dreams followed them into the...
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House Paint Jobs That Would Only Fly in SF
When I was seven, my dad told me I could paint the garage any color I wanted. I picked out a heinous combo of dusty pink and neon purple (I don't remember ever even liking those colors), and he chocked...
View ArticleFake Trend Alert: The Yummy
By Peter Lawrence KaneRemember “metrosexuals”? If you’ve forcibly repressed any recollection of the phenomenon, here’s a primer. In 2004 or so, there was a brief moment when some straight men allegedly...
View ArticleDaily Candy to Close Next Week
By Kristen HawleyNBCUniversalannounced today that it’s ceasing publication of Daily Candy, a newsletter-turned-local recommendation site for women, on April 4. Daily Candy started in 2000 as an email...
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