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Getting Hung at Hang
DJ Harmon flits about the gallery. Her eyes dance when I mention the name of one of her artists, and she starts plucking canvases out from their hiding places, spreading them across the room. I look at...
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Tog to the Bricks
My quest: to become a 1939 bon vivant. You see, I'm hosting this party, and I want to be the one. The one Herb Caen would have written about in his column, society snobs would have gossiped about...
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Everything's Jake in Chinatown
Upon visiting San Francisco for the first time in 1882, Oscar Wilde described it as “utterly, inexpressively hideous,” but Chinatown seduced him. After wandering through its shrines, shops and opium...
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The Chosen Few
When the holiday season hit this year, I found myself not thinking about how to be a good Christian, but how to be a good Jew. You see, every December I end up at this decadent Hanukkah party, and...
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Go Underground
Most of these supper clubs are active on Twitter, Facebook, or through their web pages, so be sure to get in the loop so you can hear about their next epicurean adventure. In most cases, you'll just...
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Face Value
Hugh Leeman's apartment at 6th and Market is across from "Fear Head," a mural with three faces in different stages of fright. It's a fitting image for an intersection where it's almost impossible to...
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Pretty Persuasion
I remember when David Chang from Momofuku talked down the San Francisco food scene. He called us out for having “only a handful of restaurants that are manipulating food ... fucking every restaurant...
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Techie Stereotypes
When you work in an open office, it’s hard not to get all up in your coworkers’ business. No matter how high you turn up the silence in your noise cancelling headphones, it’s impossible to ignore the...
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Prepare to Covet: Levi's Made & Crafted at Mill Mercantile
One of my favorite movies of all time is Clueless, and not just because I totally wanted to valley girl around with Alicia Silverstone in the 1990s. What I love most about the film is her closet. First...
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The Six Drivers Lyft Needs to Hire ASAP
By Mustafa KhanFor those who chronically hop around SF, ride-hailing apps are a blessing. But for a city overflowing with imagination (think crazy start-ups, wild street festivals, and Batkid), SF...
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Who Serves the Most Authentic Poutine in SF?
By Lauren Sloss Poutine, Montreal’s questionably named “drunk food to end all drunk foods,” has been making steady inroads on San Francisco menus, from downtown restaurants to crowded bars in the...
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My Favorite Mall Santa Photos from Flickr
Mall Santas. They get a bad rap in movies, but I think they should be applauded for what they do, for dealing with screaming babies, the bratty kids, brattier parents, and the occupational hazards that...
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George Zimmerman: A Terrible Person Won Again
A terrible person in the public eye can become so cartoonishly awful that further piling on feels gratuitous, because the point has already been hammered home so many times before. In the case of...
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John Dwyer Moving to LA, Thee Oh Sees on Hiatus
For those lamenting the fact that San Francisco's too easily losing its arts community to other cities, here's another reason to shed a tear: John Dwyer, frontman for Thee Oh Sees and countless other...
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SPONSORED: Holiday Shopping with Art.com
Need some last-minute holiday shopping inspiration? Be sure to stop by Art.com's pop up store in Union Square, located on the corner of Kearny and Post. Our friends from the East Bay recently opened...
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A Neighborhood Guide to the Holidays
By Tony BravoIn some places the first snowfall is a harbinger of the holidays, but growing up in San Francisco, I found it was always the first taste of an amaretti cookie from North Beach’s Victoria...
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Jesus, It's Hard Having a Christmas Birthday
I was born on December 25 – yes, that’s right, Christmas Day. The nurses who were there at the momentous occasion even brought my naked, slimy body to my mom in a stocking. For the past 24 years, my...
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Classy Portraits of Festive Animals
Who doesn't love an ugly holiday sweater? Who doesn't love pictures of dogs*? Combine the two and we have a recipe for cuteness.*Cats included, though they seem to be on the miserable side of festive.
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1906 Earthquake Photos Merged with Modern San Francisco
Thanks to Facebook postings, I recently stumbled upon some incredible photos perfectly melding scenes of San Francisco in the ruins of the 1906 earthquake with the modern view of the exact location....
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The Year Tech Became San Francisco's Fightin' Word
The grumbling over tech wealth in San Francisco has come to a head this month, with a second Google bus protest and an Apple bus protest today and an editorial by Slate's Matthew Yglesias earlier this...
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