Historic SF Businesses Can – and Should – Be Saved
By now, the litany of“Beloved, Family-Owned, Multi-Generational Business Closing to Make Room for Condos No One You Know Will Ever Afford” is getting as trite as “Hottest Month on Record” or...
View ArticleCoffee Day Is Our New Favorite Holiday
Mondays have a pretty bad reputation, but this Monday was International Coffee Day, so it was unusually fun. Since this city loves its coffee, many local coffee shops observed the caffeinated holiday...
View ArticleMy Boyfriend's Female BFF is in Love With Him
Hi Jessica, My boyfriend and I have a bit of a tumultuous relationship. He bought me a (non-engagement) ring after we'd been together about 10 weeks, and we've gone through two iterations of living...
View ArticleHow to Stay Cool During Hardly Strictly This Weekend
It’s going to be hot this weekend. And not usual, San Francisco, “Oh I guess I’ll just wear one sweater today” hot. Like 80+ motherfucking degrees hot. All this would be fine if it was just another...
View ArticleEasy Way to Help the Drought (& Make a Poop Joke)
What’s that? We’re in a drought? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of my neighbor hosing down his white Hyundai.For those who haven’t noticed, California is in a state of emergency. California...
View ArticlePopular DTLA Eatery's Breakfast Hike for Regulars
The Daily Dose organic café and coffee house in the Arts District downtown has amassed a cult-like following for owner Sarkis Vartanian since opening a few years ago. All day students, locals, and...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Castro's Rainbow Crosswalks are Here
Anyone living in The Castro with ears and a will to sleep can tell you that the overnight construction on Castro Street over the past few days has been insufferable. But after the rain comes the...
View Article5 Times Fans Won The Internet
There are so many times when we feel helpless to effect real change in this world, especially on the Internet. For example, I liked and shared that post that claimed if I followed instructions, a love...
View ArticleA Guide to SF's Shittiest Streets
You’ve seen, smelled, and likely stumbled smack into them. Yes, I’m referring to the epic proportions of San Francisco’s sidewalk shit. With about 7,000 homeless people and 120,000 dogs living in our...
View ArticleGet Ready for the New Pre-Cation Work Trend
As San Francisco’s tech crunch rampantly intensifies, the balance of power between potential hires and available positions is slowly shifting, with companies like Google offering the flabbergasting...
View ArticleSF's #1 Food Destination Rating is Totally Strange
Apparently, San Francisco is the top food destination in the world. Sort of.According to the “first ever Culinary Travel Trend Report” released by Travelocity.ca, San Francisco is the number one city...
View ArticleTinder for Rich Excludes Poor, Unattractive
Hey boys and girls, are you tired of swiping through all of the uggos and poors on Tinder every day? Wouldn’t you rather know that your potential location-based hookup is def going to be hot and rich?...
View ArticleMapping SF’s Disappearing Children
With the rising price of our city, to name just one factor, San Francisco’s youth population has dwindled over the past four decades. In 1970 the city was home to some 158,546 children under 18, but by...
View Article5 Must See Movies at the Mill Valley Film Fest
Once a year, as the leaves start to turn and the evening air is thick with the smell of fireplaces aglow (just for ambience, since the temp is still in the mid '70s at night), sleepy southern Marin...
View ArticleYour Feelings About TIMF Told with Gifs!
How you felt when you got tickets to Treasure Island Music FestivalHow you felt when you thought about how the heck to get thereYou thought, "Oh well, I'll have a friend drive me!"Then you remembered...
View ArticleThis Could Be LA's Next Big Food Trend
It looks like the next foodie import trend to hit LA is coming in form of sweet and savory Australian snack pies. These flaky filled crusts certainly beat that “Shrimp on the Barbie” movie, a vegemite...
View ArticleDrag Queens Celebrate as FB Relents “Real Name” Policy
Local Drag Queens and politicians such as Heklina and Supervisor David Campos celebrated on the steps of City Hall this morning before a press conference to herald their successful negotiations with...
View ArticleWhat Your Burrito Order Says About You
There are few things in San Francisco as proprietary (and delicious) as our burritos. Those of us who have lived elsewhere and suffered through pathetic excuses for “Mission-style burritos” certainly...
View ArticleSF's Weirdo Seasons Are Not "Indian Summers"
Everyone in San Francisco has been waiting for the Indian summer to kick in and this week's high temps have made good on the promise. Everyone's heard of an Indian summer before and likely explained it...
View ArticleWhat Was It Like to Live through the '89 Quake?
San Francisco-based illustrator (and TBI contributor) Jenifer Wofford contacted us about a cool new project she's working on called Earthquake Weather, an homage to the natural disaster that hit the...
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