I Went to See Insane Clown Posse in Oakland and Got Shamed on Twitter for It
Nothing like getting dragged on social media by tens of thousands of people...
Abraham WoodliffAuthor of 12 Articles
Why You Should Care about Vallejo’s Battle against the Orcem Cement Factory
Vallejo’s fight is emblematic of how industry seeks to control towns all over the Bay Area....
Explore Vallejo’s Mare Island, the Bay Area’s First Naval Base
Mare Island was once the economic pillar that supported Vallejo, California. From the mid-1800s to 1996, when it closed, the Mare Island Naval Shipyard employed tens of thousands of civilian workers....
Suburban Resistance: How Trump Is Waking up the Bay’s Bedroom Communities
The Bay Area has had a strong activist community for generations, from the hippies to the Black Panthers to those involved in the modern LGBTQ rights movement....
In Defense of Vallejo
It’s not fair to mock the former capital of California as a crime-ridden cesspool—it’s got a vibe and culture all its own...
The Oakland Tax Raiders: Why Professional Sports Teams Should Be Publicly Owned
Team owner Mark Davis blackmailed the city into coughing up money for the team time and time again at the expense of Oakland’s citizenry....
How the News Media Created the Alt-Right
“An endless stream of incendiary drivel will never materialize into a proper political movement without a mascot.”...
The Co-founder of Latinos for Trump Lives in the East Bay and Wouldn’t Hesitate to Punch Donald Trump in the Face
Marco Gutierrez, a co-founder of Latinos for Trump, became an Internet sensation when he told an MSNBC interviewer, “If Hillary Clinton is elected, there will be taco trucks on every corner in America.” Since then, he has been made into a meme, criticized by the left…...
Bay Area Indie Game Developers to Watch Out For
There’s an independent video game renaissance happening right here in the Bay Area. It’s time we paid attention....
The Best (and Worst) Video Games Set in San Francisco
Tons of books, movies and songs have been inspired by that magical feeling you get from walking around San Francisco’s hilly, Victorian-lined streets....
Dear Artists: San Francisco Doesn’t Deserve You
As a kid growing up in the East Bay, I always regarded San Francisco as a kind of magical place where people would go to find their true selves....
The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Scene Is as Awesome as It Is Weird
The Bay Area’s rap landscape has many of the archetypes that you associate with rap: you have gangster rappers like Philthy Rich; you have local living legends like E-40, Too $hort and Andre Nickatina; you’ve got universally respected rappers who passed away as a result of street violence…...