These Are the Dumbest, Most Absurd Tech Startups
Well, the tech balloon, which appeared to be rapidly emitting air and flying erratically around the room only the other...
Astrid KaneAuthor of 53 Articles
SF Will Never Be as Weird as It Used to Be
San Francisco isn’t as weird as it used to be. Artsy types are feeling it acutely. Instead of just...
How to Make a 200-Sq Ft Apartment Feel 3x Bigger
The housing situation is beyond depressing. Forget about the evictions for a moment and focus on the apartment-hunters, combing...
Oh Great, There’s About to Be a Coffee Shortage
If you sometimes find yourself masochistically hate-reading really depressing news about climate change over your morning cup of coffee,...
A Comparison of Bay Area Grocery-Delivery Services
San Francisco has a host of ways to get food from grocery shelves to your already-overcrowded crisper. There’s...
A 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...
Will Republicans Soon Rule SF?
People grumble incessantly that as San Francisco gets colonized by tech, the infusion of those newly-minted billions is altering...
Beards Are Over
It’s suddenly possible to see past the beard, because the beard is everywhere. It’s found its way onto...
Seriously, This Weather. WTF?
“Gonna to move to the Bay Area now, pretend that was your dream the whole time? Have fun always carrying...
Why Does San Francisco Love Fernet?
Allegedly, upwards of 70 percent of all Fernet consumed in the US is drunk in San Francisco. To that end, I found current or former Bay Area residents who had a strong opinion on this inimitable elixir....
Hand Job Academy and the Taboo of Women’s Bodies
When Pussy Riot’s three members went to prison for “hooliganism and religious hatred” — and two of them languish in the gulag yet — it was a defiant gesture in the face of an authoritarian fusion of...
Polyamory Is Alive and Well in SF
After the Supreme Court’s Prop. 8 ruling came down in June, LGBT people in San Francisco were able to...