I Hooked Up with My Neighbor
When Jessie moved into the apartment above mine in a light-blue two-story Victorian near the Panhandle, I didn’t know she was married....
Caleb PershanAuthor of 16 Articles
Meet 83-Year-Old Tattoo Legend Lyle Tuttle
“San Francisco is everybody’s favorite city because you get fucked here every day, either mentally, physically, or financially.” So says San Francisco tattoo icon Lyle Tuttle....
Go Here If You Love Iced Coffee
Heath Kessler, owner of Tiny Warrior Coffee, checks his smart watch before shaking up one of his signature iced coffees....
2 Big Tech Titans Have Eyes on Oakland
It’s not just your friends moving to Oakland: now it’s your friendly neighborhood tech titans....
Soylent Guy Stops Pooping to Save Water
At 25, Silicon Valley programmer Rob Rhinehart is already a curiosity for “hacking” food with his proprietary drink powder creepily called Soylent....
Update: What’s Going on with the Elbo Room
As has been widely (and a bit hysterically) reported, the owners of the Elbo Room space might want to turn the historic bar into condo room....
You’re Gonna Wanna Go to Kink’s Haunted House
Sex and fear are well known bedfellows at the world’s largest producer of BDSM pornography: SF’s own Kink.com....
Why More of Your Friends May Move to Oakland
Last week the SF Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) invited Rachel Flynn, Oakland’s Director of Planning and Building, to talk about Oakland’s approach to housing and land use policy....
Go to Weird Fish Before It Closes!
Dante’s Weird Fish, the eight-year-old beloved oddball restaurant on Mission at 18th, will close up shop at the end of the year....
This Golden Hydrant Saved The Mission
The real devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as history buffs never tire of noting, didn’t come from the quake itself....
What Is SF w/o Sunflower’s “Young Man” Waiter?
When a mainstay like Mission’s Sunflower Vietnamese Restaurant shuts its doors — even briefly — a pall is cast over the blogosphere....
Remember This ’98 Anti-Gentrification Poster?
While some San Franciscans will recall all too clearly the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project of the late’90s, young transplants who lack such institutional memory might be struck afresh by the historical resonance of a flier from the first tech boom/bust....