Does the Sharing Economy Misuse the Word “Sharing”?
Dictionaries are static. They freeze words and pin them like butterflies to a collection board. But language is fluid; it...
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Inside the Berkeley Bike Co-Op Getting Evicted for Condos
Bill Sparks has a bike frame upside down in a vice. He grips, pulls and tries again, but the seat...
How to Pass a Drug Test
For a time I dated a guy who liked to spend his weekends filling up Instagram with city photos of...
The Real Difference Between San Francisco and Oakland
I knew I’d become a city person the day I stepped around someone lying prostrate on the sidewalk and...
I Met God at the Berkeley Post Office
9:15 AM, May 2, Downtown Berkeley Post Office I was in line to buy a stamped envelope. The first...
After Orlando: The Routine of Terror
The arc of terror is easy to plot. It starts with fire. An explosion of some kind. Large and chaotic...