Burning Man’s Most Hated Billionaire Resigns
Jim Tananbaum, the billionaire venture capitalist whom Bloomberg dubbed “the Google bus of Burning Man,” has resigned from the festival’s board of directors, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal....
Jeremy LybargerAuthor of 20 Articles
The Problem With Trying to Save SF’s Vanishing Dive Bars
Despite its alarmist thinkpiece headline, 7x7’s article was really a kind of citywide ultimatum: Everyone better start getting along or more dive bars will hit the chopping block....
The Shocking Way One SF Church Deals With the Homeless (Updated)
About a year ago, the church installed water systems in four of the building’s doorways that drench the men and women who bed down there for the night....
Oakland Joins Exclusive List Alongside Detroit and Washington DC
Oakland doesn’t get much love from the national press. Journalists often describe it as either San Francisco’s gritty hipster sibling (“Brooklyn by the Bay,” to quote the New York Times ), or as a segregated city wracked by crime....
Video of SFPD Detaining Black Rappers in Hunters Point Sparks Outrage Online (Updated)
On March 12, Brian Storm uploaded an 11-minute video to YouTube that shows the SFPD detaining, handcuffing, and searching a group of young, African American men filming a rap video in Hunters Point....
Photos: Gay SF in the ’70s Was a Lot Cooler Than the Gay SF of “Looking”
In our era of Grindr and Manhunt, Fischer’s slice of gay San Francisco has a kind of DIY charm. Forty years ago, an earring or a leather jacket was charged with layers of symbolism and sexual bargaining....
Telegraph Hill Says No to Low-Income Housing
Imagining low-income housing in Telegraph Hill is like imagining a needle exchange in the heart of Pac Heights....
Planters in Castro Parklet Are Magnets for Bad Behavior
Jane Warner Plaza — the parklet at the intersection of 17th, Castro, and Market Streets — has gotten a lot of bad press since opening in 2009....
Finally, Science Gives Us a Definitive Answer About Penis Size
It’s what you might call a loaded question: How does my dick size up?...
Map Shows SF Drug Crimes by Neighborhood
Data scientist Lance Martin delved into 12 years of SFPD crime records to map San Francisco’s drug activity by neighborhood....
Map Shows Just How Much of SOMA Tech Controls
A new visualization of major tech real estate deals over the past three years shows just how much office space the industry controls in SOMA....
The Tenderloin Loses its Chic Performing Arts Center
In 2013, a San Francisco-based development company called Group I paid $16 million for a 25,000-square-foot lot in Mid-Market....