Free Pints of Three Twins If Your Name is Ed Lee!
In September 2011, a four-alarm fire ravaged the block of Fillmore at Haight Street and several businesses were shuttered...
Sarah HanAuthor of 43 Articles
Stop Telling Women to Smile Hits Oakland
I used to think I was the only one who was stopped by random men and told to smile. But...
These Awesome Tiny Houses Were Built for the Homeless
Oakland artist Gregory Kloehn rose to fame in 2011, when he created small homes made out of transformed dumpsters. Taking...
Fake-Likes on Instagram Are Bad for Humanity
Last week, a new service called Lovematically was blocked by Instagram. The app, which claims to “spread the love,” was...
How Much Sex Are Berkeley Students Really Having?
UC Berkeley’s Daily Clog recently ran a poll asking students their majors and how much sex they have. No,...
Elbo Room Is Not Closing — You Can Stop Sharing That News
Last week some local bad news hit the internets: Real estate blog Socketsite posted that the owners of the Elbo...
Stuff to Do While Waiting for the Bus
In case you’ve played all your moves on Words with Friends and you’ve refreshed your Instagram / Twitter / Facebook...
How Not to Greet a Random Asian Person
I stumbled upon this brilliant infographic explaining that it’s never ok to ask a woman if she’s pregnant. It inspired me to make this .gif (with the help of Melissa Small), based on something...
666 San Francisco
Whenever I see a building with a 666 address I think, “Whoa!” Then I wonder, “Do the people who live/...
Ikea Furniture or Death Metal Band?
Quick! Is Vittsjö a shelving unit carried by IKEA or a Swedish death metal band? If you guessed the former,...
A Week of Scandalous Anonymous Stories
We’ve heard some crazy personal stories. The kind that make us laugh our asses off, our jaws drop down...
Oakland’s Real Issues Covered in Fake Newspaper
You wanna know who’s really gentrifying Oakland? According to Oakland Unseen, the three main groups are 29% SF transplants,...