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 due to the damage....
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....
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....
Fake-Likes on Instagram Are Bad for Humanity
Last week, a new service called Lovematically was blocked by Instagram. If you’re Insta-savvy, you already know that flattery works: liking another person’s photo is a good way to get a reciprocal follower....
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....
Elbo Room Is Not Closing — You Can Stop Sharing That News
The Mission bar’s obituary went around a little early. Here is where things actually stand....
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 / Tumblr feed five times in the last minute and need something else to do while waiting for Muni, check out this chart....
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....
666 San Francisco
Whenever I see a building with a 666 address I think, “Whoa!” Then I wonder, “Do the people who live/work there like or hate that their address is the number of the beast?” In honor of Halloween, I decided to Google-map a few streets in SF, hoping to come up with an awesome collection of them....
Ikea Furniture or Death Metal Band?
Quick! Is Vittsjö a shelving unit carried by IKEA or a Swedish death metal band?...
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 to the floor, or our heads shake with amazement....
Oakland’s Real Issues Covered in Fake Newspaper
You wanna know who’s really gentrifying Oakland? And did you know that Mayor Jean Quan is an aspiring socially conscious hip-hop artist?...