All Crossed Up
Sitting on the tailgate of my buddy’s beat-up pickup truck, I dig through a box of ratty-ass race numbers that are now in their sixth year of usage....
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Unlocking the Lore of the Peacock Lounge
the first time I saw Peacock Lounge, but I’m willing to bet it was while stumbling from Toronado to Mad Dog in the Fog, and probably after one too many pints....
Out of the Closet
You might expect the city’s new GLBT History Museum to be little more than a pep rally for the gay community’s current political concerns: marriage and the military....
Water World
When I heard about a community of floating homes, rocking on waves and only a 25-minute walk from downtown, I figured there wasn’t much of a story: some nuts living on the water....
Tears for Queers: A History of Polk Gulch in SF
Before the Castro, there was Polk. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, Polk was the gay center of San Francisco....
Bubble Boys
The compelling combo of milk, tea, and tapioca pearls was conceived in front of schools, in tea carts serving pre-teens, for them to slurp on the way home....
Table Manners
Both my grandpas had tables in their garages when I was little, and I looked forward to playing every visit, even though they always handily trounced me (Pretty soon I got a little sister who I in turn could handily trounce, so it was chill)....
Glitter Wizard
being friends with multimedia artist Rene Garcia Jr. in college? When we were students at UC Santa Cruz, there was no such thing as a simple keg party when it was time to invite the masses over....
Know Your NIMBYs
The following is a handy guide to the most common NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard-ers), or those among us who take issue with the ever-blowing winds of change....
Staying Rock ’n’ Roll
When people use the phrase “back in the day” they’re usually talking about some storied and probably poorly remembered and overly glamorized time of their youth when they were baby adults and could therefore party balls while still pursuing their vision of reaching professional and artistic zenith....
SF’s Karaoke King DJ Purple
When I first moved to San Francisco, I went to a traditional karaoke spot with some friends....
The Village Bicycle
In a moment of serendipity, Bamboo Bike Studio moved into my neighborhood (the Tenderloin) and I started feeling bike lust....