How Two Photographers Captured the Soul of the Tenderloin (Photos)
When Brenton Gieser and Felix Uribe set out to document San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, they didn’t want to simply take some pictures for the day and leave....
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Peep These Epic Helicopter Shots of San Francisco
The difficulties of city living make it easy to forget San Francisco’s natural beauty....
This Week in Trump LOLs
From kids’ books to Spiderman/Trump mash-ups....
The Best of Photo Essays, 2016
“Homelessness is a crisis that needs to be frozen. It is something that is, from our perception, always fleeting. We look for a second, drop a coin or look away, and then we forget. We step over a body lying prostrate on the sidewalk. We experience moments of remorse or empathy…...
The Best of Personal Essays, 2016
I’ll never forget the first time I read a personal essay. It was a sublime and harrowing experience that I can communicate only through a personal essay that I will write someday, and that will be well told and meaningful and make you rethink your…...
The Best of Weed and Alcohol Writing, 2016
To celebrate two of our favorite pastimes — and marijuana’s recent legalization — we bring you these articles on how to best enjoy your vices....
The Most Delicious Food Writing from 2016
I guess eating birds’ hearts is a thing now, because you can consume either grilled pigeon’s heart or jerk-spiced duck heart in San Francisco these days....
The Best Worst Jobs in the Bay Area
2016 year-in-review edition....
The Best of Humor Writing 2016
From children’s commentary on Burning Man to unnecessary bingo cards to techie skewerings, these are the humor articles that our readers loved this year....
The Best of Politics 2016
Politically speaking, 2016 was a clown-car train wreck in slow motion. We try to bring you more of the clowns and less of the gore....
Your Winter Guide to Northern California Vacations
It’s winter in California, meaning the once-golden hills are now a pleasant green; the night arrives agonizingly early; and the stream of traffic between Tahoe and the Bay Area is pretty much continuous....
Meet the Bay Area Artists Making Dystopian Performance Art for This Political Moment
In future friend/ships, performance artist Keith Hennessy and sound designer Jassem Hindi endeavor to make sense of the many tragedies of our current political climate through movement and sound....