A Play-by-Play Diary of UC Santa Cruz’s Legendary, Illicit 4/20 Festival (Photos)
Though the administration tries to deter it, every year on April 20, thousands flock to the meadow on the west side of UC Santa Cruz’s campus to blaze and hang....
The Best Wine Weekend Is One Hour North of San Francisco
Santa Rosa, the capital of wine country, can’t be beat when it comes to a grape-cation....
Am I an Insufferable Hipster?
An illustrated moment of critical self-reflection...
How to Dick around on the Internet at Work without Getting Caught
This article is like “The Secret,” but for wasting time....
How to Start a Culture: Meet the Matriarchs behind Cowgirl Creamery
Cowgirl Creamery doesn’t just make cheese but has helped reinvigorate Point Reyes and revitalized an artisanal cheese movement...
I Asked Local Comedians How They Joke About Trump
The night Donald Trump won the election, the media collectively erased any remaining dedication to neutrality and dug into the...
RIP “Woke”
How market forces appropriate powerful words and subvert their meaning...
How the Bay Got Its Groove Back
Or maybe it never lost it. But it sure was hidden there for a while, while a speculative boom remade Bagdhad by the Bay as a wasteland of high rents and vowel-deficient start-ups. Many...
Someone Threw Out Their Mannequin Legs in Cole Valley
Today in the Most San Francisco Things to Have Ever San Francisco’d, someone in Cole Valley threw out an...
Sex Work in San Francisco, Then and Now
It seems little has changed in the 100-plus year movement for sex workers’ rights....
Time to Go Nuclear Against Anti-Internet Privacy Laws
Let’s throw some sand in the face of insidious ISP privacy laws....
Unfortunately, This Probably Isn’t Jared Kushner’s Last.fm Profile
Three days ago, some enterprising sleuth reported on 4chan’s “politically incorrect” board that they’d found Jared Kushner’s...