Ten People, Animals, and Inanimate Objects Who Would Make Better Police Chiefs than Greg Suhr
Last week, disgraced San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr resigned, perhaps sensing that his scandal-plagued administration had finally capsized....
How a Sensory-Deprivation Tank Changed My Life
A few months ago, the hustle of the city started to make me anxious. Everyone I spoke to was a start-up founder....
Oakland Is One of the Most Dangerous Places in the World If …
Donald Trump dissed us in the New York Times yesterday when he mentioned Oakland alongside Iraq, Ferguson and Brooklyn as being one of the most dangerous places in the world....
The Strange Beauty of Joshua Tree, California
Just north of Palm Springs and on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, the town of Joshua Tree is a tiny outpost (population: 7,500) in the high desert of the Mojave....
The Coolest Dude in the World Lives in Portland
Recently, I took a vacation to Portland, Oregon. Portland is Miami for hipsters....
How Oakland Is Turning Trash Cans into Art
Art is part of the soul of Oakland. From Jingletown to Uptown, art is on its streets, its walls, its residents and even at the bottom of some of its telephone poles....
The Problem with Building Up in San Francisco
There seems to be a never-ending supply of people who want to move into the city,yet there’s virtually no place to put them....
San Francisco’s Burger Moment
Everyone has some nostalgic memory of their first hamburger. As a child of the’80s, I idolized McDonald’s thanks to cleverly marketed meals that featured not only a small meaty patty but also a temporary distraction from my boredom — a plastic toy....
Get Out There: 11 Gorgeous State Parks Near San Francisco
Read on to learn about the Bay Area’s most Instagrammed state parks and where you should go....
The Ultimate Mixtape to Get your Neighbors to Stop Having Sex
It’s a universal truth that people who live in cities know that walls are thin and that other people surround them....
Thank God It’s Thursday
They say Thursday is the new Friday, but then what does that make Friday? Monday?...
Why We’re Not Ready to Relinquish Control to Self-Driving Cars
Twenty years from now, I imagine myself parked in my driveway with sweaty palms, sitting behind the controls — or lack of controls — in my first self-driving car....