Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a Great Show With a Big Race Problem
While I absolutely loved the show and gobbled it up in one sitting, there were a few details that bothered me. Its dealings with race, for example, left a lot to be desired....
Illustrating What It Feels Like to Leave San Francisco
A few weeks ago, I left San Francisco after almost seven years for the mountains of Colorado....
Map Shows Every Single Change Proposed in Your ‘Hood
Living in San Francisco these days means there’s no end to seeing permit signs pop up on abandoned storefronts, and the city’s skyline bristles with so many cranes that it’s inspired a t-shirt....
SF-Specific Jokes in Newest Trailer for Pixar Movie
Pixar’s next feature film, Inside Out, is set in San Francisco and it’s coming out fairly soon....
The Differences Between SF and LA, Visualized
Vahram Muratyan’s Paris versus New York is a book of fun illustrations comparing the two cities....
The 10 Most Useless Features of the New Apple Watch
Did you watch the #AppleLive keynote presentation?!? It was all up in everyone’s Twitter feeds this morning and it’s still the number one SF trend on Twitter, hours after it ended....
The Mission is Bringing Us Down, LCD Soundsystem-Style
LCD Soundsystem’s ode to a cleaned up and gentrified Manhattan, the grand “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down,” was one of the group’s great ballads....
Map Shows SF is a Hotbed of One Kinky-Creepy-Cute Subculture
It’s probably no surprise that the Bay Area, proudly home to every kink, fetish, and subculture imaginable, also boasts one of the country’s densest concentrations of furries....
Planters in Castro Parklet Are Magnets for Bad Behavior
Jane Warner Plaza — the parklet at the intersection of 17th, Castro, and Market Streets — has gotten a lot of bad press since opening in 2009....
Local artist Truong Tran’s current show Framed Targets casts a spotlight on the ways San…
Local artist Truong Tran’s current show Framed Targets casts a spotlight on the ways San Francisco’s rapid gentrification is affecting artists and people of color....
John Stamos was Outside the Full House Home and Everyone Missed It
If you were at Alamo Square Park this weekend, everywhere you looked, there was a hand to hold onto were about a million other people picnicking-it-up on blankets, Full House credits-style....
The Best Mac and Cheese Spots in the Bay Area
When you’re homesick, or tired, or cozy and happy, you don’t crave fancy foie gras or squid tentacles. You want something simple and familiar....