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SF’s New Nudie Culture Magazine (NSFW)

By Carolina Quijano Last Friday, I met up with Melissa and David Beaulieu of San Francisco’s newest “artistic nudie...

A Whole New World: Bay Area Disney Super Fans

I was at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio when I saw her. According to the staff, the woman was a regular who made costumes for many of the events: Mary Poppins....

“Mansplaining” Taken to Ridiculous Extremes

By Jessica Saia • photos by Tom Kubik It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets girl, they go...

Guess We Have to Get Used to Fake Tinder Profiles

By Emma McGowan Imagine you’re messing around on Tinder and you come across a cute little blonde named Sarah....

The Attic Has Closed

By Sarah Han Sad news for fans of 24th Street dive The Attic. I got word yesterday that the beloved...

The Pride and Perils of Being a Ginger

By Curran White Redhead. Carrottop. Ginger. Fire crotch. By the time I had my first bowl cut I’d heard...

Portraits from SF’s “Hunky Jesus” Contest

Photos by Akshay Sawhney, intro by Jessica Saia Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The...

The Gutters in Buena Vista Park are Made Out of Old Headstones

By Amber Guetebier San Francisco is a city of secrets. Hidden tunnels and bricked-up passageways, sunken ships and rebuilt...

This Is What It Means to be San Francisco Married

By Lauren Busley. Illustrated by Shannon May. In San Francisco, the land of pretend grown-ups, where our workplaces feed...

5 Times San Francisco Was Almost Destroyed

San Francisco is prone to disasters, but it’s also a place that knows how to bounce back like nowhere else. This city has been almost completely obliterated several times, from both natural disasters and bizarro development scenarios....