What are those dots on the storm drains?
Photos by Erin Browner One of our readers asked us “What are those painted dots next to the drain systems?...
Plastic Woman
I ring the doorbell of a suburban South San Francisco home and am greeted by towering Southern belle Helen Waite....
San Francisco’s Fiercest Gender Benders
By Abby Wilcox Over the decades people have flocked to San Francisco with the intention of redesigning their gender. And...
Eat and Run
By Caleb Garling...
Raider of the Lost Archives
Before I’d even moved to San Francisco, I’d heard reverent whispers of a mythical underground screening room and...
Full Steam Ahead
I am lying face down, completely naked, on a white towel on the second floor of a eucalyptus-scented Russian-style sauna....
Skinny Dipping at the Zen Monastery
I was floating in a gorgeous stream about a half hour walk from a Zen monastery when a group of...
Getting Baked
Greasy pans strewn around flour-encrusted countertops; trails of shriveled marijuana leaves spilling out of coffee grinders; empty boxes of Betty...
Rooms with a Viewpoint
“You’re lucky, Anisse, we got a flat tire and had to turn around.” That nail in the road saved...
Moving to San Francisco
Breaking down neighborhood stereotypes for apartment hunters....
Kinky Creatures
Twenty-ten was the year of very bad, horrible, no-good haircuts for me. There were four of them, each more tragic...
Mister Marina
By Abby Wilcox • Design by Rob Shaw Let’s take a trip down memory lane to our high school days,...