A Very Berkeley Note to the Neighbor Stealing His Newspaper
Marty Schiffenbauer’s Wall Street Journal kept disappearing, so he left the culprit a letter. It is a very Berkeley sort of scolding....
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The Shocking Way One SF Church Deals With the Homeless (Updated)
About a year ago, the church installed water systems in four of the building’s doorways that drench the men and women who bed down there for the night....
Oakland Joins Exclusive List Alongside Detroit and Washington DC
Oakland doesn’t get much love from the national press. Journalists often describe it as either San Francisco’s gritty hipster sibling (“Brooklyn by the Bay,” to quote the New York Times ), or as a segregated city wracked by crime....
Park Officials Throw Shade at “Trashy” Mr. Marina Party
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is not happy with the Mr. Marina contest for being a certain kind of trashy....
Good News for People Who Like to Get Drunk
Partying like an astronaut just got one step closer to becoming reality. On Tuesday, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved (again) four varieties of Palcohol, the powdered alcohol The Bold Italic told you about last year....
Here’s Something San Francisco Doesn’t Do Well
We’ve all been there — we joke about how broke we are, how we’re eating pasta every night, how we dream of a happy hour that serves $1 Tecate....
Finally, Science Gives Us a Definitive Answer About Penis Size
It’s what you might call a loaded question: How does my dick size up?...
Students at UC Berkeley Turn the Tables on a Racist Professor
The “no business as usual” ethos of the Black Lives Matter movement has shut down highways, shopping malls, and government buildings…...
Will SF’s Bikram Community Survive the Latest Rape Scandal?
It’s an age-old story: an illicit, often nonconsensual relationship between a very powerful person and his subordinates....
$1 Million Burning Man Tickets Hit the Web
Two tickets are listed at $1 million apiece. This handy chart shows the price distribution:...
200 Silicon Valley Hackers Disrupt Burning Man
If your Facebook feed has been full of people grumbling they weren’t able to get Burning Man tickets (or if you yourself were unlucky)…...
This is What the Bay Area Spent Money on in 2014
The Bay Area outspent every other city in five categories: restaurants, bars, gasoline, childcare, and clothing....