30 Things to Do Before You Turn 30
I’ll tell this embarrassing tale only once, so keep reading. I was 24 when my parents drove me out to San Francisco from Iowa — over the plains, the desert, and then the Bay Bridge....
Only In SfA collection of 137 posts
San Francisco’s Classic Hip-Hop Tracks
While most people know at least something about Bay Area hip-hop artists like Too $hort, Digital Underground, and E-40, San Francisco’s iconic rap legends have largely gone unrecognized outside of the area....
Craigslist Housing Horror Stories
It should surprise no one that SF-level apartment desperation + Internet strangers = inevitable housing nightmares, quietly marinating under that dial-up era homepage....
What’s Up With That Sign on Turk and Larkin?
If Ace of Base had been from San Francisco instead of Sweden, their song “The Sign” would clearly have been an homage to the giant marquee looming above tire shop Kahn and Keville at the corner of Turk and Larkin…...
2012 Year in Review
It’s that time of year when we can get away with saying cliché shit like, “Geez, has it really been a year already?”...
How to Be an Entrepreneur
Now’s a great time to be an entrepreneur in San Francisco. What’s an entrepreneur, you ask?...
A World Series Cheat Sheet for Your San Francisco Giants
I love the San Francisco Giants. Some of the best memories of my life involve them, from going to games at the ‘Stick with my family when I was a kid to the 2010 season when I found out how much they bring us all together in this town....
If you didn’t join a cult, did you even live in San Francisco
Since its days as a bawdy port city built on gold dust and dungarees, San Francisco has always been a town where open-mindedness reigns and people live whatever life they see fit....
The Pigeons of San Francisco
The city’s spirit animal personifies our idiosyncrasies....
Dropping Into Acid
through a borrowed and then lost paperback of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test....
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
Over the decades people have flocked to San Francisco with the intention of redesigning their gender....