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...
Only In SfA collection of 137 posts
San Francisco’s Classic Hip-Hop Tracks
By Charles Hurbert While most people know at least something about Bay Area hip-hop artists like Too $hort, Digital...
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...
2012 Year in Review
It’s that time of year when we can get away with saying cliché shit like, “Geez, has it really...
How to Be an Entrepreneur
Now’s a great time to be an entrepreneur in San Francisco. What’s an entrepreneur, you ask? Great question,...
A World Series Cheat Sheet for Your San Francisco Giants
By Drew Hoolhorst I love the San Francisco Giants. Some of the best memories of my life involve them, from...
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. From there I...
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...