Hired Is Releasing Its Diversity and Wage-Gap Numbers
Why we think they’re necessary but not sufficient...
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The Burning Man Bingo Card
Print and share!...
A Real Estate Analyst Explains Why Non-Techie Millennials Are F**ked When It Comes to Buying a Home
And are we in a bubble?...
Dear Artists: San Francisco Doesn’t Deserve You
As a kid growing up in the East Bay, I always regarded San Francisco as a kind of magical place where people would go to find their true selves....
A Completely True Account* of an Apartment Viewing in San Francisco
Does this unit get much natural light? There’s just the one small window, and it seems pretty dark in here....
I Took One of San Francisco’s “Weirdest” Classes, Lockpicking for Ladies
Kristin Parke knows not to play with handcuffs unless she has a key within easy reach....
Sleeping with a Gentrifier
A few weeks ago, I moved to the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco — the bright-orange yolk at the center of our gentrification-eviction debate — for the second time....
The Tech Industry vs. San Francisco Public Schools
The average wage in the San Francisco tech industry is now $176K a year. While this certainly is cause for celebration if you’re in tech, such a wage largess comes with a number of consequences....
How West Coasters and East Coasters Use Dating Apps Differently
Cuffing season is a thing when you have real winters...
How Oakland Is Turning Trash Cans into Art
Art is part of the soul of Oakland. From Jingletown to Uptown, art is on its streets, its walls, its residents and even at the bottom of some of its telephone poles....
The Problem with Building Up in San Francisco
There seems to be a never-ending supply of people who want to move into the city,yet there’s virtually no place to put them....
Why We’re Not Ready to Relinquish Control to Self-Driving Cars
Twenty years from now, I imagine myself parked in my driveway with sweaty palms, sitting behind the controls — or lack of controls — in my first self-driving car....