Anyone Else Remember the Mr. Marina Competition?
The charity bro pageant raised nearly $1 million for cancer research before disappearing into the pandemic. Also it was bonkers....
The MarinaA collection of 12 posts
Buy $1 Books This Weekend
It’s giant, cheap book sale time again! The San Francisco Public Library’s Big Book Sale at Fort Mason started yesterday and runs through Sunday....
Confessions of a Hater: I Actually Enjoyed the Mr. Marina Competition
I am not a Marina Guy. Seventy-five percent of my wardrobe is brown, I hate shaving, and I have no interest in BMWs....
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....
SF’s Largest Food Festival is Next Weekend (And You Should Go)
After five years of doing it big in Union Square, Eat Drink SF is blowing up in 2014!...
Have You Seen the Shipwrecks off Ocean Beach?
I first came across the shipwrecks at Lands End while shooting the edges of the city story....
9 Reasons We Can’t Wait For West Coast Craft
San Francisco has no shortage of artsy craft fairs, but when I first heard about West Coast Craft, I knew we were dealing with something different here....
Why All the ‘Hood Hate?
Marina-ites are stereotyped as a bunch of shallow postcollegiate Caucasian transplants spending trust funds on their Jäger addictions and Cosmo subscriptions, while employed in roles that could never be described as “creative.” The neighborhood is…...
Mister Marina
Let’s take a trip down memory lane to our high school days, when we romped like dogs in heat and pounded a few too many beers....
The Life of a Bro-ster
If you’ve ever lived in San Francisco, you know that moving to a neighborhood is sort of akin to picking a college: You go where you are most likely to fit in and simply pray to God that you get good housing (or at the very least a roommate or nine who aren’t terrible)....
Longtime Companions
The sound of a sneezing rat was keeping me up at night. All would be silent, and then from across the room I’d hear it: a tiny “pff!” followed by two paws furiously wiping a fuzzy face....
The Unseen City
San Francisco is about as far west as you can go in the continental United States....