Girls Girls Girls
I live in the Castro with my girlfriend, most of my friends are queer, and I was the managing editor of a lesbian magazine....
The MissionA collection of 125 posts
Foreign Cinema
I’m waiting for a glimpse of it, folded into a rickety seat at Artists’ Television Access (ATA), the city’s pint-size underground film and video venue on a particularly hopping block of Valencia Street — ready for SF Cinematheque’s “Women of the West:’70s Bay Area Experimentalists” shorts program....
Oyster Shooter
Every time I open an oyster I feel like an otter smacking an abalone against its rigid chest....
Turn a Bachelor Pad Into a Date Magnet
How many times have you gone home with a date only to find your Prince Charming’s place looks like a scene out of Animal House?...
I Went to School to Become a Clown
I was recently at a bar with a friend when I told him something I hoped would impress him....
Wait a San Francisco Minute
By Sarah Han....
Keep Off the Grass
I remember the exact moment when I heard Dolores Park would be closing. I was in my kitchen, just back from an LA extenda-stay and hungrily catching up with friends on all I’d missed during my Bay Area starvation period....
Literary Drinking
As a poet recently released from the repressive wine-and-cheese readings of academia, I’m really tired of balancing plastic cups of Two-Buck Chuck on my knees while listening to a guy at a podium whose every sentence trails upward....
Hot and Heavy
Being a fationista is no easy task, especially when you fall in this weird in-between of being able to squeeze into “normal” clothing and rocking plus sizes....
The Sipping Point
It’s a challenge to find a simple, workaday cappuccino like I used to get at The Happy Bar in Milan....
Reality Bites
It all started with an ad in the Bay Guardian for Bender’s sushi happy hour. I had always known about it in the back of my head, as well as another sushi night at the Knockout in the Mission, both run by the same guy, but I had never gone....
America’s Cupping
Ritual Coffee Roasters on Valencia Street is the epicenter of San Francisco hipster life....