How You Can Help Concrn Tackle Mental Health Crises on SF Streets
Guest post by Jacob Savage director and cofounder of Concrn We’ve all been there before: You see someone having a mental health crisis, and you want to help, but you don’t know what to do. Luckily, the people of San Francisco can now take direct action to address their frustrations
The Power & Politics In Bogotá’s Street Art Scene
I have been writing my name on shit since I was in high school. Nothing particularly inspired, mostly text but sometimes I do some stencil work. By and large I tend to identify as a garden variety vandal, not an artist. My awkward fumbling in the world of graffiti grant
How to Actually Get Fans for Your Band
You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t sound as if it was
Activists from Black Power Network Shut Down Economic Development Summit
Via- April Thomas Oakland, Calif. — Today a group of activists took over the Oakland Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Development Summit with a message for Mayor Libby Schaaf: the Oakland housing crisis is an emergency for Oakland residents, not an opportunity for profit. Activists from groups including the Black
Growing Up, & Out of San Francisco
To look back at San Francisco is to see my father and a long history. I never knew the Dot-com Boom,
but in understanding its progeny I can see the traits, genetics, and make a mold of its
predecessor.
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The Last Cafe in San Francisco
“Are we creating a culture,” I asked Ty over coffee at the Sea Biscuit Café, “or are we holding its hand as it dies? Right now I honestly can’t tell.” She shook her head. “That’s a really interesting question.” We usually meet in the Mission, where Ty keeps a small
Nose Candy Tourism : Visiting Pablo Escobar’s Compound
Travelling to Medellin Colombia and getting a tour by ex-police officers of the drug lords family home, torture chamber, & final resting place
A History of Anti-Irish Racism in the US
Irish people have it pretty good in America these days, but this was not always the case. White privilege was not extended to Irish Americans in the US from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, and Irish people were not considered white people back then — despite their fair complexion.