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Last year, the locally made webseries “City Folx” debuted to do its part to raise the visibility of the Bay Area’s local drag king talent.  It followed the misadventures of Raq (Vera Hannush) and Cin (Bex Salas), a pair of drag king roommates trying to hold onto their Mission District

I want to get this out of the way: I don’t hate San Jose. The ‘Capital of Silicon Valley’ has plenty of cool things going for it. Can I name them? No. But I’ve been told that there are certainly things in San Jose. I haven’t spent a ton of

by Josh Klipp A walk down 17th Street between Potrero and Byrant sums up how San Francisco protects and grows its tree canopy. Seven new saplings, planted in December by volunteers with Friends of the Urban Forest (but without screens to protect them) dangle from arbor ties, hacked to pieces.

And just like that, drag queens saved my life. Not that my life was in danger, besides the general impending doom that exists in the world today around queer and trans people. What I mean to say is, last night drag performers made me full-body cackle for two hours straight and it was the purest joy I have experienced in a long time.

Your dreams for inspiration and community exist perfectly in the Balboa Village, one of my favorite places in the entire world. And, lo and behold this Saturday June 3rd is Art Walk in the village from 12-5pm. Three stages with bands, tons of booths and activities for all ages. 

Veritas, the largest landlord in the city, has been revealed to be delinquent on a staggering $1 billion in debt, potentially leading to the sale of several of their properties. We’ve written about this company several times. From creating ADUs that residents called “a living hell“, Taking out small business

COYOTE (Call Off Your Tired Old Ethics) was founded in San Francisco in 1973 by Margo St. James, a sex worker, who also co-founded St. James Infirmary Clinic in the Tenderloin. COYOTE’s main goals were decriminalization (as opposed to legalization) of sex work, pimping, and pandering, as well as the elimination of social stigma concerning sex work as an occupation. Its work is considered part of the larger sex worker movement for legal and human rights.

This week, we broke the story on a lovely new statue celebrating the extinct Xerces blue butterfly. It mysteriously showed up in Golden Gate Park sometime around Earth Day. City officials have sent out a press release about the statue and it sounds like the statue has been removed and taken