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POC Food & Wine Festival kicks off on May 2nd
There’s a new food festival coming to The Bay: the POC Food & Wine Festival kicks off on May 2nd and goes for an entire weekend. Imagine this: amazing grub paired with top-notch wine, awesome beats, and extra special events that make this food and wine festival deliciously interactive. Not
A Police Officer Taught me How to Steal a Car
The craziest fuckin’ thing happened to me on Monday and it had nothing to do with the eclipse. A police officer showed me how to steal a car. I’m dead serious. Right around 10:30 a.m. in the morning as folks were readying themselves for the eclipse, I was sitting inside
Microdosing Mushrooms at the ‘Frida’ Ballet in SF
On a rainy Thursday night in San Francisco, I slapped on a sportscoat, drank 2 pints of Maui Waui IPA, and swallowed 1 g of dried, psychedelic mushrooms.
The Mesmerizing, Apocalyptic Art of Andrea Bergen
A violently adorable raccoon looms ominously from a shopping cart filled with junk food against an idyllic seascape. Around her fly seagulls and a pigeon wearing a pink iced donut. I say ‘her’, because emerging from this raccoon’s fur are tiny baby raccoons. Hissing from the bottom of the shopping
The Hard Truth About Unreliable Erections
Here’s the hard truth (pun intended)–most men, at some point in their lives, struggle with unreliable erections. Now that your Johnson has disappointed you a few times, you’re thinking too much with your big head instead of letting the blood rush to your little head.
April 2024 Weekends Are For Film Festivals (Mostly)
There are fewer theatrical venues available. Returning to the in-theater experience still proves a hard lift for way too many viewers. And the 800-pound gorilla known in film festival circles as the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter “SFFILM”) has radically downsized in scale and scope this year. Should this
Hoodline Caught Using AI Generated Writers to Make AI Generated Articles
In a case of “I hate to say I told you so,” let me just say…I absolutely told you so. Back in 2019, almost exactly five years ago actually, I wrote an article for the SF Examiner called “Can robots do journalism?” In the article I called out Hoodline for
