BY JAMES CONRAD In July 2023, a video was released to promote the song “Try That In A Small Town,” written by Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Allison, and recorded by American country music singer Jason Aldean. In the video, Jason Aldean, known for his explicit right-wing

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK San Francisco does have the capability to embrace its history. Case in point, locals are up in arms over Anchor Brewing’s closing announcement on July 10th. They came out and lined up when they heard the brewery was liquidating. Anchor had made a decision

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

By Fudgie Frottage Co-founder of T-Shack, stand-up comic, actor, and legendary Drag Queen Pippi Lovestocking aka Scott Free miraculously recovers from near death. On May 23, minutes after her hilarious tribute to Heklina at the Castro Theatre, Pippi was taken to Davies ER by friends. “She was sitting in front

Legendary Art cars, several levels of dance floors, & dope SF DJs. Space Cowboys, Air Pusher, Duck Pond, Dusty Rhino, Heavy Petting Zoo…

BY DENA ROD Welcome to The Transgender Sabbatical Blues, an ongoing series exploring Dena Rod’s experience as a transgender, non-binary, Iranian American Bay Area local who took a five-week sabbatical all over the Northern Hemisphere. But stopped I was. Without anyone responding to me on WhatsApp, there was no way that I

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK If good things are worth waiting for, Hadeem is destined for greatness. This Jewish food pop-up has had outstanding responses recently at Buddy, proving so with an all-time record high in a single night of highest sales. On June 4, Hadeem’s chef Spencer Horovitz

BY JOE SCIARRILLO Saturday’s Dolores Hill Bomb, in my experience as someone at the event, boiled down to SFPD and prominent city officials co-opting a grass-roots skater gathering. Over 60 SFPD officers, dozens in riot gear brandishing batons and guns, blocked Dolores Street in the afternoon to prevent youth from

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.