For three more weeks, I’m staying at an artist’s residency in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s beautiful country here, roughly 7,000 feet up on a high desert at the tail end of the Rockies. Faceless and not, most men on the apps say I’m here for the best time of

It’s been an active year for seismicity in Southern California. Starting with a M4.1 on New Year’s Day, 2024 is the shakiest year in the region’s history. Sunday night’s tremor near Ontario marks the fourteenth quake over magnitude 4.0, breaking the previous annual record of thirteen. There are twelve weeks

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

  Who would like another shiny skyscraper offsetting San Francisco’s skyline? Apparently, project developer Crescent Heights does. The Florida-based company’s plans for a 65-story skyscraper feel like another ploy to fleece profit from San Francisco. If built to specs, 10 South Van Ness would be the city’s fifth-tallest building. Here’s

More than a hundred Amazon employees at San Francisco warehouse #DCK6 formed a Union this morning, represented by the Teamsters. Underpaid warehouse workers fed up with unsafe conditions demanded that Amazon recognize the coalition in a “March on the Boss” early today. The worker-led initiative echoes many similar movements happening

The L-Taraval train, which runs from the Embarcadero to the San Francisco Zoo, returned to service on September 28th after five years of construction and delays, with new station islands and overhead wires connecting trains to MUNI’s electrical grid.

San Francisco’s skyscrapers have been experiencing a rash of broken windows due to faulty design, maintenance, and severe weather, raising concerns about safety in the event of a major earthquake.

The Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking and tilting, causing a host of other issues, and the building’s precarious tilt is offsetting plumbing lines, causing sewage backups in some units.

Carnival Cruise Lines’ Luminosa will begin operating from San Francisco in April 2026, offering ten-night cruises to Alaska and four-night trips to Baja California, with stops in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, Ensenada, and two starry nights at sea.