Herb Caen once said “Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” which, despite my general distaste for Herb Caen, is a pretty accurate take. I have mixed feelings about people who write about the Tenderloin. Nothing about the commentary comes off as balanced. The

While San Francisco continues to get beaten to death in the mainstream press, its neighbor across the Bay is considering changing the name of its airport to better represent their proximity to what some in the American media zeitgeist refer to as Hell on earth. Because no matter how bad

Dozens of Humpback whales are being spotted breaching simultaneously in the San Francisco Bay this morning, to surprise and joy of many onlookers. 

April 1, 2024 – San Francisco is about to get a green makeover on many of its most iconic and historical landmarks.  The theater company Shen Yun has bought out the facades and air rights on several San Francisco bridges, buildings, and even on some of its most popular residents.

He actually said, “I’ve been Mayor This Whole Time Anyway.” The political machine that Brown built, and has run for the past half century, has given San Francisco every mayor since he left the big office at City Hall. Gavin Newsom, Ed Lee, and London Breed have all been anointed by Brown himself. Another of his former protégés, Kamala Harris, is even Vice President of United States.

Within The Explorer’s Guild there are rankings for officers, merit badges, hundreds of Captains Log notebooks chronicling the last nearly 10 years of The Guild. What’s special about this group is that they are creating community in a fun way which doesn’t take life too seriously while also creating so much fun that it creates a collective glue that holds people together and allows people to feel like they can be part of the guild in their own way.

Back in the mid-2000s, my friends and I regularly swapped music from one of SF’s longest-running mashup nights, Bootie Mashup. April marks 20-years of ‘Bootie‘. Since 2003, Bootie has been creating genre-themed mashup nights that blend both current and throwback pop songs and often feature fun variety show acts dancing

This April’s premieres on Netflix have some worthy offerings even if it won’t necessarily take viewers’ minds off the trash fire nature of current events.  There’s an animated update of a classic Norman Lear comedy.  The “Train To Busan” director adapts a science fiction body horror manga.  A spinoff series