GIG Car Share is shutting down in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, their last day on the road will be December 27, 2024.   This announcement came to Sacramento in the Spring of this year, and spells the end of an innovative little carshare service that a lot of

You may have noticed a bunch of free outdoor bands, beats, and buskers this summer in San Francisco.  That’s because there are lots of different publicly and privately funded initiatives putting on outdoor shows on city streets and in public venues throughout the city. Like Dirty Bird’s ‘BACK TO BAYSICS’,

There’s a quiet rebellion keeping our streets safe and full of shenanigans. You might be part of the network. If you’ve ever seen a video of someone “coning” a Waymo, you know Safe Street Rebel’s work. It’s a way to confuse a self-driving car by placing a rubber traffic cone

  Don’t Miss Lady Starbeast!  by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… you should see Lady Starbeast live. You have a chance this Thursday at the Ivy Room as the duo, of Ilana and Marc Martell, become a trio with the addition

One of the benefits of living in the Bay Area compared to other parts of California is that we have a fairly temperate climate. Well, the inland parts of the Bay get hot as fuck, but if you’re on the shoreline everything should be fine. At least most of the

The Golden Gate Bridge is iconic. There’s no doubt about that. It’s basically our quintessential tourist attraction. It’s the Statue of Liberty of the West Coast. It’s the thing you’re most likely to see on a postcard in a gas station 50 miles away.  But besides its status as a

Two years ago, I wrote about separating the home from hometown. “No contact” had already entered modern parlance. More therapy-speak misappropriated, an oversimplification of a complex problem. It didn’t appear in that article and, looking back, I can see why. I wasn’t quite “over it,” and not as enlightened as

Sidney Macklin can straddle dualities so easily in part because she is so full of love—everyone loves Ms. Sidney, and she loves everyone. Such a frequency of “I love yous” on anyone else’s lips would seem artificial, but with Macklin, it’s as if every time she’s saying it for the very first time: That’s the amount of feeling behind it.