SF Bay Area
70,000 Truckers in Legal Limbo: Protest Planned
On Monday July 18th, local truckers plan to protest a recent Supreme Court decision that impacts over 70,000 truckers who operate within California. Last month, on June 30th, The Supreme Court denied The California Trucking Association’s petition for a hearing over the state’s Assembly Bill 5 (commonly known as AB5).
This Oakland Chef is Rewriting What American Food is
Editor’s note January 24th, 2024: Since writing this original interview, Chef Davis has been nominated by The James Beard Foundation as Best Chef in California as well as opened his restaurant in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland. His food is comforting, delicious and full of nostalgia while still being elevated.
Feminist punks raged against the Supreme Court at Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown
By: Lydia Sviatoslavsky, Lisa Hix Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown returned to Mosswood Park with a shiver this year, cloaked in a bizarre July chill. Given the gloom, the ongoing pandemic, gun violence and political turmoil, the collective gathering on Saturday and Sunday for the sake of punk and its subversive thrust felt a
San Francisco’s ‘Obama’ French Dip Sandwich
LITTLE FRENCH PIGGY SANDWICH REVIEWS: At least once a week I take a walk or ride my bike to a different San Francisco eatery for lunch. I’ve been doing this on and off for about 15 years now. The only rules are that the place must be locally owned AND must feed a full-sized, french piggy for under $20.
Why I Love SF City Clinic
SF City Clinic knows you’re a competent, sexually active person. If you aren’t, they’ll kindly show you how to change that. Angelic humans work there. Where public education dropped the ball on sexual education, City Clinic picks it up. They anticipate your awkwardness, gently encouraging you to ask about anything.
What the Monkeypox Outbreak Means for You
Monkeypox is here, and it’s making us forget the most shaping factor of our lives: we are all reflections of each other. Who we are and what we make represents our ideas of what is well and unwell. How we see ourselves and how we feel about our health creates
5 Things About San Francisco That Confuse a Midwesterner
Nothing could have prepared me for the contrast between the San Francisco lifestyle and that of my humdrum Michigan background. Here are five noticeable differences I’ve seen between San Franciscans and Midwesterners.
Decades of Subversive Art : Guy Colwell
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Artist Name: Guy Colwell Born: Oakland CA, 1945 Exhibit: 111 Minna, Opening July 14 There’s a good chance