By Jeremy Kuempel “San Francisco is DEAD” read the headline of a party a few weeks ago, hosted at a century-old Victorian mansion repurposed into a group home for artists and weirdos. If your social media feed were any indication, the proclamation that the best days of the City were

I live on the top floor of a building constructed in 1914. To put that in context, Russia still had a Tsar when my building went up. Because it’s old and wooden, it shakes and sways. When a big truck goes by I can often feel the rumble. When they

Sandwiched between a cafe and a cupcake shop on San Pablo is an unassuming shop called A Verb For Keeping Warm (“A Verb” or AVFKW for short). From the outside, it looks like your typical yarn and fabric shop but behind the doors resides two of the Bay Area’s most

Since 1985, Costco has offered a hotdog meal for $1.50. Adjusted for inflation a dog and soda should actually cost around $4 today, but Costco has vowed to never change the price.  The Costco founder Jim Senegal once famously told CEO Craig Jelinek: “If you raise the [price of the]

Brian Enright is a working artist and sculptor who creates artwork out of unconventional recycled materials. He designs work that helps you see the connection between yourself and the natural world; objects that start a conversation. Through my interview with him, you’ll learn where he gets his materials (via an

  WRITTEN BY: HABIBI BRIDGES  It’s kitten season! Shelters all over the country have been overflowing with new adorable little kittens (and pups, of course)–and while that is heartwarming of course, there’s a darker side to the situation that people tend to forget about. Every eight seconds, a cat or

This may come as somewhat of a shock, but before attending Balboa Theater’s showing of Tommy Wiseau’s infamously bad,  The Room,  I had never seen the film. I was aware of Tommy Wiseau as a meme, and figured if a film was so bad that the story of how it was

On the surface, hybrid work environments feel like a compromise. A mix of in-person meetings and a remote zoom work environment. Office snacks, face time, a change in environment, in-person connection, hallway conversations, and free lunch – are all things we’d get if we were back in the office. Sounds