Like a lot of other streets — Geary, Bryant, McCoppin, Bartlett — Van Ness Avenue is named for a 19th century mayor of San Francisco. James Van Ness was the seventh head of the city government, but he served for only a year and a week, from July 1856 until

Upon first seeing ‘LAUNDRÉ’ opening on Mission st a couple of years ago, I have to admit I was confused.   First by what language the name “LAUNDRÉ’ is supposed to be in.  It’s not Spanish or English, it kind of sounds French but it’s not…the owner’s name is ‘Arianna Roviello’,

By Benjamin Steele The new brutalist future is here, and it’s coming in the form of ‘robot sentries’.  I would have expected to start an article about cruelty to homeless people by talking about a big law firm, tech company, or some sort of mustachioed villain petting a robotic cat. But

On Halloween, a startup employee put up an art installation in Dolores Park to honor crappy companies that had gone out of business this year.  The faux gravestones had painfully shitty companies like ‘Juciero’ and ‘Yik Yak’ painted on them, I suppose to remind people how  short sighted and stupid

It was a beautiful day to march around and squash fascist ideology in San Francisco.  While the much touted white supremacists cowered in their hotel rooms and presumably in their meth labs, San Franciscans rallied and marched all over our city in the name of love, equality, and human rights. There were

This article is brought to you by the fine folks at SF’s Community Music Center, providing music for everyone since 1921. Enrollment for Fall classes just opened up! Do you sing in the shower? Tap beats on your knee?  Do you wish you could sit down at any piano and

The artists at Workspace Limited Art Studios have been priced out after 13 years.  Yet another creative space for working artists has been sold to the highest bidder in the Mission.  In the words of the Cultural Space Coalition: “Sadly, this update announces that Sharon and Flora’s studio building is CLOSING! Unfortunately,