Editor’s note: We highlight Bay Area artists, makers, writers and creative people 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. Could it be that it’s the people that make this place so special? Looking

If you managed to make it to the de Young Open you might have spied Lauren Jade Szabo’s painting, To Make an End is to Make a Beginning ( I Paint Therefore I Am). This hardworking artist shows all over the Bay Area and beyond. Bright colors painted on canvas

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

We’re so lucky to be surrounded by so many talented people in The Bay Area. A few months ago, my friend and I met up at Urban Putt in the mission and nearly the exact moment she arrived she told me of someone I needed to know, Tony Leo. My