Guest post by Breanna Reeves  Approximately one year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the 2nd annual Women’s March emphasized the importance of voting by encouraging attendees to take their power to the polls. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti estimated that 500,000 attendees showed up in support of women’s rights, intersectionality and

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

#1 Join 800,000 other people for the famous and FREE Ball Drop in Times Square.  But before you hurry over there, here´s some advice – get there EARLY, bring food and dress warmly – you´re going to be there for a while.  And there are NO bathrooms. If the sound

Happy Cinco de Margaritayo! Or Mayo, whatever. To most, today is a day to get unapologetically drunk on tequila. To few, it is a day to pay homage to Mexico’s Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican army defeated invading French forces from conquering the state of

Halloween is a liberating holiday in general. It let’s you be whoever you want for one day (or whole weekend) whether that’s a slut, a freak, or the undead, it’s up to you.  Now add to that the freedom to ride around the city at night on bike with your

You know that huge herd of bicyclists take over streets every month, ringing their little high-pitched bells at you to get out of the crosswalk when it’s not your turn to walk and looking like a PG version of the Hells Angels? I have always thought they were SO annoying…

As human existence goes on, I’m continually fascinated by the objects people put into vending machines. Candy bars, hot sandwiches, coffee, ice cream bars delivered by vacuum tubes, used women’s underwear, iPods, etc. But Traif Bike Gesheft’s shop installed a vending machine that sells bike parts, and I’m willing to

When hooligans ripped out the foam from my bike seat and bent my front wheel, I was so full of fury that I didn’t even try to think of a nicer adjective than ‘œfucked.’ But then a Time’s Up! volunteer told me that my wheel had been ‘œTacoed.’ Time’s Up!