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The Challenges for Women of Color in Tech
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, or anywhere on earth for that matter, you’re no doubt privy to the ongoing and all too urgent conversations surrounding diversity in tech — or more specifically, the egregious lack thereof.

The Greatest Communal Meals Around the World
Food really matters. It’s the only thing that brings us all together and keeps us both sustained and happy (and no, love doesn’t do that). In fact, food and meals are so important, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a culture that doesn’t have at least one example of a communal

We’ve got a free book to giveaway by Genea Barnes: Ghost Bikes!
A white-painted bicycle leans, locked to a post a few feet away from the spot where a car struck and killed a bicyclist. Flowers decorate the abandoned bike, a visible reminder that life is fragile. Don’t forget me: Ghost Bikes, A Photographic Memorial by Genea Barnes This is a

Baking Muffins For the Homeless in SF
On National Muffin day, January 31st, I try to get as many people as possible around the world to bake muffins and give them to homeless folks. #givemuffins

What it Meant to Grow up in San Francisco
At the Corner of 12th and Fulton Guest Post by Holden Taylor Photography by Toby Silverman I remember Turtle Hill somewhere off Funston and how we sat, fifteen years old, on green-painted benches at its peak, overlooking Marin and the bridge if the fog let; how we sat bundled in sweatshirts

D-Structure to Close in Lower Haight
Graphic t-shirt & hoodie store D-Structure (newly DSF) will close it’s Lower Haight store front February 1st. DSF has held cool parties and events in its store since 2006, and they’ve sold a lot of designs by local San Francisco Artists. A recent rent hike is blamed for the closure.

Top of the Mark: Where All of SF’s Ghost Still Live
This originally appeared in my Weeknighter column for 7×7. When you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, your personal history becomes a residue on every block you pass. Over there is the restaurant you worked in when you first moved to The City. Around the corner is the bar you spent too