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06 Mar 2023

How Saying “I Love You” to Strangers on the Bus Can Change Your Life

If you’re feeling bad about people, try taking a city bus and, one by one, look at everyone for a few seconds. While looking at them, whisper ever so quietly under your breath, “I love you.” Try to see if you can actually feel it.

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06 Mar 2023

What I Learned From Traveling Cross Country on Amtrak

Prologue A few days ago I took a cross country train excursion from New York City to Norman, Oklahoma. The events leading up to the trip are varied, and frankly, none of your business. But for transparency sake two main points forced me to do this: my mother’s rapidly declining

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03 Mar 2023

A Taco Competition Supporting Women’s Rights: My Taco, My Choice

This coming Taco Tuesday, March 7th, there will be a chef taco competition featuring up to 12 women chefs from the Bay Area at Merkado in SOMA. The event is called “My Taco, My Choice” and it will benefit The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Competing chefs will create

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03 Mar 2023

Che Fico Creates a Scholarship For Patrons to Enjoy Their Restaurant

Chef David Nayfeld & Matt Brewer of Che Fico in San Francisco made a special announcement on Social Media today which has foodies excited about the future of the food industry. In a letter to friends and patrons, they announced a special scholarship fund for patrons who may want to

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03 Mar 2023

The Most Obscure Secret Library in San Francisco: The Whybrary

In The Mission, situated on the corner of 14th Street at Woodward, you may see a small pink neon “why?” sign hung in the window of an unassuming apartment building. Like a bat signal, the “why?” sign is a not-so-subtle sign to say you’ve reached the library. To enter into

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03 Mar 2023

Women-Owned Businesses we Love in The East Bay

GUEST POST BY NICOLE SKI You know how sometimes you see something and it says National Margarita Day, National First Born Day? I recently discovered March 8 is International Women’s Day and that the month of March is International Women’s Month. International Women’s Month has been celebrated since 1911, yes

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02 Mar 2023

San Francisco’s ‘Bucket Man’ has Died at Age 64

Whether you recognize the name “Bucket Man’ or not, you’ll definitely recognize what he sounded like.  For decades Larry “The Bucket Man” Hunt played drums, buckets, pots, and frying pans downtown San Francisco, usually near the Powell Street Bart entrances, you know, where the Westfield Centre, Bart station, and the

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