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Why I Love SF City Clinic
SF City Clinic knows you’re a competent, sexually active person. If you aren’t, they’ll kindly show you how to change that. Angelic humans work there. Where public education dropped the ball on sexual education, City Clinic picks it up. They anticipate your awkwardness, gently encouraging you to ask about anything.

What the Monkeypox Outbreak Means for You
Monkeypox is here, and it’s making us forget the most shaping factor of our lives: we are all reflections of each other. Who we are and what we make represents our ideas of what is well and unwell. How we see ourselves and how we feel about our health creates

5 Things About San Francisco That Confuse a Midwesterner
Nothing could have prepared me for the contrast between the San Francisco lifestyle and that of my humdrum Michigan background. Here are five noticeable differences I’ve seen between San Franciscans and Midwesterners.

Decades of Subversive Art : Guy Colwell
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists 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. Artist Name: Guy Colwell Born: Oakland CA, 1945 Exhibit: 111 Minna, Opening July 14 There’s a good chance

Now That Everybody Left, I Love SF More Than Ever
By Jeremy Kuempel “San Francisco is DEAD” read the headline of a party a few weeks ago, hosted at a century-old Victorian mansion repurposed into a group home for artists and weirdos. If your social media feed were any indication, the proclamation that the best days of the City were

Want to Make Change? Move to a Red State.
This is part of our Blue Woman in a Red State column I’m seeing so much sadness, anger and outrage in light of the highest court in the land overturning Roe v Wade. People are once again, threatening to move to Bluer States, or even out of the United States.

Hearing Your Neighbors Bang is Part of Living in San Francisco
I live on the top floor of a building constructed in 1914. To put that in context, Russia still had a Tsar when my building went up. Because it’s old and wooden, it shakes and sways. When a big truck goes by I can often feel the rumble. When they