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22 Sep 2020

Disgraceful New Gig Economy App Wants To Be ‘Uber, But For Evicting People’

Rents are going down and there is an eviction moratorium in place, so you’d think things would be pretty slow in the eviction department right now. But some ruthless landlords are flouting the law and performing evictions anyway, and Vice reports on a phenomenally cruel new app that they call

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22 Sep 2020

Desperate SF Landlords Offering ‘Three Months Free’ As Rents Plummet

The Great San Francisco Rent Reduction we’ve long dreamed of has finally arrived, though it took a global pandemic, record unemployment, and the loss of thousands of local businesses to do it. The San Francisco Business Times reports that San Francisco rents are plummeting, and 40% of SF landlords have

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22 Sep 2020

COVID-19 Folsom Street Fair Still Has Full ‘Leather Week’ Of Rad Online Events

It’s LEATHER WEEK, BABY. But the Folsom Street Fair celebration is all online this year, so you are probably not going to hook up or get any action. Sunday’s official Folsom Street Fair livestream features Margaret Cho and other notables, but amazing and sexy underground haps are happening online all

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21 Sep 2020

How to Make Virtual Festivals Way Better

Burning Man went virtual this year, and we all learned a lot in a hurry. It wasn’t the first festival to go all-online (Outside Inside Lands streamed on Twitch this year, and Glastonbury’s Shangri La went virtual as Lost Horizon), but virtual Burning Man certainly raised the bar for sheer size and audacity. Sure, there were performances, but Burning Man and events like it are about exploring places, art, and people. It’s close, but not there yet for me.

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21 Sep 2020

SF Dispensary CEO’s Alleged ‘F*ck Black Lives Matter’ Tirade Gets Shop Graffitied As Racist

Mission District cannabis dispensary MediThrive found itself in hot water this weekend — and also coated with a giant graffiti tag calling them “RACIST” — after a viral pro-Trump and “fuck BLM” (Black Lives Matter) private social media post allegedly posted by the dispensary’s founder and CEO Misha Breyburg was

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18 Sep 2020

All The Reprehensible Things Joe Biden Has Done

With the election around the corner it’s important to know who you’re voting for. That’s why I’ve put together this list of all the terrible things that Biden has done that you might not have heard about. Make sure you send it to all the other patriots you know. If

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18 Sep 2020

Artist Nishant Malhotra Brings the Concept of ‘Ego Death’ into the 21st Century

Ego Death or ‘ego dead,’ which is artist Nishant Malhotra‘s username on Instagram, is a concept with a special resonance in the Bay Area. While other Bay Area natives associate this concept with the ’70s counterculture movement or techies trying to flaunt their newly-found SF enlightenment, Nishant is inspired by

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