I may still be hungover from the year plus lockdown in San Francisco, but I love taking the MUNI downtown. I’m a bit romantic when it comes to walking down my block, unconcerned if I’m going to catch it or miss it. Granted, I’m not doing it every day, and

“This is going to give a lot of parents peace of mind,” said Dr. Norma Perez, a pediatrician and medical director of AltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles. “We’re 20 months into this pandemic, and this is a really important step to get us back to a state of normalcy.”

Facebook famously rebranded this week, bringing all of its acquired properties like Instagram, Whatsapp, and  Occulus under the same umbrella brand called ‘Meta’.   A bit like what ‘Alphabet’ is to Google, only somehow much more toxic. The ‘Meta’ promotional videos were blasted around the internet and starred Mark Zuckerberg, doing

Shitty public infrastructure is something that we in the Bay Area have gotten used to. Whether it’s concrete blocks falling from above on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, large gaps in our public transportation network or power lines that regularly create fiery deathstorms; we’ve generally accepted that taxpayer funded projects in

Street artist (and often times prankster) Banksy, famously rigged a stencil of his to shred itself in case it was ever resold.  And it did just that directly after being auctioned off in London in 2018.  You can watch a video of the auction, once the gavel came down and

The Controversy  There has been tremendous backlash in the  LGBTQ communities, as well as an unnerving silence from a range of Comedians in regards to the heated controversy around Dave Chapelle’s latest Comedy special The Closer.  Where is the appropriate line in “comedy” — from low brow humor to the

Lynsi Snyder is a fascinating character, one part Paris Hilton, one part Stephanie McMahon, and one part born-again hellraiser.  Snyder’s been married four times, had four children, opened dozens of restaurants, started a band, a non-profit focused on addiction,  and successfully evaded two kidnapping attempts, all before the age of 40.

It all began here in Oakland 55 years ago: the rise of what would become a global movement for equal civil rights under the law, for oppressed brothers and sisters of every stripe. With a “radical” idea of what equality looks like and a 10-point platform, the Black Panther Party