We wondered what it would be like for a young and plucky Elf to try and make it in modern day San Francisco. So, meet Chad, an ambitious Elf who moves to ‘the big city’ to seek his fortune.

For the broke and destitute to the rich and showy, for the rabbis and non touchy priests, for punks and investment bankers,  we’ll… not really for the fucking bankers.  Here is the greatest holiday gift guide you’ve seen today…maybe, or like that you’ve seen in the last 15 minutes.  We

The word ‘innovative’ is typically over used in the bay area, in this case it actually applies. ‘DJ Real’ uses a combination of technology and sound that keeps you laughing while at the same time wondering ‘how is he doing that?’ It’s an act that leverages both comedy and nerd power, he plays several electronic instruments, utilizes pre-loaded sound bites and dialogue, while working the crowd and weaving in traditional jokes as well.

THE EVICTION SERIES
CHAPTER 10
I hit the street angry. I didn’t want to be, but the more I tried to let it go, the angrier I became. A guy was passed out on the sidewalk. As I walked around him, I looked at his shoeless rotting feet and the can of beer in his hand and tried to tell myself that life is full of problems, and that what matters most is not the injustice we feel, but how we comport ourselves in the face of it.

Pancho sat down next to me at the bar, and nodded with a seriousness usually reserved for marine corp officers about to go into battle.  He raised one arm and shouted, “Bartender…you’re finest tequila please.” In reality Pancho is quite the opposite of a soldier.  His hair is long, he’s wearing a blue

  Literary spaces—the kind that make you feel at home, make you forget you’re in the middle of a major urban jungle, the kind that speak womb to musty pages to ink and weathered paper—are hard to find these days. We felt it necessary to carve out such a space

The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights local artists in the NYC and Bay Area.  It’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep these cities strange and wonderful places.  Meet SF native Alberto Ybarra. Ybarra is a native San Franciscan who grew up skateboarding and hanging out in

We’re calling it the most polite ‘smack talk’ in sports ball history.  49ers fans (Graham Grealish, Mark Scannell, Conor McGuire) to name a few, started a GoFundMe.com campaign to call out 49ers owner Jed York for doing a terrible job as owner and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers.  Their crowd funded banner flew over Levi’s