Alex Mak - Managing Editor

A History & Drinking Guide to Polk Gulch
What’s better than a neighborhood drinking guide? A neighborhood drinking guide that also gives you historical facts to drop while you’re drinking. Bellow is a short history of Polk Gulch with links to source material, and bellow that is a list of great bars to visit there, by a veteran

The Sistine Chapel in San Francisco
Not to brag, but I’ve been to the real Sistine Chapel in Vatican city, it is a masterpiece, it is unique to history, and it easily one of humankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Now there’s a traveling exhibit coming to San Francisco and taking place in a ‘mystery location’, tickets

94 Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed in Tenderloin, Suspect in Custody
94-year-old Anh Taylor, a four-decade resident of San Francisco who is of Chinese-Vietnamese descent was stabbed multiple times on Post St. near Leavenworth yesterday, in broad daylight according to SFPD. The stabbing happened around 10:15 a.m in the Tenderloin District. Officers responded to a 911 call and rendered aid to

Supervisor Aaron Peskin Enters Alcohol Treatment Program
In a statement today posted on Aaron Peskin’s social media channels, the Dsictict 3 Supervisor announced that he will “enter into alcohol treatment under the guidance of professionals”, the statement continued to elaborate, “(I) must also take full responsibility for the tenor that I have struck in my public relationships

Community Working to Save SF’s Last Pool Hall, Family Billiards
Billiard halls were hit extremely hard by the pandemic, wiped-out in many cases. Not everyone could set their pool table up outdoors like at the Wooden Nickel this past year, (a great little dive where you can now shoot pool in a parklet outside.) Pool tournaments and billiard culture in

Texas Congressmen Suggests Changing Earth’s Orbit to Combat Climate Change
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Tuesday asked a representative from the U.S. Forest Service if it was possible to alter the orbit of the moon or the Earth as a way of combating climate change…and he wasn’t joking. To be fair to the honorable representative from Texas, it would be really cool,

Artist Kirsten Farr is Taking Over Heron Arts!
She has an incredible color palette and a talent for line work, she also writes and edits articles at Juxtapoz, she’s curated for Facebook’s fancy artist in residency program (FB Air) and has made cool videos at KQED Arts, that kind of make you feel like you’re on drugs.

Artist Makes Cicada Band, Olympic Team, and much more
We’ve heard a lot about cicadas this Spring, their massive numbers, their strange 17 year life cycle, and the incredible sound they make at all hours. But I bet you haven’t heard about they’re band yet. I bet you haven’t seen the Cicada Olympics, or how good little Cicadas went