Does Redbull give you wings? I’m not really sure, but it certainly appears to give certain people wing-like abilities. San Francisco woke up Saturday morning expecting fog, overpriced lattes, and maybe a naked guy on a unicycle. Instead, the Bay Bridge got skated like a giant Tony Hawk ramp from

Starting Monday, an additional 8,000 San Francisco city employees began shuffling back into the office at least four days a week as part of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s crusade to bring “pre-pandemic normal” back to a downtown that now resembles a very expensive ghost mall. Restaurants near City Hall are practically

I was speaking on the phone with a friend when he said something profound: “What’s a better expression of American freedom than rejecting your assigned gender at birth and just being whatever you want to be?”  He told me he said that to his conservative cousins in Michigan when they

San Francisco landlords are like the supervillains in horror movies from the 1980s that never seem to die. You think the pandemic was enough to slow them down, but like every good horror villain, they always come back in the sequel, resurrected by a new evil. And in San Francisco, that

The Republican Party has a long history of demonizing drug use and drug users as a political strategy to keep prisons full, and to give the public an enemy other than their actual enemy: the ultra rich.  However, the Trump Administration is taking a different approach. While the Republicans of

Silicon Valley loves solving “problems.” Whether it’s self-driving cars or lab-grown meat, there’s always a startup or a billionaire trying to optimize something. Lately, a handful of tech elites have turned their attention to what they see as the next crisis: not enough babies. This movement, called pro-natalism, is picking

After years of speculation, memes, and late-night Reddit rabbit holes, the FBI and Department of Justice have officially said: there’s no Jeffrey Epstein “client list.” You know — the supposed roster of elite figures who may have participated in or enabled Epstein’s trafficking operation. According to the government, that list

The male loneliness epidemic has been a common topic of discussion since the term was first coined a few years ago. Technology has gone from something that existed on the periphery of society into an unavoidable augmentation that is essentially required to exist in the modern world. The earliest indications