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FBI Raids Trump’s Mar A Lago Residence
BY HABIBI BRIDGES Things are becoming increasingly dicey for Donald Trump. On Monday, the FBI exercised a search warrant for former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an investigation regarding the handling of classified presidential documents that may have been present at the property. Trump

“Hella Feminist” Debuts at Oakland Museum of California
BY NAVYA POTHAMSETTY If you dug through the Oakland Museum of California’s archives, you would probably find material ranging from the sublime to the completely bizarre. One of the more odd finds in recent years was a poster featuring what one curator thought to be a rotary phone dial: it was

Artist You Should Know: THAILAN WHEN
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. BY NAVYA POTHAMSETTY If you’ve ever enjoyed coffee or a bike repair at Luckyduck Bicycle Cafe, you’ve probably noticed

By Appointing Brooke Jenkins, Mayor Breed is the Real Winner of the Boudin Recall
By Ian Firstenberg In a year, Mayor London Breed has effectively insulated herself and consolidated her political power through a series of influential appointments, most recently appointing Brooke Jenkins to succeed the recently recalled Chesa Boudin. Jenkins, the face of the Boudin recall, was sworn in as San Francisco’s new

STRANGELY STRANGE: The Mr. Chi Pig Story
Kendall “Mr. Chi Pig” Chinn was a hell of a dude. Punk Rocker, skate boarder, visual artist, singer/songwriter, and most of all, greatly loved around the world. Something about the power that he brought to the stage, the crazy antics, if you saw Chi at a show, you knew there was going to be a story to bring home.

5 Things About San Francisco That Confuse a Midwesterner
Nothing could have prepared me for the contrast between the San Francisco lifestyle and that of my humdrum Michigan background. Here are five noticeable differences I’ve seen between San Franciscans and Midwesterners.

Now That Everybody Left, I Love SF More Than Ever
By Jeremy Kuempel “San Francisco is DEAD” read the headline of a party a few weeks ago, hosted at a century-old Victorian mansion repurposed into a group home for artists and weirdos. If your social media feed were any indication, the proclamation that the best days of the City were

Why You Should Cut Off Your Cat’s Balls
WRITTEN BY: HABIBI BRIDGES It’s kitten season! Shelters all over the country have been overflowing with new adorable little kittens (and pups, of course)–and while that is heartwarming of course, there’s a darker side to the situation that people tend to forget about. Every eight seconds, a cat or