Guest post by Kelley Cutler Human Rights Organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness I woke up that morning to a call from a woman who was living in a tent on the street. Through her tears I could hear the muffled voices of San Francisco police coming through the phone, telling

  Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Laura Gibson grew up in a small isolated logging town called Coquille, in the South Coast region of Oregon, the daughter of the town’s kindergarten teacher and a forest ranger. Since the release of 2009’s Beasts of Season, which NPR called “nothing short of a masterpiece” and Mojo

If you follow this site you probably believe in social justice and civil rights, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck. This Thursday City Lights Bookstore is hosting the release party for Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, a book that might be one of the most important works on

Ask a Tenants’ Rights Lawyer is your chance to learn how to survive as a renter in San Francisco. Attorney Daniel Wayne has a lot of the information you need to keep you in your home. This month’s topic: How to deal with mold growth in your apartment. For more

Hotel taxes in San Francisco were created to fund the arts, but they’ve been stripped away over the last decade. The San Francisco Arts and Families Funding Ordinance just launched a campaign for a new ballot measure that would take those funds back for arts and homelessness initiatives. But first we need 9.5k signatures to get on the ballot in November!

  The Chapel presents a fresh fun Independence Day weekend celebration: SPIRIT FORWARD! This throwdown goes day & night, indoors & outdoors, featuring exquisite beats in The Chapel’s main hall, and a 2-channel HUSHcast silent disco in the newly renovated outdoor lot, plus ArtCars, Midway Games, crafty libations, and The

“So you’re Mark?” a guy I didn’t know said to a guy I was talking to. “I know we’ve met before.” “I don’t think we have,” he replied, “since my name’s Peter.” “I don’t know why I didn’t remember that,” the first guy said, embarrassed. “You have to hear the

This was written and sent in by an anonymous person. Read any tech blog and you’ll definitely stumble upon an article about coding camps teaching unlikely candidates to become brilliant programmers.  In just a few short months, you will learn JavaScript and/or Ruby on Rails or iOS, JQuery, API’s, HTML,