San Francisco

Oakland Budget Fight Is Not about Money, It’s about ‘Values’
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and team penned out how she thinks Oakland’s financial resources should be budgeted but City Council President Rebecca Kaplan and supporters have different ideas about where the city should, and shouldn’t, spend its cash. As the month-end deadline nears for the city to approve a 2019-2021

How Many of These Weirdo Roommates Have You Lived With?
In part two of the Worst Roommate Search Ever, the interviews for a new roommate in a Mission District rent controlled apartment get even weirder.

I Wanna Mail You Really Strange Postcards
Remember back in February when I sent out the incredibly ridiculous Valentine above? Then remember in May when I sent out the one further below? It’s all part of my Postcards in the Mail program. Everyone who is a member of my Patreon at $6 or above gets strange postcards

Rodney Ewing: Artist You Should Know
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome or while they are doing so. It’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Meet artist Rodney Ewing, a member of the Three Point Nine Collective of African American SF

Is The Slanted Door Still Worth the Hype?
This is one of those places that’s worth a splurge, but lunch and the abbreviated afternoon bar menu are reasonable and filling—you can actually have lunch with tax and tip for under $25 if you play it right (not including drinks).

SF Artists, the 2020 Hearts in San Francisco Project is Looking for You
For you Bay Area painters out there, this is a decent opportunity to get your work seen, for a good cause, AND get paid a bit in the process. SF General Hospital Foundation announced today that submissions are now open for the annual ‘Hearts in San Francisco’ public art project,

SF’s Newest Park Next to an Old Navy Shipyard, What Could go Wrong?
SF’s newest park, in India Basin, located next to the former US military shipyard, an area fraught with a history of cancer causing toxic soil.

The Lede: When News, Food and Booze Collide…in Oakland
There’s a transforming space in Oakland that may not call itself a pub but will function more like actual public houses of years past than any other place around. Pubs were once places where people gathered for much more than a pint and warm meal. They were community centers in