San Francisco

11 Nov 2024

My Daniel Lurie Wishlist

Daniel Lurie, the Mayor-elect of San Francisco, has a lot of problems to solve, including reversing the Tenderloin policy, rolling back policies that punish city residents, and making city streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

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06 Nov 2024

I Didn’t Cry in the Bar When Trump Won This Time 

Despite the disappointment of Trump’s victory, the we must continue to fight for the rights of working class people and push back against their exploitation by corporations and billionaires, as the GOP has already taken the White House and the Senate and is planning to take the House of Representatives.

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05 Nov 2024

Why California’s Election Results May Take Weeks to Finalize

California’s statewide elections often take several weeks to be finalized, with the 2024 primary results not being called until two weeks after the election, and the 2022 general election not being called until December 2.

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05 Nov 2024

California Companies Wrote Their Own Gig Worker Law. Now No One Is Enforcing It

California’s Industrial Relations Department has stated that it does not have jurisdiction to handle Prop. 22-related wage claims, leaving the state attorney general to enforce the law, which mandates better wages and benefits for gig workers.

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31 Oct 2024

Impressions of Mary Cassatt’s 93 Works in San Francisco

These women are neither sexualized objects or symbolically placed on a pedestal of virtue. They are simply living their life. Fierce experimentation and subtle challenges to societal norms such as the “Modern Madonnas” series pepper the show. This exhibition gave me a new understanding and respect for Mary Cassatt.

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27 Oct 2024

Zeitgeist Bartender Killed In Crash

In October 2023, a driver nearly killed me. The scene of my death would’ve been O’Farrell and Divisadero Streets. I was 33 years old, an aspiring professor, and I was in love. My friends from work were expecting me. I crossed O’Farrell heading south on Divisadero maybe an hour after

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27 Oct 2024

SF City Hall Clerks Go On Strike

Frustrations of overworked and undertrained clerks at San Francisco City Hall reached a boiling point last week. Officials had approximately a month to honor requests for updated training and more courtroom space. Two weeks ago, the unionized workers authorized a strike. Clerks held a protest outside City Hall on Thursday,

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24 Oct 2024

Des Bishop Does Viral Comedy, in Chinese

If you’ve ever lived abroad, the comedy of globe-trotting Desmond ‘Des’ Bishop will strike a chord. Despite having the perhaps the blackest sounding name in comedy, Bishop looks like John Slattery from Mad Men, and talks with a Queens NY accent, in an Irish cadence. Bishop was born in Queens,

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