San Francisco

Meet The Woman They Call ‘San Francisco’s Cruelest Landlord’
We sat down for an interview with Anne Kihagi, who has been dubbed “San Francisco’s Cruelest Landlord” in the local media. Kihagi has been in the headlines for being slapped with a $3.5 million wrongful eviction fine reported as the “largest [ever] in a single-unit landlord-tenant case not involving personal

SF Artist & Lyricist Collaborate on New ‘Part of Me’ Music Vid
The new ‘Part of Me’ music video from San Francisco lyricist Hazel Rose has just hit the interwebs and it’s pretty rad. There are all kinds of nods to San Francisco in there—from eyeballs creeping on the Muni bus, joyriding across the Bay Bridge to the Robin Williams Tunnel. The
Conservative Billionaires Aim to Defund Public Schools in the Bay Area
When your organization is called Innovate Public Schools but your mission is to siphon money from public schools to build charter schools, you aren’t being too “innovative”.

Can Tech Actually Help Get out the Vote?
By Full Circle Fund Rising Leader – Aiasha Khalid How’s The News treating you today? If you are getting exhausted of the goings on and the barrage of information and headlines, good news, the midterms are coming! Regardless of your politics, these are clearly an important moment in American electoral

BAS Poetry: San Francisco Sunday Morning
Broke-Ass Stuart is now accepting poetry submissions to be featured in the BAS Poetry: Arts & Culture column. Written & curated by Corinne Avganim. It’s Easter Sunday morning. My feeds are full of beautiful babies fumbling around their first egg hunts and the cafes are full of grown adults wearing pink

It Was The Biggest Hunky Jesus Competition in History
Never before in history have more Jesusses been present in one place, during Easter resurrection. There were almost too many to name. There was Refu-Jesus, Puerto Rican Refugee-Jesus, Jesus Christ Super Star, Drunk Jesus, Crucified Bunny Jesus, Shower Jesus, Sweet Jesus, Water into Wine Jesus, Old Jesus, New Jesus, and two ‘cheesuses’ (which is when you have two Christs and you decorate them with cheese).

On Creating a Better Future for the Tenderloin & SoMa
Matt Haney stops in and tells us his ideas for helping the homeless and his vision for the Tenderloin and SoMA.

Local Film Makers Explore the Perils of the Sharing Economy in Man’s Best Friend
This Tuesday marks the start of the 16th Annual Oakland International Film Festival. Screenings will take place at four different venues throughout the city, including Oakland City Hall and the beautiful Grand Lake Theater. One, of roughly a dozen movies to be featured at Oakland’s crown jewel venue this year,