San Francisco

Help Fight Homelessness at the St. Francis Homelessness Challenge
With it being this cold and wet outside I can’t help but think about our homeless neighbors who are sleeping in the streets. City Hall doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it, but luckily some people are being proactive. Read the press release below and get involved: On January 2,

All Over Coffee By Paul Madonna
THE EVICTION SERIES
CHAPTER 13
I woke up to darkness and a headache. I could hear a man and a woman having a heated conversation and the air smelled heavily of incense and Patchouli.

Titties and Fried Chicken at the Gold Club
“Come on Stuart. Titties and fried chicken. How can you, of all people, say no?”
They were cajoling me via Twitter. There’s probably some hip slang for that, twijoling maybe, but I don’t know what it is. Regardless, Mik, Ed, Dottie, and Cait were really giving it to me. And of course I caved.

12 Christmas Gifts for Writers
This piece originally appeared, in part, at DalyProse.com Writers are hard to shop for. Our tools are simple but we can be hopelessly picky about them–I don’t know how many wide-ruled legal pads I’ve re-gifted–we already have all the books, and the things we really want you might not be

Things to Do in San Francisco on a Rainy Day
If the weather people are right, we are gonna have ton of rain this year. This is obviously much needed because of that whole terrifying drought thing that could possibly destroy California forever.

All Over Coffee By Paul Madonna
The Eviction Series
Chapter 12
It was my birthday and I went to North Beach. I just wanted to forget that that the city was changing faster than I could keep up. To draw something nice and take myself out to a dinner of spaghetti and wine.

Tips for Traveling on a Budget in 2016
This is something my friend Keyatta Shade wrote as a Facebook post that we’ve decided to turn into an article. It’s damn good advice. You can stay on top of what Keyatta’s up to by signing up for his awesome email list Key’s List. My close friends know I chose

Men with “Holiday Beards” is Now a Thing
This amazing and beautifully ridiculous project was conceived, art-directed, and written by Katie Nash and photographed by Anna-Alexia Basile. It is fantastic! Happy Holi-Dudes! The word on the street is that the beard ‘trend’ is on it’s way out, but it seems the look is still hanging on, literally, to hipster chins all