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MUNI To Make Long Overdue Improvements
Over the next eighteen months, San Francisco plans to eliminate parking spots blocking almost 1,200 MUNI stops. SFMTA Board of Directors determined each stop should have twenty feet of clearance or more for boarding. At certain stops across the city, riders must sometimes squeeze between parked cars to board a

Oakland’s Starline Social Club is Closing
One of Oakland’s coolest venues has announced that it is closing down. On Saturday, Starline Social Club posted to its 21,000 Instagram followers that January 1st would be its final day. As they said in the post,”We are sad to announce that Starline Social Club is going up for sale and

Beetlejuice – The Musical, The Musical, The Musical is in San Francisco
If you are expecting a dutiful, yet musical, retelling of the beloved cult classic, it’s not going to happen. Instead, we get an irreverent, hilarious adaption with the titular character (played by Justin Collette) breaking the fourth wall immediately and keeping the audience intrigued. He teases, makes amazingly crude observations, prances and sleazes his way through the show in the most lovable of ways.

This is What Servers Want For the Holidays
What your server actually wants for the holidays.

San Francisco’s Love Affair With Fernet & Why
In nearly a decade of bartending all over San Francisco, I’ve had my fair share and then some.
And for many who work behind the bar in this town, it is often the shot of choice. Fernet delivers a punch of complex flavor as an invigorating stimulus in an over-stimulated environment.

How Inflation has Impacted Cost of Basic Goods in US
For 25 basic grocery items, current and historical data was collected using Keepa, which monitors the price of nearly 1 billion products on Amazon in the U.S. Pricing data was collected for Nov. 18, 2021, and compared to the price of the same item on Nov. 18, 2022.

Elon Musk Faces Even More Trouble at Twitter HQ
In every direction he looks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces a bevy of unenviable troubles. His albatross, Twitter, is reportedly losing $4 million per day. Meanwhile, building inspectors found impromptu living quarters on the eighth floor of their San Francisco headquarters. Former employees are taking legal action against him. Rumors

Can The Drought Teach Us About San Francisco’s Housing Crisis?
I’m sure you’ve seen the weather lately. It’s been raining on and off since mid-November. Soaking rains washed over the Bay Area these past couple weekends, reminiscent of wet seasons past. Forecasters say another storm system should move in this Friday. It is hoped this seemingly plentiful rainfall will reduce