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STRANGELY STRANGE: The Mr. Chi Pig Story
Kendall “Mr. Chi Pig” Chinn was a hell of a dude. Punk Rocker, skate boarder, visual artist, singer/songwriter, and most of all, greatly loved around the world. Something about the power that he brought to the stage, the crazy antics, if you saw Chi at a show, you knew there was going to be a story to bring home.

4 Things That Will Straight Up Piss Your Server Off
There are a few ways that you may inadvertently upset your server without even knowing it, so try not to do these four things.

San Francisco’s ‘Obama’ French Dip Sandwich
LITTLE FRENCH PIGGY SANDWICH REVIEWS: At least once a week I take a walk or ride my bike to a different San Francisco eatery for lunch. I’ve been doing this on and off for about 15 years now. The only rules are that the place must be locally owned AND must feed a full-sized, french piggy for under $20.

Why I Love SF City Clinic
SF City Clinic knows you’re a competent, sexually active person. If you aren’t, they’ll kindly show you how to change that. Angelic humans work there. Where public education dropped the ball on sexual education, City Clinic picks it up. They anticipate your awkwardness, gently encouraging you to ask about anything.

5 Things About San Francisco That Confuse a Midwesterner
Nothing could have prepared me for the contrast between the San Francisco lifestyle and that of my humdrum Michigan background. Here are five noticeable differences I’ve seen between San Franciscans and Midwesterners.

Decades of Subversive Art : Guy Colwell
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Artist Name: Guy Colwell Born: Oakland CA, 1945 Exhibit: 111 Minna, Opening July 14 There’s a good chance

Now That Everybody Left, I Love SF More Than Ever
By Jeremy Kuempel “San Francisco is DEAD” read the headline of a party a few weeks ago, hosted at a century-old Victorian mansion repurposed into a group home for artists and weirdos. If your social media feed were any indication, the proclamation that the best days of the City were

Hearing Your Neighbors Bang is Part of Living in San Francisco
I live on the top floor of a building constructed in 1914. To put that in context, Russia still had a Tsar when my building went up. Because it’s old and wooden, it shakes and sways. When a big truck goes by I can often feel the rumble. When they