In Alex Mak’s Architecture Series Part 2 (see part 1 here), we explore the popular new guessing game called “Housing Development OR Giant Air-Conditioner?” This is where San Franciscans walk around the city and try to decide if the new structures going up are actual condominiums or simply large industrial air conditioners.

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

We all heard it. The Supreme Court ruling on the Hobby Lobby case angered more people than the ending of How I Met Your Mother. The penis wrinkles on the bench favored on the side of the “closely held” corporations.

I was gonna jokingly say “There’s nothing more gangster than finance” but realized it’s actually true in terms of world economics  The folks over at the 1:AM Gallery are absolute geniuses. Levi Strauss saw that the way to capitalize on the original gold rush was to outfit the people working the mines.

Remember that rad giveaway a little while ago where we gave out a $100 gift card for Oaklandish? Well we’re at it again with their other clothing line therethere. As they cheekily put it, not everyone is lucky enough to call Oakland home, so they’ve decided to print awesome shirts for SF,

I’ve got 5 copies of Shane Kuhn’s new thriller The Intern’s Handbook to giveaway. They will be hardcover and signed! Also, in related news, the book has just been optioned to be turned into a film. The synopsis of the book is below and below that you can enter to

Ride Scout is donating $1 from each download so that I can do things like pay hosting fees and buy myself underwear that doesn’t have holes in it! While there’s currently a ton of options of ways to get around your town, it’s hard to know which one will get

A still from last year’s Thanksgiving Unless he went out for cigarettes and never came back, your dad is one of the top five most important people in your life (somewhere in the mix with mom, Elvis, and Nicholas Cage). Have you ever heard the maxim, “I brought you into