On 7 August 2025, the Trump regime announced that products from the European Union, Japan and South Korea would be subject to tariff rates of at least ten percent. Specifically, goods from the European Union, Japan and South Korea will be taxed at 15%, while imports from Taiwan, Vietnam and Bangladesh will

Float On by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor Who else is in need of a vacation?? I’d settle for a beach day. Just a little time away from the same old day-in, day-out. A water cleansing. Soul recharge. That’s on this week’s to-do list, for sure! There’s also plenty

Starting Monday, an additional 8,000 San Francisco city employees began shuffling back into the office at least four days a week as part of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s crusade to bring “pre-pandemic normal” back to a downtown that now resembles a very expensive ghost mall. Restaurants near City Hall are practically

We Wanna Send You to See BATS GPT: The Improvised AI Experiment on a Saturday in September! Welcome to BATS GPT, a one-of-a-kind long form improv experience where LIVE creativity meets AI! Each performance begins with ChatGPT setting the opening scene inspired by audience suggestions. The cast then dives headfirst into a

The news of a legendary dive bar is always heartbreaking, but this one hurts a bit more. If you were in your 20s or 30s in San Francisco at any point from the late 90s to the early 2010s, and somebody could’ve called you a “hipster”, then you most likely

Prelude Billionaires have spent decades yearning to own the West Coast’s crown jewel, plotting and pouring money into defeating progressive politics in San Francisco. Now they traipse through the gold-adorned doors of City Hall on the regular, entertained by their billionaire buddy at the helm of The City’s titanic wealth.

President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington D.C.’s Metro Police Department and the deployment of the National Guard to the capital in response to an assault on a former government operative, while crime rates in the cities he condemned have actually decreased.

So, you’re broke but still want to stay fit, learn new things, and have fun while you’re at it? Good news! San Francisco is packed with free opportunities, from dance and lawn bowling to chess, sketching classes, writing workshops, and career skill-building. Here’s your click-and-go cheat sheet for free fitness,