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Celebrate 40 Years of Rent Control in San Francisco!
Most broke-ass San Franciscans know that the San Francisco Tenants Union helps thousands of folks every year with volunteers counseling tenants six days a week. What you might not know is that the Tenants Union also fights for stronger protections at City Hall, and at the ballot box.
Rodney Ewing: Artist You Should Know
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome or while they are doing so. It’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Meet artist Rodney Ewing, a member of the Three Point Nine Collective of African American SF
Is The Slanted Door Still Worth the Hype?
This is one of those places that’s worth a splurge, but lunch and the abbreviated afternoon bar menu are reasonable and filling—you can actually have lunch with tax and tip for under $25 if you play it right (not including drinks).
SF Artists, the 2020 Hearts in San Francisco Project is Looking for You
For you Bay Area painters out there, this is a decent opportunity to get your work seen, for a good cause, AND get paid a bit in the process. SF General Hospital Foundation announced today that submissions are now open for the annual ‘Hearts in San Francisco’ public art project,
SF’s Newest Park Next to an Old Navy Shipyard, What Could go Wrong?
SF’s newest park, in India Basin, located next to the former US military shipyard, an area fraught with a history of cancer causing toxic soil.
The Lede: When News, Food and Booze Collide…in Oakland
There’s a transforming space in Oakland that may not call itself a pub but will function more like actual public houses of years past than any other place around. Pubs were once places where people gathered for much more than a pint and warm meal. They were community centers in
San Francisco Tackles Youth Justice Reform, Votes to Close Juvenile Hall
As of today, San Francisco Juvenile Hall detains an average of 43 juvenile offenders at any given time, according to the Juvenile Probation Department. If the Board of Supervisors get its way, there won’t be a single person left at the facility, staff or detainees, in under three years. Tuesday’s
Is This the Worst Roommate Interview Ever?
Searching Craigslist & Facebook to fill a room in a rent controlled apartment can lead to a crazy cast of candidates. Will it be this new age spiritual millennial? I have feeling we’ve all met this person before.