San Francisco is where I learned to love food again so as a tribute to the beautiful, year-long bounty of excellence available on this coast before I brave the wilderness of Chicago, here are my favorite restaurants by neighborhood

There are new rent control ordinances in several cities across the bay area. From Richmond to Mountain view, be aware of your rights as a tenant.

As the results rolled in, I sat in an apartment at Chateau Rouge, a part of Paris that is full of life but very far from the Champs Elysées and Café Flore

It’s an unavoidable topic. Turn on the news on any given day and there’s a questionable police shooting or police using excessive force.  It seems as commonplace as the daily weather report. The first few times were shocking, but we are beginning to grow numb to the idea that the

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice a month column about the horror genre. There was no column for the past month since I was dealing with some health issues, but like the zombies from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, I have risen again! The Philadelphia based auteur M. Night

All the dope street festivals, funky parties, & trippy shows

They find used tires before they get thrown into a landfill or burned, and makes shoes and sandals out of them.

Professional athletes reportedly spend thousands of dollars each year on custom made suits, many of which get worn a couple times and then end up hanging, unused in large walk-in closets.  Colin Kaepernick just gave that frivolous spending habit a real and charitable purpose.  While the NFL spent it’s weekend