There’s a new food festival coming to The Bay: the POC Food & Wine Festival kicks off on May 2nd and goes for an entire weekend. Imagine this: amazing grub paired with top-notch wine, awesome beats, and extra special events that make this food and wine festival deliciously interactive. Not

The craziest fuckin’ thing happened to me on Monday and it had nothing to do with the eclipse. A police officer showed me how to steal a car. I’m dead serious. Right around 10:30 a.m. in the morning as folks were readying themselves for the eclipse, I was sitting inside

On a rainy Thursday night in San Francisco, I slapped on a sportscoat, drank 2 pints of Maui Waui IPA, and swallowed 1 g of dried, psychedelic mushrooms. 

A violently adorable raccoon looms ominously from a shopping cart filled with junk food against an idyllic seascape. Around her fly seagulls and a pigeon wearing a pink iced donut. I say ‘her’, because emerging from this raccoon’s fur are tiny baby raccoons. Hissing from the bottom of the shopping

In a case of “I hate to say I told you so,” let me just say…I absolutely told you so. Back in 2019, almost exactly five years ago actually, I wrote an article for the SF Examiner called “Can robots do journalism?” In the article I called out Hoodline for

A Perusing Playlist by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor We’re trying another new thing! We now have weekly playlists where you can sample upcoming bands and comedians that are listed in our events newsletter. Here’s what I’m most excited about for the week of 4/9 and beyond…     Our Merch

by Mark Pritchard My journey to see the eclipse this year was originally supposed to be a big road trip from the West Coast. But my beloved couldn’t come for various reasons, so I decided to fly out to St. Louis where my sister lives, borrow her car, and head into

Since the pandemic, a lot of rightwing pundits have compared San Francisco and Oakland to Gotham City, and these comparisons are meant to disparage the Bay Area. But what if we’re like Gotham in a good way? What if our streets are patrolled by actual superheroes? Not rich guys with