SF Bay Area

MUNI To Make Long Overdue Improvements
Over the next eighteen months, San Francisco plans to eliminate parking spots blocking almost 1,200 MUNI stops. SFMTA Board of Directors determined each stop should have twenty feet of clearance or more for boarding. At certain stops across the city, riders must sometimes squeeze between parked cars to board a

Why Solano County Is The Worst County In The Bay Area
If you don’t live in Solano County, it’s easy to forget that it exists. It’s a sprawling mess of suburbia that stretches from the northeastern edge of the Bay to the inland interior of the Sacramento Valley. If any part of Northern California could be considered fly-over country, Solano County

Oakland’s Starline Social Club is Closing
One of Oakland’s coolest venues has announced that it is closing down. On Saturday, Starline Social Club posted to its 21,000 Instagram followers that January 1st would be its final day. As they said in the post,”We are sad to announce that Starline Social Club is going up for sale and

Elon Musk Might Be Stepping Down as Twitter’s CEO
It’s been an absolutely demented circus at Twitter ever since Elon Musk took over a few months back. During that time, Musk has reinstated accounts that had been banned for hate speech, fired thousands of workers, lost a huge chunk of Twitter’s advertisers, neglected to pay rent, and forced workers

Beetlejuice – The Musical, The Musical, The Musical is in San Francisco
If you are expecting a dutiful, yet musical, retelling of the beloved cult classic, it’s not going to happen. Instead, we get an irreverent, hilarious adaption with the titular character (played by Justin Collette) breaking the fourth wall immediately and keeping the audience intrigued. He teases, makes amazingly crude observations, prances and sleazes his way through the show in the most lovable of ways.

San Francisco’s Love Affair With Fernet & Why
In nearly a decade of bartending all over San Francisco, I’ve had my fair share and then some.
And for many who work behind the bar in this town, it is often the shot of choice. Fernet delivers a punch of complex flavor as an invigorating stimulus in an over-stimulated environment.

Elon Musk Faces Even More Trouble at Twitter HQ
In every direction he looks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces a bevy of unenviable troubles. His albatross, Twitter, is reportedly losing $4 million per day. Meanwhile, building inspectors found impromptu living quarters on the eighth floor of their San Francisco headquarters. Former employees are taking legal action against him. Rumors

Can The Drought Teach Us About San Francisco’s Housing Crisis?
I’m sure you’ve seen the weather lately. It’s been raining on and off since mid-November. Soaking rains washed over the Bay Area these past couple weekends, reminiscent of wet seasons past. Forecasters say another storm system should move in this Friday. It is hoped this seemingly plentiful rainfall will reduce