SF Bay Area

The 6 Best Rooftops Open to the Public in San Francisco
POTUS? PoMo? No it’s POPOS: Privately Owned Public Open Spaces. Throughout SoMa and the Financial District, these little parks, atriums, alleyways and rooftop gardens are nestled in private buildings and totally open to the public — for free.

S.F.’s Transgender & Arab Film Festivals Are Here!
Tired of the GQP and the right-wing mediasphere spouting tons of public lies about trans kids and Arabs? Need some real and accurate images of the transgendered and the Arabs? Then two film festivals happening this week have what you need. Starting this week are the 25th San Francisco Transgender

Facebook Cans 11k Employees, Here’s Who they Fired
META is definitely cutting from its Facebook Journalism Program, it already let go of several top people at the META Journalism Accelerator, a wing of facebook that gave support, training, and grants to local newspapers and journalists…in our opinion Meta’s most noble cause, given how devastating Meta has been to the news business in general.

10 San Francisco Restaurants to Visit Before You Die
Say you have one day left to live (or worse, you have to move back to Missouri). Which San Francisco restaurant would you visit on your way out? I fished recommendations from multiple Reddit threads and Twitter arguments so you didn’t have to. Feelings about these eateries may shift faster

The Second Dot-com Bubble Is Bursting
“Irrational exuberance” Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan first uttered the phrase in 1996, describing what he considered an alarming economic trend. The rise of home internet usage was spurring several investors to stake digital claims like an online Oklahoma land run. Tech companies sprang up overnight, each hoping to

Why Isn’t San Francisco a 24 Hour City?
I’m not a well-traveled person. However, I have traveled a little, and one thing that I can’t help but notice when I’m out and about in America’s major cities that don’t sit beside the San Francisco Bay, is that all of them have a bevy of businesses that stay open

Elon Musk Urges Followers To Vote Republican As Twitter Burns
When it was first announced that Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter was finalized, I was indifferent. My apathy wasn’t because I didn’t view Elon Musk as a problem, he’s a billionaire, by definition he’s a problem. I didn’t care because billionaires own everything important. They own the media. They

10 Fun Facts About San Francisco You May Not Know
You think you know a lot about San Francisco? Well let’s see how many of these fun facts you already had stored in your noggin. You’re about to be so much better at SF trivia. 1. Alcatraz was the only federal prison to offer hot-water showers, supposedly to dissuade prisoners