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10+ Days of Creative Activist Mayhem Coming to San Francisco
The media’s buzzing with the old news of artists’ displacement in San Francisco. Every month the remaining members of the city’s arts community mourn the loss of yet another place where creative people lived or worked together for years. The cause celebre of artist David Brenkus ‘s eviction from his

Preston Picus Thinks He Can Beat Nancy Pelosi for Congress
When I was running for mayor of SF I went to the US Conference of Mayors to try and stir things up. I failed at that, but I did get to see some important people speak including Barrack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. A funny thing happened when Pelosi spoke though.

Fear and Loathing in NYC: 5 Things We Hate Yet Love About the Big Apple
This place is terrible. No really, it is. I’ve encountered some of the harshest, brutal, no good kinds of denizens that inhabit this city. Whether it is people not saying “Please” or “Thank You” when you are in need of, or giving away a subway seat, to those hipsters living

Lessons I Learned by Running for Mayor
Now that I’ve got a little distance from the whole mayoral campaign, I’ll be writing a bit more about what it was like. This particular piece is from a monologue I did for The Kinda Late Show. Also, Drew Platt wrote some of it with me. It’s supposed to be funny

We’ve got tickets to San Francisco band Great Apes @ Bottom of the Hill!
Plain and simple, Great Apes are a punk band from San Francisco. Minimalism reigns. Play it fast, play it loud, and make it stick. While we all have been or are in an array of more complex projects, this band is founded on pop-sensible simplicity and the notion that music,

What Not to Do on BART
To avoid being hated on public transit, avoid doing these 12 things

Locals vs. Gentrifiers : East Bay Fight Party
to qualify as being a local you needed to be a resident of the Bay for at least 10 years, anything less and you’re considered a gentrifier