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The Sunset District Needs to Shut Up And Build This Skyscraper
It’s been one of the greatest fortunes of my life to call the Sunset home since the early summer of 2018. I had just ended a rollercoaster of a year and was glad to get to know the sprawling yet cozy, immense yet familiar district. The only thing about our
The Great Stuff Coming To Hulu In May 2023
As old school “Sesame Street” announcers would have said, May’s Hulu programming is brought to you by the letter “C.” In this case, that letter stands for concerts (Elton John, U2’s Bono & The Edge), classics (Meryl Streep as a Holocaust survivor, Robert De Niro as a Jewish gangster), cult
All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In May 2023
What, we can’t just say “the new season of Tim Robinson’s hilariously weird series ‘I Think You Should Leave’ arrives this month, that’s all you need to know about Netflix this May?” Oh, all right. Robinson’s off-kilter humor might not amuse everyone. Fortunately, this month is packed with other entertaining
City Officials Remove Unauthorized Renegade Butterfly Statue
This week, we broke the story on a lovely new statue celebrating the extinct Xerces blue butterfly. It mysteriously showed up in Golden Gate Park sometime around Earth Day. City officials have sent out a press release about the statue and it sounds like the statue has been removed and taken
These Artists Are Inviting You to Their Epic “Divorce Party”
Gawd, some days I just love living here. And most especially love when I find out about a event which is just goofy and thoughtful enough to be deemed “so Bay Area”. In West Oakland, on May 6th, a group of Bay Area artists and musicians are putting together an
6 Organizations Step In To Save Artist Housing in Oakland
A “dream team” of six organizations has been formed to help a group of residents living above a 100-thousand square foot grow operation in Oakland at The Cannery live-work warehouse. Will it be enough to save them from a toxic living situation? While there is plenty of goodness in this
Ice Cream Cone Shaped UFO’s in the Bay Area
On February 9, 1950, the San Francisco Examiner reported on what appeared to be a “flying ice cream cone” over the Alameda Naval Air Station. From different parts of the station, at least five civilians and two officers reported seeing a large vapor substance traveling at a high speed across the station, heading south. It was shaped like an ice cream cone.
