Bay Area

26 Aug 2025

Man ‘Skysurfs’ on Bay Bridge Because Red Bull Told Him To.

Does Redbull give you wings? I’m not really sure, but it certainly appears to give certain people wing-like abilities. San Francisco woke up Saturday morning expecting fog, overpriced lattes, and maybe a naked guy on a unicycle. Instead, the Bay Bridge got skated like a giant Tony Hawk ramp from

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11 Jul 2025

Essential Life Skill: Recognizing Copaganda

Copaganda is a form of propaganda that reinforces positive views of cops, lulling the community into complacency and perpetuating three myths: cops are nice, they are part of the community, and they are there to help.

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01 Jul 2025

All of your AI-Girlfriends live in San Francisco

The male loneliness epidemic has been a common topic of discussion since the term was first coined a few years ago. Technology has gone from something that existed on the periphery of society into an unavoidable augmentation that is essentially required to exist in the modern world. The earliest indications

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24 Jun 2025

Loard’s Ice Cream Is Back In Oakland

I was sitting at Heyma Coffee, a Yemini-owned coffee shop in Berkeley, mindlessly doom scrolling when I read something miraculous: Loard’s Ice Cream was back. Not only was it back, but it was open. The first thing I did in this situation was the only appropriate thing to do. I

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17 Jun 2025

How A Falafel In The Tenderloin Cured My Broken Heart After I Got Cheated On

Written by Touta Bahar When Lahore Karahi in the Tenderloin closed in 2023, I was scared I would never get over how I got cheated on. She showed up with another guy to my grandfather’s funeral. But I wasn’t mad she cheated, and I wasn’t mad she brought him to

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03 Jun 2025

Another One Bites The Dust: Fog City Diner Is Closed For Good

To open a business in San Francisco, you need two things: balls of steel and a delusional level of confidence. And don’t even get me started on what it takes to be a successful business in a city filled with so much red tape that it feels less like government

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01 Jun 2025

Aurora Borealis Soon to Dazzle Northern California

If you missed the northern lights over the Bay Area last October, the Sun has a treat in store. The colorful show will return June 2, visible as far south as Georgia and Northern California. Are you close enough to view the aurora? It isn’t common at this latitude, so

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27 May 2025

SF Protesters Call for AI Regulation to Prevent “Extinction of Humanity”

As the years go by, the world looks more and more like a science fiction dystopia than what we all know, or at least used to know as real life. We have all the ingredients to create whatever kind of society we want, and it seems that the well-financed elite

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