Bay Area

02 Apr 2024

Oakland International Airport Might Change Its Name…

While San Francisco continues to get beaten to death in the mainstream press, its neighbor across the Bay is considering changing the name of its airport to better represent their proximity to what some in the American media zeitgeist refer to as Hell on earth. Because no matter how bad

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29 Mar 2024

20 Years of Bootie! Celebrating SF’s Iconic Mashup Night

Back in the mid-2000s, my friends and I regularly swapped music from one of SF’s longest-running mashup nights, Bootie Mashup. April marks 20-years of ‘Bootie‘. Since 2003, Bootie has been creating genre-themed mashup nights that blend both current and throwback pop songs and often feature fun variety show acts dancing

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26 Mar 2024

Dean Preston Fights To Get A Grocery Store In The Tenderloin

The Tenderloin is a densely populated neighborhood of roughly 25,000 residents. For many people down on their luck, the Tenderloin is one of the few communities in the Bay Area where they are allowed to exist. Yet despite the size of the neighborhood, the Tenderloin lacks what many more affluent

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26 Mar 2024

I Went To The Only Hooters Location In The Bay Area… Here’s What Happened

Being that I am the world’s greatest and most influential male feminist, I decided that it was time for me to support a business that empowers woman so much that I question the legality of it. Hooters is a place I’ve always been fascinated by, and not because the waitresses

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19 Mar 2024

Gardeners Find Duffle Bag Filled With Money In The Inner Sunset

I have so many fucking questions about this story. The first question is: Why not me???? In a series of events  reminiscent of a heist movie, an unexpected discovery unfolded in a tranquil San Francisco neighborhood.. Volunteers tending to  gardens of the Inner Sunset stumbled upon a black bag concealed

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19 Mar 2024

After Tragic Crash, San Francisco Pleads For Safer Streets

A tragic collision in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood has left a family shattered and a community in mourning. Flowers and candles now mark the site where a devastating crash occurred, claiming the lives of three members of the Oliveira family and leaving their six-month-old baby fighting for survival. Diego

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12 Mar 2024

How I Fell In Love With Oakland’s Funktown

When I first figured out that San Francisco wasn’t for me, I didn’t know where I was going to end up. I had initially hoped that I would return to The Laurel, a neighborhood that straddles the line between East Oakland and the Lower Hills where I spent a long

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05 Mar 2024

Someone Lit The Target In Vallejo On Fire

It’s been awhile and a lot has happened since my last article. I had a cancer scare, had back surgery, got a new girlfriend, faced a real risk of paralysis and began working with pro-Palestinian activists. So for this article, I’ve decided to go back to my roots and focus

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