Bay Area

16 Aug 2022

How to Know When You’re in a Rich Part of San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the most expensive places in the United States, so, from a national perspective, every neighborhood in San Francisco is a rich neighborhood. The Tenderloin, Mission, Bayview and Visitacion Valley are all considered to be lower income parts of the City, but if you’re paying over

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09 Aug 2022

What The Closure Of The San Francisco Art Institute Means

Art is the universal language of life, so why do we treat it like trash? And why do cities like San Francisco, a place that has benefitted so immensely from creative expression, allow another piece of the City’s once seemingly indestructible art scene – a conduit for creativity like the

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02 Aug 2022

Is Los Angeles Better Than San Francisco?

In the last few months there doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by where I don’t hear about a friend who has moved or is considering a move to Los Angeles. When and if they decide to make this move to the endless sprawl that we know as

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02 Aug 2022

Is Sacramento Underrated?

The Bay Area and Sacramento have a complicated relationship. When people from the Bay fall on hard times, we often seek refuge in Sacramento. Then we complain about it. We say Sacramento is too hot, boring and that the city’s mostly flat topography doesn’t compare to the temperate weather and

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Pox rash on a Caucasian person's back.
12 Jul 2022

What the Monkeypox Outbreak Means for You

Monkeypox is here, and it’s making us forget the most shaping factor of our lives: we are all reflections of each other. Who we are and what we make represents our ideas of what is well and unwell. How we see ourselves and how we feel about our health creates

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28 Jun 2022

What It’s Like For A New Yorker To Be A Tourist In San Francisco

WRITTEN BY SHAHBAAZ SINGH I’m a critic at heart, but don’t take it too seriously, I’m from New York; Brooklyn, New York, to be exact. People from places I’ve never heard of think it’s the capital of Earth or some shit, and our egos are only limited by the loopholes

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21 Jun 2022

Why I Don’t Care About The Warriors’ Victory

The first thing I want to say is I’m Abraham Woodliff, not Stuart. If you’re mad about my stance, send the hate to me. Stuart’s innocent. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can say this: I don’t give a fuck about sports in the sense of

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14 Jun 2022

What The Recall Of Chesa Boudin Reveals About San Francisco

If one word in the English language could succinctly describe San Francisco, what would it be? For me, the word that most accurately describes San Francisco is contradiction. We want to have it all. San Francisco outwardly wants to be a city that is a safe haven for the disenfranchised,

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