Bay Area
What I Learned When I Was Homeless In The Bay Area
Winter is almost over. The days when the marine layer creeps in all the way to the Oakland hills are getting fewer and fewer. Oak leaves scatter across the gutters that are scattered with the debris of human habitation, blankets, syringes, old clothes and food containers The afternoon light hits sideways and it’s dark by 7 PM.
More Rain? Another Atmospheric River Set To Slam The Bay Area
California has been in a historic drought for the last couple of years. And how do you fix a historic drought? With historic rainfall, and that’s exactly what we’re getting more of this week. Beginning last night because you’re going to read this on Tuesday, and ending on Wednesday, which
Curtain Closes March 18th For SF’s Beloved Venue, PianoFight
GUEST POST BY MOLLY SANCHEZ PianoFight, the tenderloin theater that hosted 6,800 performances, sold $198,000 worth of tickets, and served as a refuge for comics, musicians, and a who’s who of local dilettantes is closing March 18th. Since its grand opening in 2014, PianoFight has seen thousands of memorable nights
These Fun & Cheap Indoor Activities Will Lighten Your Mood When it Rains
I’m so over the rain. I know I’m not the only one. I am trying to hard to soak in as much sun as I possibly can before Bob The Atmospheric River comes to rain on my parade (again). My seasonal depression has fully kicked in so I am in
Why Didn’t San Francisco’s Billionaires Save The Bay Bridge Lights?
When I first heard the news that the ‘Bay Lights’ were in danger of going dark, and that an $11 million dollar donation was needed in order to keep them on, I thought to myself “some billionaire will foot the bill, probably Marc Benioff,” but that didn’t happen. Instead, Illuminate,
The Most Obscure Secret Library in San Francisco: The Whybrary
In The Mission, situated on the corner of 14th Street at Woodward, you may see a small pink neon “why?” sign hung in the window of an unassuming apartment building. Like a bat signal, the “why?” sign is a not-so-subtle sign to say you’ve reached the library. To enter into
Beloved Radio Show Host, ‘JV,’ From Wild 94.9 Still Missing
Written By HABIBI BRIDGES UPDATE: JV’s wife suggests he ‘will not be coming back’. Read more here. Wild 94.9 listeners tuned into a solemn show Monday morning to find that one of the show’s hosts, Jeffrey Vandergrift, known as ‘JV’, has still not been located after disappearing without a trace last
Why Cities Are Usually Better Than The Suburbs
There are two kinds of beauty in the world: the beauty of humanity and the beauty of nature. The world’s population centers often act as melting pots, not only of races and ethnicities, but also of ideas. In well-developed cities, specific neighborhoods can easily become hubs for certain segments of a population