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Eddie Kim

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.

He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men’s magazine Mel, and has contributed to major publications including Vice, Slate, The Guardian and Paste Magazine. He began his career doing hyperlocal journalism at L.A. Downtown News, where he won multiple awards from the L.A. Press Club and California News Publishers Association.

Community groups demand answers for police response to ICE at SFO

Advocates including the Public Defender’s Office want to investigate SFPD’s interactions with federal authorities

March 25, 2026

San Francisco is not a sanctuary city

The violent detainment of a mother at SFO is a reminder that ‘sanctuary’ ends at the circle of officers around the armed men and crying child

March 23, 2026

Must a chef be a tyrant?

San Francisco restauranteurs marinate on the Noma abuse allegations and if thrown pots (or punches) should finally be removed from the fine dining menu

March 20, 2026

Blockbuster: A $4.95 million price sets the bar for home ownership that much higher

A record-breaking sale of a Richmond house feels like an existential crisis for the neighborhood and the city

March 19, 2026

Saikat Chakrabarti gets social (but not socialist) with Hasan Piker

The Congressional hopeful joined America's leading socialist streamer for a friendly chat about Marx and World War III

March 13, 2026

The Chinatown stabbing was scary. The discourse around it may be scarier

Critics like Garry Tan, Susan Dyer Reynolds, and others are adding bias to a senseless act

March 10, 2026

Nazis in Your Neighborhood: Anti-fascist researchers out an extremist music label operating in the Tenderloin

Based in a supportive housing building, the one-man distributor sells fascist music and merch from all over the world

March 6, 2026

Brooke Jenkins: Stop making billionaires ‘the enemy’

The District Attorney was anything but moderate in her support of the city’s wealthiest

March 3, 2026

San Francisco Standard is going ‘AI-native’

A $150,000 grant from the Lenfest Institute is fueling a new app and more

February 19, 2026

Court dismisses lawsuit alleging abuse by Urban Alchemy workers

A Sausalito man claimed he was attacked for speaking out about unethical behavior, but the nonprofit denies all of it

February 18, 2026